we used to have KGB men monitoring the copier machines. Every document had to be signed off along with the page count, and then there was a guy making sure you don't copy some illegal or personal stuff.
The target group of these seemingly stupid scans is IMHO the hypothetical "zombied" average grass-roots terrorist, i.e., somebody who isn't an actual operative of a terror cell, but, rather, someone indoctrinated by some extremist brainwash --- doesn't matter what ideology we're talking about. Such person will assumingly be stupid enough to be easily caught in the stupid checks. OTOH, seeking reason behind actions of huge government entities like the military is often stupid in itself, so maybe you should ignore my post altogether...
At the places where I am the root, doubleclick.net and the likes are DNS-null-routed (to a localnet IP 127.0.0.127). At other places, I use Firefox, JS selective blocking, and Adblock to disable them forever (occasionally after getting a single hit). Spyware/adware sucks, I am not supporting them, and willing to invest my time to make my point and educate my co-users.
I haven't seen this book, but I did like the Comer's one, and personally I don't like the Stevens' one -- mostly because it's too thick. With the technical books like these it is very easy to stray away from concepts explanation into dull recital of RFCs/manpages/etc. growing your book's pages count, but making it less useful. From the review, I understand that this new one has a similar tendency. Did it knock the Comer's book of your shelf just because it had a heavier weight then? Or for some other reason? If you mention Comer, I'd like you to compare this book to his; and also (for those Stevens' fans) to the TCP/IP illustrated as well.
I can't identify with the author either, because I am both a pilot and a developer in a free software flight simulation project. He has definitely chosen a strange metaphor to make his point with me:-)
"no company shall install any program that breaches the security of a computer in any manner the user is not made fully aware of"
First, does SONY install the program? Or does it cause it to be installed by you? or by your OS?
Second, what do you think about programs with unintentional security bugs? If your company distributed a software which later is found to contain a security bug and a worm is released to exploit it, are you liable under your proposed anti-spyware bill? Doesn't this ring familiar of the security liability proposed legislation discussions? and while we're remembering those, the free software should not be forgotten in your proposal as well.
Before RTFPing (I get in via the RSS headlines), I thought that hopefully it meant someone didn't like A380, rather than somebody actualy fired upon an A380:-) never thought "on fire" though...
> well, the squawk wasn't exactly at 7500, more like 7524
> (should be 5524) or something, but the code did briefly
> pass 7500 while I was setting it, (I normally set the
> transponder from last digitl to first while changing to or
> from 1200 to others, however, sometimes I'm
> stupid/slow/busy).
my instructor always told me to watch out for 7 on the 1st digit, and never go through it until all the other digits are in, just because of this possibility:-) they also drill this in the Jepp GFD series; and IIRC it's also in the AIM.
> after you set it, you probably want to hit ident couple times to make sure people notice it no you don't. They notice it already --- it flashes on the scope and raises an audible alarm. btw did the ATC use the official "verify transponder 7-5-0-0" when you did it by mistake? radio exchange excerpts welcome.
if you're missing PLATO, you might be interested in cyber1.org. They have a history section there, and also a free (as in beer) client to access PLATO via the internet, with a big collection of original software. See also our own/. user Baldrson:-)
Well, it's already Severodvinsk. I.e., home base of a lot of nuclear submarines. Each one is essentially a floating nuclear power plant, in addition to its other nuclear capabilities. A lot of nuclear-powered icebreakers are also cruising in the nothern seas off Russia. Of the reactor, the submarines, and the icebreakers I'd personally fear the aging submarines much more than a newly-built reactor. I also suspect that the reactor is built with the Chernobyl hindsight, as opposed to a lot of the nuclear subs designed way before. Also, the reactor is there probably to keep the subs ground personnel lives easier.
My orig post was not a joke. I read it somewhere in interview with one of the Bell Labs guys. They didn't imply that their OSes sucked, just that the film did. BTW, the successing OS was called Inferno, also in honour of a film the folks disliked a lot:-)
> By definition, a "hard link" can only be to a file on the same partition.
yeah, I was explaining for the readers who might not have known it...
