But seriously, supposing this thing works, what would the larger impact be? We still can't do tests on the impact of something on an ecosystem because we don't have sophisticated enough modeling.
Do we know this wouldn't kill birds? Fuck up weather patterns? Cause some disease? No, but that won't stop some jackass from using it because he doesn't want his precious car dented.
The image is *not* the difficult part of counterfeiting. The hard part is getting your hands on the right kind of paper.
Stopping counterfeiting by keeping printers from printing the image of money is like preventing nuclear proliferation by keeping countries from buying bomb casings rather than keeping them from buying plutonium.
A lot of big organizations make decisions like this. The State Dep't wants documents coming from it to have a similar look and feel. Just consider it a social CSS.
I subcontracted for State for a while, and this is actually a step in the right direction. They have 2 print shops, one for GS and one for FS, and people have lately been printing some really stupid looking reports and circulars. It's kind of a shame that they chose 14 pt TNR, since that pretty much keeps you from being able to make a small, glossy report like people like nowadays, but some consistency would be a good thing.
Also, this only seems to apply to printed materials. Electronic publications can stay in whatever font you want, which is good since I hate seriffed fonts on a screen.
The problem is that the standard dialog with the 'open' button doesn't explicitly say that the file is html - it only looks like pdf, the behaviour of the browser is still to perform the mime type in executing the link
Except that if you have the Acrobat plug-in, the "Open" dialogue warns you that it's not really a PDF, since the plug-in would open a PDF for you.
Don't forget SDL (mostly for games, but still, it has bindings for just about every language with a compiler). And btw tk doesn't require "a specific interpreter" to be installed; the library has bindings for all sorts of languages.
Plus you can call the various Windows graphics toolkits from a host of languages, particularly once you consider.NET
The process involves petitioning for a writ of mandamus (basically, suing a government office to get it to do its job). The court with jurisdiction would I believe be the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia.
I don't believe there is a way to file such a writ online, or indeed at all if YANAL.
This seems to be a trend lately in worms: this isn't targeting any software vulnerability, it's just targeting dumb users. I hate to say this, but like the past couple of big worms, this one isn't really Microsoft's fault. Even with a more POSIX-like user security model, if the user can send mail the OS can host a worm like this.
In the future, I suggest you label it "Crunchy Raw Real Unboned Dead Frog" if you want to avoid prosecution!
As usual, Joel's whines contain some truth
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The trick with resumes is to get noticed, but not for the wrong reasons. A resume (at least in the tech world) has to walk a fine line: you want to get past the HR people who will be looking for keywords, but you also have to prove to the tech person who will end up reading it that you are not a total tool.
My last resume worked pretty well; I sent it to 5 employers and got 3 interviews (the other 2 were, frankly, out of my league but it never hurt anybody to aim high). The 3 interviews got me 2 offers, and I have a job from one of them.
From the resumes and cover letters I've been seing lately, I would offer this advice to job seekers:
When you list job experience, include some bullet points of specific things you did. Simply saying "Systems administrator" or "developer" doesn't tell me much. Saying "Managed 3 DNS servers for 500 domains" tells me a lot more.
Remember what you learned in Freshman composition and use it. Keep your writing short and to the point, and make sure your letter has a beginning which includes a sort of abstract, a middle that goes into a little detail of why you want the job and why you'd be a good choice, and an end which at least tries to close me.
Don't be afraid of buzzwords but don't spam me with them either. If you think you're a motivated self-starter with good communication skills, it's not too bad to say so but it's much better to offer concrete examples of that.
Do some research into the company. All of our names are on my company's website; don't be afraid to address the letter to one of us. Mention what we do and how you can help our specific projects; that is always impressive.
DO include a list of your skills but DON'T list a skill that you don't really have (reading "DNS Administration For Dummies" doesn't mean you can run a BIND cluster).
Finally, don't come across flat. Your resume should tell me something about you that gives me a little insight into who you are. What are your interests? What experiences made you who you are today? Don't worry if parts don't seem entirely relevant to the job. I'd rather know that somebody learned viniculture over a summer in France than that they took a 1-week class in Flash and Director.
Anyways, that's just me and YMMV. Selling is easy it just takes the will to close the guy.
Most of them are exactly what I'm complaining about, especially Dune *shudder*. If I wanted to switch almost entirely to a made-up language halfway through a book I would have read Tolkien. I guess 2001 was OK, and so was Canticle for Liebowitz. I just don't like how many books end up being about the technology itself rather than about the people around the technology.
I managed to sit through the first Hyperion without too much retching, but after that it just became another book full of gadgets and lofty claims about politics and god.
I've never liked science fiction but all my friends do. Most of the books I've read seem to just be about the technology, races and languages the author has imagined rather than using those as a medium for telling a compelling story; the tail wags the dog.
I like Ray Bradbury, but all my sci-fi-fan friends say that's not "real" science fiction. So can anybody think of a "real" science fiction author that isn't
Pretentious
Focused on the stuff the author made up, and/or
Trying to make up for its bad writing by making some grand political or theological "statement"?
I'd like to get in to sci fi because it seems like an interesting genre in principle, but I can't seem to find any authors other than Bradbury who care about writing a good book or story. Any ideas?
