They could *gasp* go prepare a draft for an extension to the standard and forfeit patent rights to related tech etc, and then formally propose an extension to the standard.
Funniest thing I've read today. And I spent most of the day reading Fark!
I agree. If blizzard even spent 1% of a months revenue they could get a bunch of engineers to completely rewrite the entire world of warcraft code and buy some new hardware to accomodate the new size. Scaling issues are dealt with at once. Where is all of this money going? Is it going to some CEO sink? Are there any share holders that can shed some light on this?
Do you really think that they are currently depending on a bunch of hacks that are coding in Visual Basic and their entire network knowledge consist on knowing the correct sequence to crimp in a RJ-45 ethernet connector?
Are you proposing a full rewrite? Are you serious! Including testing, how long would that take? What you are proposing is pretty much that they scrap everything and start from scratch.
How about to promote the progress of science and useful arts?
This is a good argument.
The public is entitled to the works because that is the deal made. The person/company gets the copyright for a period of time, thus giving them a legal monopoly, and when that time is up, so is the monopoly.
This isn't. What deal? Made by who? There is no deal. There is a law signed by lawmakers a bunch of years ago. Tho I agree that a change on it shouldn't be applied retroactively.
I do agree that copyright should have a finite duration. But we need to justify it with a good reason, otherwise it's just an opinion.
The greater good? Are medicine recipes copyrighted/patented? Are they covered by the same law that keeps Mickey away from the public domain?
"do you know how to do what XXXYY does in perl in php?" "Not, RTFM"
That is not rude, it simply means, no I do not know how, but should be in the manual.
It's all in the wording. In these days of instant communication we tend to abbreviate too much and many times we are mistakenly taken as rude or impolite or a snob.
Among your friends, it might not be a problem, but to a complete stranger and "noob" it gives the impression that you are an arrogant prick than can't be bothered.
Compare to this:
Noob: "do you know how to do what XXXYY does in perl in php?" You: "I dunno. Sorry. Perhaps you can find more info in the manual."
And if you are feeling generous enough, throw in a link to TFM.
Part of the blame lies in the acronym itself. When somebody looks up what RTFM means, their belief that they are simply being snubbed is reinforced.
"Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best."
Heinlein. Notebook of Lazarus Long
Kinda the same situation.
That said, people should stop being so thin skinned whenever posting in a public forum. It's nothing personal, we don't really hate you. We don't even know you.
So... if a user level virus couldn't write to the host file...
Which leads us back to the primordial Windows security problem: users running with admin priviledges.
In the example you provided in the previous post,/etc/hosts is writable only by root. If user runs as root all the time, then it's back to square one.
As far as I know Windows host file is only writable by Administrator level (dunno, I don't have a Windows machine with me right now). Is it otherwise?
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Thanks for missing the point, and allowing me to bite on a troll.
Most apps don't simply drop a sched in your calendar. What they do is simplify the process of finding non-conflicting schedules. If someone wants to meet with you, they'll send a request and the calendar app will find a time when everyone invited can attend. If it does, it will ask for confirmation and you can either re-schedule, accept or reject.
Otherwise you would have to respond each request with a time when you are free, that might or might not conflict with somebody elses'.
latest version has PAM older than.79 and the latest is.99, the default GCC installed (GCC 4.0) from the default debian repositories cannot build executables,/etc/security/console.perms is missing,/etc/ld.so.conf is missing
Odd. My Ubuntu didn't have any build tools installed by default. But when I installed then ("apt-get install build-essentials" or somesuch) they all worked without problem./etc/ld.so.conf was missing, but I simply created a text file with a dir I wanted to include and nothing bad happened.
The thing is... if you care about those files, then maybe Ubuntu is not really the distro for you. If you want to remain debian-based (my reason to choose Ubuntu), try Mepis or Knoppix. Otherwise, your choice of Fedora Core 5 is probably right for you (haven't tried it, but FC2, 3 and 4 work great for me in production environments).
