Ummm.... no. The provenance of the code in the hacked BIOS was not the issue. The mod chips were deemed "circumvention devices" because they could allow you to play copied games, not because the chips themselves were ripping of MS's code.
Can someone please please PLEASE write a filter that excludes threads that mention the words "Israel" or "Palestine" more than once each?
Here, guys, stop arguing. I'll make all of your arguments for you:
Pro-Palestinian guy: Israel is guilty of $ATROCITY1, $ATROCITY2, and $ATROCITY3
Pro-Israel guy: Surely you're not comparing things like $ATROCITY2 to $ATROCITY4, $ATROCITY5, and $ATROCITY6, which were committed by Palestinians
Pro-Palestinian guy: Oh come on! $ATROCITY6 wasn't nearly as bad as $ATROCITY3! Besides, they only did it because of $ATROCITY3! If Israel had never committed $ATROCITY3 then the Palestinians wouldn't have had to have committed $ATROCITY6!
Pro-Israel guy: but the Israels only committed $ATROCITY3 as a defensive measure because the Palestinians committed $ATROCITY7!
This will continue for about 20 or so posts as both sides try to justify violence because of things that happened 30, 60, 100, or 5000 years ago; apparently in the middle east the moral high ground of a situation is inherited from your parents. I've really never understood that.
Anyways, I've now said EVERY SINGLE THING every partisan in this argument has ever said and will ever say, so you can all just STFU.
Hmmm... Windows XP gives me a desktop (somewhat) more quickly than Gentoo does, but I have to wait for about 90 seconds to actually do anything or run a program.
It's a tortoise-and-hare thing; Windows (and lately Gnome) give you eyecandy early on at the cost of having to wait with what looks like a perfectly functional desktop while the rest of your base loads. That's why I use Windowmaker. Once I get to GDM it's rare that it takes more than 5 seconds to have a desktop with nothing stalling on me. YMMV, and this is fairly OT anyways since once I'm at GDM, init's not automatically loading stuff anymore.
distinction between time travel and travelling faster than the speed of light (time-dilation, aside).
Ummm.... there's not much way to "aside" the time-dilation here; that's the whole point.
The closer your velocity (relative to mine) gets to c, the slower your clock (relative to mine) runs (and the shorter your ruler gets, too... heh heh...).
If you were actually to travel at c (no longer relative to me, since you would then be moving at c for any frame of reference), your clock would appear to me to stop, and your ruler would be infinitesimally thin.
Assuming some sort of continuity of transluminal physics, it's tempting to imagine that speeding up "faster than c" (a phrase which in the Maxwell/Lorenz/Einstein worldview currently doesn't have much meaning) would make your clock run backwards.
Note that this is not the "back to the future" idea of waking up tomorrow in 1985. Rather, you yourself would "go backwards" and arrive younger than when you left, though at a much much much much later time in the outside world.
Now, there's a different theory that shows how closed time-like loops are possible in a rotating universe, but it relies on GR (the above only relies on SR). So, if the angular momentum of the universe is not 0, "time travel" already happens.
Web browsers probably won't implement this protocol. There might conceivably be an "Info browser" that would browse various classes of namespaces, but they would hardly be useful.
The only point here is to standardize object transaction namespaces for various fields. It is altogether fitting and proper that we do so, but it's not really an end-user protocol.
Take the Library of Congress book classification system (this or Dewey Decimal make good examples of "how" because the implementation would be trivial, but they also make bad examples of "why" for the same reason). Every edition of every book catalogued by the Library of Congress has a unique LOC "value" (MLS's please correct me if I get off base here). Currently if you have a program that needs to use a book's LOC value, you have to figure out how to store and interpret it. If you want to pass that to another vendor's software, you would have to agree on how it's stored and interpreted, or write some sort of filter.
The idea of this info: URI system is to standardize that kind of information for applications. All sorts of namespaces could be usefully included: LOC numbers, Army FM's, RISM scores (I'd love to see that one), etc.
Essentially, this would be a set of industry standards on how to refer to information sets like that, as well as (presumably) a protocol for setting up your own info server to run your own namespaces.
Then again, despite our Romantic view of Beethoven the musical rebel, in stylistic terms he was a staunch conservative: he kept orchestral and chamber music in the Viennese style and pretty much single-handedly held of Romanticism for 2 decades.
Even in his most "expiremntal" works (I'm thinking of the late quartets, particularly the Grosse Fugue), he went to great lenghts to maintain the Viennese forms even in music that was practically dodecaphonic. And the pieces that I consider his greatest (Triple Concerto and Symphony 7) were nearly, for lack of a better word, "textbook".
