(1) I am trying to imagine how it is that you haven't seen an undeserved tasering. Seeing as video repositories are all the rage these days, go look up a few. Keep in mind that constables will generally post videos showing themselves (and their profession) in a favourable light.
(2) I feel the urge to explicitly call you a twit, rather than imply it. You're a twit. The vast majority of police officers I have met in my life are happy in their work, and know that "suspect" is not the same as "perpetrator". But a small, non-zero number don't get it, and enjoy using force on the slightest pretext. The taser is only one tool at their disposal. Their co-workers (at least in this town) hate that they have to look after their own.
the real hazard to their infrastructure is the marketing department's insistence on overselling (basically, fraudulently misrepresenting) their capacity.
yeah, by my logic there's only force:) not very good for me, since i'm no good with force.
and i hear you about the guardians. that seems like worse than a bad idea.
Personally I support a persons right to die... but I also agree that 'the right to die' shouldn't be extended to
i'm with you right up to there. if you are extending a right, it's not a right - it's a privilege. perhaps you mean you support every adult's right to die?
The LGPL and the GPL are deliberately designed to be not rocket science and not legal mumbo jumbo. Seriously, instructions and examples are given! The advice from legal can only amount this: comply, get special dispensation from the original author(s), or not distribute. I, for one, am having a hard time imagining a developer competent enough to develop software that people will pay money for who cannot also understand how the LGPL and GPL apply to the code they modify. Is this a failure of my imagination?
an excellent and short lesson. i've sometimes wondered about the particulars of image spam. i've never looked at one, having not enabled attachment viewing in my mail client (i got religion about best practice in email when i first learned about webbugs). clever gremlins, these spammers - never underestimate the intelligence of your enemies!
issue the following commands
part 1:
$ cd/bin
$ for binary in * ; do man $binary ; done
$ cd/usr/bin
$ for binary in * ; do man $binary ; done
$ cd/usr/local/bin
$ for binary in * ; do man $binary ; done
part 2:
$ su -
Password:
# cd/sbin
# for binary in * ; do man $binary ; done
# cd/usr/sbin
# for binary in * ; do man $binary ; done
# cd/usr/local/sbin
# for binary in * ; do man $binary ; done
# exit
Don't take a long time doing this, and more specifically DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MEMORIZE EVERYTHING. Just skim the man pages. You'll get a feel for what programs are available. Then read the man page for apropos so you can jog your memory later.
If people are such unthinking sheep that take their moral cues from the television, should we really care if they get tortured a bit?
yes.
torturers as a rule don't care how intelligent their victims are. and even if they only torture stupid people, they are still committing a crime in every jurisdiction signatory to the United Nations. once sanctions against it are removed, you're next. or me. or my mother. your mother too.
Disclosure: I do not live a "crime free" life, however, the most serious offence I commit is jaywalking.
EVERYONE has reason to fear being stopped by police. Yes, the vast majority of them are fine people. However, they are both sactioned and trained to resolve conflict with force. They are also trained (and expected) to retain control in any and all situations.
One thing I've noticed about police officers is that they NEVER react well to being contradicted, and it doesn't matter if what is said is truth or fiction.
Your day stands a significant chance of becoming worse if you are faced with a person ready to use force if, for some event of interest to them, your version differs from theirs.
Most CS instructors will cram down students' throats that if they concentrate on principles they can pick up any language/platform as if it's nothing at all. It's a lie, but that's what they say.
How is it a lie? I'm not saying it isn't, but I watched this approach take about 60 eager newbies (one of them me) through 12 languages in 8 months, and about 3/4 of us "got it". All that passed were able to learn a new language in a week. Not at a guru level, but at a working level, able to function in real-world environments. I blame my success on the mandatory course in language design, which studied NO language in depth, but concentrated on principles. BNF, binding times, lifetime, compiler considerations.
Judging from my time there, it wasn't an isolated incident.
www.cs.camosun.bc.ca
Let me be explicit about this instead of modding you down:
The allegations are not hysterical. They are attempts to piece together a coherent story of what happend on 11/9/2001 after realizing that the official US government line is clearly a fabrication, complete with contradictions and impossibilites. The government's attempts at perception control via disinformation (spin, for media-centric types) would be stellar if it wasn't for the fact that rational, intelligent people watched the propoganda also, and spotted the lies and contradictions and then asked, "OK, so what really happened?"
"Grow up kid, your crap is getting old."
Do you think that namecalling makes you look more mature than the grandparent poster?