I mean, appearance is 99% of your reputation, right?
Sadly, yes. Well, maybe not. But a "clean cut" appearance will help you at least get your foot on the door.
But once your rep has been established (say, you are well regarded in the industry or your particular field), appearance will not matter much. But before that, showing up for a job interview with a long hair that hasn't been washed for 5 days might be held against you.
Personally, I believe that even if you don't spend face time with customers, if you have to interact with co-worker you should keep a clean appearance (not your "white guy" example, tho) as a sign of respect to them. Long hair is fine, but at least wash it every other day. And use deodorant and soap, for the love of god.
- Email viruses. Ack! All I did was open my mail on Outlook express!
It's funny. We take these things for granted, but I remember the days when they didn't exist AT ALL.
Ah, yeah, those days... I remember when I did tech support/installations. "Good Times" email "virus" was pretty popular back then, and I used to tell my customers, "Don't worry, ignore that message. There's no way you can get a virus via email unless you open the attachement. Simply reading your mail is perfectly safe".
This was in the days of Internet Explorer 3 and "Internet Mail and News". I dunno if they were susceptible to this viruses.
I was just plain glad that when the first "Outlook express" viruses came up, my professional tech support days were over.
I'd say the biggest problem with Ubuntu is that I read slashdot every single day and this is the first time I've ever come across the term "Ubuntu".
You are being sarcastic, right? Whenever a story about Linux comes up in slashdot (how many times a day is that?) people are going to be mentioning Ubuntu and Gentoo several times in the first couple of threads.
Management doesn't want to know the details. Just say there are 'major security concerns'.
Explaint to them that granting domain admin priviledges to everyone means that even the interns they hired to do data entry will have *full* access to every resource on the domain. That includes servers and workstation with sensitive information (incl. upper management's). And that it's just a matter of someone getting up to to go to lunch and not locking their workstation to leave the door wide open to any passerby.
Problem is, by now your data is in this tool and you need to use it to work. So you'll have to bite the bullet anyway.
They both show at the same price. Is there anything wrong with using a referral? It doesn't bother me (quite the opposite) that someone gets a reward for pointing me in the right direction. And if it doesn't affect the price I get then it's event better.
No matter what the house of the future would be like, it will need to have at least one room that is devoid of tehnology and gadgets (things like lighting and HVAC aside.) Specifically, no computers, Internet, TV, radio, etc.) It would be a room where you can sit and think, read, ponder, whatever, without the distractions and temptations of technology. A place where one could "focus"--reminding us we shouldn't completely rely on technology for everything.
I already have a room like that. It's called "bathroom". I can sit and think/read/ponder for hours in there. No TV, no computer, no phone. Thank god I don't have to share it with anyone else.
The 41-year-old San Diego man says he allowed a "business partner" to use his credit card on an adult website dedicated to finding resources in Tijuana's red light district, with discussion groups and locations of prostitutes.
People still talk about Moses, Jesus, Mohammed and Buddha, and often use those names completely out of context as expletives. Amen was seen as a powerful god and the name continued, out of context, as an exclamation or salutation; a classic example language evolution. From the Jews, the word was adopted by Christians, Muslims and others.
Sounds legit to me, tho I'm a layman when it comes to languages, their origins and nuances.
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They could *gasp* go prepare a draft for an extension to the standard and forfeit patent rights to related tech etc, and then formally propose an extension to the standard.
Funniest thing I've read today. And I spent most of the day reading Fark!
I agree. If blizzard even spent 1% of a months revenue they could get a bunch of engineers to completely rewrite the entire world of warcraft code and buy some new hardware to accomodate the new size. Scaling issues are dealt with at once. Where is all of this money going? Is it going to some CEO sink? Are there any share holders that can shed some light on this?
Do you really think that they are currently depending on a bunch of hacks that are coding in Visual Basic and their entire network knowledge consist on knowing the correct sequence to crimp in a RJ-45 ethernet connector?
