Yes. They have to sound respectable enough that they could be a normal bar or restaurant, but just lurid enough that your average horny male has no doubt it's a strip club.
Good examples that come to mind are Sidewinders and the Dragon in Laughlin, OK, The Main Attraction in Oceanside, CA, and Good Guys and The Camelot Club in DC (you can tell where I've been stationed, can't you? Sadly, 29 Palms never had a good strip club, and it above all bases needs one).
There are a few examples that shy more towards the respectable side of naming, eg, The Crystal City Restaurant or Amy's (even calling it "Amie's" would have made it more ANSI-compliant). Oddly enough, the clubs that venture towards the less-respectable names are often not strip clubs at all, just Hooters knock-offs. Go figure.
Ummmm.... think back to Maxwell. Electric signal over copper wire by definition travels at the speed of light through the medium (true, the speed of light through copper is slower than through fiber, air, or vacuum and is not absolutely observed from all frames of reference as is the speed of light in a vacuum).
So it travels at "a" speed of light, if not The Speed of Light in vacuo (tm, trumpet fanfare). And much faster than a tornado, at any rate.
No. Specifically not, in fact. What would be legal would be for the OOo team to crack the encryption in order to build a DRM client that was compatible with the Microsoft DRM server (or, for that matter, a server compatible with the MS DRM client).
spend lots of money upgrading, and lose the ability to exchange documents to/from many other companies
No, no, no. You're missing the point. The PHB's will definitely see this as a feature.
Remember: these are the same people who are actually dumb enough to believe that the "business plans" and "mission statements" they produce on their management retreats are so crucial that they have to be kept "confidential" and "proprietary".
Now, imagine a world where every PHB could send out memos in.doc format that were permissioned to prevent recipients from copying, redistributing, or printing them -- short of a screen capture (which could probably be disabled too somehow, and at any rate would be less valuable as evidence), there would be no way to prove that a given PHB ordered Illegal, Unethical, or Stupid Activity X. It's their dream world.
They're smarter than that, I think. You're average non-geek doesn't purchase new hardware because it's 1337; he purchases new hardware because the new software he's running is stomping his old hardware into a flaming mass. Whenever they put out a 3D-accelerated desktop, people will flock to get new boxes.
I would run out of moderator points just when an actually insightful post appears.
Regulation / certification / etc. have always been tools of large corporations to keep smaller players out of the game. Can you think of an easier way to marginalize Linux than shoving it in the box of, "it's not made by certified programmers; it's untrustworthy"?
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Dude, there were hundreds of CH-46's in the Fleet. There were, what, 8 Ospreys?
I also don't see why an ornithopter would fill the role they envisioned for the Osprey. The Osprey was meant to be a VTOL or STOL aircraft with over-the-horizon capability. How would a 'thopter solve that problem?
I've been modded down for saying this before, but screw it....
What is so frigging hard for you people about installing Linux?
I've installed 5 different distros on about 10 computers. Gentoo and Debian gave me grief; there's no point pretending they didn't. But I wouldn't expect someone looking for a painless installation process to use them.
But RedHat, Mandrake and SuSE never caused me any problems. Ever. X worked. The mouse worked. The sound worked. The NIC worked. The internal modem didn't work, but I knew that going into it (and external modems are cheap, anyways). For these distros, I had to modify precisely 0 config files. I had to specify precisely 0 hardware specs; the "hardest" thing I had to do was choose my desktop resolution, which you have to do for Windows too.
Wanna share photos?
Yes. So I attached my digital camera. RedHat and SuSE detected it and set it up for me without any input from me.
Wanna listen to music
Hmmm... noatun, xmms, and gnome-cd have always worked for me, without my messing with them. Windows Media Player 9 always seems to choke on weird codecs that it can't find; the Linux players seem to find them quite easily. That's exactly my point: the "easy" Linux distros have required less input and configuration from me than the comparable Windows software.
surf the web (and be comptatable with every major website out there)
That's another good example. I use comcast cable for my ISP. I plugged the cable into my NIC, RedHat and SuSE both said something like "You appear to be connected to the Internet; would you like to use that connection to surf the web and check your email?" Click yes, and 2 seconds later I'm surfing with Mozilla. I'm not sure what you mean by "compatible"; the only compatability issues I've had are with DFAS which wants a browser version > 5 no matter the vendor.
