Apprently that was how they performed the copy editing... or for that matter, the writing. The writer casts "Poor puncuation". Editor rolls vs. Spell. Editor fails roll.
I was thinking of pharmaceutical companies who spend billions of dollars doing the R&D, animal trials, human trials, etc. on some drug that does treats "X"*.
Then a company in India gets their hands on a sample of the drug and floods the market with a generic versions of it.
* - doesn't include such things as AIDS, since I feel that AIDS should be one of those things that everybody should just share their research openly.
Your totally right. Here's how you solve the problem.
1. Create a seperate user called "webuser". Thus when some stupid java exploit attempts to delete your home directory, it can't.
2. configure your selinux security so that the JIT can't create/delete stuff except inside of a "java temp" directory. Fine let the virus go wild, too bad it won't get anywhere.
3. Impliment a sensible backup plan. What's really important for you to backup? Software can generally be downloaded again. The only stuff that's not replaceable is code and settings.
I'm generally not a nut about formatting, grammar, or spelling but my god. That review was like an unholy trifecta of the English language gone terribly wrong.
I really wanted to read the review and get something out of it, I just kept fumbling over the writing.
Dear Slashdot "Editors"... Please for christmas, can Santa bring you all an unabridged grammar book and a spell checker.
No one is arguing that Sun was innovative. They were... however, their not being (in my rather myopic view of things) innovative now.
There is nothing that sun is doing right now that would compel me to buy or run their hardware or software.
Thus when I see them running around flapping their arms and hollering about how terrible linux is, I see it as a company seeing itself get its ass kicked by a varitable fog monster. It has no weak spots, it has nothing you can grasp onto, yet it's doing damage to you from every angle. To top it off, Sun has no magical weapons...
I believe in evolutionary creationism. I believe all life started from a single divine moment that took a bunch of random proteins and hooked them together and typed "go" at the console. This single celled creature went forward, ate something and split. From that point, the Gods just sat back and let natural evolution take its course.
That same theory could also be extended to the migration from a single continent to the multiple continents that we've got today. One could argue that the Gods just saw what was going to happen an decided that they didn't need to influence things. Maybe they decided they wanted things in a specific spot for some reason and influenced things one way or the other. A fault line here, a n ocean current there, etc.
Captain: Haha, they'll never see our packets coming! (Ride of the Valkayries plays in the background)
Captain: Why aren't there thingies all over the monitors! I want to see some bitches thingies on the monitor!
Ensign: Sir, they're called boobs and secondly the ships behind a building, we'll have to raise to ludicris orbit in order to see some boobs.
Captain: Ah, I remember when I was your age, I was on leave from the academy on Chulawn 8. I meet a girl there... well needless to say she had quite a set of thingies! I banged her like a screen door in a hurricane!
Ensign: Didn't you also get a terrible rash that put you in the infirmary for a week?
Captain: Um, no. Needless to say, when you've gotta go, you've gotta go. Just be leary of what plants you wipe your ass with.
Ensign: Noted! Sir, we're unable to recieve any transmition of pornographic material because of local anti-porno laws.
Captain (pacing back and forth): What to DO!!!
Ensign: Sir, according to our scanners, we're hovering above a large district of brothels.
Captain: Ah Ha! Ready the away teams! Also notify Sick bay we're going to need a good supply of phase tronic jimmy hats!
Ensign: Yes Sir! 100 to Bang down, I mean Beam down Sir!
Well, we always knew that Ballmer and McBride were just Gates's sock puppets.
Why do you think Gates hired him in the first place? It's not like he provides any strategic direction for microsoft, he's just Gates's jackass by proxy.
Mostly though, hey'll use an acustophone. You just turn a fauset on and he'll listen for the sound of running water. This is the same equipment they use for finding underground water leaks.
They should have maps. Also there's a system called "Dig Safe". You call them and a guy (usually someone just like my Dad) comes out and uses location equipment to find and mark all of the underground lines for you. Which brings up another point. There already is all kinds of great equipment on the market that'll allow you to find water/gas lines. The particular system my dad uses, works just like the tone generator you'd use to find a live pair. You just clip it to the pipe where it comes out of the side of the house (such as a gas regulator) or a valve box in the street) and you use an antennae to trace the signal. Been around for easily 15 years and works like a charm. As for electric, the system that my dad uses will also pick up electrical hum as well, so concieveably you could use it to find underground electrical as well. (though it's really not designed for that)
I don't see much difference between a minivan eating sinkhole and Verizon's service. (Other than the fact that at least a sinkhole leads to a decent pipe....) Eitherway, the results the same... your going along fine and suddenly your neck deep in shit with no way out.
