I happen to have a copy of Black's Law Dictionary here, so I decided to look it up:
Bribe: Any money, goods, right in action, property, thing of value, or any promise or undertaking to give any, asked, given, or accepted, with a corrupt intent to induce or influence action, vote, or opinion of person in any public or official capacity.
abbreviated, that would be: Any money given with intent to influence action of a person in any public or official capacity.
Given the legal definition of a bribe, I'd say that any incident where a politician accepts campaign contributions from a lobbyist and changes stance on any particular issue or votes favorably towards the cause of the lobbyist should be suspect.
Seriously.. this is just a copy and paste job from the article... take a look at this guy's profile (and name for that matter) to see a list of the quality stuff he's written on slashdot.
However, He did change "In contrast, " to "though", but I don't think that constitutes a new and insightful thought.
Quoth the article:
Both Windows and Linux met the security requirements set by Matalan, but Linux was preferred by the retailer as it was less of a target for malicious code, according to Menzel. The evaluation began at the end of 2003 when the Blaster worm was wreaking havoc in companies. In contrast, there have been no serious outbreaks of Linux viruses in the wild, which gave the open source operating system a definite advantage in the eyes of Matalan executives, Menzel said.
Is there really such a shortage of people who are willing to do this job that hospitals are willing to fork out the requisite capital expenditure for one of these things?
If so, I'll start a group of volunteers to, umm, help lower the cost of healthcare.... just doing my part.:)
I'm sure at people have owned 8mm tape, VHS, Beta, VCD, DVD, and will own either HD-DVD or Blue Ray pretty soon. And a few years after that, we'll have Ultra HD DVD.
Not to mention tubes, records, 8mm tape, casette tapes, 8-tracks, CD's, Super Audio CD's, Audio DVD, etc...
You may want to check out Nevrax.org home of Nel, the MMO Engine that powers The Saga of Ryzom. NeL is licensed under the GPL and is a set of C++ libraries and utilities.
I took a required X86 ASM course, and I used Mac OS X to do it. I wouldn't, however, run XP while coding ASM... it's just too slow on my G4 powerbook. Try DOS instead. Running MASM (ASM linker/compiler) under DOS is pretty speedy. Since Microsoft bought Virtual PC, it's hard to find a copy of VPC that doesn't include Windows (for way more money than Connectix sold it for), but you can get it at academicsuperstore.com for $119 without an OS. It worked well for me, and I didn't have any inconsistencies between running it on my Mac and running it on native x86 hardware.
I've had the O'Reilly poster on my wall since they released it. So when I saw the graphic on this guy's site, with a January 16, 2005 copyright, and no reference of O'Reilly's poster, I thought it smelled fishy.
Just take a look at the two images: http://www.oreilly.com/news/graphics/prog _lang_pos ter.pdf vs http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.h tml#02
and tell me you don't see the similarities.
Anyway, so I thought this guy ripped off O'Reilly's poster, but, as it turns out, if you look in the small print on O'Reilly's poster, you'll see that he was the legitimate creator of the image. I even realized that it's been updated a little bit since O'Reilly released it.
So, yeah, we've seen this story before, however, the link provided in the summary above is new and newsworthy, becuase it gives more links to learn about each individual and family of languages and updated the previous graph.
he... noticed that people kept cutting in front of him in line.... They... were "punishing" him for going with the competitor.
I bet that, at recess, he was beat up for playing with --ugh-- girls! (GROSS!) Then the teacher then put him in time-out for tattling.
Seriously, that sounds like a bunch kindergardeners. I think he should have been compelled to cut in front of THEM for making such an uncompelling product!
Judging by how often www.pennyarcade.com goes down, you'd think Tycho and Gabe would know that technology has its problems. Remember during Child's Play last month after they were mentioned in all the mainstream news sources? Slashdot actually had to host the comic here so that PA's servers could take a pounding from all the non-regulars.
I think Tycho needs to chill the f*ck out and play something else for a while.
What if I used the 1-click shopping "algorithm" in my code? People wouldn't have to reverse engineer to determine that I've infringed on Amazon's patent.
My point being that he may be building some software that infringes on someone's patent, but he doesn't realize it. If one didn't realize that Amazon patented 1-click shopping and included it in some software package, he would still be liable for damages, even though he didn't know about the patent.
What he's asking can't be solved by security-through-obscurity .
Well, if a virus gets onto a computer and is capable of copying a file 20k times, it would be able to wreak havoc whether or not the filesystem supported copy on write.
The grand-parent wasn't talking about file-system links like the ones that have existed for decades, he's talking about copy-on-write.
Example: If I were to run the following commands on a *nix system today, here's what would happen:
cp ~/foo.txt ~/bar.txt the above line would copy the contents of file to another area on the hard disk and insert a record into the file tables. If this is a 10GB file, then your hard drive just lost 10GB of free space.
What the grand-parent was suggesting was, instead of copying the contents of the file at the time the command ran, copy the contents only when the new (bar.txt) is modified.
