Um. I like Microsoft bashing as much as the next guy, but we should at least be accurate. Powershell documentation is as far away as typing "help" into the powershell prompt.
You're mostly correct. You can't be forced to open your code. You have two options, you accept the terms of the GPL (and open your code) or you don't, if you don't what you have done is copyright infringement and you can be sued under copyright law. No law (in any countries I'm aware of) allows a judge to force you to give up your code, you will end up paying damages and have to stop using the infringing code, same as with any other copyright infringement.
I'd suggest the Israeli make more of an effort to avoid harming the children, and then perhaps the Palestinians will have less reason to hate them. They're the ones with the hightech weapons. By all means shoot the terrorists, just avoid making more enemies by harming bystanders.
Problem is the middle east is caught up in a vicious circle of hate: Terrorist blows up bus -> Israeli get mad with revenge -> Israeli support military action -> Israeli bomb/attack suspected terrorist house -> Civilians die in crossfire -> Arab familiy and friends become mad with revenge -> Arab joins terrorists to get revenge -> Loop
Find a way to break that circle and some friends of the late Mr Nobel may have a medal for you.
So what do you intend to do once the hard times are over and the US needs foreign workers again? They'll know what happens if the economy slumps and will prefer jobs elsewhere and you'll be stuck with the bottom of the barrel.
So you'll see your taxpayer money pay support for those that lost their jobs when their employer went under because they wew forced to keep all the useless people? A business will do what's profitable, you don't get fired because a foreign worker "got your job", you get fired because you cost the company more then they gain, so why should they keep you and instead fire a worker that makes themm more money than he costs?
I really hope I manage to avoid that with my daughter. If it happens that we argue over something, she goes away, does a little research and comes bach with proof she was right it will be the proudest day of my life.
Let them keep their test, then subtly change the "recycled" question so that the correct answer or answers is different. If it's math just changing the numbers should do it, your statistics still apply somewhat and as an added bonus you screw the cheaters that don't recognize that the question has changed.
Then just quote the standard price for providing help:
1. One mug of coffe constantly filled while I work on the problem 2. Dinner. Homemade if I believe the client is capable of it. 3. A date, with the client or the clients hot friend/sister/daughter/neighbour, I choose.
Anyone accepting less is undercutting prices and will hear from the UoCP (union of computer persons) shortly.
So you're trying to convince me that I should like taking the garbage to the dump myself every day.
Well you might be surprised to know that my previous experiences with pointers, manual memory allocation and manual release of memory has been invaluable in my day job programming in for.Net.
Knowing what you shouldn't do to avoid creating excess objects is good for memory usage and performance, and would have been a lot harder to even realize can be an issue if all you've done are garbage collected lanuages
Secondly there are other scarce resources than memory, an relying on the garbage collector to release these (e.g. file locks) in a timely fashion will eventually bite you if the system is complex enough
What you need for GC languages is a decent understanding of how the GC works (in your language/runtime) so you know when you have to help it out. And to get that understanding you need to understand memory allocations first
TCP is meant for situations where the important bit is that the application receives all the packets in the same order that they were sent.
Voice and video use UDP because waiting for a resend of a dropped packet, delaying everything after, makes the experience worse than simply skipping that bit of data.
The nature of file transfer is that it doesn't matter what order you get the pieces in as long as you can assemble them together, so the only interesting bit is guaranteeing that you will eventually get all the bits.
Using TCP for bittorrent in the first place added unnessesary overhead, since the in-order guarantee isn't needed, but probably made it faster and easier to implement since they didn't have to program theit own logic for rerequesting missing dropped packets.
Actually they pick up everything there is. But a cellphones radio transmitter is not sending most of the time when you're not actually having a conversation on it. The signals you are hearing every so often is the cell transmitting it's "I'm still here" message to the network, so the operator knows which cell to send an incoming call to.
They're that sensitive because if you wanted to transport a dirty bomb you might include a lot of shielding to prevent the radiation to be detected (by less sensitive detectors, before detonation that is). Now when the police (or other authorities) have pulled you over and see that weak radiation is coming form a cancerous cat, instead of a suspicous lump of lead, they just explain why you were stopped (to keep you from complaining too much) and send you on your way.
Any cordless (bluetooth or other) keyboard will introduce lag as the keypress will have to be encoded (using bluetooth or another protocol) sent, received and decoded. Now the quality of the encoding and decoding bits might vary, so you can probably get both good and bad bluetooth keyboard/receiver sets. Just as you can get good and bad non-bluetooth. Now a custom radio protocol could probably reduce the overhead bluetooth will have simply because it has to support a lot of different types of devices, but bluetooth is a standard so bluetooth chips and implementations will probably have a bigger market and bigger competition than non-standard keyboard radio chips. So I would expect the bluetooth to bits (now already or eventually) be better and/or cheaper than the alternatives.