One of my old bosses had something like what he has. He ended up having this thing hooked to his waist belt that pumped him full of a antibiotics for months on end.
My boss did get better, it just took him a long time. Patrick should be ready for a very long recovery time with some nasty side effects along the way.
Though I'd take shitty side effects to worm food anyday...
I agree. Actually, if the cable companies were smart what they'd do is have two streams for each channel.
The first stream would be the non-premium stream that would include commericals, etc. This would be the stream that you'd have access to via your standard cable/sat package
The second stream would be the commerical/HD stream that you'd pay (say $5) a month for.
Thus, the channels that you really liked, you'd pay the 5 bucks and enjoy the hell of of them. However the channels that you only watched intermittently would be the ones that you could live with the commericals.
No, it just means the incentive to spam in the states goes down.
I apologize to the people of China, Mexico, Korea, Russia and about a half dozen other baltic and asiatic nations. Your mail doesn't make it past my MTA...
I've come to this point in my use of the internet where if I'm going to accept mail from you I'm either going to talk to you on the phone or know you in person and I've added you to my white list. All other mail gets dumped.
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Apprently that was how they performed the copy editing... or for that matter, the writing.
The writer casts "Poor puncuation".
Editor rolls vs. Spell.
Editor fails roll.
The Editor thinks the speeling is a-okay!
Your last statement hit the nail right on the head.
People tend to forget that the path from basic science to miracle cure is long and arduous.
There is a lot of basic science that still needs to be done to even start asking questions of viability.
In any case, none of it ends up being a waste of money if ultimately we better understand how these processes work.
Actually I wasn't thinking of computer programs.
I was thinking of pharmaceutical companies who spend billions of dollars doing the R&D, animal trials, human trials, etc. on some drug that does treats "X"*.
Then a company in India gets their hands on a sample of the drug and floods the market with a generic versions of it.
* - doesn't include such things as AIDS, since I feel that AIDS should be one of those things that everybody should just share their research openly.
Firstly, those would be American patents I'm pretty sure. Which, since their going to be using the product in their country doesn't really apply.
Secondly, China and India have a long standing and storied history of ignoring patents all together.
So, ultimately Microsoft is just tooting its own horn.
Your totally right. Here's how you solve the problem.
1. Create a seperate user called "webuser". Thus when some stupid java exploit attempts to delete your home directory, it can't.
2. configure your selinux security so that the JIT can't create/delete stuff except inside of a "java temp" directory. Fine let the virus go wild, too bad it won't get anywhere.
3. Impliment a sensible backup plan. What's really important for you to backup? Software can generally be downloaded again. The only stuff that's not replaceable is code and settings.
Thanks! Imagine that, an actual educational post on Slashdot.
Keep this up and I fully expect the Sun to go super nova any moment now...
I'm generally not a nut about formatting, grammar, or spelling but my god. That review was like an unholy trifecta of the English language gone terribly wrong.
I really wanted to read the review and get something out of it, I just kept fumbling over the writing.
Dear Slashdot "Editors"... Please for christmas, can Santa bring you all an unabridged grammar book and a spell checker.
I think your missing the distinction.
No one is arguing that Sun was innovative. They were... however, their not being (in my rather myopic view of things) innovative now.
There is nothing that sun is doing right now that would compel me to buy or run their hardware or software.
Thus when I see them running around flapping their arms and hollering about how terrible linux is, I see it as a company seeing itself get its ass kicked by a varitable fog monster. It has no weak spots, it has nothing you can grasp onto, yet it's doing damage to you from every angle. To top it off, Sun has no magical weapons...
I guess this puts me in the 3rd column.
I believe in evolutionary creationism. I believe all life started from a single divine moment that took a bunch of random proteins and hooked them together and typed "go" at the console. This single celled creature went forward, ate something and split. From that point, the Gods just sat back and let natural evolution take its course.
That same theory could also be extended to the migration from a single continent to the multiple continents that we've got today. One could argue that the Gods just saw what was going to happen an decided that they didn't need to influence things. Maybe they decided they wanted things in a specific spot for some reason and influenced things one way or the other. A fault line here, a n ocean current there, etc.
This is in a nutshell, FUD.
Sun is watching it's market share of Unix spiral downwards. Sun's solution to this problem isn't to innovate but to go after the competition.
It's the classic bare assed emperor...
Well... Doom3 has a native executable... Plus the ID folks have been a big proponent of cross platform graphics compatability.
I think this is because Doom3 is as much as a game as it is a tech demo for selling their engine...