I'm confused. What exactly do you need to use the CLI for in a distro like Mandrake or SuSE? I'm trying to think of a common user task that doesn't have a decent X interface and I can't. What are you thinking of?
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None, other than the Stupid User Who Runs Untrusted Executable Files vulnerability, for which the only patch is a baseball bat.
Because everyone with a web browser has a JavaScript interpreter on his computer already.
Nothing to install, nothing to compile, nothing to configure. Those steps scare people.
Ha ha.
But seriously, supposing this thing works, what would the larger impact be? We still can't do tests on the impact of something on an ecosystem because we don't have sophisticated enough modeling.
Do we know this wouldn't kill birds? Fuck up weather patterns? Cause some disease? No, but that won't stop some jackass from using it because he doesn't want his precious car dented.
So did SCO
They're paying a development team...
... to change an already-written OS...
... to make it less functional ...
... and sell it for less money.
Rather than just selling the original for less money. And people talk about open source business models being stupid...
Hmmm... this argument is familiar.
The image is *not* the difficult part of counterfeiting. The hard part is getting your hands on the right kind of paper.
Stopping counterfeiting by keeping printers from printing the image of money is like preventing nuclear proliferation by keeping countries from buying bomb casings rather than keeping them from buying plutonium.
A lot of big organizations make decisions like this. The State Dep't wants documents coming from it to have a similar look and feel. Just consider it a social CSS.
I subcontracted for State for a while, and this is actually a step in the right direction. They have 2 print shops, one for GS and one for FS, and people have lately been printing some really stupid looking reports and circulars. It's kind of a shame that they chose 14 pt TNR, since that pretty much keeps you from being able to make a small, glossy report like people like nowadays, but some consistency would be a good thing.
Also, this only seems to apply to printed materials. Electronic publications can stay in whatever font you want, which is good since I hate seriffed fonts on a screen.
...you insensitive clod!!!
What editor did RMS use to write the first emacs?
I call bullshit. I just tested it on Win32 Mozilla and it tells me the file is an HTML file. IE tells me it's a PDF.
That was the first time I'd used IE to look at a web page in months and already I'm remembering why I hate it so much...
Except that if you have the Acrobat plug-in, the "Open" dialogue warns you that it's not really a PDF, since the plug-in would open a PDF for you.
Don't forget SDL (mostly for games, but still, it has bindings for just about every language with a compiler). And btw tk doesn't require "a specific interpreter" to be installed; the library has bindings for all sorts of languages.
Plus you can call the various Windows graphics toolkits from a host of languages, particularly once you consider .NET
The process involves petitioning for a writ of mandamus (basically, suing a government office to get it to do its job). The court with jurisdiction would I believe be the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia.
I don't believe there is a way to file such a writ online, or indeed at all if YANAL.
This seems to be a trend lately in worms: this isn't targeting any software vulnerability, it's just targeting dumb users. I hate to say this, but like the past couple of big worms, this one isn't really Microsoft's fault. Even with a more POSIX-like user security model, if the user can send mail the OS can host a worm like this.
In the future, I suggest you label it "Crunchy Raw Real Unboned Dead Frog" if you want to avoid prosecution!
The trick with resumes is to get noticed, but not for the wrong reasons. A resume (at least in the tech world) has to walk a fine line: you want to get past the HR people who will be looking for keywords, but you also have to prove to the tech person who will end up reading it that you are not a total tool.
My last resume worked pretty well; I sent it to 5 employers and got 3 interviews (the other 2 were, frankly, out of my league but it never hurt anybody to aim high). The 3 interviews got me 2 offers, and I have a job from one of them.
From the resumes and cover letters I've been seing lately, I would offer this advice to job seekers:
Anyways, that's just me and YMMV. Selling is easy it just takes the will to close the guy.
I don't know about A, but C is a Dell PowerEdge running I think FreeBSD.
Root servers don't actually do all that much, they just have to be ready to do it 24/7.
LJS is offering free shrimp if they discover an ocean on Mars. This isn't off-topic, o ye fascist mods!
Most of them are exactly what I'm complaining about, especially Dune *shudder*. If I wanted to switch almost entirely to a made-up language halfway through a book I would have read Tolkien. I guess 2001 was OK, and so was Canticle for Liebowitz. I just don't like how many books end up being about the technology itself rather than about the people around the technology.
I managed to sit through the first Hyperion without too much retching, but after that it just became another book full of gadgets and lofty claims about politics and god.
I've never liked science fiction but all my friends do. Most of the books I've read seem to just be about the technology, races and languages the author has imagined rather than using those as a medium for telling a compelling story; the tail wags the dog.
I like Ray Bradbury, but all my sci-fi-fan friends say that's not "real" science fiction. So can anybody think of a "real" science fiction author that isn't
I'd like to get in to sci fi because it seems like an interesting genre in principle, but I can't seem to find any authors other than Bradbury who care about writing a good book or story. Any ideas?
Gatewaygate.
My ISP's (Comcast) is I think 24 hours but no matter how many times I release/renew I've had the same address for about a year and a half.
An unrefrigerated morgue in the desert. Some of my utilities still have that smell in them...
I'm confused. What exactly do you need to use the CLI for in a distro like Mandrake or SuSE? I'm trying to think of a common user task that doesn't have a decent X interface and I can't. What are you thinking of?