Compare that to people like Gesualdo, Schoenberg, or Wagner; they did make a point of consciously breaking as many rules as possible. I think they are great, too. Music theory is a framework for understanding and appreciating music, and is neither a recipe for "good" or for "boring" music.
I know a whole lot about classical music and Mozart's 5th (symphony or concerto; I'm not sure which one I should pretend you were thinking of since I'd prefer to imagine that you wouldn't be so blinkardly philistine as to confuse Mozart and Beethoven) is completely outside my radar.
Come to think of it I'm not a great fan of any of Mozart's symphonies; early on he tried too hard to be Haydn and then he tried to hard not to be Haydn. But his concerti are still to die for...
He's well aware we can find out who wrote the article. But because he AC'd, we don't know his/. identity. Just a little touch of anonymity on this end that he might want to keep.
Do you want everything you ever said on/. tied to your real name?
Ummm... I get paid a decent salary to write GPL'ed software. My company sells it (providing sources) to our clients. Our clients are free to redistribute it under the terms of the GPL, but since they forked over some cash for it as far as I know all of them choose not to in order to keep whatever competitive advantage the software gives them.
Now, we aren't licensing under the GPL because our company likes it (they're kind of indifferent). It's because our software is based on other GPL'd software, which we got for free (beer & speech). The "price" of getting it for free is that we have to license derivative works under the GPL. Our PHB's felt it was a good trade off, so we did it.
arpa is still technically a TLD but not like it used to be. It's mostly just a IP-to-name namespace (as in 1.0.0.127 IN-ADDR ARPA localhost) -- compare the output of "nslookup arpa" and "dig arpa".
I seem to recall that there are still other subdomains of arpa, but I can't for the life of me find that article, and my Cricket book is at work.
emerge ymessenger [lots of portage kvetching] ymessenger
Hmmm... nope, no ads. None on the Windows version either. It does tie into my Yahoo! profile with a lot of links, though; maybe that gets them some ad revenue.
Don't feel bad. I live in Northern Virginia, where about two-thirds of all roads are named "Glebe". There's North, South, East, and West Glebe Road. North Glebe runs roughly north, while South Glebe runs east-west. West Glebe goes south, and is south of South Glebe. All of them have different route numbers, and the route numbers change.
True. This can happen in Linux too, though. I seem to recall Lindows gives users root by default, and from my small experience with SuSE, they seem to have something similar with being able to "save" your run-as-root permissions for apps.
FORTH can pass compiled and uncompiled closures on the stack, with either static or dynamic binding within them as you choose. That's more advanced than... well... any other language I know of.
I was a 3361 back when we had those (that's running the mess hall and field mess db's), and once they got rid of that MOS they made me a 4066 (no training, mind you; just said "now you're small computer systems").
So, I wound up at GPAC for 1FSSG being the ONLY person who knew the first thing about fixing a computer (I don't know what most of you 40**'s do out in 29 Stumps, but the kids lately don't seem to learn jack about computers). The senior enlisted are usually either former grunts who would have been up-and-outed of 0300 so switched to 0100, or are career 0100's who are pissed off at the fact that they've been admin clerks their entire adult lives (most of the master gunny's and tops started out doing all their admin work in pen and paper only and never quite switched to the digital paradigm... maybe that will change as the older generation retires).
At least on the Marine side of.mil, our computer readiness is absurd. We have one massive WAN for each of the major commands, each in one big NT4 domain. Most nodes are Win98. Security is... well... nonexistant.
Now, I got excited when I heard about the BattleNet idea (a tactical wireless LAN for small units), but once I saw how it was implemented, I'm very glad I got out of the Corps.
Um, can't I write my own code and algorithm for doing seamless plugins wihout infringing on this patent? If Microsoft stole their code, or algorithm, then it is infringement, but otherwise you cannot patent an idea, correct?
If only...
Sadly, people can and increasingly do just that: patent ideas.
And no, independent development is not a protection from patent infringement. An independently developed product is just as much a patent violation as a blatant ripoff (though if you can prove you didn't know about the patent, that lessens the penalties).
Yes, a total rebuild is required after any intrusion.
BUT they have *NEEDED* to do a rebuild for a long time; Lamo simply proved that fact. If your system could have been compromised, you must assume that it has been.
To be honest, I don't think Lamo added one cent to what NYT has to pay to fix its systems. If they were running an exploitable system, they need to rebuild and secure it. Lamo cracked them and admitted it, they STILL need to rebuild and secure it. How has he added any extra cost to their operation?
