So exactly where do you draw the line? Why bother having a speed limit if you're going to say... well, it's kinda fuzzy really... up until about 20 over it doesn't matter...
Why not just change the speed limit to the higher limit then, and make that the hard limit, 1 mile over is heavily penalised?
The whole point of having the speed limit is to set the MAXIMUM speed you can go... you can't arbitarily decide that you know better and really 70 is just as safe as 60 on this piece of road.
The point is that when only slightly over the speed limit (say 5 or 10 over a 60mph speed limit) the difference in speed and any increase in danger is negligable at best. Maybe things are different where you are at, but I don't know of anyone who has ever gotten a ticket around here for going 60mph on a 55mph road because that small of a difference is not a hazard.
Driving at 114mph in a 30mph zone (almost four times the speed limit) is very definitely a hazard however.
Someone who can't see the difference obviously isn't much of a driver.
BTW... most police officers in my town drive 5 or 10 mph over the speed limit on the highways around here too...
"Use it for serious cases, fine. But don't ticket me!"
So, because it's you who's speeding it's not serious? Why should you be able to speed as long as you don't get in an accident? It's this sort of 'The other guy's the bad person here, not me... oh sure, I break the law, but when I do so it's different' crap that causes the problems in the first place.
Uh... or maybe they just mean the difference between the 5 or 10 over the limit and going 114 in a residential zone...
Has a worm ever been used for anything other than a DDoS?
Yes... Lots of things... My old school had an office macro worm spreading across all it's computers (and I'd assume making it's way to student's home as well..) which only had the purpose of screwing up saves and saying some message on a certain day.
After getting hit by that worm personally i made my own benifitial worm to spread across the school's network... which would automagically spread and clean out the bad worm, alert the user of the problem being removed, and IIRC would automagically remove itself after a certain date so it wasn't too intrusive.
See, not all worms are for DDoS;) Some are actually good things.
Ninety-five percent of attacks happen after a patch for a known software vulnerability has been issued'
..or is it that Ninety-five percent of known attacks happen after they've decided to let everyone know about the "known" software vulnerability so they have a vulnerability to attribute the attacks to?
Perhaps the 5% before hand is more like 30% but only 1/6th of that 30% are able to figure out what the vulnerability was due to?
In the commercial world, because of restrictions on software distribution, there is no single place to go for patches. There is no debian or RedHat that distributes 100s or 1000s of applications and will provide you patches for ALL of them promptly and consistently.
Actually Gentoo does a good job of this. Packages which are updated for security reasons are typically available before the volnerability has made it's way out of the top few slashdot stories (assuming it wasn't available before slashdot finally got a clue and got around to posting the news in the first place) and can easily be installed with a few keystrokes.
Yes, there are 100s or 1000s of applications available in Gentoo through portage. No, Gentoo is not for everyone. My point is just that there IS a place that does it.
A more innaccurate article please?
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[i]Gentoo uses GRUB as the default boot loader. At first I thought that was a bad choice, because I couldn't make GRUB work[/i]
Umm... noo.. The install docs list the Configuring GRUB information before the Configuring Lilo install information... So that means it's the default choice??? I think not.
Gentoo fully supports (and has good instructions for setting up) your choice of either lilo or grub, and has since I first started using it well over a year ago.
Although you wouldn't expect it to be mentioned in the article, I would like to mention that Gentoo has one of the best communities built around it. A simple search on the gentoo forums usually brings up the answer to any question you have, and if not a simple post to the forums will usually get an informative answer in less time than it takes slashdot to bring a server to it's knees...
Was it just me, or were Neo and the Oracle REALLY making some blatant metaphysics jokes.
It seemed to me that anyone having taken a class on metaphysics should have been laughing through the movie. But then maybe I was the only one.
Actually most of the people in the theatre I went to were laughing a lot during the movie. There was a tremendous amount of subtle jokes. The Oracle & Neo talk was pretty funny at some points.
Also anyone else who would have taken the '76 Eldorado over the '03 CTS without question?
