By cheating at games, are you talking about Marathon?
(In Marathon, if you remap the run key to capslock, and turn capslock on, it makes you always run.)
I typed in the query "Where can I find some pr0n?"
It responded with the single result, titled:
"Even geeks deserve those really odd stocking fillers" and was actually about thinkgeek.
Hmm.
That is why an officer cannot be ordered to do something unconstitutional, because his oath take precedence over his orders.
Would said officer necessarily remember that part when ordered? Just because he won't be incriminated in a court-martial doesn't mean that the threat of court-martialing him won't drive him to action.
I hate all this censorship BS. Schools shouldn't have such filtering software. The government shouldn't try to act as a babysitter to all the teenagers in the US, the teachers can take care of the kids.
Yes! You're right! Not only do you need the energy to power the electronics on the space station, but sunlight is needed for photosynthesis which would be necessary in order to get a stable supply of oxygen.
Also, where would one get metals from? On Earth, there are always more metals; one just has to mine more deeply. This means that space stations will effectively be tied to a planet. No deep space living for 7 years on, sorry.
You are correct; this does exist. It can be found in the Jargon File, Appendix A (blockquoted here, you're welcome).
A Story About `Magic'
Some years ago, I (GLS) was snooping around in the cabinets that housed the MIT AI Lab's PDP-10, and noticed a little switch glued to the frame of one cabinet. It was obviously a homebrew job, added by one of the lab's hardware hackers (no one knows who).
You don't touch an unknown switch on a computer without knowing what it does, because you might crash the computer. The switch was labeled in a most unhelpful way. It had two positions, and scrawled in pencil on the metal switch body were the words `magic' and `more magic'. The switch was in the `more magic' position.
I called another hacker over to look at it. He had never seen the switch before either. Closer examination revealed that the switch had only one wire running to it! The other end of the wire did disappear into the maze of wires inside the computer, but it's a basic fact of electricity that a switch can't do anything unless there are two wires connected to it. This switch had a wire connected on one side and no wire on its other side.
It was clear that this switch was someone's idea of a silly joke. Convinced by our reasoning that the switch was inoperative, we flipped it. The computer instantly crashed.
Imagine our utter astonishment. We wrote it off as coincidence, but nevertheless restored the switch to the `more magic' position before reviving the computer.
A year later, I told this story to yet another hacker, David Moon as I recall. He clearly doubted my sanity, or suspected me of a supernatural belief in the power of this switch, or perhaps thought I was fooling him with a bogus saga. To prove it to him, I showed him the very switch, still glued to the cabinet frame with only one wire connected to it, still in the `more magic' position. We scrutinized the switch and its lone connection, and found that the other end of the wire, though connected to the computer wiring, was connected to a ground pin. That clearly made the switch doubly useless: not only was it electrically nonoperative, but it was connected to a place that couldn't affect anything anyway. So we flipped the switch.
The computer promptly crashed.
This time we ran for Richard Greenblatt, a long-time MIT hacker, who was close at hand. He had never noticed the switch before, either. He inspected it, concluded it was useless, got some diagonal cutters and diked it out. We then revived the computer and it has run fine ever since.
We still don't know how the switch crashed the machine. There is a theory that some circuit near the ground pin was marginal, and flipping the switch changed the electrical capacitance enough to upset the circuit as millionth-of-a-second pulses went through it. But we'll never know for sure; all we can really say is that the switch was magic.
I still have that switch in my basement. Maybe I'm silly, but I usually keep it set on `more magic'.
1994: Another explanation of this story has since been offered. Note that the switch body was metal. Suppose that the non-connected side of the switch was connected to the switch body (usually the body is connected to a separate earth lug, but there are exceptions). The body is connected to the computer case, which is, presumably, grounded. Now the circuit ground within the machine isn't necessarily at the same potential as the case ground, so flipping the switch connected the circuit ground to the case ground, causing a voltage drop/jump which reset the machine. This was probably discovered by someone who found out the hard way that there was a potential difference between the two, and who then wired in the switch as a joke.
Your BSD was nice, but with Linux already cruising along nicely on several machines, why bother switching?
You don't have to use BSD exclusively, but it's good to keep an open mind and try out new things. After all, if you should change jobs and the new job involves running *BSD, you will have that experience already.
Of course, with me being a 15 year-old high-school student, I probably have more time on my hands than you do, but I don't think learning something new is a waste of time at all.
Yes! Or here's another technique: if you own a DvortyBoard (a keyboard that lets you switch from Dvorak to QWERTY with a single switch), you can type the password in Dvorak, memorize the finger movements, switch to QWERTY but type it in as if it were Dvorak (hence 'matyas' becomes 'makta;').
Add rot13 and l33tsp34ak and you'll have a hard to crack password.
I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but I believe faith is just a device used by those who feel the need to invent something just because they cannot accept a gap in their (collective) knowledge.