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Ummm.... no. The provenance of the code in the hacked BIOS was not the issue. The mod chips were deemed "circumvention devices" because they could allow you to play copied games, not because the chips themselves were ripping of MS's code.
Ummm... then why not call it "Helios"?
Can someone please please PLEASE write a filter that excludes threads that mention the words "Israel" or "Palestine" more than once each?
Here, guys, stop arguing. I'll make all of your arguments for you:
Pro-Palestinian guy: Israel is guilty of $ATROCITY1, $ATROCITY2, and $ATROCITY3
Pro-Israel guy: Surely you're not comparing things like $ATROCITY2 to $ATROCITY4, $ATROCITY5, and $ATROCITY6, which were committed by Palestinians
Pro-Palestinian guy: Oh come on! $ATROCITY6 wasn't nearly as bad as $ATROCITY3! Besides, they only did it because of $ATROCITY3! If Israel had never committed $ATROCITY3 then the Palestinians wouldn't have had to have committed $ATROCITY6!
Pro-Israel guy: but the Israels only committed $ATROCITY3 as a defensive measure because the Palestinians committed $ATROCITY7!
Anyways, I've now said EVERY SINGLE THING every partisan in this argument has ever said and will ever say, so you can all just STFU.
Hmmm... Windows XP gives me a desktop (somewhat) more quickly than Gentoo does, but I have to wait for about 90 seconds to actually do anything or run a program.
It's a tortoise-and-hare thing; Windows (and lately Gnome) give you eyecandy early on at the cost of having to wait with what looks like a perfectly functional desktop while the rest of your base loads. That's why I use Windowmaker. Once I get to GDM it's rare that it takes more than 5 seconds to have a desktop with nothing stalling on me. YMMV, and this is fairly OT anyways since once I'm at GDM, init's not automatically loading stuff anymore.
Lucky Strike Means Fatal Tumors?
Lascivious Seniors Make Freshmen Tipsy?
Lynksis Switches Mangle Frame Transmission?
The Onceler spoke for the thneeds he was making and not much else. The Lorax spoke for all the nice things you mentioned.
Cheers...
Not a fan of Freecraft?
Why? Anonymity is an important guarantor of free speech.
Ummm.... there's not much way to "aside" the time-dilation here; that's the whole point.
The closer your velocity (relative to mine) gets to c, the slower your clock (relative to mine) runs (and the shorter your ruler gets, too... heh heh...).
If you were actually to travel at c (no longer relative to me, since you would then be moving at c for any frame of reference), your clock would appear to me to stop, and your ruler would be infinitesimally thin.
Assuming some sort of continuity of transluminal physics, it's tempting to imagine that speeding up "faster than c" (a phrase which in the Maxwell/Lorenz/Einstein worldview currently doesn't have much meaning) would make your clock run backwards.
Note that this is not the "back to the future" idea of waking up tomorrow in 1985. Rather, you yourself would "go backwards" and arrive younger than when you left, though at a much much much much later time in the outside world.
Now, there's a different theory that shows how closed time-like loops are possible in a rotating universe, but it relies on GR (the above only relies on SR). So, if the angular momentum of the universe is not 0, "time travel" already happens.
Web browsers probably won't implement this protocol. There might conceivably be an "Info browser" that would browse various classes of namespaces, but they would hardly be useful.
The only point here is to standardize object transaction namespaces for various fields. It is altogether fitting and proper that we do so, but it's not really an end-user protocol.
Take the Library of Congress book classification system (this or Dewey Decimal make good examples of "how" because the implementation would be trivial, but they also make bad examples of "why" for the same reason). Every edition of every book catalogued by the Library of Congress has a unique LOC "value" (MLS's please correct me if I get off base here). Currently if you have a program that needs to use a book's LOC value, you have to figure out how to store and interpret it. If you want to pass that to another vendor's software, you would have to agree on how it's stored and interpreted, or write some sort of filter.
The idea of this info: URI system is to standardize that kind of information for applications. All sorts of namespaces could be usefully included: LOC numbers, Army FM's, RISM scores (I'd love to see that one), etc.
Essentially, this would be a set of industry standards on how to refer to information sets like that, as well as (presumably) a protocol for setting up your own info server to run your own namespaces.
SCO's assets include strippers? I want to work there now...
Then again, despite our Romantic view of Beethoven the musical rebel, in stylistic terms he was a staunch conservative: he kept orchestral and chamber music in the Viennese style and pretty much single-handedly held of Romanticism for 2 decades.
Even in his most "expiremntal" works (I'm thinking of the late quartets, particularly the Grosse Fugue), he went to great lenghts to maintain the Viennese forms even in music that was practically dodecaphonic. And the pieces that I consider his greatest (Triple Concerto and Symphony 7) were nearly, for lack of a better word, "textbook".
