There is nothing stopping you from using a different bootloader. What the article is talking about is that there is no windows install disk. Only an image, like one you would make with "ghost".
I love how half the posts start with "I'm not an EE, but..." and then are followed by an explanation that sounds good to the layman but is mostly bogus.
and....what if the email notifying you of the "cracking" is actually spoofed? I can see it now. "Go to this link and enter your CC # to see if yours was stolen"
As much as I love to bash Microsoft, this isn't really a "vulnerability" in the normal sense. What they are saying is that when Microsoft lets you send mail through hotmail without a web browser, you can send mail through hotmail without a web browser. Duh. What's next, free POP/SMTP providers have a "vulnerability" that allows their users to send mail with their SMTP servers? And their claims of spammers otherwise being limitted to "copy and paste" is just ridiculous. Just because its a web interface doesn't mean it can't be scripted or can only be accessed by a normal web browser. Somehow I doubt that there are many spammers copy/pasting messages over and over into hotmail accounts.
I fail to see any advantages of EvilWM over fvwm from the site. Every one of their features also applies to fvwm, and EvilWM doesn't appear to be as configurable as fvwm. I already have 1 pixel borders and excellent keyboard control (better than what EvilWM is offering) with my fvwm configuration. I seriously doubt that EvilWM would be noticeably faster either, as fvwm is already very minimal.
Would anyone who has made the switch from fvwm to EvilWM care to explain why they changed instead of just writing a new fvwmrc?
If you were truly up on your crashing skills, you would know that you can crash msdos in mere seconds! I've heard rumors of a wise old crash-guru who could bring msdos 6.22 to its knees in mere pico seconds.
Not to nitpick, but its a bit misleading to call Gnosticism a Christian teaching. It is flat out contradicted in many places in the Bible. 1 John is a good place to read if you want to know more about it.
I don't see why everyone has their shirts all in a knot over having "Linux for the masses". Why does everyone need to use Linux all of a sudden? Don't get me wrong, it's all I use. But that dosen't mean everyone should be using it. It makes much more sense to have "Linux for the developers" than "Linux for the masses". More developers means more contribution. The masses give almost nothing to the community. So why insist everyone should use it?
How did this make it to the main page? Seriously, the article just says to download the installer and run it. This is news how? Anyway, everyone knows that real linux geeks only play nethack anyway. Beware the ASCII!!!
Why is RPM specified in the LSB anyway? Just because its the "most common"? Even that may be debatable.
What qualifies something as "intelligent"?
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Before you can address the question of A.I., you first have to decide what exactly makes a life form "intelligent". Clearly man is in a totally different class than the animals, but what exactly sets man apart?
As pointed out by another poster, it is trivial to make a computer claim to be intelligent [printf("I am intelligent!\n");], but when do you decide it actually is. And is pure intellect what makes man unique?
I would say the unique thing about man is this:
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:27
I'd say that encompases much more than mere intelligence or self-awareness, which are only a small part of what man is. If this is the case, then making a machine that actually is "like man" appears to be a futile effort. Simulating it is at least an interesting challenge, but the moral debates are kind of pointless.
On the other hand, it seems it be becoming "popular belief" (whatever that means) that there isn't a difference between man and animal ("don't kill the cow! its murder!"). But I don't see any basis for this. And where then do you draw the line? Is it murder to kill an ant? A carrot?
"I hear the screams of the vegetables..."
--Arrogant Worms
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, a. [L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of
sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See {Sense}.]
Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception.
Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient
extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs
or tissues.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, n.
One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
sentient
adj 1: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the
living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's
stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: {animate}] [ant: {insentient}]
2: consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load";
"a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White
Why anyone would need or want binary compatability is beyond me. Personally I much prefer to run code that is optimized for the system it is running on and to have hardware that isn't kludged together in order to be backwards compatable.
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There is nothing stopping you from using a different bootloader. What the article is talking about is that there is no windows install disk. Only an image, like one you would make with "ghost".
I love how half the posts start with "I'm not an EE, but..." and then are followed by an explanation that sounds good to the layman but is mostly bogus.
and....what if the email notifying you of the "cracking" is actually spoofed? I can see it now. "Go to this link and enter your CC # to see if yours was stolen"
As much as I love to bash Microsoft, this isn't really a "vulnerability" in the normal sense. What they are saying is that when Microsoft lets you send mail through hotmail without a web browser, you can send mail through hotmail without a web browser. Duh. What's next, free POP/SMTP providers have a "vulnerability" that allows their users to send mail with their SMTP servers? And their claims of spammers otherwise being limitted to "copy and paste" is just ridiculous. Just because its a web interface doesn't mean it can't be scripted or can only be accessed by a normal web browser. Somehow I doubt that there are many spammers copy/pasting messages over and over into hotmail accounts.