Compare this to Windows, which made me open up "Network Connection 1", configure TCP/IP, and select a gateway and DNS server (it couldn't seem to find the DNS server automatically like it was supposed to; Linux had no problem).
chat with your friends?
Applications > Internet > Chat. Offered me GAIM, IRC, ICQ, and Jabber. Opened up GAIM; it asked me which network(s) I wanted to use. I selected the ones I had accounts on, logged in, and chatted. What's so hard about that?
What problems do people keep having that makes RedHat or SuSE so "difficult" to install and get running? Am I just exceptionally lucky in the hardware I came across? Why have RedHat and SuSE required less manual configuation on my part than Windows 2000 or XP?
Seriously, I'd like to hear from somebody who can't get Linux to install. Are you trying to install something like Debian or Gentoo? Do you have hardware produced only in Moldova? What's the issue?
I do work for the Defense Department, and we won't consider using Microsoft code for anything that's important.
Funny... I'm in the Marine Corps (part of the DoD last time I checked), where we and the Navy have a mandated Microsoft-only procurement requirement. Not just "you have to justify buying non-Microsoft software" but "you have to prove that a Windows NT platform absolutely cannot do what you need to do". The usmc.mil website runs Domino (and doesn't properly sign its certificates... grrr....), but the entire Navy/MC WAN is NT4.
Maybe our WAN is not what you are calling "important". It's true, we don't put Windows on fighter jets or in tanks, but we don't put UNIX in them either. So maybe the medical and service records of all the men and women in the Navy and Marine Corps aren't "important" to you, but they're damn sure "important" to me, and I'm outraged that the network seems to have been compromised over the past few weeks.
It's no different than when your favorite local band gets a big record deal.
At first you're ecstatic because now you'll hear them on the radio, see them in big venues, etc. Then you start to get annoyed at all the new fans who only know the songs off their "big" album and not their older, infinitely better stuff.
Finally they stop playing their old stuff totally and you decide they've "sold out" just because they're more popular than they used to be.
I seem to recall that the Constitution distinguishes between "arms" and "ordnance". Tanks would probably fall under the latter category.
Anyways, despite all the heroic tales of the man defending his home from brigands or visigoths or whatever, I'm pretty sure the Bill of Rights guarantees the right to bear arms for two reasons:
So that when the British/French/Iraqis/Djiboutians invade the US and destroy our field armies, the states can call out their citizens as a militia.
So that when the US government becomes tyrannical the citizens can resist it.
Now, I'm more of a Lisp guy than a C guy, but is that snippet even valid C?
I've got "if (size==0) return" which would make sense except that return should be followed by a semicolon. But instead return is followed by a closing parenthesis which is (presumably) opened earlier in an unrevealed section. But what is that parenthesis pair doing? Grouping expressions needlessly?
then there is "((ulong_t NULL);"
which looks vaguely like a cast but isn't; instead it's declaring a ulong_t with the name NULL. Why would you do that? The first paren before ulong_t, incidentally, is never closed.
Can someone who knows more C than I do make sense of this?
...why not just jack some credit card numbers/SSN's/other confidential info from the email system? If it means jail whether you do the good thing or the bad thing, why not make some scratch out of the process?
Debian remains locked in its "old fashioned ways" and will never be a leader in anything
In interest of disclosure: I use RedHat at work and Gentoo at home.
I personally don't have Debian on any computer I am responsible for. That said, I want Debian to exist. I don't want it to "lead"; I want it to be a sort of reference distro for the rest of us. If I see a package in Debian's stable branch I'm pretty confident that it's a reliable version of that application. No other distro, not even RH Enterprise, gets that much trust from me (though RHE comes close).
Debian's slow package release cycle is a feature, not a bug.
The system uses a saturated CCD in a light-tight can as a chaotic source to produce the seed. Software processes the result into truly random numbers in a variety of formats
How is that "truly" random? Somehow it's metaphysically impossible to predict what the CCD will do?