Compare that to people like Gesualdo, Schoenberg, or Wagner; they did make a point of consciously breaking as many rules as possible. I think they are great, too. Music theory is a framework for understanding and appreciating music, and is neither a recipe for "good" or for "boring" music.
I know a whole lot about classical music and Mozart's 5th (symphony or concerto; I'm not sure which one I should pretend you were thinking of since I'd prefer to imagine that you wouldn't be so blinkardly philistine as to confuse Mozart and Beethoven) is completely outside my radar.
Come to think of it I'm not a great fan of any of Mozart's symphonies; early on he tried too hard to be Haydn and then he tried to hard not to be Haydn. But his concerti are still to die for...
He's well aware we can find out who wrote the article. But because he AC'd, we don't know his /. identity. Just a little touch of anonymity on this end that he might want to keep.
Do you want everything you ever said on /. tied to your real name?
Ummm... I get paid a decent salary to write GPL'ed software. My company sells it (providing sources) to our clients. Our clients are free to redistribute it under the terms of the GPL, but since they forked over some cash for it as far as I know all of them choose not to in order to keep whatever competitive advantage the software gives them.
Now, we aren't licensing under the GPL because our company likes it (they're kind of indifferent). It's because our software is based on other GPL'd software, which we got for free (beer & speech). The "price" of getting it for free is that we have to license derivative works under the GPL. Our PHB's felt it was a good trade off, so we did it.
arpa is still technically a TLD but not like it used to be. It's mostly just a IP-to-name namespace (as in 1.0.0.127 IN-ADDR ARPA localhost) -- compare the output of "nslookup arpa" and "dig arpa".
I seem to recall that there are still other subdomains of arpa, but I can't for the life of me find that article, and my Cricket book is at work.
Ad revenue?
emerge ymessenger
[lots of portage kvetching]
ymessenger
Hmmm... nope, no ads. None on the Windows version either. It does tie into my Yahoo! profile with a lot of links, though; maybe that gets them some ad revenue.
goose : gander : : bull : cow
Don't feel bad. I live in Northern Virginia, where about two-thirds of all roads are named "Glebe". There's North, South, East, and West Glebe Road. North Glebe runs roughly north, while South Glebe runs east-west. West Glebe goes south, and is south of South Glebe. All of them have different route numbers, and the route numbers change.
True. This can happen in Linux too, though. I seem to recall Lindows gives users root by default, and from my small experience with SuSE, they seem to have something similar with being able to "save" your run-as-root permissions for apps.
FORTH can pass compiled and uncompiled closures on the stack, with either static or dynamic binding within them as you choose. That's more advanced than... well... any other language I know of.
I was a 3361 back when we had those (that's running the mess hall and field mess db's), and once they got rid of that MOS they made me a 4066 (no training, mind you; just said "now you're small computer systems").
So, I wound up at GPAC for 1FSSG being the ONLY person who knew the first thing about fixing a computer (I don't know what most of you 40**'s do out in 29 Stumps, but the kids lately don't seem to learn jack about computers). The senior enlisted are usually either former grunts who would have been up-and-outed of 0300 so switched to 0100, or are career 0100's who are pissed off at the fact that they've been admin clerks their entire adult lives (most of the master gunny's and tops started out doing all their admin work in pen and paper only and never quite switched to the digital paradigm... maybe that will change as the older generation retires).
At least on the Marine side of .mil, our computer readiness is absurd. We have one massive WAN for each of the major commands, each in one big NT4 domain. Most nodes are Win98. Security is... well... nonexistant.
Now, I got excited when I heard about the BattleNet idea (a tactical wireless LAN for small units), but once I saw how it was implemented, I'm very glad I got out of the Corps.
In addition to the lists above, there's Fire Linux, a favorite of mine. Great for recovery of Windows and Linux machines.
If only...
Sadly, people can and increasingly do just that: patent ideas.
And no, independent development is not a protection from patent infringement. An independently developed product is just as much a patent violation as a blatant ripoff (though if you can prove you didn't know about the patent, that lessens the penalties).
Yes, a total rebuild is required after any intrusion.
BUT they have *NEEDED* to do a rebuild for a long time; Lamo simply proved that fact. If your system could have been compromised, you must assume that it has been.
To be honest, I don't think Lamo added one cent to what NYT has to pay to fix its systems. If they were running an exploitable system, they need to rebuild and secure it. Lamo cracked them and admitted it, they STILL need to rebuild and secure it. How has he added any extra cost to their operation?