> Umm...well, yeah. It is legalized violence...that's the whole point. I don't think anyone has tried to make it appear otherwise.
I think the point was to bring attention to this and to remind us how wrong it is, especially in these trying times. I made it my sig for the same reasons.
They did release openssl-0.9.7a-20 on the 29th. The problems with this are:
a) it was released 1 day before openssl.org released 0.9.7c
b) there is no official word on what's been fixed in it
That said, it is not farfetched to fathom they are monitoring the openssl dev list and/or bugtraq, etc. or were told of the problems by openssl (after which they fixed them themselves in their 20th patch to 0.9.7a). I would just like an official word so we know wtf the deal is. After all, 9 is their "current" version - it should be a priority!
Yep -- both headline and post should have read "ms" (milliseconds) rather than "mS" (milli Siemens); thanks to all the alert readers.
Wouldn't it have been simpler to just say 1/5th and 1/10th of a second? Try to drive the point home in simpler terms when possible - otherwise general geekness will start to be compared to political correctness. This is not the same as Intel switching to 90 nanometers instead of 0.09 micron - that's actually a good idea, so we don't end up with 0.9e-7 micron. But anything over 100 ms can/should be expressed as a good ol' easy-to-understand FRACTION of a second.
Think, therefore be!
P.S. When I first tried to post this on 030929 11:11 PM EDT,/. was broken and wouldn't accept my post!
What are you talking about? They released their openssl-0.9.7a-20 on the 29th, while OpenSSL released 0.9.7c today, the 30th. Also, they don't mention 9 in the "Errata" referenced above (which should be called "security advisory"). Silly, I tell ya.
Wait, are they saying that RedHat 9 is _not_ affected? Why would OpenSSL.org release new versions of 0.9.7 if only 0.9.6 was affected, as RH would want us to believe? Or are they saying that they fixed these bugs a long time ago themselves (hence the -XX)? Argh, RH is is becoming annoying.
Remember, movie piracy doesn't just hurt actors, but also camera operators, key grips, makeup artists, and costumers.
Awww, the poor actors will make only $9.5 mil a movie instead of $10 mil next year. Awww, that breaks my heart.
The "camera operators, key grips, makeup artists" are on salary. They either fire them when the movie industry goes bust (yeah, right), or they are paid their salary. They don't make more money if the movie makes more money, they are not partners - they are replaceable employees. That's why Hollywood is full of ass-kissers - they know they are replaceable and don't have any dignity - they will do anything to keep their position (doggy-style).
And it hurts me, being part of the "and customers?" No it doesn't. Not even this move will. I'll stop wasting my time watching crap Hollywood fare with production values adjusted for the lowest common denominator.
... "The approach condenses the experience of investigating billions of possible combinations for an ad, including copy words, graphics, visual impression sequence, and integration with a larger sales system, into a few dozen mailings or e-mailings," says Fantoni. "It is also a psychological approach that carefully considers what potential readers want to read. Copywriters and artists still have to write the words and draw the pictures that follow the procedures derived from the experiments, but once they become accustomed to actually knowing why what they do works, it becomes a way of life." ...
A very nice way of saying a lot without actually saying anything. Dancing around the heart of the matter. The whole article was just a big teaser. No real info.
... This process is very different from the kind of testing that is presently done by major advertisers. A big advertiser may come up with several campaigns it tests in separate markets, but the approach tends to be shotgun, with little rigor in determining how one campaign is different from another and what influences are actually being measured. ...
This is complete BS. Big advertisers do run "experiments." They adjust ad parameters (especially in the on-line world, where it's cheap and almost instant to change something) to maximize returns. They have people that are schooled in this very science, they adjust parameters and note the change in response rate.
... And what presently requires sitting for those couple of sessions with Kowalick and Fantoni (at a cost of about $8,800) will soon be reduced to a $499 interactive software program that will run on a PC, bringing all the benefits of Taguchi without requiring that a nerd be enclosed to make it work. The software should be available this fall, as will a book published by Breakthrough Press and titled E-mailing Your Way to Sales With the Taguchi Approach. ...
So what you really mean is that it will be on KaaZaa this fall? So that us laypeople can get down with Taguchi? Whoopee!
The vanilla wafer recipe, however, will remain a secret.
Keep it! That basically sums up my view of the Tah Gucci "Approach."
His zealotry consists of sticking to his principles. He's not going to be pragmatic. That is the concept of GNU. Freedom is the most important thing there is about software, and anything harming it is a Bad Thing. If preaching that is alienating people, then they are disagreeing with the concept.
Right, that exactly what I don't understand - why people have a problem with this. Are they just haters, are they jealous or are they just plain ignorant? Most people that are "successful" (monetarily speaking) have done at least a little bit of "shady" (read: illegal) business to get there. Are they afraid for their livelihood when someone with such great ideals comes along, someone who will not tolerate back-stabbing, back-room deals, etc., someone who's pro-freedom? A great man once said that to properly appreciate freedom you must experience living without it for a while (hey, isn't that what BushCo is making us experience, right now? - a joke, people, don't get too excited).
