>>Wouldn't it be great when you needed to acess the registry, you could fnd a pice of code, and just integrate it?
you can do this already. it is called an SDK, and it is installed with Visual Studio.
Well i live in Europe (Belgium)...
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and most people - including me - think nothing of it. in Belgium it is mandatory for us to carry an official ID card (no library card or drivers license. a real ID card).
we need to show that to open a bank account, a library card, a rent-a-video store,... well basically everywhere.
for health care we have a unique number in a national database, and since a few months everyone who has a mortgage is in another database.
We don't care. i mean why should't the governement know where you live, or which bank accounts i have. the only reason i can come up with is if you are a fraudster.
for example tracking people with a mortgage on a national level is done so that not-so-bright people do not get a second mortgage if they already are at their financial limit with the first one.
the most important reason i don't mind is that we have a law that applies to any place where personal information is stored about you. basically the law says that you have to get total access to all information about you, and that if it is incorrect the keeper of that information needs to change it. i know from several examples that this law is used and that is works ok.
at least we can review and cghange information about ourselves.
the problem with censoring data is that - if you aim to remove access to offending data - there is no end to it. there will always be people who get offended at anything.
for example the harry potter book burning event was just plain stupid. it is just a kids story (good though) and if your belief system is so fragile that you have to protect it by removing access to all data that you find not suitable, you have a problem.
in my experience if people prevent other people asking questions, than that means that that you are not too sure about your answers to those questions.
it is ok to con the PPV channel. it is ok to con the music industry it is ok to con Microsoft by copying all their software (for those of you who use it)
but when someone else (other article some time ago) violates the GPL by not opening their code, you rant and rave about 'theft'.
seriously, it is all the same. the only difference is POV.
They don't even need the DMCA for this. isn't it so that the philps license forbids reverse engineering (like most software licenses?)
the fact that he had the original software makes him a computer criminal legally, because he violated the terms of agreement to which he agreed when he was within 3 feet of the original software:)
"Probably the best way to avoid all these gestures getting confused with each other ("now let's see, was that for Opera? Mozilla? or the operating system?") is to develop some sort of gesturing standard that's generally agreed upon as intuitive that we all can remember and use."
I'll probably be modded troll or flamebait for this, but how would you ever try to get a large group of linux users/programmers to agree on what is 'intuitive' or 'user friendly'? not to mention how it should be implemented (window or or level...)
a lot of people are confused about this phrase, thinking of 'fit' as being technical superior.
in fact the term fit does have nothing to do with that, but should be interpreted as 'fitted for a certain purpose'
for example one of the reasons that windows version whatever is so popular with computer iliterate persons is that it takes you by the hand to do a lot of things, which can be a pain for power users, but not for newbies. in that sense windows is most 'fitted' for that situation, just as linux is for power users, server systems, or as BSD on powerful stable systems with 1000's of connections at a time.
other examples are software programming where C++ can be the best solution for developing algorithms, and VB for simple DB connected user interfaces.
the 'fittest' solution survives in the place where it is used at its best. C is not 'better' than VB. it is fit for other purposes than VB.
you can only talk about 'better' when two things are designed for the exact same purpose.
"Who can give a guarantee that nobody tampers with the results"
As opposed to the florida voting fiasco that made the US look incredibly stupid?
seriously there are always possibilities to cheat. In Belgium everybody has to go to the voting office, you grab a blank credit card type card, insert it in the computer, you do your thing(you can still vote blank) you get the card back, and they insert it in a another computer to count your vote. a good fraction of the cards is kept apart to check them afterward, the others are reused.
the advantages of this scheme: -you remain anonymous. -they can still recheck the cards to see if the result is correct. -votes do not have to be counted manually anymore.
So what you are saying is that bright kids with little money should not be able to get into good schools because rich bastards like you can pay the price, even though you are not that smart?
but when I -as a newbie - asked questions on various forums i got either:
-NO responses -a response that said: --read the f*cking man pages. yeah right. perfect if you're a complete newbie. --you should compile your own kernel with...
anyone claiming that open source community help is superior needs only to ask a few newbie questions to burst their bubble.
I believe that there is nothing wrong with the government being able to know who you are.
americans have this peculiar attitude
-on one hand you want the goverment to protect you against any possible hazard (terrorists, enironmental hazards -but on the other hand you freak out at the idea that the government can know your identity and address.
i mean: how can they do their job without being able to track wherabouts of people that they think worth investigating
oh wait: they only should track the right peole, and leave you alone. the right people to track would probably be: -anyone not catholic. -anyone with non hetero sexual preferences. -anyone not with coloured skin -....
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>>Wouldn't it be great when you needed to acess the registry, you could fnd a pice of code, and just integrate it?
you can do this already. it is called an SDK, and it is installed with Visual Studio.
and most people - including me - think nothing of it. in Belgium it is mandatory for us to carry an official ID card (no library card or drivers license. a real ID card).
we need to show that to open a bank account, a library card, a rent-a-video store,... well basically everywhere.
for health care we have a unique number in a national database, and since a few months everyone who has a mortgage is in another database.
We don't care. i mean why should't the governement know where you live, or which bank accounts i have.
the only reason i can come up with is if you are a fraudster.
for example tracking people with a mortgage on a national level is done so that not-so-bright people do not get a second mortgage if they already are at their financial limit with the first one.
the most important reason i don't mind is that we have a law that applies to any place where personal information is stored about you.
basically the law says that you have to get total access to all information about you, and that if it is incorrect the keeper of that information needs to change it.
i know from several examples that this law is used and that is works ok.
at least we can review and cghange information about ourselves.
kind regards,
Interfacer.
it has been long since i laughed this much while at work.
thank you for lightening up my lunch break.