Back in the olden days, when people used to write checks, a friend of mine used to make his phone bills payable to "Adolf Hitler" and "Ayatollah Khomenei" and they all went through, every one of them.
That's because they both work for the phone companies
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The GP was correct, locks keep honest people honest. They do nothing for stopping dishonest people. The same goes for DRM.
Sorry that's not what DRM does.
DRM prevents honest people from using the stuff they buy in ways they are legally entiteled to, pissing them off and turning them into dishonest people
The only reason I have on occasion bought DRM burdened material is because I expect the DRM to be breakable, now or later. I'll be doing something that is legal, but not approved by the copyright holder, when converting that material to any format I choose. If I was interested in uploding material and breaking copyright law I wouldn't bother buying anything in the first place, I'd just download it. Unfortunately the RIAA and MPAA and their sister organisations in other countries are continually pushing stronger DRM to keep their product inferior to what the pirates are offering.
I had a 2P dual-core opteron 2.6GHz box as my workstation for several months. To be honest I couldn't really find a legitimate use for it. And I was running gentoo and doing a lot of my own OSS development [re: builds].
man make
-j [jobs], --jobs[=jobs] Specifies the number of jobs (commands) to run simultaneously. If there is more than one -j option, the last one is effective. If the -j option is given without an argument, make will not limit the number of jobs that can run simultaneously.
Theft aside, how could this possibly inconvenience paying customers
Because it is technology, and technolgy always fails in the face of incompetent users. Imagine what happens when they forget to activate a dvd at the checkout, you try to play the disc and it fails and you have to go back to the store, count one inconvenienced customer. Then at the store they could refuse to activate it, because it might be stolen, count one angry customer. If they activate anything people will abuse it so they might have to demand a receipt, which some customers will have lost.
And what about three years later when the clear area turns dark again because of a flaw in the production, or the stuff has made the disk more vulnerable to scratches? It may not happen, but would you bet your movie collection that it wont
Now someone really wants to play this game online against friends.
The other implication here is somewhat more startling: that the intercept itself was legally proper.
Nowhere in the article does it say that the IM was intercepted in any way. Given the resources it would take to monitor IM it's far more likely that this is the result of a complaint from the person that received the IM
1) If sterile water is unavailable, will non-sterile water work well enough ?
Yes, for some definition of well enough. It's better than not cooling the wound. But in all cases the burn should be treated with some kind of antiseptic before beeing dressed. Any third degree burn, or second degree of significant size should be treated by a medical professional. If in doubt get help.
2) Is non-sterile gauze cheaper than sterile gauze, & if so, where can it be purchased ?
Yes it is. It is commonly only used for cleaning of wounds (after beeing soked in an antiseptic) or the outer dressing of a wound (keeping the sterile gauze in place). No idea where to buy unless they have it for sale if you can't find it at a drugstore wherever you live. The price difference isn't that big (here) so you might as well buy the sterile kind. Sterile gauze should be treated as non-sterile after beeing stored for some time (check the packaging for a "use by date")
I am not a medical professional but I've had my share of cuts and burns without ever getting any dangerous infection.
And finally whoever modded you troll should se if their gangrene has affected their brain.
Yep. Ever heard of the cost of it sompared to a basic electrical oven? Unless you actually already have a heatpump installed it doesn't make sense to compare the heat from any electrical appliance to the one you get from a heatpump. The investment literally takes years to recoup from the power savings (this may obviously differ depending on power costs). Where it's cold enough they are ineffective (unless you invest even more and drill down to get that heat from the eartha and/or water, and where it isn't that cold you use it less and it takes even longer for it to pay for itself (if at all, there is still maintainance). It has also been argued that the environmental saving by using less power is offset by waste from the production (and later disposal) of the pump
I hear this bullshit from amateur physics experts like yourself all the time, as a justification for leaving lights on in the winter.
And it doesn't apply at all (from a monetary perspective) if you heat with gas or oil.
Well if took the to actually read the post you might notice the the bit about "All the power you would normally use for electrical heating" so I already qualified that it only applied if you already use electricity for heating. (and again oil or gas heating is not available to everyone everywhere without significant investment).
Now believing someone is wrong is one thing, but firing off ad hominem attacks and then displaying that you haven't even read and/or understood what your're arguing against is somthing else. So you can take your bullshit amateur economics expertise and shove ut up your ass to keep your head company.
