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  1. Re:Explanation? on OpenBSD Gains Privilege Elevation · · Score: 2, Interesting


    I see it to be a *good thing* indeed but does not solve all the problems and the most important running login daemons like sshd which eventually has to change to a different user and thus has be run as a root to call setuid(), on the other hand if rules allow to elevate privileges for setuid() then it is sort of meaningless. What we need is to have a possibility to change user without compromising security. Any ideas?

  2. Re:Best quote: on Microsoft's Vision Of Future Workplaces · · Score: 1

    simplifying:
    workers e-mail each other...videos of themselves delivering messages... rather than simply writing e-mails..


    There is a recursion problem. Here is how I see it:
    workers e-mail each other...videos of themselves making videos of themself making videos of themself .............. of themself delivering messages... rather than simply writing e-mails

  3. Re:without any evidence ? on Effects of the Patriot Act on Librarians · · Score: 1

    Of course, maybe their more concerned with The Catcher in the Rye...

    They are more concerned with teletubbies. :)

  4. Re:ProComp is full of shite. on Competitors Cry Foul At Windows XP, 2K Service Packs · · Score: 1

    Usually, the ten-year-olds are the only ones in the family who can use it.

    That only proves that at 10 year old we reach top of our intellectual abilities.

  5. Re:Zeno on How to Build a Time Machine · · Score: 1

    The ancient greeks just had trouble with it because they didn't like the concept of zero and infinity.

    It was not really about 0, but about infinite divisibility of space/time, which indeed is a somewhat metaphisical.
    In modern physics this paradox is ignored providing that mathematics gives correct predictions, which is fine.
    Unfortunately yang scientists are often arrogant and think that they posses thrue knowledge. It usually goes away with age.
    It is all fine though, couse' others are much worse.

  6. Re:At night, staying up late on Big Black Delta Mystery Solved? · · Score: 1

    Consider that it might have been far and fast.

    Then it has to be really big if he saw some substantial details and it was indeed far away.

  7. Re:OS X already has an alternative on Sun Denies StarOffice on Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    explain how you would write a lab report or something like it with just those tools.

    Get a good book about LaTeX and give it a try. It will be a bit odd at the beginning but soon you will see that it is faster then Word processor and of course instantly you will see far superior output on a paper comparing to anything else you can and cannot afford to buy. There is also nice GUI frontend called klyx, don't know if it available for MacOS X.

  8. Re:What a terrible choice to have to make. on 235,000 Software Engineers Can't Be Wrong, Right? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only reason companies outsource any labor is GREED. Why have a textile industry in America when can use children oversees?

    You are wrong. The problem is that if I have a company and won't try to exploit children oversees then I'll go bankrupt. That is just the nature of capitalism. Thus, pretty much all what ACLU was fighting for goes under in this new global economy. In other words, if you are not already wealthy enough you better work damn hard and and be above average and don't complain about lost jobs and low wages.

    BTW. I am on H1 myself.

  9. Re:Not So Bad on Sybase Advertises 'PATRIOTcompliance' · · Score: 1

    People also tend to forget that we are fighting a war. It's fine to be snide and cynical, but American troops are in combat abroad right now.

    So, why don't they go home. This, so called "war", will not archive anything and is just a waste of money and justification for the goverment to suppress human rights in its own contry.
    What should be done is to stop supporting reppresive goverments thoughout the world. Look, face it, Bush is not just stupid, he is a childish.

  10. Re:The problem is time on Would an Ad-Sponsored OS/Desktop Work for OSS? · · Score: 1

    Same way avoiding television commercials is stealing

    So, when you listen radio do you listen for all commercials to be ethical, or you switch to another chanel. Imagine that you walk on a street and then someone stops you and insist on showing you commertial clip. Would you stop to view it? I don't know about you, but I wouldn't do it. According to your logic, keeping your TV off is already stealing.

  11. Re:The problem is time on Is There Such a Thing as "Too User Friendly"? · · Score: 1

    Well, may be I brought up wrong example with mod_perl.

    > only need to learn each component once, and then...
    I all agree with you on how good CLI tools are, but that is only when you repeatedly use them.
    If you don't, if you need it to bee done once or twice then give me a nice clean GUI with one button on it 'Do It'.

  12. Re:What I want to know is... on Russia Wants to Launch Manned Mission to Mars · · Score: 1

    If they're from Russia they're cosmonauts. That said, they have, IMO, worse food than American astronauts

    Let me guess, you never tried Russian food.What you are saying is a complete nonsense.

