I concur. The comments have to be fabricated. There is no way a 12 year old is going to say something like "Mario dies way too easy. Oh, grab the umbrella. Those are cool. Unfashionable, gay, but cool. Oh, 300 points. That's it? All you get is points? That's lame. Can't you do something with the umbrella?"
The problem is that by saying it every day you are reinforcing that God is as important as country, which we are all supposed to believe is of utmost importance. Therefore kids who otherwise had no opinion will come to believe that God=Good, and this will happen in school. So in effect, the government just told them not only that they should be religious, but what religion (or what subset of religions) they should follow.
OK, so what if parents sued because the books had chemically bleached paper. So the original AC then says "fine, I can't afford to fight it and organically bleached paper is too expensive, so no more books". How would you have learned to read then? Would you have recieved the same quality of education?
Right, so you would deny an opportunity to hundreds of children so that you could thumb your nose at the school board and say "neener neener, I need more money or I won't even try"?
Unfortunately, the school district will now have to expend a significant amount of money to defend themselves against these bogus charges. Money that could otherwise be spent for some better cause such as, lets see, educating our children?
What happens when another students steals my take-home test out of the drop box, copies it almost verbatin, and turns it back in right next to mine?
This happened to me, then the arrogant T.A. sent me a note similar to yours saying I would be failing the class and probably reported to the dean for allowing someone to copy. It was all I could do not to beat him into a bloody mass.
Are you kidding? There's no way in hell kazaa is more important than telivision. People use kazaa to download things that they don't want to pay for. Most of these things have no political or sociological significance (Britney for Prez!). The T.V. on the other hand tells people who to vote for (the liberal of course, unless it's the pro media-consolidation republican), where to spend their money, how they should feel about the war, why they should report their suspicious neighbor to America's Most Wanted, etc...
In short, Kazaa is a popular source for mp3s and video. The Television is the ONLY source of news (biased as it may be) for the majority of the population.
I'm not arguing that linux servers aren't more secure than windows servers. I'm arguing that Linux on the DESKTOP probably wouldn't be much more secure than windows is now.
You want to talk about how linux was designed to be secure. You know what it WASN'T designed for? Desktop use. So whats making it any less of a kludge than windows?
Furthermore you want to throw numbers around? There are 2.7M apache servers out there. If we assume that 75% of them are linux thats around 2 million boxes. So if we triple that I think we have a fair uneducated guestimate of how many total linux boxen we have out there. 6 Million linux boxen is a fairly large number. How many chips did Intel/AMD ship last quarter? 99% of those will be running windows...
I know of no proof either way. I was really just arguing that it could be argued either way. I never directly said that linux was as infectable as windows. But don't you think that if it was the dominant desktop OS we'd be more likely to find out?
My point didn't have anything to do with the susceptability of either OS. My point was that Windows gets hit hard and often because it's dominant and therefore people take time to write worms for it. Linux on the otherhand is "small potatoes", so most people don't bother trying to worm it.
If I'm a shock jockey, am I going to pull a stunt in which I throw a rock through a window in suburbia, or one in which I paint a giant penis on the front of the white house?
You're right about the speed of patches, however It's my understanding of the blaster worm was that the main problem was people didn't patch. That would have affected ANY mainstream OS.
I see your point on being able to fix your own problems. But I think the issue for most corporations is that they don't want to fix their own problems (or don't want to hire a full time problem fixer), they want to pay for support to have the manufacturer fix those problems.
New distros do come out fast and the new ones are generally complete. But I was more thinking of installing all your pieces/parts that may not be part of a distro.
I didn't mean to flame linux. Just saying that most of the parents points were arguable...
no linux msblaster worms
I'm so sick and tired of seeing this crap ass argument. There are less worms affecting Linux becaues NO ONE USES IT. I'm not saying that thats a bad thing. But if Linux on the Desktop had 98% market saturation and Windows had 1%, it would have been linuxblaster and the MS fanboys would be laughing and saying "see, no msblaster worms".
no linux visual basic for applications cracks
Oh, so there has never been a java exploit?
Or python, or PHP, or any interpreted language?
no linux license fees
Thats because, with linux, they're ingeniously called support fee's.
no linux authorization codes when you change hardware
Thats interesting, considering I change my hardware left and right and I've never had to enter an auth code on an XP box.
no forced upgrade cycle
Right, only if you don't want support, in which case you never have to upgrade windoze either. But in the probable case that you do want support you're forced to upgrade with linux in many cases. Call RedHat and ask if they're still supporting RedHat 6.
no having to hunt down 50 cds when trying to rebuild a machine
Yeah, instead you have to hunt down and download 50 patches/packages. Unless you have a custom CD already made, in which case you could have the same CD made for Windows.
Perhaps I'm too supid to understand, but here goes.
Why would you need/want a transaction for a query. I don't see any benefit there. If you're not updating any data, you're wasting time and resources using a transaction.
I'm not arguing that a lack of concurrent transactions doesn't drastically reduce the usefulness of the database. I just think that you used a bad example...