I pay the energy bill for cycles used to crunch genetic mapping data that will be used by corporations to develop drugs for lifelong treatment (like they'd develop a cure when they could profit more from treatment?) so that when I'm sick, I can pay a few thousand dollars a month to afford the pills?
For some of us that's not entirely accurate. A large number of homes around the world are heated electrically during winter. All the power you would normally use for electrical heating you could just as well run through a computer of some sort (a game console is just a specialized computer). The energy will eventually end up as heat (a cpu is just a special electrical oven that also does computations). Essentially you get the cycles for free (minus minimal wear and tear on the computer) if the computer would just sit idle and you would use that power to heat your home anyway
There are several distibuted computing projects around. Read through their policy about the use of the results, some of them may suit you.
The names of the made up tv tagging groups were chosen to sound as biased as possible. Indicating that this would allow everyone to "choose their poison". I myself would probably chosse someone of a more middle ground mindset, whoever I would distrust the least, to cencor the tv when I'm not in the room (which would hopefully be as little as possible)
I agree a lot of people would give away control blindly based on already preconceived ideas about which ideology/morality/sense of humour/taste is best, but hopefully some will consider the options available. Atleast it's less blindly than letting a goverment choose for us. And when you see "this programme blocked by 'Christian fundamentalists for a pure mind'" fot the n-th time on a nature documetary channel you might reconsider your source of morality.
As you point out there are downsides to this kind of filtering, but I still believe it's better than the alternative of letting whoever is best at pressuring/bribing/campaign-sponsoring the politicians do the choosing
While I would probably block strong violence and explicit sex, once my dauther gets old enough to handle the remote control, I wouldn't want to block her from being exposed to ideals different from my own, but explain why I find them wrong. I hope to raise her to think for herself.
Now if I could prevent her from ever being exposed to boy-band music that would be another thing entirely:)
Am I understanding correcftly when I think that that means that human DNA contains the "broken" dna of long gone viruses? And that a mutation in a human cell could potentially "fix" that dna and make the virus active again, potentially resurrecting a dangerous virus?
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Um. I like Microsoft bashing as much as the next guy, but we should at least be accurate. Powershell documentation is as far away as typing "help" into the powershell prompt.
You're mostly correct. You can't be forced to open your code. You have two options, you accept the terms of the GPL (and open your code) or you don't, if you don't what you have done is copyright infringement and you can be sued under copyright law. No law (in any countries I'm aware of) allows a judge to force you to give up your code, you will end up paying damages and have to stop using the infringing code, same as with any other copyright infringement.
I'd suggest the Israeli make more of an effort to avoid harming the children, and then perhaps the Palestinians will have less reason to hate them. They're the ones with the hightech weapons. By all means shoot the terrorists, just avoid making more enemies by harming bystanders.
Problem is the middle east is caught up in a vicious circle of hate:
Terrorist blows up bus ->
Israeli get mad with revenge ->
Israeli support military action ->
Israeli bomb/attack suspected terrorist house ->
Civilians die in crossfire ->
Arab familiy and friends become mad with revenge ->
Arab joins terrorists to get revenge ->
Loop
Find a way to break that circle and some friends of the late Mr Nobel may have a medal for you.
So what do you intend to do once the hard times are over and the US needs foreign workers again? They'll know what happens if the economy slumps and will prefer jobs elsewhere and you'll be stuck with the bottom of the barrel.
So you'll see your taxpayer money pay support for those that lost their jobs when their employer went under because they wew forced to keep all the useless people? A business will do what's profitable, you don't get fired because a foreign worker "got your job", you get fired because you cost the company more then they gain, so why should they keep you and instead fire a worker that makes themm more money than he costs?
I really hope I manage to avoid that with my daughter. If it happens that we argue over something, she goes away, does a little research and comes bach with proof she was right it will be the proudest day of my life.
Let them keep their test, then subtly change the "recycled" question so that the correct answer or answers is different. If it's math just changing the numbers should do it, your statistics still apply somewhat and as an added bonus you screw the cheaters that don't recognize that the question has changed.
Then just quote the standard price for providing help:
1. One mug of coffe constantly filled while I work on the problem
2. Dinner. Homemade if I believe the client is capable of it.
3. A date, with the client or the clients hot friend/sister/daughter/neighbour, I choose.
Anyone accepting less is undercutting prices and will hear from the UoCP (union of computer persons) shortly.
The only way to use Linux productively is to have no social contacts
So in other words it's perfect for slashdot users since the negiatives already apply to us all?
Most people have 2 legs. There is your average. Not that hard, eh?
So how many people do you know of with three legs?