  13. Re:The problem is time on Is There Such a Thing as "Too User Friendly"? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The world is divided into two categories. Those who "get it" and those who do not.

    Yes, it is true, but how about making life a bit easier for us, those who get it. I mean, I do programming for living and read a lot of manuals, but I can do only finite amount of RTFMs in my limited lifetime. There should be a simple ways to perform common tasks like for example recompile apache with mod_perl, which is far from simple. Or easy way to install and set up sybase server and I want GUI for it, even a wizard. Actually I want mind control, but that is another story.

  14. Re:The problem is time on Options for Adults with Renewed Interest in Math? · · Score: 1

    Any redneck can be a successful family man. Not everyone can obtain a worthwhile classic liberal arts education. Calculus directly from Newton and Leibniz, for example.

    Why do you want get 'Calculus directly from Newton and Leibniz'. Those guys are definitely founders of the subject but reading them is of mainly historical interest, let along the fact that they were wrong in great many things.

  15. Re:thoughts On Eisenhower's "fault" on Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Hitler was indeed a religious man.
    It really does not make sense to count who killed more religious or atheists which is just another form of religion.
    Religion is not a key point of human existance, it really is a side effect.

  16. Re:Looking over the list on Debug your Code, or Else! · · Score: 1


    Glad I work on a project that cant possibly kill people

    Never say no. :)

  17. Re:Starbucks Revolutionaries on Globalism, Corporatism and Open Source · · Score: 1

    Your arguments do not look right to me.

    Good for them, more money in thier pockets ..... Everyone is making more dollars, but those dollars are worth less.

    What you say is only partially true. But is sounds like there were no point in fighting for better labor conditions including wages. Companies could which are forced to pay more to workers could cut cost by paying less to CEO and alike, by spending less money on expensive furniture, meetings and 5 star hotels. Well, we know it never happens :(.
    Think about it this way. When you buy a BMW, you deprive someone of food.

  18. Re:Another completely far wing article on Public CD Copying Machine in Australia · · Score: 1

    you're enjoying the fruits of someone's labor without contributing anything toward the initial cost

    And what is really wrong with it. You do it everyday. You walk on the paved street and yet you did not contribute a single cent to pave it. You can continue this list yourself. Yes we do pay taxes so that streets are paved and also social security of those musicians you are protecting. Here is a point: musicians should get payed for what they actually do, i.e. play music on the concerts and from celling CDs. If CD cost 20 cents, as it should be, I may even purchase it. And if they, musicians, do not think they are getting payed enough, then they should find another job.

  19. Re:Another completely far wing article on Public CD Copying Machine in Australia · · Score: 1

    Can anybody explain what is wrong with copying/pirating music.
    I know it was discussed many times but I still can figure out arguments of those opposing pirating music.

  20. Re:Everyone knows that Perl on Do Programming Languages Affect Your Sexual Performance? · · Score: 1

    And think about SQL. You can allways rollback transaction.

  21. Re:Needed: affordable self-cleaning public toilet on Best High-Tech Toilet? · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much they are in SF?

    50 cents

  22. Re:But the Chinese aren't even cloning people! on Intel Puts The Squeeze On ... A Yoga Foundation? · · Score: 1

    You should stop associating yourself with the country you live or/and born and that would solve the problem of humiliating.

  23. Re:ID Card Threat? on Hong Kong Gets Smart ID Cards · · Score: 1

    The government wouldn't have to hold your private keys at all (of course, the fact that they DO want to hold them is another matter). Pertinent information on the card would be encrypted with the public key of the legal authority in question: fingerprints with the fingerprinting public key of the DOJ, account information with the public key of your bank, etc. Plus, you could have successive rings of increasing authority: fingerprints might be accessible to any police station, while your criminal record might require more restrictive private keys which not every station would have access to.

    I can only imagine dificulties of explaining this to average police officer, let along Joe Average. ;)

  24. Re:But the Chinese aren't even cloning people! on Hong Kong Gets Smart ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Besides, if our further look into the human genome shows us that actions are dictated by our genes

    That is oversimplification, our actions are not dictated by genes. If you claim that it is so, then please give me a proof. Which does not exist, by the way.

  25. Re:Please... on Americans And Chinese Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    I look at that comment, and then i look at Russia...

    Well, there are a lot of reasons why Russia is not doing well, and I believe it is not becouse of democracy.
    In one book it was pointed that becouse of nature conditions, i.e. cold winter, everything made in Russia cost more then if it would be made anywhere else. And thus any Russia's attempts to enter world economy are doomed to fail.