Are you proposing a full rewrite? Are you serious! Including testing, how long would that take? What you are proposing is pretty much that they scrap everything and start from scratch.
How about to promote the progress of science and useful arts?
This is a good argument.
The public is entitled to the works because that is the deal made. The person/company gets the copyright for a period of time, thus giving them a legal monopoly, and when that time is up, so is the monopoly.
This isn't. What deal? Made by who? There is no deal. There is a law signed by lawmakers a bunch of years ago. Tho I agree that a change on it shouldn't be applied retroactively.
I do agree that copyright should have a finite duration. But we need to justify it with a good reason, otherwise it's just an opinion.
The greater good? Are medicine recipes copyrighted/patented? Are they covered by the same law that keeps Mickey away from the public domain?
and by extending the copyright laws they are stealing your legal rights to use what you should be able to use freely.
But then the question is "why should you be able to use them freely". What entitles the general public to these works?
The law? Then the lawmakers give and take away. And they *are* taking it away, if only little by little.
Morality? Sorry. That's a subjective reason.
Sharks rule. Expensive as hell but redundant up the wazoo and then some.
The geneva convention established that "Just following orders" is no excuse for committing a war crime. Apparently Yahoo feels differently.
Are Yahoo's actions war crimes? Are they even bound by the Geneva Convention?
"do you know how to do what XXXYY does in perl in php?"
"Not, RTFM"
That is not rude, it simply means, no I do not know how, but should be in the manual.
It's all in the wording. In these days of instant communication we tend to abbreviate too much and many times we are mistakenly taken as rude or impolite or a snob.
Among your friends, it might not be a problem, but to a complete stranger and "noob" it gives the impression that you are an arrogant prick than can't be bothered.
Compare to this:
Noob: "do you know how to do what XXXYY does in perl in php?"
You: "I dunno. Sorry. Perhaps you can find more info in the manual."
And if you are feeling generous enough, throw in a link to TFM.
Part of the blame lies in the acronym itself. When somebody looks up what RTFM means, their belief that they are simply being snubbed is reinforced.
Kinda the same situation.
That said, people should stop being so thin skinned whenever posting in a public forum. It's nothing personal, we don't really hate you. We don't even know you.
So ... if a user level virus couldn't write to the host file ...
/etc/hosts is writable only by root. If user runs as root all the time, then it's back to square one.
Which leads us back to the primordial Windows security problem: users running with admin priviledges.
In the example you provided in the previous post,
As far as I know Windows host file is only writable by Administrator level (dunno, I don't have a Windows machine with me right now). Is it otherwise?
Thanks for missing the point, and allowing me to bite on a troll.
Most apps don't simply drop a sched in your calendar. What they do is simplify the process of finding non-conflicting schedules. If someone wants to meet with you, they'll send a request and the calendar app will find a time when everyone invited can attend. If it does, it will ask for confirmation and you can either re-schedule, accept or reject.
Otherwise you would have to respond each request with a time when you are free, that might or might not conflict with somebody elses'.
But what if the rebels get a super smart dolphin to decrypt the soldiers' brain?
What if some process that ignores .lock files tries to open/change a file?
System enforced file locking might be a necessity in some cases.
latest version has PAM older than .79 and the latest is .99, the default GCC installed (GCC 4.0) from the default debian repositories cannot build executables, /etc/security/console.perms is missing, /etc/ld.so.conf is missing
/etc/ld.so.conf was missing, but I simply created a text file with a dir I wanted to include and nothing bad happened.
Odd. My Ubuntu didn't have any build tools installed by default. But when I installed then ("apt-get install build-essentials" or somesuch) they all worked without problem.
The thing is... if you care about those files, then maybe Ubuntu is not really the distro for you. If you want to remain debian-based (my reason to choose Ubuntu), try Mepis or Knoppix. Otherwise, your choice of Fedora Core 5 is probably right for you (haven't tried it, but FC2, 3 and 4 work great for me in production environments).