Another possibility is that people simply do not want to get involved. When a great cause comes along, you have to really get involved, personally, if you want to be able to say you are a supporter. And most people don't have the motivation to actively support something that does not get them a big-screen TV.
Perhaps Linus is much more of a diplomat, or perhaps he simply does not care about things, or at least nowhere near as much as RMS did/does. Perhaps he really is interested only in the technology. And he gets much love (from people who are _not_ contributors to Linux) because it's much easier to support someone that does not have big ideals about the way things should be(tm). Yes, things may never be as they should - we all know that. As a matter of fact, it's almost certain they will not ever be as they should during our lifetimes. But once you stop dreaming man, once you discard your principles and you start living the big lie, you've lost. You are simply waiting for death to come take your sorry ass.
As an infamous "yo mama so fat" joke goes, if Linus' feet get wet when he takes a shower ol' Billy boy is the winner for that particular year. But M$ will eventually fall ("That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.") 8-)
I think this is a really dumb move on Amazon's part. It seems as irresponsible as the pre-bubble-burst days. What's next, Amazon Linux? Stick to books and "One-Click shopping" or whatever it is...
The previous one (Reloaded) had a uber-HQ trailer that was an awesome 1000 x 540 pixels QT. It is the highest quality video clip I've downloaded to date. Is there something similar available of this?
> The term "any key" does not refer to a particular key on the keyboard. It simply means to strike any one of the keys on your keyboard or handheld screen.
As long as that key is not Ctrl, Caps Lock, Alt, and Shift..! The FAQ is wrong! Baaaaah!
Slashdot Mirror
What do you do when Webmin crashes? Oooops, all your customers are fsck'd.
I come to /. and find a story about one of my fav comedians - how awesome is that?
"Cake or death? Uh, cake please!"
Yours truly,
Jeff, the God of Biscuits
> What does the geeks of Slashdot use for writing?
This reminds me of that other infamous quote (and yes, I do quote):
"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?"
> Umm...well, yeah. It is legalized violence...that's the whole point. I don't think anyone has tried to make it appear otherwise.
I think the point was to bring attention to this and to remind us how wrong it is, especially in these trying times. I made it my sig for the same reasons.
[Scotty talking into Mac+ mouse] Computer? Hello computer?
Over a typical 20-year life span of a solar cell, a single produced watt should cost as little as $0.20
Isn't that still like really high?
They did release openssl-0.9.7a-20 on the 29th. The problems with this are:
a) it was released 1 day before openssl.org released 0.9.7c
b) there is no official word on what's been fixed in it
That said, it is not farfetched to fathom they are monitoring the openssl dev list and/or bugtraq, etc. or were told of the problems by openssl (after which they fixed them themselves in their 20th patch to 0.9.7a). I would just like an official word so we know wtf the deal is. After all, 9 is their "current" version - it should be a priority!
Yep -- both headline and post should have read "ms" (milliseconds) rather than "mS" (milli Siemens); thanks to all the alert readers.
/. was broken and wouldn't accept my post!
Wouldn't it have been simpler to just say 1/5th and 1/10th of a second? Try to drive the point home in simpler terms when possible - otherwise general geekness will start to be compared to political correctness. This is not the same as Intel switching to 90 nanometers instead of 0.09 micron - that's actually a good idea, so we don't end up with 0.9e-7 micron. But anything over 100 ms can/should be expressed as a good ol' easy-to-understand FRACTION of a second.
Think, therefore be!
P.S. When I first tried to post this on 030929 11:11 PM EDT,
What are you talking about? They released their openssl-0.9.7a-20 on the 29th, while OpenSSL released 0.9.7c today, the 30th. Also, they don't mention 9 in the "Errata" referenced above (which should be called "security advisory"). Silly, I tell ya.
Wait, are they saying that RedHat 9 is _not_ affected? Why would OpenSSL.org release new versions of 0.9.7 if only 0.9.6 was affected, as RH would want us to believe? Or are they saying that they fixed these bugs a long time ago themselves (hence the -XX)? Argh, RH is is becoming annoying.
Just what we needed! Quick, someone publish 10000 pages on the XML schema to implement it!
> ...and certainly not to have Windows users change their passwords or logoff.
Also, logging on!
"...with the professed aim of raising young people's awareness of the dangers of spending too much time in front of a computer."
What about releasing the toxic chemicals found in computers, especially in monitors, into the environment?
My bad - ignore last paragraph from my OR ;)
Remember, movie piracy doesn't just hurt actors, but also camera operators, key grips, makeup artists, and costumers.
Awww, the poor actors will make only $9.5 mil a movie instead of $10 mil next year. Awww, that breaks my heart.