Example: cp ~/foo.txt ~/bar.txt The above command would increase the resource count of the contents of foo.txt and NOT copy the contents to bar.txt. It would also set some "copy-on-write" bit to on for bar.txt
echo "some more text " >> ~/bar.txt only at this at this point would the contents of foo.txt be copied to bar.txt
Now, lets pretend we didn't run the above echo command. echo "some more text" >> ~/foo.txt since foo.txt holds the same content as bar.txt, the contents will now be copied to keep the contents of the two files distinct.
The net effect of all of this is that the system doesn't have to do I/O expensive operations when they're not necessary, and keeps disk utilization low.
If I were to copy a 10GB file 100 times over my hard drive, the file system would still note the same amount of free space. The free space amount would only be updated whenever one of the 100 copies is updated.
So if I wanted to "backup" a huge directory so I can make some changes without the risk of breaking the original, the copy operation happens instantaneously, and the "real" copy operation only has to occur when one of the files is modified.
check out the 'x' extension for FireFox. It adds a "Paranoia" toolbar item where "you can quickly clear privacy sensitive data, specifically: history, form info, saved passwords, download history, cookies, and the cache (both disk and in memory cache).
Clicking the button gives you a dialogue window from which you can select which data you want clearing."
It even keeps all of the options selected, so if you're paranoid, it just takes two clicks, and your history, form information, stored passwords, download history, cookies, and cache are vaporized. Two clicks cuts the time town, but ideally, I agree there should be an option to clear it all upon exit.
I've been having fun playing World of Warcraft on my powerbook.
And for the record, even though Blizzard's system requirements say the game requires a 933MHz G4 or faster, the game runs just fine on an 867MHz G4. It just burns your lap after a while:)
Anyone know where I can get one of those laptop coolers?
Are we seeing the day when college students make their school of choice not based solely on academics or athletics, but also on tech freebies like these?"
This depends on your definition of free. If I were a student at Duke University or Penn State, I would be worried that the school decided to use my hard-earned tuition money to buy things that are not directly associated with learning. Sure, the iPod makes a great portable hard drive, but is the data it is intended to hold somehow better stored on a $300 iPod rather than an inexpensive USB Key? At least the iPod, as a storage device, has some scholastic merit. Penn State subsidising Napster subscriptions using student tuition and fees is absoutely appaling. If I wanted a Napster subscription, I would buy one!
On a separate note, if Penn State jumped on the iPod bandwagon, it would be not be compatible with its new Napster agreement. Screw that.
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I happen to have a copy of Black's Law Dictionary here, so I decided to look it up:
Bribe:
Any money, goods, right in action, property, thing of value, or any promise or undertaking to give any, asked, given, or accepted, with a corrupt intent to induce or influence action, vote, or opinion of person in any public or official capacity.
abbreviated, that would be:
Any money given with intent to influence action of a person in any public or official capacity.
Given the legal definition of a bribe, I'd say that any incident where a politician accepts campaign contributions from a lobbyist and changes stance on any particular issue or votes favorably towards the cause of the lobbyist should be suspect.
Seriously.. this is just a copy and paste job from the article... take a look at this guy's profile (and name for that matter) to see a list of the quality stuff he's written on slashdot.
However, He did change "In contrast, " to "though", but I don't think that constitutes a new and insightful thought.
Quoth the article:
Both Windows and Linux met the security requirements set by Matalan, but Linux was preferred by the retailer as it was less of a target for malicious code, according to Menzel. The evaluation began at the end of 2003 when the Blaster worm was wreaking havoc in companies. In contrast, there have been no serious outbreaks of Linux viruses in the wild, which gave the open source operating system a definite advantage in the eyes of Matalan executives, Menzel said.
Is there really such a shortage of people who are willing to do this job that hospitals are willing to fork out the requisite capital expenditure for one of these things?
... just doing my part. :)
If so, I'll start a group of volunteers to, umm, help lower the cost of healthcare.
Isn't that already the case?
I'm sure at people have owned 8mm tape, VHS, Beta, VCD, DVD, and will own either HD-DVD or Blue Ray pretty soon. And a few years after that, we'll have Ultra HD DVD.
Not to mention tubes, records, 8mm tape, casette tapes, 8-tracks, CD's, Super Audio CD's, Audio DVD, etc...
You may want to check out Nevrax.org home of Nel, the MMO Engine that powers The Saga of Ryzom. NeL is licensed under the GPL and is a set of C++ libraries and utilities.
I took a required X86 ASM course, and I used Mac OS X to do it. I wouldn't, however, run XP while coding ASM... it's just too slow on my G4 powerbook. Try DOS instead. Running MASM (ASM linker/compiler) under DOS is pretty speedy. Since Microsoft bought Virtual PC, it's hard to find a copy of VPC that doesn't include Windows (for way more money than Connectix sold it for), but you can get it at academicsuperstore.com for $119 without an OS. It worked well for me, and I didn't have any inconsistencies between running it on my Mac and running it on native x86 hardware.
See yesterday's artcle!