In the inmortal words of Dave Barry, the best way to learn japanese is to be born japanese and raised by japanese parents in Japan.
Nope. In that case, the result will be decided by the last voter/hacker.
Sadly, yes. Well, maybe not. But a "clean cut" appearance will help you at least get your foot on the door.
But once your rep has been established (say, you are well regarded in the industry or your particular field), appearance will not matter much. But before that, showing up for a job interview with a long hair that hasn't been washed for 5 days might be held against you.
Personally, I believe that even if you don't spend face time with customers, if you have to interact with co-worker you should keep a clean appearance (not your "white guy" example, tho) as a sign of respect to them. Long hair is fine, but at least wash it every other day. And use deodorant and soap, for the love of god.
- Email viruses. Ack! All I did was open my mail on Outlook express!
It's funny. We take these things for granted, but I remember the days when they didn't exist AT ALL.
Ah, yeah, those days... I remember when I did tech support/installations. "Good Times" email "virus" was pretty popular back then, and I used to tell my customers, "Don't worry, ignore that message. There's no way you can get a virus via email unless you open the attachement. Simply reading your mail is perfectly safe".
This was in the days of Internet Explorer 3 and "Internet Mail and News". I dunno if they were susceptible to this viruses.
I was just plain glad that when the first "Outlook express" viruses came up, my professional tech support days were over.
I'd say the biggest problem with Ubuntu is that I read slashdot every single day and this is the first time I've ever come across the term "Ubuntu".
You are being sarcastic, right? Whenever a story about Linux comes up in slashdot (how many times a day is that?) people are going to be mentioning Ubuntu and Gentoo several times in the first couple of threads.
You *have* heard of Gentoo, right?
Management doesn't want to know the details. Just say there are 'major security concerns'.
Explaint to them that granting domain admin priviledges to everyone means that even the interns they hired to do data entry will have *full* access to every resource on the domain. That includes servers and workstation with sensitive information (incl. upper management's). And that it's just a matter of someone getting up to to go to lunch and not locking their workstation to leave the door wide open to any passerby.
Problem is, by now your data is in this tool and you need to use it to work. So you'll have to bite the bullet anyway.
They both show at the same price. Is there anything wrong with using a referral? It doesn't bother me (quite the opposite) that someone gets a reward for pointing me in the right direction. And if it doesn't affect the price I get then it's event better.
waitaminute... you mean Ayn Rand lied to me? That a free market will not regulate itself and monopolistic abuses don't exist? Who is John Galt??????
One of these days I gotta finish that book. I like the story but her narrative style is tiresome and overlong. She could have used a good editor.
No matter what the house of the future would be like, it will need to have at least one room that is devoid of tehnology and gadgets (things like lighting and HVAC aside.) Specifically, no computers, Internet, TV, radio, etc.) It would be a room where you can sit and think, read, ponder, whatever, without the distractions and temptations of technology. A place where one could "focus"--reminding us we shouldn't completely rely on technology for everything.
I already have a room like that. It's called "bathroom". I can sit and think/read/ponder for hours in there. No TV, no computer, no phone. Thank god I don't have to share it with anyone else.
From TFA:
The 41-year-old San Diego man says he allowed a "business partner" to use his credit card on an adult website dedicated to finding resources in Tijuana's red light district, with discussion groups and locations of prostitutes.
Right... a business partner...
Interesting. I did some digging on the web and there are several (web) sources that confirm this. Muslims also use "Amen" altho it's not in the Quran.
From http://www.seiyaku.com/customs/amen.html:
Sounds legit to me, tho I'm a layman when it comes to languages, their origins and nuances.
Native Americans would still be living their lives against Biblical principles, not sending a single soul to heaven. A worthless "civilization".
Reverend Falwell? Is that you?
From Wikipedia (so take it as you will): "So be it; truly"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen