The theory of Evolution is not fact. That is why we say theory of evolution. It's a theory.
Many years ago my college zoology teacher (a Jesuit priest) carefully distinguished between the fact of evolution and the theory of evolution by natural selection as proposed by Darwin and Wallace.
It has more speakers than any language except possibly Chinese
There are more native speakers of Chinese than of English, to be sure. But when you add in the number of people who speak English pretty well as a second language, English speakers are far more numerous than Chinese speakers.
SEA had a legit gripe re the.ARC file extension: PKARC created.ARC files that couldn't be de-compressed with SEA's software, thereby creating FUD among users. But SEA's heavy-handed legal response deservedly turned them into the bad guys.
"He who lies down with lawyers gets up with sleaze."
My principal news sources are my daily paper (the San Antonio Express-News), The Economist each week, the Jim Lehrer News Hour 5-minute summary, and Slashdot.
I depend on my paper for local news (without having to endure the "tits and toupees" news readers on local TV), an excellent thrice-weekly column on local politics (God bless you, Rick Casey), movie and TV listings and reviews, and Dilbert, Doonesbury and a few other comics. The paper also provides good coverage of news from Mexico, which is nearby and has strong economic, cultural and historical ties to San Antonio.
My paper is worth what I pay; I'll keep subscribing.
It seems to me that the really important thing is to encourage sysadmins properly to secure their systems against being used as a DDoS handler or agent. Public humilation may be the only effective means of such encouragement.
Should there be a "Wall of Shame" web-page which identifies the systems that were compromised?
My first encounter with a BBS was done on an original 5-slot IBM PC with a 300bps modem. I posted messages and I DL'd software. It was great fun. But these boards were all 'local.'
That was then; this is now.
At least twice a day I check into a web BBS that focuses on my interests; the regular participants are literally world-wide. For real-time chat I have a choice of IRC channels of interest to me. Again, I encounter people from all over the world.
After my retirement, thanks to cheap air fares I began to travel to places just to meet people whom I'd encountered on the 'net; I even endured the 17-hour non-stop flight from Los Angeles to Sydney. In all these places my hosts provided me with wonderful experiences a tourist would miss.
IIRC Borland never correctly implemented ISO-standard-Pascal device I/O, but other than that it was a fine product. IMHO nested procedures in Pascal encouraged a better programming style than plain-C did.
Slashdot Mirror
The theory of Evolution is not fact. That is why we say theory of evolution. It's a theory.
Many years ago my college zoology teacher (a Jesuit priest) carefully distinguished between the fact of evolution and the theory of evolution by natural selection as proposed by Darwin and Wallace.
Was he wrong? I don't think so.
- Richard Stallman's views are extreme.
- Eric Raymond is a gun-nut.
- All software has bugs.
- Micros~1 is not the Great Satan.
- Do the right thing.
*Yawn*It has more speakers than any language except possibly Chinese
There are more native speakers of Chinese than of English, to be sure. But when you add in the number of people who speak English pretty well as a second language, English speakers are far more numerous than Chinese speakers.
-- CK
SEA had a legit gripe re the .ARC file extension: PKARC created .ARC files that couldn't be de-compressed with SEA's software, thereby creating FUD among users. But SEA's heavy-handed legal response deservedly turned them into the bad guys.
"He who lies down with lawyers gets up with sleaze."
I depend on my paper for local news (without having to endure the "tits and toupees" news readers on local TV), an excellent thrice-weekly column on local politics (God bless you, Rick Casey), movie and TV listings and reviews, and Dilbert, Doonesbury and a few other comics. The paper also provides good coverage of news from Mexico, which is nearby and has strong economic, cultural and historical ties to San Antonio.
My paper is worth what I pay; I'll keep subscribing.
It seems to me that the really important thing is to encourage sysadmins properly to secure their systems against being used as a DDoS handler or agent. Public humilation may be the only effective means of such encouragement.
Should there be a "Wall of Shame" web-page which identifies the systems that were compromised?
My first encounter with a BBS was done on an original 5-slot IBM PC with a 300bps modem. I posted messages and I DL'd software. It was great fun. But these boards were all 'local.'
That was then; this is now.
At least twice a day I check into a web BBS that focuses on my interests; the regular participants are literally world-wide. For real-time chat I have a choice of IRC channels of interest to me. Again, I encounter people from all over the world.
After my retirement, thanks to cheap air fares I began to travel to places just to meet people whom I'd encountered on the 'net; I even endured the 17-hour non-stop flight from Los Angeles to Sydney. In all these places my hosts provided me with wonderful experiences a tourist would miss.
All this and Slashdot too!
You can have the good old days.
IIRC Borland never correctly implemented ISO-standard-Pascal device I/O, but other than that it was a fine product. IMHO nested procedures in Pascal encouraged a better programming style than plain-C did.
Cheers for Borland!