Yes... There were a lot of cars I would have taken (that they were around) instead of what they did take..
Millions of P2P users... One company trying to DoS them all...
I wonder how much bandwidth worth of DoS attacks it will take before routers across the net (including major internet backbones) start blocking traffic from passing that originates from the RIAA.
I'm sure that whatever ISP (yes, even big corps go through an ISP of some type!) the RIAA tries to through will eventually get tired of hosting that much DoS traffic and will raise the rates higher than the RIAA is willing to pay... I hope they do at least....
Hmmm.. I wonder what they can do about read-only filesystems...
I doubt any of their software works on [insert OS other than Windows or OSX], so I for one am probably safe against all of the legal mp3 files on my hard drive being erased.
[quote]Don't we have this thing called due process in this country any more? Seems like crap like this just bypasses tenets like that and "innocent until proven guilty", if they can just go after you for thinking you've got pirated music.[/quote]
Where have you been lately? Due process is just a memory in a text book now.
We, The People, no longer have rights, they have been sold by the government to the highest bidder.
The only solice we have is the knowledge that the faster and larger something grows the sooner it will destroy itself, and from the looks of things the RIAA is running full speed towards that cliff.
Unless of course Madonna's contract stipulates that the RIAA (or the record label she is under, which is most likely part of the RIAA (aren't all of them??)) gains ownership of the copyrights to any songs she produces.
I know that may sound far fetched to the uninitiated, thats the way it is with a very large number of artists. Madonna is a big enough artist and has been around long enough that is probably not the case for her, but if you take a look at the contract for a newer or smaller band you'll usually see a clause along these lines.
Re:why it took so long to produce...
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It is my understanding that a lot of high end digital cameras only expose for a fraction of a second, but it takes a moment for the image to fade from the sensor (or after reading other comments I am reminded the correct TLA is CCD).
In other words, just because it can charge from the light in 1/1000th of a second doesn't mean it can change from one image to another that quickly.
Perhaps my information is a little dated, but this used to be a problem, and the cost/demand ratio of p roducing equipment was worth it for the mass market.
why it took so long to produce...
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[quote]With digital cameras at regular stores with resolution over 5 megapixel it makes you wonder why it took so long to produce.[/quote]
Maybe that accurate of light sensors are slower and take more than 1/30th to fully react to the range of light change it needs to deal with.
Psh.. what am I saying... "Maybe" is a bit of an understatement.
The truth of the matter is, linux users these days install it themselves. even if i recieved a preinstalled linux box, i would reinstall, repartition, etc. Plus everyone likes a different distro.
Linux users USED to install it themselves. But we are moving into an era of desktop acceptance. One of the key points in being on the desktop is being able to be used by those users that don't know the difference between MB and GB let alone know how to partition a hard drive.
I've set up two linux systems for friends in the past 6 months. One of them will probably use it for 6 to 8 months and then reinstall with a different distro, the other will be using the same linux setup for as long as he has that computer.
We can't truly say linux is ready for the mainstream desktop until we reach a point where people don't have to install it themselves.
Re:You could always buy replacement parts...
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Please mod parent up...
I had an NES I kept in a cool cabnet that had low moisture and was kept clean of dust. For years the only games I ever needed to "blow and pray" on was two that I had bought at garage sales.
After numerous years it finally started having slight problems, after cleaning the connectors on the games and in the NES (did not even need to open the case) with a Cotton Tipped Cleaning Applicator (hehe.. okay so it was basically a one sided q-tip with a much longer staff) and rubbing alcohol it was back working like a champ.
If people would learn to take care of their electronics and cleam them when necessary they would find the common problems like "blow and pray" for NES games and DRE's on PS2 would disapear.
I wish the slashdot summery didn't suck so much...