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This may be the first time a server was /.ed simply by K-whores....
Those scorpions were 31337. One stung me once. Damn that hurt.
Yes. They have to sound respectable enough that they could be a normal bar or restaurant, but just lurid enough that your average horny male has no doubt it's a strip club.
Good examples that come to mind are Sidewinders and the Dragon in Laughlin, OK, The Main Attraction in Oceanside, CA, and Good Guys and The Camelot Club in DC (you can tell where I've been stationed, can't you? Sadly, 29 Palms never had a good strip club, and it above all bases needs one).
There are a few examples that shy more towards the respectable side of naming, eg, The Crystal City Restaurant or Amy's (even calling it "Amie's" would have made it more ANSI-compliant). Oddly enough, the clubs that venture towards the less-respectable names are often not strip clubs at all, just Hooters knock-offs. Go figure.
Ummmm.... think back to Maxwell. Electric signal over copper wire by definition travels at the speed of light through the medium (true, the speed of light through copper is slower than through fiber, air, or vacuum and is not absolutely observed from all frames of reference as is the speed of light in a vacuum).
So it travels at "a" speed of light, if not The Speed of Light in vacuo (tm, trumpet fanfare). And much faster than a tornado, at any rate.
Eh, Virginia's tuition problems come from doing away with the car tag tax in the '90s, not building a supercomputer on the cheap in hte 'oughts.
No. Specifically not, in fact. What would be legal would be for the OOo team to crack the encryption in order to build a DRM client that was compatible with the Microsoft DRM server (or, for that matter, a server compatible with the MS DRM client).
No, no, no. You're missing the point. The PHB's will definitely see this as a feature.
Remember: these are the same people who are actually dumb enough to believe that the "business plans" and "mission statements" they produce on their management retreats are so crucial that they have to be kept "confidential" and "proprietary".
Now, imagine a world where every PHB could send out memos in .doc format that were permissioned to prevent recipients from copying, redistributing, or printing them -- short of a screen capture (which could probably be disabled too somehow, and at any rate would be less valuable as evidence), there would be no way to prove that a given PHB ordered Illegal, Unethical, or Stupid Activity X. It's their dream world.
Hell, it would require over half of us to vote in the first place
They're smarter than that, I think. You're average non-geek doesn't purchase new hardware because it's 1337; he purchases new hardware because the new software he's running is stomping his old hardware into a flaming mass. Whenever they put out a 3D-accelerated desktop, people will flock to get new boxes.
I would run out of moderator points just when an actually insightful post appears.
Regulation / certification / etc. have always been tools of large corporations to keep smaller players out of the game. Can you think of an easier way to marginalize Linux than shoving it in the box of, "it's not made by certified programmers; it's untrustworthy"?
Dude, there were hundreds of CH-46's in the Fleet. There were, what, 8 Ospreys?
I also don't see why an ornithopter would fill the role they envisioned for the Osprey. The Osprey was meant to be a VTOL or STOL aircraft with over-the-horizon capability. How would a 'thopter solve that problem?
If one more person calls my beloved Corps the "Army"...
Hmm... makes me wonder what the V-22 Deathtra^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Osprey was running
I've been modded down for saying this before, but screw it....
What is so frigging hard for you people about installing Linux?
I've installed 5 different distros on about 10 computers. Gentoo and Debian gave me grief; there's no point pretending they didn't. But I wouldn't expect someone looking for a painless installation process to use them.
But RedHat, Mandrake and SuSE never caused me any problems. Ever. X worked. The mouse worked. The sound worked. The NIC worked. The internal modem didn't work, but I knew that going into it (and external modems are cheap, anyways). For these distros, I had to modify precisely 0 config files. I had to specify precisely 0 hardware specs; the "hardest" thing I had to do was choose my desktop resolution, which you have to do for Windows too.