The "camera operators, key grips, makeup artists" are on salary. They either fire them when the movie industry goes bust (yeah, right), or they are paid their salary. They don't make more money if the movie makes more money, they are not partners - they are replaceable employees. That's why Hollywood is full of ass-kissers - they know they are replaceable and don't have any dignity - they will do anything to keep their position (doggy-style).
And it hurts me, being part of the "and customers?" No it doesn't. Not even this move will. I'll stop wasting my time watching crap Hollywood fare with production values adjusted for the lowest common denominator.
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"The approach condenses the experience of investigating billions of possible combinations for an ad, including copy words, graphics, visual impression sequence, and integration with a larger sales system, into a few dozen mailings or e-mailings," says Fantoni. "It is also a psychological approach that carefully considers what potential readers want to read. Copywriters and artists still have to write the words and draw the pictures that follow the procedures derived from the experiments, but once they become accustomed to actually knowing why what they do works, it becomes a way of life."
A very nice way of saying a lot without actually saying anything. Dancing around the heart of the matter. The whole article was just a big teaser. No real info.
This process is very different from the kind of testing that is presently done by major advertisers. A big advertiser may come up with several campaigns it tests in separate markets, but the approach tends to be shotgun, with little rigor in determining how one campaign is different from another and what influences are actually being measured.
This is complete BS. Big advertisers do run "experiments." They adjust ad parameters (especially in the on-line world, where it's cheap and almost instant to change something) to maximize returns. They have people that are schooled in this very science, they adjust parameters and note the change in response rate.
And what presently requires sitting for those couple of sessions with Kowalick and Fantoni (at a cost of about $8,800) will soon be reduced to a $499 interactive software program that will run on a PC, bringing all the benefits of Taguchi without requiring that a nerd be enclosed to make it work. The software should be available this fall, as will a book published by Breakthrough Press and titled E-mailing Your Way to Sales With the Taguchi Approach.
So what you really mean is that it will be on KaaZaa this fall? So that us laypeople can get down with Taguchi? Whoopee!
The vanilla wafer recipe, however, will remain a secret.
Keep it! That basically sums up my view of the Tah Gucci "Approach."
"New Moon System Around Uranus"
Around my anus? Damn, and I thought I was eating healthy.
His zealotry consists of sticking to his principles. He's not going to be pragmatic. That is the concept of GNU. Freedom is the most important thing there is about software, and anything harming it is a Bad Thing. If preaching that is alienating people, then they are disagreeing with the concept.
Right, that exactly what I don't understand - why people have a problem with this. Are they just haters, are they jealous or are they just plain ignorant? Most people that are "successful" (monetarily speaking) have done at least a little bit of "shady" (read: illegal) business to get there. Are they afraid for their livelihood when someone with such great ideals comes along, someone who will not tolerate back-stabbing, back-room deals, etc., someone who's pro-freedom? A great man once said that to properly appreciate freedom you must experience living without it for a while (hey, isn't that what BushCo is making us experience, right now? - a joke, people, don't get too excited).
Another possibility is that people simply do not want to get involved. When a great cause comes along, you have to really get involved, personally, if you want to be able to say you are a supporter. And most people don't have the motivation to actively support something that does not get them a big-screen TV.
Perhaps Linus is much more of a diplomat, or perhaps he simply does not care about things, or at least nowhere near as much as RMS did/does. Perhaps he really is interested only in the technology. And he gets much love (from people who are _not_ contributors to Linux) because it's much easier to support someone that does not have big ideals about the way things should be(tm). Yes, things may never be as they should - we all know that. As a matter of fact, it's almost certain they will not ever be as they should during our lifetimes. But once you stop dreaming man, once you discard your principles and you start living the big lie, you've lost. You are simply waiting for death to come take your sorry ass.
As an infamous "yo mama so fat" joke goes, if Linus' feet get wet when he takes a shower ol' Billy boy is the winner for that particular year. But M$ will eventually fall ("That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.") 8-)
Has he put on weight?
It almost seems that you guys are happy that he did not actually succeed. Was it the word "humanity" that turned you off?
I think this is a really dumb move on Amazon's part. It seems as irresponsible as the pre-bubble-burst days. What's next, Amazon Linux? Stick to books and "One-Click shopping" or whatever it is...
The previous one (Reloaded) had a uber-HQ trailer that was an awesome 1000 x 540 pixels QT. It is the highest quality video clip I've downloaded to date. Is there something similar available of this?
> The term "any key" does not refer to a particular key on the keyboard. It simply means to strike any one of the keys on your keyboard or handheld screen.
As long as that key is not Ctrl, Caps Lock, Alt, and Shift..! The FAQ is wrong! Baaaaah!
Surely you mean _comment out_ (or delete) the *_OSIRUSOFT_* entries in
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_head_tests.cf
? Works for me.