5. If a firmware default server IP address is provided, it MUST be a
server operated by the manufacturer or seller of the device or
another server, but only with the operator's permission.
slashdotting is an unexpected spike in popularity, short lived. this is a negligent (and systemic) DoS attack, and (without intervention) can only get worse as D-Link's marketroids get better at their job.
i think a new entry requirement for the internet could be, "you want to use a browser? first pass this test on RFC 1945 or 2616." or perhaps mozilla could add a 'startup hint' option with factoids from the RFC's... ...and a pony.
It can be pretty easy for a beginner to get lost in a mess of brackets.
i haven't had that problem myself (except for short forays into lisp (or scheme (or their derivatives))) so maybe i'm speaking with a prejudice for my personal strong points.
term papers were troubling for me, so it could also be that i'm speaking with a prejudice against my weak points.
i sit corrected, realizing that once again i hadn't thought about it hard enough before hitting `submit'.
Well, they're not exactly the same, but your point about sources.list is correct. If sources.list is sane, there is no difference between the two. I remember my first two attempts to perform the upgrade from woody to sarge required repeated fiddling with sources.list, and i discovered a use for the bash `until' construct:
until apt-get -y dist-upgrade; do until apt-get -y --fix-broken upgrade ; do sleep 1 ; done ; done
As a result, apt-get dist-upgrade puts the wind up my neck when perhaps it shouldn't - when sarge was declared stable, my dist-upgrade went without a hitch.
and i wondered, "why `dist-upgrade' when `upgrade' would normally suffice?"
just curious - i was trained to treat laziness as a cardinal virtue in computing.
Others have said 'Don't steal it', but here's my singular argument for not stealing it:
1) You steal it from store.
2) Store makes insurance claim.
3) Insurance company reimburses store.
4) Store buys more stock of DRM chained CD-like objects from Sony.
You have just VOTED for Sony's DRM. Happy yet?
Yeah, I know, there's never going to be a claim on just one CD stolen. But that's not the point - over the course of a year, their inventory system will include whatever DRM encumbered CD-like objects people have stolen. Stealing one just adds an argument for DRM to the business model, and tells the store that it's an in demand item to boot.
Don't steal this. Have no truck with these DRM encumbered CD-like objects. If you do, it will just encourage them.
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Insane? Read http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1118-22.htm before you start again. Not many people think "insanity" when observing Bev Harris, who has gone out of her way to document the voting process, and discovered blatant tampering of election data in 2004.
Ask yourself why election officials in multiple electoral regions went out of their way to destroy (or, at the most charitable best, make inaccessible) original poll tapes, and provided clearly doctored...ummm...copies?...to a group of people making what should be a routine public records request. I would be interested in an explanation that doesn't involve election tampering.
Assign a true/false value to each of the steps in this argument:
All arguments that conatain one or more incorrect statement are invalid.
This argument contains at least one incorrect statement.
Therefore, this argument is invalid.
Zonk? Hello? Did you not notice the flagrant disregard for grammar in the article? The Globe and Mail's proofreader must have been drinking heavily for days. Example of things that got past that should have been redlined:
Privacy concerns have been left behind in the drafting of the bill, says Prof. Ian Kerr, Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law, and Technology at the University of Ottawa, because its prohibition on the circumvention of technological protection measures, a drastic technology.
OK, does that mean privacy is a drastic technology? Or is it circumvention? Maybe it's prohibition that is the drastic technology. I feel less enlightened after trying to read that poorly written, poorly edited article.
Slashdot Mirror
(2) I feel the urge to explicitly call you a twit, rather than imply it. You're a twit. The vast majority of police officers I have met in my life are happy in their work, and know that "suspect" is not the same as "perpetrator". But a small, non-zero number don't get it, and enjoy using force on the slightest pretext. The taser is only one tool at their disposal. Their co-workers (at least in this town) hate that they have to look after their own.
I feel somewhat dirty about having my nick/uid combo.
the real hazard to their infrastructure is the marketing department's insistence on overselling (basically, fraudulently misrepresenting) their capacity.
yeah, by my logic there's only force :) not very good for me, since i'm no good with force.
and i hear you about the guardians. that seems like worse than a bad idea.
The LGPL and the GPL are deliberately designed to be not rocket science and not legal mumbo jumbo. Seriously, instructions and examples are given! The advice from legal can only amount this: comply, get special dispensation from the original author(s), or not distribute. I, for one, am having a hard time imagining a developer competent enough to develop software that people will pay money for who cannot also understand how the LGPL and GPL apply to the code they modify. Is this a failure of my imagination?