Int.
the problem with censoring data is that - if you aim to remove access to offending data - there is no end to it. there will always be people who get offended at anything.
for example the harry potter book burning event was just plain stupid. it is just a kids story (good though) and if your belief system is so fragile that you have to protect it by removing access to all data that you find not suitable, you have a problem.
in my experience if people prevent other people asking questions, than that means that that you are not too sure about your answers to those questions.
int.
I think a lot of /.ers suffer from hypocrisy.
it is ok to con the PPV channel.
it is ok to con the music industry
it is ok to con Microsoft by copying all their software (for those of you who use it)
but when someone else (other article some time ago) violates the GPL by not opening their code, you rant and rave about 'theft'.
seriously, it is all the same.
the only difference is POV.
Int.
did you know that your sig will crash your post?
:)
the statement:
(*((char *)0))=0;
tries to overwrite the memory at address 0 with a zero. generally this will generate a runtime error.
but then maybe you intended to crash your post to demonstrate your freedom of speech
They don't even need the DMCA for this.
:)
isn't it so that the philps license forbids reverse engineering (like most software licenses?)
the fact that he had the original software makes him a computer criminal legally, because he violated the terms of agreement to which he agreed when he was within 3 feet of the original software
int.
"Probably the best way to avoid all these gestures getting confused with each other ("now let's see, was that for Opera? Mozilla? or the operating system?") is to develop some sort of gesturing standard that's generally agreed upon as intuitive that we all can remember and use."
I'll probably be modded troll or flamebait for this, but how would you ever try to get a large group of linux users/programmers to agree on what is 'intuitive' or 'user friendly'? not to mention how it should be implemented (window or or level...)
Int
won't that make things more unsafe/unstable too?
because http is plain simple, it is easy to determine where resides what functionality.
if systems become more connected and integrated into each other, won't that make it much harder to determine what is going on on your system?
i can imagine that msft will have a go at running parts on your system on their registration servers. this seems to me like another step towards DRM.
i understand that this is just a protocol, but if people will start interconnecting systems, there will be (security issues)++
Int
a lot of people are confused about this phrase, thinking of 'fit' as being technical superior.
in fact the term fit does have nothing to do with that, but should be interpreted as 'fitted for a certain purpose'
for example one of the reasons that windows version whatever is so popular with computer iliterate persons is that it takes you by the hand to do a lot of things, which can be a pain for power users, but not for newbies. in that sense windows is most 'fitted' for that situation, just as linux is for power users, server systems, or as BSD on powerful stable systems with 1000's of connections at a time.
other examples are software programming where C++ can be the best solution for developing algorithms, and VB for simple DB connected user interfaces.
the 'fittest' solution survives in the place where it is used at its best. C is not 'better' than VB. it is fit for other purposes than VB.
you can only talk about 'better' when two things are designed for the exact same purpose.
Interfacer.
"Who can give a guarantee that nobody tampers with the results"
As opposed to the florida voting fiasco that made the US look incredibly stupid?
seriously there are always possibilities to cheat.
In Belgium everybody has to go to the voting office, you grab a blank credit card type card, insert it in the computer, you do your thing(you can still vote blank) you get the card back, and they insert it in a another computer to count your vote. a good fraction of the cards is kept apart to check them afterward, the others are reused.
the advantages of this scheme:
-you remain anonymous.
-they can still recheck the cards to see if the result is correct.
-votes do not have to be counted manually anymore.
in Soviet Russia, the vote counts you.
the DCMA should be invoke against as much ridiculus things as possible.
that way maybe legislators and voters will see the lunacy in all its perverted glory.
in Soviet Russia the DCMA invokes YOU.
foreign students are dangerous? a,ericans are more than capable of being dangerous. timoty mcveigh was good oll american boy.
...
einstein, godel, bohr, von braun,
all foreingers that you should be grateful for that they used their minds for the usa.
Int
The students pay for their education by working long hours on the projects. the money doesn^t pay the students but the hardware.
or something very much like it a few years ago.
i used it and it works like a charm.
of course hierarchical file systems are easy to use, you can name folders after categories, and they are easy to backup.
Interfacer.
all your HFS are belong to us.
So what you are saying is that bright kids with little money should not be able to get into good schools because rich bastards like you can pay the price, even though you are not that smart?
Ok but if you are ill, the doctor warns you about risks, possible complications, etc...
you decide to undergo surgery, and thereby accept the risks.
the only reasonable complaint you can make is of negligence, like the doctor performing surgery while high on laughing gass.
int.
hehe
Yeah,
...
but when I -as a newbie - asked questions on various forums i got either:
-NO responses
-a response that said:
--read the f*cking man pages. yeah right. perfect if you're a complete newbie.
--you should compile your own kernel with
anyone claiming that open source community help is superior needs only to ask a few newbie questions to burst their bubble.
Your cell phone doesn't work at 35000 ft because there is no carrier signal / antennae available. Interfacer
Ah
that would mean we can no longer enjoy
great things like the borland database engine.
Not to mention the fact that their C++ builder IDE really sucks (but hti is only my opinion, not an argument
i thought amiga was dead?
They probably need access to your bank to see if you paid for your copy of windows ... :)
"Running my weekly apt-get update and then tearing into Dselect like a kid on Christmas is always the highlight of my week"
get a life...
the truth is always in the middle.
:
I believe that there is nothing wrong with the government being able to know who you are.
americans have this peculiar attitude
-on one hand you want the goverment to protect you against any possible hazard (terrorists, enironmental hazards
-but on the other hand you freak out at the idea that the government can know your identity and address.
i mean: how can they do their job without being able to track wherabouts of people that they think worth investigating
oh wait: they only should track the right peole, and leave you alone.
the right people to track would probably be
-anyone not catholic.
-anyone with non hetero sexual preferences.
-anyone not with coloured skin
-....