All you did is abstract the crime. That like saying that if instead of killing you, I build a robot and program it to kill you at some convenient time when I won't be around. I'd still be held accountable for your death.
By your logic, people who hire hitment wouldn't be liable for the crime of murder, because after all, they didn't do it...
The idea is that you willfully and purposefully set in motion a chain of actions that you KNEW at the time would result in the breaking of the law. Therefore you are guilty of any laws broken by said chain of actions on your behalf.
This was terrible. My favorite diagram is Figure 7-1. "Software life cycle," on page 88; I emphasize with the dinosaur.
Ok, if I own the book, I'm not going to take the time to read this "review". If I don't own the book I obviously have NO FREAKING clue what figure 7-1 looks like! Also, does "Emphasizing with a dinosour" involve time travel and a shitload of highlighters or what? Or does it mean you hire a dinosour to stand next to you for emphasis? I don't get it...
* They accuse IBM of being this manipulating orwellian company that could somehow motivate us open source advocates to hate them.
Actually no, they don't give a shit about what anyone in the open source community says about them. Their complaint is that the MEDIA is out to get them. And when they say Media, I doubt their talking about a bunch of ranting slashbots.
Not that I support SCO, but it is entirely possible that IBM is controlling a mainstream media attack against them. IBM definitely has the resources (It doesn't take as much as you would think).
Dear Beta Tester,
We are pleased to announce that Microsoft(R) Office Live Communications Server 2003, Standard Edition (formerly known as "RTC Server" and "Greenwich") has been released to manufacturing.
...
The problem is IBM only hires the top 5% of any given graduating class. Basically if you don't have a 3.75+ GPA, forget about it. Therefore they hire all the geeks who never considered cheating and don't know how to get by in the real world. If they just hired a real person as a "conformance officer" occasionally, such trivial mistakes wouldn't slip by.
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I concur. The comments have to be fabricated. There is no way a 12 year old is going to say something like "Mario dies way too easy. Oh, grab the umbrella. Those are cool. Unfashionable, gay, but cool. Oh, 300 points. That's it? All you get is points? That's lame. Can't you do something with the umbrella?"
The problem is that by saying it every day you are reinforcing that God is as important as country, which we are all supposed to believe is of utmost importance. Therefore kids who otherwise had no opinion will come to believe that God=Good, and this will happen in school. So in effect, the government just told them not only that they should be religious, but what religion (or what subset of religions) they should follow.
OK, so what if parents sued because the books had chemically bleached paper. So the original AC then says "fine, I can't afford to fight it and organically bleached paper is too expensive, so no more books". How would you have learned to read then? Would you have recieved the same quality of education?
Right, so you would deny an opportunity to hundreds of children so that you could thumb your nose at the school board and say "neener neener, I need more money or I won't even try"?
Remind me again why you aren't a super?
Unfortunately, the school district will now have to expend a significant amount of money to defend themselves against these bogus charges. Money that could otherwise be spent for some better cause such as, lets see, educating our children?
What happens when another students steals my take-home test out of the drop box, copies it almost verbatin, and turns it back in right next to mine?
This happened to me, then the arrogant T.A. sent me a note similar to yours saying I would be failing the class and probably reported to the dean for allowing someone to copy. It was all I could do not to beat him into a bloody mass.
Luckily the prof gave him a smackdown.
I guess my provider didn't use verisign in the first place? We are an Educational Institution though, so that could be the reason.
Are you kidding? There's no way in hell kazaa is more important than telivision. People use kazaa to download things that they don't want to pay for. Most of these things have no political or sociological significance (Britney for Prez!). The T.V. on the other hand tells people who to vote for (the liberal of course, unless it's the pro media-consolidation republican), where to spend their money, how they should feel about the war, why they should report their suspicious neighbor to America's Most Wanted, etc...
In short, Kazaa is a popular source for mp3s and video. The Television is the ONLY source of news (biased as it may be) for the majority of the population.
Call me stupid, but who exactly has the power? I think that is a very key piece of missing information in this whole debacle.
Who do we ask to take action?
I read the article yesterday and got nothing for the all image pages. I'm on Mozilla 1.5b and wondering if it's not a Mozilla issue.
Screw storage media, I'm afraid my boxen will all fly off and stick to the front of the refrigerator...
I do believe I said LINUX ON THE DESKTOP
I'm not arguing that linux servers aren't more secure than windows servers. I'm arguing that Linux on the DESKTOP probably wouldn't be much more secure than windows is now.
You want to talk about how linux was designed to be secure. You know what it WASN'T designed for? Desktop use. So whats making it any less of a kludge than windows?
Furthermore you want to throw numbers around? There are 2.7M apache servers out there. If we assume that 75% of them are linux thats around 2 million boxes. So if we triple that I think we have a fair uneducated guestimate of how many total linux boxen we have out there. 6 Million linux boxen is a fairly large number. How many chips did Intel/AMD ship last quarter? 99% of those will be running windows...