Umm...urm...Debian and Damn Small Linux come to mind without putting in any research.
an excellent and short lesson. i've sometimes wondered about the particulars of image spam. i've never looked at one, having not enabled attachment viewing in my mail client (i got religion about best practice in email when i first learned about webbugs). clever gremlins, these spammers - never underestimate the intelligence of your enemies!
issue the following commands /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin
/sbin /usr/sbin /usr/local/sbin
part 1:
$ cd
$ for binary in * ; do man $binary ; done
$ cd
$ for binary in * ; do man $binary ; done
$ cd
$ for binary in * ; do man $binary ; done
part 2:
$ su -
Password:
# cd
# for binary in * ; do man $binary ; done
# cd
# for binary in * ; do man $binary ; done
# cd
# for binary in * ; do man $binary ; done
# exit
Don't take a long time doing this, and more specifically DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MEMORIZE EVERYTHING. Just skim the man pages. You'll get a feel for what programs are available. Then read the man page for apropos so you can jog your memory later.
torturers as a rule don't care how intelligent their victims are. and even if they only torture stupid people, they are still committing a crime in every jurisdiction signatory to the United Nations. once sanctions against it are removed, you're next. or me. or my mother. your mother too.
Disclosure: I do not live a "crime free" life, however, the most serious offence I commit is jaywalking.
EVERYONE has reason to fear being stopped by police. Yes, the vast majority of them are fine people. However, they are both sactioned and trained to resolve conflict with force. They are also trained (and expected) to retain control in any and all situations.
One thing I've noticed about police officers is that they NEVER react well to being contradicted, and it doesn't matter if what is said is truth or fiction.
Your day stands a significant chance of becoming worse if you are faced with a person ready to use force if, for some event of interest to them, your version differs from theirs.
Judging from my time there, it wasn't an isolated incident.
www.cs.camosun.bc.ca
The allegations are not hysterical. They are attempts to piece together a coherent story of what happend on 11/9/2001 after realizing that the official US government line is clearly a fabrication, complete with contradictions and impossibilites. The government's attempts at perception control via disinformation (spin, for media-centric types) would be stellar if it wasn't for the fact that rational, intelligent people watched the propoganda also, and spotted the lies and contradictions and then asked, "OK, so what really happened?"
Do you think that namecalling makes you look more mature than the grandparent poster?
from http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=4330 section 10: slashdotting is an unexpected spike in popularity, short lived. this is a negligent (and systemic) DoS attack, and (without intervention) can only get worse as D-Link's marketroids get better at their job.
i think a new entry requirement for the internet could be, "you want to use a browser? first pass this test on RFC 1945 or 2616." or perhaps mozilla could add a 'startup hint' option with factoids from the RFC's...
term papers were troubling for me, so it could also be that i'm speaking with a prejudice against my weak points.
i sit corrected, realizing that once again i hadn't thought about it hard enough before hitting `submit'.
Whoops my bad. that's what i _meant_ to say. remember to point in my general direction when you laugh at me. (Northwest section of North America).
IMHO any language where whitespace is a delimiter is -not- a good language for a beginner.
As a result, apt-get dist-upgrade puts the wind up my neck when perhaps it shouldn't - when sarge was declared stable, my dist-upgrade went without a hitch.
just curious - i was trained to treat laziness as a cardinal virtue in computing.
Others have said 'Don't steal it', but here's my singular argument for not stealing it:
1) You steal it from store.
2) Store makes insurance claim.
3) Insurance company reimburses store.
4) Store buys more stock of DRM chained CD-like objects from Sony.
You have just VOTED for Sony's DRM. Happy yet?
Yeah, I know, there's never going to be a claim on just one CD stolen. But that's not the point - over the course of a year, their inventory system will include whatever DRM encumbered CD-like objects people have stolen. Stealing one just adds an argument for DRM to the business model, and tells the store that it's an in demand item to boot.
Don't steal this. Have no truck with these DRM encumbered CD-like objects. If you do, it will just encourage them. </$0.02>
Insane? Read http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1118-22.htm before you start again. Not many people think "insanity" when observing Bev Harris, who has gone out of her way to document the voting process, and discovered blatant tampering of election data in 2004.
Ask yourself why election officials in multiple electoral regions went out of their way to destroy (or, at the most charitable best, make inaccessible) original poll tapes, and provided clearly doctored...ummm...copies?...to a group of people making what should be a routine public records request. I would be interested in an explanation that doesn't involve election tampering.
DON'T. GIVE. THEM. IDEAS.
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