Though why in the FUCK they still use OSS instead of ALSA, we shall never know...
Captain: Engage the Wifi cloaking.
Ensign: Yes Sir! cloak enabled!
Captain: Haha, they'll never see our packets coming! (Ride of the Valkayries plays in the background)
Captain: Why aren't there thingies all over the monitors! I want to see some bitches thingies on the monitor!
Ensign: Sir, they're called boobs and secondly the ships behind a building, we'll have to raise to ludicris orbit in order to see some boobs.
Captain: Ah, I remember when I was your age, I was on leave from the academy on Chulawn 8. I meet a girl there... well needless to say she had quite a set of thingies! I banged her like a screen door in a hurricane!
Ensign: Didn't you also get a terrible rash that put you in the infirmary for a week?
Captain: Um, no. Needless to say, when you've gotta go, you've gotta go. Just be leary of what plants you wipe your ass with.
Ensign: Noted! Sir, we're unable to recieve any transmition of pornographic material because of local anti-porno laws.
Captain (pacing back and forth): What to DO!!!
Ensign: Sir, according to our scanners, we're hovering above a large district of brothels.
Captain: Ah Ha! Ready the away teams! Also notify Sick bay we're going to need a good supply of phase tronic jimmy hats!
Ensign: Yes Sir! 100 to Bang down, I mean Beam down Sir!
Well, we always knew that Ballmer and McBride were just Gates's sock puppets.
Why do you think Gates hired him in the first place? It's not like he provides any strategic direction for microsoft, he's just Gates's jackass by proxy.
My dad's worked with dousing rods as well.
Mostly though, hey'll use an acustophone. You just turn a fauset on and he'll listen for the sound of running water. This is the same equipment they use for finding underground water leaks.
They should have maps. Also there's a system called "Dig Safe". You call them and a guy (usually someone just like my Dad) comes out and uses location equipment to find and mark all of the underground lines for you. Which brings up another point. There already is all kinds of great equipment on the market that'll allow you to find water/gas lines. The particular system my dad uses, works just like the tone generator you'd use to find a live pair. You just clip it to the pipe where it comes out of the side of the house (such as a gas regulator) or a valve box in the street) and you use an antennae to trace the signal. Been around for easily 15 years and works like a charm. As for electric, the system that my dad uses will also pick up electrical hum as well, so concieveably you could use it to find underground electrical as well. (though it's really not designed for that)
I don't see much difference between a minivan eating sinkhole and Verizon's service. (Other than the fact that at least a sinkhole leads to a decent pipe....) Eitherway, the results the same... your going along fine and suddenly your neck deep in shit with no way out.
One of my old bosses had something like what he has. He ended up having this thing hooked to his waist belt that pumped him full of a antibiotics for months on end.
My boss did get better, it just took him a long time. Patrick should be ready for a very long recovery time with some nasty side effects along the way.
Though I'd take shitty side effects to worm food anyday...
Ah crap. I meant to say that the second stream would be commerical free/HD stream. Though I suspect that most slashdot readers got the idea.
I agree. Actually, if the cable companies were smart what they'd do is have two streams for each channel.
The first stream would be the non-premium stream that would include commericals, etc. This would be the stream that you'd have access to via your standard cable/sat package
The second stream would be the commerical/HD stream that you'd pay (say $5) a month for.
Thus, the channels that you really liked, you'd pay the 5 bucks and enjoy the hell of of them. However the channels that you only watched intermittently would be the ones that you could live with the commericals.
Basically, it just means we need to dump some real R&D money into neural interface devices.
I don't want to have to sit and look at the screen and type the code, I want to think the code and just have it appear...
Don't make me come over that and shoot you with a zat gun!
I see I wasn't the only one who saw the rubber glove of microsoft up the ass of Daryl...
Excuse me. Last time I checked we were the current imperialistic power in the world. Hence, we get to make and/or break the language anyway we want...
No, it just means the incentive to spam in the states goes down.
I apologize to the people of China, Mexico, Korea, Russia and about a half dozen other baltic and asiatic nations. Your mail doesn't make it past my MTA...
I've come to this point in my use of the internet where if I'm going to accept mail from you I'm either going to talk to you on the phone or know you in person and I've added you to my white list. All other mail gets dumped.
Imagine how things would have been today if Jobs had gotten beaten by the fucking clue stick and had bought BeOS instead.
Imagine Aqua running on top of BeOS. *shrugs* Ah, what never was and what should have been.
Just remeber everytime your using OSX, it could have been even better.
Super Hero: Um, I want a costume with a cape...
Costume Creator: NO CAPES!