I've had the O'Reilly poster on my wall since they released it. So when I saw the graphic on this guy's site, with a January 16, 2005 copyright, and no reference of O'Reilly's poster, I thought it smelled fishy.
g _lang_pos ter.pdfh tml#02
Just take a look at the two images:
http://www.oreilly.com/news/graphics/pro
vs
http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.
and tell me you don't see the similarities.
Anyway, so I thought this guy ripped off O'Reilly's poster, but, as it turns out, if you look in the small print on O'Reilly's poster, you'll see that he was the legitimate creator of the image. I even realized that it's been updated a little bit since O'Reilly released it.
So, yeah, we've seen this story before, however, the link provided in the summary above is new and newsworthy, becuase it gives more links to learn about each individual and family of languages and updated the previous graph.
he ... noticed that people kept cutting in front of him in line. ... They ... were "punishing" him for going with the competitor.
I bet that, at recess, he was beat up for playing with --ugh-- girls! (GROSS!) Then the teacher then put him in time-out for tattling.
Seriously, that sounds like a bunch kindergardeners. I think he should have been compelled to cut in front of THEM for making such an uncompelling product!
It's funny. Laugh
Seriously,
Judging by how often www.pennyarcade.com goes down, you'd think Tycho and Gabe would know that technology has its problems. Remember during Child's Play last month after they were mentioned in all the mainstream news sources? Slashdot actually had to host the comic here so that PA's servers could take a pounding from all the non-regulars.
I think Tycho needs to chill the f*ck out and play something else for a while.
My vote goes to this gem
All in favor? Say "eye"
Sorry, Frenchmen are the 21st most productive people in the world.
Actually, such a feat can be accomplished by even your Average Run-of-the-mill Redneck(tm).
Believe me, I'm from Louisiana. I know my rednecks.
You forgot Poland!
What if I used the 1-click shopping "algorithm" in my code? People wouldn't have to reverse engineer to determine that I've infringed on Amazon's patent.
My point being that he may be building some software that infringes on someone's patent, but he doesn't realize it. If one didn't realize that Amazon patented 1-click shopping and included it in some software package, he would still be liable for damages, even though he didn't know about the patent.
What he's asking can't be solved by security-through-obscurity .
Well, if a virus gets onto a computer and is capable of copying a file 20k times, it would be able to wreak havoc whether or not the filesystem supported copy on write.
The grand-parent wasn't talking about file-system links like the ones that have existed for decades, he's talking about copy-on-write.
Example:
If I were to run the following commands on a *nix system today, here's what would happen:
cp ~/foo.txt ~/bar.txt
the above line would copy the contents of file to another area on the hard disk and insert a record into the file tables. If this is a 10GB file, then your hard drive just lost 10GB of free space.
What the grand-parent was suggesting was, instead of copying the contents of the file at the time the command ran, copy the contents only when the new (bar.txt) is modified.
Example:
cp ~/foo.txt ~/bar.txt
The above command would increase the resource count of the contents of foo.txt and NOT copy the contents to bar.txt. It would also set some "copy-on-write" bit to on for bar.txt
echo "some more text " >> ~/bar.txt
only at this at this point would the contents of foo.txt be copied to bar.txt
Now, lets pretend we didn't run the above echo command.
echo "some more text" >> ~/foo.txt
since foo.txt holds the same content as bar.txt, the contents will now be copied to keep the contents of the two files distinct.
The net effect of all of this is that the system doesn't have to do I/O expensive operations when they're not necessary, and keeps disk utilization low.
If I were to copy a 10GB file 100 times over my hard drive, the file system would still note the same amount of free space. The free space amount would only be updated whenever one of the 100 copies is updated.
So if I wanted to "backup" a huge directory so I can make some changes without the risk of breaking the original, the copy operation happens instantaneously, and the "real" copy operation only has to occur when one of the files is modified.
I realize I have a tendency to ramble, so here is the wikipedia article on the subject.
check out the 'x' extension for FireFox. It adds a "Paranoia" toolbar item where "you can quickly clear privacy sensitive data, specifically: history, form info, saved passwords, download history, cookies, and the cache (both disk and in memory cache).
Clicking the button gives you a dialogue window from which you can select which data you want clearing."
It even keeps all of the options selected, so if you're paranoid, it just takes two clicks, and your history, form information, stored passwords, download history, cookies, and cache are vaporized. Two clicks cuts the time town, but ideally, I agree there should be an option to clear it all upon exit.
I've been having fun playing World of Warcraft on my powerbook. And for the record, even though Blizzard's system requirements say the game requires a 933MHz G4 or faster, the game runs just fine on an 867MHz G4. It just burns your lap after a while :)
Anyone know where I can get one of those laptop coolers?
I still can't find it under there. Are you sure you haven't confused Java 1.5 with XCode 1.5?
Do you have a link available? I haven't been able to find it.
On a separate note, if Penn State jumped on the iPod bandwagon, it would be not be compatible with its new Napster agreement. Screw that.
For people who don't like to wait, fast forward to 42 minutes to see the spotlight section.
Where can I find the executive summary?