> Shows you how in-demand it was, doesn't it ?
Well, it was in-demand but whoever wanted it could just use the cygwin ln. The demand for MS to package it was definitely close to nothing. (But then, why it's important that this feature "just works" now)?
Most windows users don't know, but back since the earliest NT versions the ability to create a hard link (within the same NTFS partition) was there. It was available either via the POSIX subsystem (i.e., NA to almost everybody who bought Windows for the regular use). However, the ability was there, while there was no command line utility bundled with the OS or even with the resource kit. I learned about this when I first tried cygwin (gnuwin32 beta 17 on NT3.5) and discovered that the ln(1) command just works!
So, it took them smth like 8 years to write a functionality around that kernel call... OK.
A lot of small planes are now manufactured with a placard prohibited smoking onboard them. This is because a lot of in-cockpit fires happened when people smoked in there...
Unfortunately these bumping events will be unavoidable as millions of slashdotters will have wrapped their flying cars in tinfoil to avoid government tracking.
I would hope for a brighter radar return if it is wrapped:)
I don't install the player v.7 since I can't accept its license. What the hell do they mean by me helping them audit me my system and then pay them for the pleasure of it if they think I did smth wrong from their point of view? at least it is how I understand it. And if a site isn't operational w/o flash, I don't care about such a site. Same about a site that wants me to use IE or, G-d forbid, download activeX (to my Linux, eh?)
Every time I had signed a contract when getting aboard as a software engineer to a company, whether startup or a big one, I added 3 provisions into my contract:
1) In my spare time I am allowed to provide support/consulting to whoever had employed me in the past. [this generally makes very good impression as it says that you carry responsibility towards your past employers -- if you switch jobs again, they'll be able to hire you to help w/o legal issues in the way] 2) My own projects (list follows) are specifically exempted; I'm not supposed to work on them in work time 3) I am allowed participation in things like USENET groups/online technical forums, mailing lists etc., as part of my work. In the scope of that, it's OK for me to render somebody else assistance via the public media, send in patches etc. Same about contributed to free software projects, whenever I deem that a free software project is usable in my work, and want to do smth to improve its suitability (obviously, if my boss tells me not to do it in work time, I am not doing that).
All the above things are then excluded from the NDA and the IP claims by the company.
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we used to have KGB men monitoring the copier machines. Every document had to be signed off along with the page count, and then there was a guy making sure you don't copy some illegal or personal stuff.
The target group of these seemingly stupid scans is IMHO the hypothetical "zombied" average grass-roots terrorist, i.e., somebody who isn't an actual operative of a terror cell, but, rather, someone indoctrinated by some extremist brainwash --- doesn't matter what ideology we're talking about. Such person will assumingly be stupid enough to be easily caught in the stupid checks. OTOH, seeking reason behind actions of huge government entities like the military is often stupid in itself, so maybe you should ignore my post altogether...
At the places where I am the root, doubleclick.net and the likes are DNS-null-routed (to a localnet IP 127.0.0.127). At other places, I
use Firefox, JS selective blocking, and Adblock to disable them forever (occasionally after getting a single hit). Spyware/adware sucks, I am not supporting them, and willing to invest my time to make my point and educate my co-users.
if I were google, I'd be adding them to my output kill list following the suit :-)
LOL! Red-handed, indeed! Hands reddened by the frequent laundry...
Wasn't Java itself once defined mostly in terms of C++, and isn't C# now defined in terms of Java?
I haven't seen this book, but I did like the Comer's one, and personally I don't like the Stevens' one -- mostly because it's too thick. With the technical books like these it is very easy to stray away from concepts explanation into dull recital of RFCs/manpages/etc. growing your book's pages count, but making it less useful. From the review, I understand that this new one has a similar tendency. Did it knock the Comer's book of your shelf just because it had a heavier weight then? Or for some other reason? If you mention Comer, I'd like you to compare this book to his; and also (for those Stevens' fans) to the TCP/IP illustrated as well.
HTTP is a protocol, not a piece of software. SMTP too.