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"Official" means that it is sanctioned. In other words, the bands have agreed to it so it's not illegal, and it should in no way violate any agreements with the RIAA since this would have to be agreed upon in advance, and I would bet a lot of money that the RIAA will end up getting a big chunk of the profits for any band associated with them that plays one of those concerts (and some smaller profits from the ones that the bands aren't with the RIAA)
A fairly good number of bands allow recordings of concerts. Metallica, the band infamous for fighting Napster, allows for concerts to be recorded by fans.
It doesn't matter where you are from, it's where they are from. The law only applies to those that reside in that area. If I were to move to a country that didn't have any laws against harrassment, I could call you every 15 minutes 24/7 and the only thing they could do is block my telephone number from accessing your phone, assuming the Bell whom they'd have to have block it would cooperate.
We can all take a sigh of relief knowing that it costs far too much money to make that many phone calls to another country for it to be any fun.
What good does that do to spammers who just go to a different state/country?
And how much good does it do to spammers who spam as annonmously as they can? Am I going to get sued because some spammer spoofed my email address?
TV satellites will remain in orbit forever
Maybe it's just a show of how bad education has gotten...
But according to my education these satellites loose power and can no longer fight earth's gravity after a while, which causes them to fall into the earth's atmosphere and dissentigrate on reentry.
I have a friend that works with satellites for a living.. maybe I should go ask him to be sure...
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Forkbombs on the other hand... You can make them for anything that doesn't have the proper restrictions setup ;)
And your point is what now? Just because it's techincally illegal doesn't stop large corporations from doing it anyways.
Take a look around and you'll see that this is practiced quite rampantly.
The point is that when only slightly over the speed limit (say 5 or 10 over a 60mph speed limit) the difference in speed and any increase in danger is negligable at best. Maybe things are different where you are at, but I don't know of anyone who has ever gotten a ticket around here for going 60mph on a 55mph road because that small of a difference is not a hazard.
Driving at 114mph in a 30mph zone (almost four times the speed limit) is very definitely a hazard however.
Someone who can't see the difference obviously isn't much of a driver.
BTW... most police officers in my town drive 5 or 10 mph over the speed limit on the highways around here too...
Uh... or maybe they just mean the difference between the 5 or 10 over the limit and going 114 in a residential zone...
Yes, especially when the monopoly has more money and more employees than a large number of governments around the world do.
That may be true, but that doesn't mean microsoft hasn't bought a substantial part of the government.
Yes... Lots of things... My old school had an office macro worm spreading across all it's computers (and I'd assume making it's way to student's home as well..) which only had the purpose of screwing up saves and saying some message on a certain day.
After getting hit by that worm personally i made my own benifitial worm to spread across the school's network... which would automagically spread and clean out the bad worm, alert the user of the problem being removed, and IIRC would automagically remove itself after a certain date so it wasn't too intrusive.
See, not all worms are for DDoS ;) Some are actually good things.
..or is it that Ninety-five percent of known attacks happen after they've decided to let everyone know about the "known" software vulnerability so they have a vulnerability to attribute the attacks to?
Perhaps the 5% before hand is more like 30% but only 1/6th of that 30% are able to figure out what the vulnerability was due to?
Actually Gentoo does a good job of this. Packages which are updated for security reasons are typically available before the volnerability has made it's way out of the top few slashdot stories (assuming it wasn't available before slashdot finally got a clue and got around to posting the news in the first place) and can easily be installed with a few keystrokes.
Yes, there are 100s or 1000s of applications available in Gentoo through portage. No, Gentoo is not for everyone. My point is just that there IS a place that does it.
Umm... noo.. The install docs list the Configuring GRUB information before the Configuring Lilo install information... So that means it's the default choice??? I think not.
Gentoo fully supports (and has good instructions for setting up) your choice of either lilo or grub, and has since I first started using it well over a year ago.
Although you wouldn't expect it to be mentioned in the article, I would like to mention that Gentoo has one of the best communities built around it. A simple search on the gentoo forums usually brings up the answer to any question you have, and if not a simple post to the forums will usually get an informative answer in less time than it takes slashdot to bring a server to it's knees...