I know of no proof either way. I was really just arguing that it could be argued either way. I never directly said that linux was as infectable as windows. But don't you think that if it was the dominant desktop OS we'd be more likely to find out?
My point didn't have anything to do with the susceptability of either OS. My point was that Windows gets hit hard and often because it's dominant and therefore people take time to write worms for it. Linux on the otherhand is "small potatoes", so most people don't bother trying to worm it.
If I'm a shock jockey, am I going to pull a stunt in which I throw a rock through a window in suburbia, or one in which I paint a giant penis on the front of the white house?
You're right about the speed of patches, however It's my understanding of the blaster worm was that the main problem was people didn't patch. That would have affected ANY mainstream OS.
I see your point on being able to fix your own problems. But I think the issue for most corporations is that they don't want to fix their own problems (or don't want to hire a full time problem fixer), they want to pay for support to have the manufacturer fix those problems.
New distros do come out fast and the new ones are generally complete. But I was more thinking of installing all your pieces/parts that may not be part of a distro.
I didn't mean to flame linux. Just saying that most of the parents points were arguable...
no linux msblaster worms
I'm so sick and tired of seeing this crap ass argument. There are less worms affecting Linux becaues NO ONE USES IT. I'm not saying that thats a bad thing. But if Linux on the Desktop had 98% market saturation and Windows had 1%, it would have been linuxblaster and the MS fanboys would be laughing and saying "see, no msblaster worms".
no linux visual basic for applications cracks
Oh, so there has never been a java exploit?
Or python, or PHP, or any interpreted language?
no linux license fees
Thats because, with linux, they're ingeniously called support fee's.
no linux authorization codes when you change hardware
Thats interesting, considering I change my hardware left and right and I've never had to enter an auth code on an XP box.
no forced upgrade cycle
Right, only if you don't want support, in which case you never have to upgrade windoze either. But in the probable case that you do want support you're forced to upgrade with linux in many cases. Call RedHat and ask if they're still supporting RedHat 6.
no having to hunt down 50 cds when trying to rebuild a machine
Yeah, instead you have to hunt down and download 50 patches/packages. Unless you have a custom CD already made, in which case you could have the same CD made for Windows.
Looks like you haven't gotten wise. It's ($n-.01). Apparently you're one of the people who equates $n+.99 with $n, not with $(n+1)-.01
Perhaps I'm too supid to understand, but here goes.
Why would you need/want a transaction for a query. I don't see any benefit there. If you're not updating any data, you're wasting time and resources using a transaction.
I'm not arguing that a lack of concurrent transactions doesn't drastically reduce the usefulness of the database. I just think that you used a bad example...
Well, if they were breaking the law. My story will be "good, another criminal off the streets".
If you're going to argue against RFID tags, use an argument that makes sense.
Maybe if you said "after someone is unjustly prosecuted based on RFID evidence", I wouldn't be so quick to debunk your zeal.
So someones business plan is to admit to writing/distributing the worm and then rent out the affected boxes?
I must be missing something because it seems to me that such a business would be immediately sues into oblivion.
All you did is abstract the crime. That like saying that if instead of killing you, I build a robot and program it to kill you at some convenient time when I won't be around. I'd still be held accountable for your death.
By your logic, people who hire hitment wouldn't be liable for the crime of murder, because after all, they didn't do it...
The idea is that you willfully and purposefully set in motion a chain of actions that you KNEW at the time would result in the breaking of the law. Therefore you are guilty of any laws broken by said chain of actions on your behalf.
This was terrible.
My favorite diagram is Figure 7-1. "Software life cycle," on page 88; I emphasize with the dinosaur.
Ok, if I own the book, I'm not going to take the time to read this "review". If I don't own the book I obviously have NO FREAKING clue what figure 7-1 looks like! Also, does "Emphasizing with a dinosour" involve time travel and a shitload of highlighters or what? Or does it mean you hire a dinosour to stand next to you for emphasis? I don't get it...
* They accuse IBM of being this manipulating orwellian company that could somehow motivate us open source advocates to hate them.
Actually no, they don't give a shit about what anyone in the open source community says about them. Their complaint is that the MEDIA is out to get them. And when they say Media, I doubt their talking about a bunch of ranting slashbots.
Not that I support SCO, but it is entirely possible that IBM is controlling a mainstream media attack against them. IBM definitely has the resources (It doesn't take as much as you would think).
Repeat after me: Slashdot is NOT the media.
Dear Beta Tester, We are pleased to announce that Microsoft(R) Office Live Communications Server 2003, Standard Edition (formerly known as "RTC Server" and "Greenwich") has been released to manufacturing.
...
...
The Microsoft Office Live Communications Team
Wouldn't have anything to do with this announcement would it?
The problem is IBM only hires the top 5% of any given graduating class. Basically if you don't have a 3.75+ GPA, forget about it. Therefore they hire all the geeks who never considered cheating and don't know how to get by in the real world. If they just hired a real person as a "conformance officer" occasionally, such trivial mistakes wouldn't slip by.