(No, that's not a leg and even if it was it wouldn't count as a whole one)
I know of people with one or no legs, so the average will have to be less than two. And that means most people have an above average number of legs
I had a girfriend.
Then she turned into a wife.
Then she turned into an alien bent on destroying me.
The trick is to freeze the process before the first or second transformation. Maybe I'll get it right next time.
So you're trying to convince me that I should like taking the garbage to the dump myself every day.
Well you might be surprised to know that my previous experiences with pointers, manual memory allocation and manual release of memory has been invaluable in my day job programming in for .Net.
Knowing what you shouldn't do to avoid creating excess objects is good for memory usage and performance, and would have been a lot harder to even realize can be an issue if all you've done are garbage collected lanuages
Secondly there are other scarce resources than memory, an relying on the garbage collector to release these (e.g. file locks) in a timely fashion will eventually bite you if the system is complex enough
What you need for GC languages is a decent understanding of how the GC works (in your language/runtime) so you know when you have to help it out. And to get that understanding you need to understand memory allocations first
TCP is meant for situations where the important bit is that the application receives all the packets in the same order that they were sent. Voice and video use UDP because waiting for a resend of a dropped packet, delaying everything after, makes the experience worse than simply skipping that bit of data. The nature of file transfer is that it doesn't matter what order you get the pieces in as long as you can assemble them together, so the only interesting bit is guaranteeing that you will eventually get all the bits. Using TCP for bittorrent in the first place added unnessesary overhead, since the in-order guarantee isn't needed, but probably made it faster and easier to implement since they didn't have to program theit own logic for rerequesting missing dropped packets.
Actually they pick up everything there is. But a cellphones radio transmitter is not sending most of the time when you're not actually having a conversation on it. The signals you are hearing every so often is the cell transmitting it's "I'm still here" message to the network, so the operator knows which cell to send an incoming call to.
They're that sensitive because if you wanted to transport a dirty bomb you might include a lot of shielding to prevent the radiation to be detected (by less sensitive detectors, before detonation that is). Now when the police (or other authorities) have pulled you over and see that weak radiation is coming form a cancerous cat, instead of a suspicous lump of lead, they just explain why you were stopped (to keep you from complaining too much) and send you on your way.
Any cordless (bluetooth or other) keyboard will introduce lag as the keypress will have to be encoded (using bluetooth or another protocol) sent, received and decoded. Now the quality of the encoding and decoding bits might vary, so you can probably get both good and bad bluetooth keyboard/receiver sets. Just as you can get good and bad non-bluetooth. Now a custom radio protocol could probably reduce the overhead bluetooth will have simply because it has to support a lot of different types of devices, but bluetooth is a standard so bluetooth chips and implementations will probably have a bigger market and bigger competition than non-standard keyboard radio chips. So I would expect the bluetooth to bits (now already or eventually) be better and/or cheaper than the alternatives.
Back in the olden days, when people used to write checks, a friend of mine used to make his phone bills payable to "Adolf Hitler" and "Ayatollah Khomenei" and they all went through, every one of them.
That's because they both work for the phone companies
The GP was correct, locks keep honest people honest. They do nothing for stopping dishonest people. The same goes for DRM.
Sorry that's not what DRM does.
DRM prevents honest people from using the stuff they buy in ways they are legally entiteled to, pissing them off and turning them into dishonest people
The only reason I have on occasion bought DRM burdened material is because I expect the DRM to be breakable, now or later. I'll be doing something that is legal, but not approved by the copyright holder, when converting that material to any format I choose. If I was interested in uploding material and breaking copyright law I wouldn't bother buying anything in the first place, I'd just download it. Unfortunately the RIAA and MPAA and their sister organisations in other countries are continually pushing stronger DRM to keep their product inferior to what the pirates are offering.
I had a 2P dual-core opteron 2.6GHz box as my workstation for several months. To be honest I couldn't really find a legitimate use for it. And I was running gentoo and doing a lot of my own OSS development [re: builds].
man make
Theft aside, how could this possibly inconvenience paying customers
Because it is technology, and technolgy always fails in the face of incompetent users. Imagine what happens when they forget to activate a dvd at the checkout, you try to play the disc and it fails and you have to go back to the store, count one inconvenienced customer. Then at the store they could refuse to activate it, because it might be stolen, count one angry customer. If they activate anything people will abuse it so they might have to demand a receipt, which some customers will have lost.
And what about three years later when the clear area turns dark again because of a flaw in the production, or the stuff has made the disk more vulnerable to scratches? It may not happen, but would you bet your movie collection that it wont
Now someone really wants to play this game online against friends.
- Buy one, steal a few.
- Come back when someone else is at the checkout.