Actually most of the people in the theatre I went to were laughing a lot during the movie. There was a tremendous amount of subtle jokes. The Oracle & Neo talk was pretty funny at some points.
Also anyone else who would have taken the '76 Eldorado over the '03 CTS without question?
Yes... There were a lot of cars I would have taken (that they were around) instead of what they did take..
[quote]But I guess that is like pointing out that there is a lot of corn in Nebraska.[/quote] Don't forget, we also have cows!
I wonder how much bandwidth worth of DoS attacks it will take before routers across the net (including major internet backbones) start blocking traffic from passing that originates from the RIAA.
I'm sure that whatever ISP (yes, even big corps go through an ISP of some type!) the RIAA tries to through will eventually get tired of hosting that much DoS traffic and will raise the rates higher than the RIAA is willing to pay... I hope they do at least....
Hmmm.. I wonder what they can do about read-only filesystems...
I doubt any of their software works on [insert OS other than Windows or OSX], so I for one am probably safe against all of the legal mp3 files on my hard drive being erased.
We, The People, no longer have rights, they have been sold by the government to the highest bidder.
The only solice we have is the knowledge that the faster and larger something grows the sooner it will destroy itself, and from the looks of things the RIAA is running full speed towards that cliff.
I know that may sound far fetched to the uninitiated, thats the way it is with a very large number of artists. Madonna is a big enough artist and has been around long enough that is probably not the case for her, but if you take a look at the contract for a newer or smaller band you'll usually see a clause along these lines.
In other words, just because it can charge from the light in 1/1000th of a second doesn't mean it can change from one image to another that quickly.
Perhaps my information is a little dated, but this used to be a problem, and the cost/demand ratio of p roducing equipment was worth it for the mass market.
Maybe that accurate of light sensors are slower and take more than 1/30th to fully react to the range of light change it needs to deal with.
Psh.. what am I saying... "Maybe" is a bit of an understatement.
Linux users USED to install it themselves. But we are moving into an era of desktop acceptance. One of the key points in being on the desktop is being able to be used by those users that don't know the difference between MB and GB let alone know how to partition a hard drive.
I've set up two linux systems for friends in the past 6 months. One of them will probably use it for 6 to 8 months and then reinstall with a different distro, the other will be using the same linux setup for as long as he has that computer.
We can't truly say linux is ready for the mainstream desktop until we reach a point where people don't have to install it themselves.
I had an NES I kept in a cool cabnet that had low moisture and was kept clean of dust. For years the only games I ever needed to "blow and pray" on was two that I had bought at garage sales.
After numerous years it finally started having slight problems, after cleaning the connectors on the games and in the NES (did not even need to open the case) with a Cotton Tipped Cleaning Applicator (hehe.. okay so it was basically a one sided q-tip with a much longer staff) and rubbing alcohol it was back working like a champ.
If people would learn to take care of their electronics and cleam them when necessary they would find the common problems like "blow and pray" for NES games and DRE's on PS2 would disapear.
A fairly good number of bands allow recordings of concerts. Metallica, the band infamous for fighting Napster, allows for concerts to be recorded by fans.
It doesn't matter where you are from, it's where they are from. The law only applies to those that reside in that area. If I were to move to a country that didn't have any laws against harrassment, I could call you every 15 minutes 24/7 and the only thing they could do is block my telephone number from accessing your phone, assuming the Bell whom they'd have to have block it would cooperate.
We can all take a sigh of relief knowing that it costs far too much money to make that many phone calls to another country for it to be any fun.
IIRC they complained that the sound wasn't very good. Overall I think everyone is dissapointed in it..
What good does that do to spammers who just go to a different state/country? And how much good does it do to spammers who spam as annonmously as they can? Am I going to get sued because some spammer spoofed my email address?
But according to my education these satellites loose power and can no longer fight earth's gravity after a while, which causes them to fall into the earth's atmosphere and dissentigrate on reentry.
I have a friend that works with satellites for a living.. maybe I should go ask him to be sure...