For your examples, it may be good, but sometimes it's hard to come up with good ones that are readable. (Think pointer to a QCanvasPixmapArray). Sure, you could use one, but it would be tedious to type, and could get confusing. What I would do instead is make functions that do not take up many screenfulls and then you could use short names without sacrificing understandability.
You've got a point. Hey, how about this: if you travel to a country where there is a high possibility of kidnapping, then they implant a temporary microchip, one that can be deactivated when you get back to the states, and possibly reactivated if you need it again.
What about civil disobedience?
There are many kinds of people that the government would consider 'criminals': Those who have really done something bad (like kill a guy), and those who do not agree with them. Maybe you didn't kill a guy, but if Big Brother sees something he doesn't like, you can bet your butt that you'd be tagged as a criminal. And if the government can pass this, it will pass other laws worse than this because everybody who disagrees will be labeled as a criminal/terrorist.
You are missing the point. Getting Windows users to use Linux if they use all Microsoft software over it seems completely pointless to me. It is not how many people use Linux that counts; it's not which is "more popular". If Linux buyers buy Microsoft apps, money will still go into Microsoft's pockets. Maybe they won't be selling as many copies of Windows XP, so they'll increase the price of their apps to make up the difference. After all if Office is already 300$, what would 50$ more matter, right? Or they could deliberately make all their software incompatible with Lindows. It won't make them lose anything big.
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Now, now. Let's not start the holy war up again.
I read manuals to video games... am I the only one?
No, wait, I'm just bored.
Bushel.
I'm a foreigner, too.
By cheating at games, are you talking about Marathon? (In Marathon, if you remap the run key to capslock, and turn capslock on, it makes you always run.)
One reason to upgrade to Win98 from Win95: the new EverCrack no longer runs on Win95.
Two words: Manual Override
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I typed in the query "Where can I find some pr0n?"
It responded with the single result, titled: "Even geeks deserve those really odd stocking fillers" and was actually about thinkgeek.
Hmm.
Would said officer necessarily remember that part when ordered? Just because he won't be incriminated in a court-martial doesn't mean that the threat of court-martialing him won't drive him to action.
I hate all this censorship BS. Schools shouldn't have such filtering software. The government shouldn't try to act as a babysitter to all the teenagers in the US, the teachers can take care of the kids.
In 50 years we'll be able to make an AI so intelligent, it can make good time estimates!
Posession is a human concept. Your kidney 'belongs' to nobody: it just happens to be inside you (for the time being).
Yes! You're right! Not only do you need the energy to power the electronics on the space station, but sunlight is needed for photosynthesis which would be necessary in order to get a stable supply of oxygen.
Also, where would one get metals from? On Earth, there are always more metals; one just has to mine more deeply. This means that space stations will effectively be tied to a planet. No deep space living for 7 years on, sorry.
He does. It's called "Hostess".
Well, imagine that. The law against age discrimination discriminates based on age.
You don't have to use BSD exclusively, but it's good to keep an open mind and try out new things. After all, if you should change jobs and the new job involves running *BSD, you will have that experience already.
Of course, with me being a 15 year-old high-school student, I probably have more time on my hands than you do, but I don't think learning something new is a waste of time at all.
Yes! Or here's another technique: if you own a DvortyBoard (a keyboard that lets you switch from Dvorak to QWERTY with a single switch), you can type the password in Dvorak, memorize the finger movements, switch to QWERTY but type it in as if it were Dvorak (hence 'matyas' becomes 'makta;').
Add rot13 and l33tsp34ak and you'll have a hard to crack password.
I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but I believe faith is just a device used by those who feel the need to invent something just because they cannot accept a gap in their (collective) knowledge.
For your examples, it may be good, but sometimes it's hard to come up with good ones that are readable. (Think pointer to a QCanvasPixmapArray). Sure, you could use one, but it would be tedious to type, and could get confusing. What I would do instead is make functions that do not take up many screenfulls and then you could use short names without sacrificing understandability.
You've got a point. Hey, how about this: if you travel to a country where there is a high possibility of kidnapping, then they implant a temporary microchip, one that can be deactivated when you get back to the states, and possibly reactivated if you need it again.
They already have (sorta). Try DREADling, do a search for it anywhere. Sure, it's not exact, but still pretty kewl.
What about civil disobedience?
There are many kinds of people that the government would consider 'criminals': Those who have really done something bad (like kill a guy), and those who do not agree with them. Maybe you didn't kill a guy, but if Big Brother sees something he doesn't like, you can bet your butt that you'd be tagged as a criminal. And if the government can pass this, it will pass other laws worse than this because everybody who disagrees will be labeled as a criminal/terrorist.
You are missing the point. Getting Windows users to use Linux if they use all Microsoft software over it seems completely pointless to me. It is not how many people use Linux that counts; it's not which is "more popular". If Linux buyers buy Microsoft apps, money will still go into Microsoft's pockets. Maybe they won't be selling as many copies of Windows XP, so they'll increase the price of their apps to make up the difference. After all if Office is already 300$, what would 50$ more matter, right? Or they could deliberately make all their software incompatible with Lindows. It won't make them lose anything big.