I can't identify with the author either, because I am both a pilot and a developer in a free software flight simulation project. He has definitely chosen a strange metaphor to make his point with me :-)
Before RTFPing (I get in via the RSS headlines), I thought that hopefully it meant someone didn't like A380, rather than somebody actualy fired upon an A380 :-) never thought "on fire" though...
Why don't you ask the Linux Counter about the kernel version usage stats?
> well, the squawk wasn't exactly at 7500, more like 7524 > (should be 5524) or something, but the code did briefly > pass 7500 while I was setting it, (I normally set the > transponder from last digitl to first while changing to or > from 1200 to others, however, sometimes I'm > stupid/slow/busy). my instructor always told me to watch out for 7 on the 1st digit, and never go through it until all the other digits are in, just because of this possibility :-) they also drill this in the Jepp GFD series; and IIRC it's also in the AIM.
> after you set it, you probably want to hit ident couple times to make sure people notice it
no you don't. They notice it already --- it flashes on the scope and raises an audible alarm.
btw did the ATC use the official "verify transponder 7-5-0-0" when you did it by mistake?
radio exchange excerpts welcome.
if you're missing PLATO, you might be interested in cyber1.org. They have a history section there, and also a free (as in beer) client to access PLATO via the internet, with a big collection of original software. See also our own /. user Baldrson :-)
Well, it's already Severodvinsk. I.e., home base of a lot of nuclear submarines. Each one is essentially a floating nuclear power plant, in addition to its other nuclear capabilities. A lot of nuclear-powered icebreakers are also cruising in the nothern seas off Russia. Of the reactor, the submarines, and the icebreakers I'd personally fear the aging submarines much more than a newly-built reactor. I also suspect that the reactor is built with the Chernobyl hindsight, as opposed to a lot of the nuclear subs designed way before. Also, the reactor is there probably to keep the subs ground personnel lives easier.
My orig post was not a joke. I read it somewhere in interview with one of the Bell Labs guys. They didn't imply that their OSes sucked, just that the film did. BTW, the successing OS was called Inferno, also in honour of a film the folks disliked a lot :-)
is named in the honour of this film, to commemorate how truly bad it was in the opinion of the Bell Labs folks
It is a case where a Wikipedia troll has succeeded in using Slashdot as his tribune. Pity the /., editor, he'll be flamed now...
> By definition, a "hard link" can only be to a file on the same partition.
yeah, I was explaining for the readers who might not have known it...
> Shows you how in-demand it was, doesn't it ?
Well, it was in-demand but whoever wanted it could just use the cygwin ln. The demand for MS to package it was definitely close to nothing. (But then, why it's important that this feature "just works" now)?
So, it took them smth like 8 years to write a functionality around that kernel call... OK.
A lot of small planes are now manufactured with a placard prohibited smoking onboard them. This is because a lot of in-cockpit fires happened when people smoked in there...
I don't install the player v.7 since I can't accept its license. What the hell do they mean by me helping them audit me my system and then pay them for the pleasure of it if they think I did smth wrong from their point of view? at least it is how I understand it. And if a site isn't operational w/o flash, I don't care about such a site. Same about a site that wants me to use IE or, G-d forbid, download activeX (to my Linux, eh?)
Every time I had signed a contract when getting aboard as a software engineer to a company, whether startup or a big one, I added 3 provisions into my contract:
1) In my spare time I am allowed to provide support/consulting to whoever had employed me in the past. [this generally makes very good impression as it says that you carry responsibility towards your past employers -- if you switch jobs again, they'll be able to hire you to help w/o legal issues in the way]
2) My own projects (list follows) are specifically exempted; I'm not supposed to work on them in work time
3) I am allowed participation in things like USENET groups/online technical forums, mailing lists etc., as part of my work. In the scope of that, it's OK for me to render somebody else assistance via the public media, send in patches etc. Same about contributed to free software projects, whenever I deem that a free software project is usable in my work, and want to do smth to improve its suitability (obviously, if my boss tells me not to do it in work time, I am not doing that).
All the above things are then excluded from the NDA and the IP claims by the company.