Yes. So I attached my digital camera. RedHat and SuSE detected it and set it up for me without any input from me.Hmmm... noatun, xmms, and gnome-cd have always worked for me, without my messing with them. Windows Media Player 9 always seems to choke on weird codecs that it can't find; the Linux players seem to find them quite easily. That's exactly my point: the "easy" Linux distros have required less input and configuration from me than the comparable Windows software.
That's another good example. I use comcast cable for my ISP. I plugged the cable into my NIC, RedHat and SuSE both said something like "You appear to be connected to the Internet; would you like to use that connection to surf the web and check your email?" Click yes, and 2 seconds later I'm surfing with Mozilla. I'm not sure what you mean by "compatible"; the only compatability issues I've had are with DFAS which wants a browser version > 5 no matter the vendor.
Compare this to Windows, which made me open up "Network Connection 1", configure TCP/IP, and select a gateway and DNS server (it couldn't seem to find the DNS server automatically like it was supposed to; Linux had no problem).
Applications > Internet > Chat. Offered me GAIM, IRC, ICQ, and Jabber. Opened up GAIM; it asked me which network(s) I wanted to use. I selected the ones I had accounts on, logged in, and chatted. What's so hard about that?
What problems do people keep having that makes RedHat or SuSE so "difficult" to install and get running? Am I just exceptionally lucky in the hardware I came across? Why have RedHat and SuSE required less manual configuation on my part than Windows 2000 or XP?
Seriously, I'd like to hear from somebody who can't get Linux to install. Are you trying to install something like Debian or Gentoo? Do you have hardware produced only in Moldova? What's the issue?
Funny... I'm in the Marine Corps (part of the DoD last time I checked), where we and the Navy have a mandated Microsoft-only procurement requirement. Not just "you have to justify buying non-Microsoft software" but "you have to prove that a Windows NT platform absolutely cannot do what you need to do". The usmc.mil website runs Domino (and doesn't properly sign its certificates... grrr....), but the entire Navy/MC WAN is NT4.
Maybe our WAN is not what you are calling "important". It's true, we don't put Windows on fighter jets or in tanks, but we don't put UNIX in them either. So maybe the medical and service records of all the men and women in the Navy and Marine Corps aren't "important" to you, but they're damn sure "important" to me, and I'm outraged that the network seems to have been compromised over the past few weeks.
I'll be happy to as soon as someone actually implements it.
But my friend said to patch it by doing
Sure hope that works....
It's no different than when your favorite local band gets a big record deal.
At first you're ecstatic because now you'll hear them on the radio, see them in big venues, etc. Then you start to get annoyed at all the new fans who only know the songs off their "big" album and not their older, infinitely better stuff.
Finally they stop playing their old stuff totally and you decide they've "sold out" just because they're more popular than they used to be.
Anyways, despite all the heroic tales of the man defending his home from brigands or visigoths or whatever, I'm pretty sure the Bill of Rights guarantees the right to bear arms for two reasons:
Ummm... below the jerkin of civil liberties, presumably.
Umm...
Now, I'm more of a Lisp guy than a C guy, but is that snippet even valid C?
I've got "if (size==0) return" which would make sense except that return should be followed by a semicolon. But instead return is followed by a closing parenthesis which is (presumably) opened earlier in an unrevealed section. But what is that parenthesis pair doing? Grouping expressions needlessly?
then there is "((ulong_t NULL);" which looks vaguely like a cast but isn't; instead it's declaring a ulong_t with the name NULL. Why would you do that? The first paren before ulong_t, incidentally, is never closed.
Can someone who knows more C than I do make sense of this?
Speaking of, has anybody considered doing a similar network to track the death of *BSD?
...why not just jack some credit card numbers/SSN's/other confidential info from the email system? If it means jail whether you do the good thing or the bad thing, why not make some scratch out of the process?
In interest of disclosure: I use RedHat at work and Gentoo at home.
I personally don't have Debian on any computer I am responsible for. That said, I want Debian to exist. I don't want it to "lead"; I want it to be a sort of reference distro for the rest of us. If I see a package in Debian's stable branch I'm pretty confident that it's a reliable version of that application. No other distro, not even RH Enterprise, gets that much trust from me (though RHE comes close).
Debian's slow package release cycle is a feature, not a bug.