- Show receipt get stolen game activated
- Wait again until someone else is at the register
- Rinse and repeat
Wohoo quantity discountThe other implication here is somewhat more startling: that the intercept itself was legally proper.
Nowhere in the article does it say that the IM was intercepted in any way. Given the resources it would take to monitor IM it's far more likely that this is the result of a complaint from the person that received the IM
1) If sterile water is unavailable, will non-sterile water work well enough ?
Yes, for some definition of well enough. It's better than not cooling the wound. But in all cases the burn should be treated with some kind of antiseptic before beeing dressed. Any third degree burn, or second degree of significant size should be treated by a medical professional. If in doubt get help.
2) Is non-sterile gauze cheaper than sterile gauze, & if so, where can it be purchased ?
Yes it is. It is commonly only used for cleaning of wounds (after beeing soked in an antiseptic) or the outer dressing of a wound (keeping the sterile gauze in place). No idea where to buy unless they have it for sale if you can't find it at a drugstore wherever you live. The price difference isn't that big (here) so you might as well buy the sterile kind. Sterile gauze should be treated as non-sterile after beeing stored for some time (check the packaging for a "use by date")
I am not a medical professional but I've had my share of cuts and burns without ever getting any dangerous infection.
And finally whoever modded you troll should se if their gangrene has affected their brain.
That is a load of crap, ever hear of a heatpump?
Yep. Ever heard of the cost of it sompared to a basic electrical oven? Unless you actually already have a heatpump installed it doesn't make sense to compare the heat from any electrical appliance to the one you get from a heatpump. The investment literally takes years to recoup from the power savings (this may obviously differ depending on power costs). Where it's cold enough they are ineffective (unless you invest even more and drill down to get that heat from the eartha and/or water, and where it isn't that cold you use it less and it takes even longer for it to pay for itself (if at all, there is still maintainance). It has also been argued that the environmental saving by using less power is offset by waste from the production (and later disposal) of the pump
I hear this bullshit from amateur physics experts like yourself all the time, as a justification for leaving lights on in the winter.
And it doesn't apply at all (from a monetary perspective) if you heat with gas or oil.
Well if took the to actually read the post you might notice the the bit about "All the power you would normally use for electrical heating" so I already qualified that it only applied if you already use electricity for heating. (and again oil or gas heating is not available to everyone everywhere without significant investment).
Now believing someone is wrong is one thing, but firing off ad hominem attacks and then displaying that you haven't even read and/or understood what your're arguing against is somthing else. So you can take your bullshit amateur economics expertise and shove ut up your ass to keep your head company.
and yes, i know I have been trolled
I pay the energy bill for cycles used to crunch genetic mapping data that will be used by corporations to develop drugs for lifelong treatment (like they'd develop a cure when they could profit more from treatment?) so that when I'm sick, I can pay a few thousand dollars a month to afford the pills?
For some of us that's not entirely accurate. A large number of homes around the world are heated electrically during winter. All the power you would normally use for electrical heating you could just as well run through a computer of some sort (a game console is just a specialized computer). The energy will eventually end up as heat (a cpu is just a special electrical oven that also does computations). Essentially you get the cycles for free (minus minimal wear and tear on the computer) if the computer would just sit idle and you would use that power to heat your home anyway
There are several distibuted computing projects around. Read through their policy about the use of the results, some of them may suit you.
The names of the made up tv tagging groups were chosen to sound as biased as possible. Indicating that this would allow everyone to "choose their poison". I myself would probably chosse someone of a more middle ground mindset, whoever I would distrust the least, to cencor the tv when I'm not in the room (which would hopefully be as little as possible)
I agree a lot of people would give away control blindly based on already preconceived ideas about which ideology/morality/sense of humour/taste is best, but hopefully some will consider the options available. Atleast it's less blindly than letting a goverment choose for us. And when you see "this programme blocked by 'Christian fundamentalists for a pure mind'" fot the n-th time on a nature documetary channel you might reconsider your source of morality.
As you point out there are downsides to this kind of filtering, but I still believe it's better than the alternative of letting whoever is best at pressuring/bribing/campaign-sponsoring the politicians do the choosing
While I would probably block strong violence and explicit sex, once my dauther gets old enough to handle the remote control, I wouldn't want to block her from being exposed to ideals different from my own, but explain why I find them wrong. I hope to raise her to think for herself.
Now if I could prevent her from ever being exposed to boy-band music that would be another thing entirely :)
Am I understanding correcftly when I think that that means that human DNA contains the "broken" dna of long gone viruses? And that a mutation in a human cell could potentially "fix" that dna and make the virus active again, potentially resurrecting a dangerous virus?