I fail to see any advantages of EvilWM over fvwm from the site. Every one of their features also applies to fvwm, and EvilWM doesn't appear to be as configurable as fvwm. I already have 1 pixel borders and excellent keyboard control (better than what EvilWM is offering) with my fvwm configuration. I seriously doubt that EvilWM would be noticeably faster either, as fvwm is already very minimal.
Would anyone who has made the switch from fvwm to EvilWM care to explain why they changed instead of just writing a new fvwmrc?
If you were truly up on your crashing skills, you would know that you can crash msdos in mere seconds! I've heard rumors of a wise old crash-guru who could bring msdos 6.22 to its knees in mere pico seconds.
so then i must test every possible value of 'x' to make sure this still prints hello world?
int x;
printf("Hello world\n");
There is such a thing as a "don't care" state.
No, it means that whoever picked the version number is a C programmer.
If you forward this PDF explaining open relays to all your friends, Bill Gates will give you a dollar for every closed relay the PDF goes through.
and here i've been using curl and some grep/sed magic to grab those URLS. Oh well, script hacks are more fun anyway :)
Not to nitpick, but its a bit misleading to call Gnosticism a Christian teaching. It is flat out contradicted in many places in the Bible. 1 John is a good place to read if you want to know more about it.
binary installs are easier to upgrade and manage in todays apt-get, RPM, ports world of open source operating systems
two words:
emerge ardour-cvs
Ever notice how we are all worried about terrorists building bombs, missles, etc and they just crash a plane into a building?
One of the major problems with Linux is it's inability to work 100% properly with some proprietary technologies.
One of the major problems with Windows is it's inability to work 100% properly with some open standards.
But what about all those great [n]curses programs I love so much! Keep the curses in programming!
I don't see why everyone has their shirts all in a knot over having "Linux for the masses". Why does everyone need to use Linux all of a sudden? Don't get me wrong, it's all I use. But that dosen't mean everyone should be using it. It makes much more sense to have "Linux for the developers" than "Linux for the masses". More developers means more contribution. The masses give almost nothing to the community. So why insist everyone should use it?
How did this make it to the main page? Seriously, the article just says to download the installer and run it. This is news how? Anyway, everyone knows that real linux geeks only play nethack anyway. Beware the ASCII!!!
Why is RPM specified in the LSB anyway? Just because its the "most common"? Even that may be debatable.
Before you can address the question of A.I., you first have to decide what exactly makes a life form "intelligent". Clearly man is in a totally different class than the animals, but what exactly sets man apart?
As pointed out by another poster, it is trivial to make a computer claim to be intelligent [printf("I am intelligent!\n");], but when do you decide it actually is. And is pure intellect what makes man unique?
I would say the unique thing about man is this:
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:27
I'd say that encompases much more than mere intelligence or self-awareness, which are only a small part of what man is. If this is the case, then making a machine that actually is "like man" appears to be a futile effort. Simulating it is at least an interesting challenge, but the moral debates are kind of pointless.
On the other hand, it seems it be becoming "popular belief" (whatever that means) that there isn't a difference between man and animal ("don't kill the cow! its murder!"). But I don't see any basis for this. And where then do you draw the line? Is it murder to kill an ant? A carrot?
"I hear the screams of the vegetables..."
--Arrogant Worms
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, a. [L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of
sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See {Sense}.]
Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception.
Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient
extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs
or tissues.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, n.
One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
sentient
adj 1: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the
living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's
stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: {animate}] [ant: {insentient}]
2: consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load";
"a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White
Why anyone would need or want binary compatability is beyond me. Personally I much prefer to run code that is optimized for the system it is running on and to have hardware that isn't kludged together in order to be backwards compatable.
4n33 opto-isolators and some resistors. Hook-em straight up to the parallel port data out lines. Works like a charm, and its super cheap.
Got no car. Got no cell phone. Don't want either. The day I get a cell phone is the day I'm given one for free.
A web server is a bare minimum?
I have only one thing to say:
$ write user