I think I sorta see your point, but by the same, token, so much of television's revenue is advertising driven, and TiVo doesn't seem to have killed off any TV stations (yet)...:)
There's something to be said for a high-quality digital recording, vs. a tape recording, especially in ease of portability (archiving to hard drive, or CD, or whatever).
If you read the article, it explains: things like storing mp3s recorded off the radio, recording programs you may miss, etc., all with the ability to rewind, fast forward, or skip commercials, etc.
Hey, right on, you guessed'er, ISE Eiffel. I think I was using some sort of crippled-ish student version, and it bothered me because it was really annoying to start new projects and handle the root files in the one I was using. This was a few years ago too, so things may have changed/improved since then.
I don't know if I can put my finger on exactly what bothered me about the language, probably just a series of quirks and things that bothered me at the time (in all likelihood many things were interface/compiler related, too). Again, a matter of preference, probably; one of my good friends used to refer to Eiffel as the most "elegant" language he'd ever programmed in:)
I think I grew up on a terrible, terrible Eiffel IDE. Besides that, I found the language really unintuitive after having first programmed in C and C++. Personal preference, but god help me if I ever have to program in that language again:) (or fortran!)
Well, as I understand the article, the original source of the idea was a "prank" that was circulated via an email around the internet in Australia. (There's a snopes2 link somewhere about it but I don't have it handy, sorry.) So no, I cannot judge that each of those 70,000 Australian citizens is explicitly NOT a Jedi, but from the context of the article, I would say a large majority of them were simply participating in the prank.
I think they would be getting fines (but they're not) for falsifying census information. They're not REALLY Jedi, it was just part of a ploy to get the government to recognize Jedi as an official religion, so technically they did "lie" about their religion. But who cares?:)
I gotta fully agree with you there. Trent Reznor's Quake soundtrack made the game, gave it atmosphere. All I could listen to while playing Quake for the first while was the Quake soundtrack and Pretty Hate Machine.
I think Doom III's audio offering will be equally pleasing! Can't wait.
Right, but again, you're missing the point about due diligence. GM obviously did NOT do everything in their power to stop the situation, correct? There is the key difference, or at least, in my mind. I'm very open to being called wrong... wouldn't be the first time. Heck, it wouldn't be the first time TODAY:)
Very possibly. The question is level of intent and severity of damage, probably. I'm not familiar with the legislation (and IIRC it's not actually "law" yet) but that could very well be the case.
I sincerely doubt action would be taken against the car company in that case. I could be wrong, but I wouldn't be interested in blaming the car company at that point.
Even still... wouldn't you have to consider some sort of "good faith" effort by Microsoft/Car manufacturer/whatever? If they both did as much as they could to test/prevent these flaws, I don't really see how they can be blamed for not knowing every tiny potential flaw. I don't even believe that is possible, especially in the case of software.
There's a difference in this situation because someone is exploiting a fault in a product. In a case like you are mentioning, there is no intention to exploit a known fault.
So, you're saying that if someone hacks into a nuclear power plant, and causes deaths, sysadmins should be held partly accountable?
And by the same token, if someone physically breaks into the nuclear power plant, and causes deaths, security personnel should be held accountable? Both cases are terribly unrealistic...where do you draw the line? A sysadmin can only protect with as much knowledge of the system as they have, and if a yet-unknown Apache vulnerability exists, the sysadmin has no way of preventing exploits against it. Is the buck now passed to Apache for having that code vulnerability?
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TechTV has a decent guide on bitrates... maybe this will help. Hope that helps...
I think I sorta see your point, but by the same, token, so much of television's revenue is advertising driven, and TiVo doesn't seem to have killed off any TV stations (yet)... :)
There's something to be said for a high-quality digital recording, vs. a tape recording, especially in ease of portability (archiving to hard drive, or CD, or whatever).
If you read the article, it explains: things like storing mp3s recorded off the radio, recording programs you may miss, etc., all with the ability to rewind, fast forward, or skip commercials, etc.
Hey, right on, you guessed'er, ISE Eiffel. I think I was using some sort of crippled-ish student version, and it bothered me because it was really annoying to start new projects and handle the root files in the one I was using. This was a few years ago too, so things may have changed/improved since then.
:)
I don't know if I can put my finger on exactly what bothered me about the language, probably just a series of quirks and things that bothered me at the time (in all likelihood many things were interface/compiler related, too). Again, a matter of preference, probably; one of my good friends used to refer to Eiffel as the most "elegant" language he'd ever programmed in
I think I grew up on a terrible, terrible Eiffel IDE. Besides that, I found the language really unintuitive after having first programmed in C and C++. Personal preference, but god help me if I ever have to program in that language again :) (or fortran!)
Now that is a very cool-sounding task.
One of the classes at my university last year had to write a simulation like this using Eiffel. Ick!
Well, as I understand the article, the original source of the idea was a "prank" that was circulated via an email around the internet in Australia. (There's a snopes2 link somewhere about it but I don't have it handy, sorry.) So no, I cannot judge that each of those 70,000 Australian citizens is explicitly NOT a Jedi, but from the context of the article, I would say a large majority of them were simply participating in the prank.
I think they would be getting fines (but they're not) for falsifying census information. They're not REALLY Jedi, it was just part of a ploy to get the government to recognize Jedi as an official religion, so technically they did "lie" about their religion. But who cares? :)
s/happy/feeling sheepish -- yes :)
Hmm, forgive my ignorance, I should have spent a few minutes looking at the rest of the page.
/me takes off his gullible hat. :D
Holy CRAP, that article feels like it should have been posted on April Fool's Day...
No, no really, please someone tell me that article was a joke and I missed it.
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If there are existing phone lines, is it not possible to set up some sort of VPN over DSL that does not require the addition of more phone lines?
... why does this historic place need to be networked? :)
Also
I gotta fully agree with you there. Trent Reznor's Quake soundtrack made the game, gave it atmosphere. All I could listen to while playing Quake for the first while was the Quake soundtrack and Pretty Hate Machine.
I think Doom III's audio offering will be equally pleasing! Can't wait.
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Can you say "unbiased" and "advocacy" in the same sentence?
At what point does it say he was going to jail? He was sentenced to pay a fine and one year of probabtion.
Right, but again, you're missing the point about due diligence. GM obviously did NOT do everything in their power to stop the situation, correct? There is the key difference, or at least, in my mind. I'm very open to being called wrong ... wouldn't be the first time. Heck, it wouldn't be the first time TODAY :)
Very possibly. The question is level of intent and severity of damage, probably. I'm not familiar with the legislation (and IIRC it's not actually "law" yet) but that could very well be the case.
I sincerely doubt action would be taken against the car company in that case. I could be wrong, but I wouldn't be interested in blaming the car company at that point.
... wouldn't you have to consider some sort of "good faith" effort by Microsoft/Car manufacturer/whatever? If they both did as much as they could to test/prevent these flaws, I don't really see how they can be blamed for not knowing every tiny potential flaw. I don't even believe that is possible, especially in the case of software.
Even still
There's a difference in this situation because someone is exploiting a fault in a product. In a case like you are mentioning, there is no intention to exploit a known fault.
Ahh, right, I forgot about the "premonition" department at Microsoft that knew about this problem and let it out the door anyway.
Yeah, like the locksmiths that get held responsible when your house gets broken into, right?
Hmm, maybe if there was any mention of the death penalty in that legislation. But there wasn't. :)
So, you're saying that if someone hacks into a nuclear power plant, and causes deaths, sysadmins should be held partly accountable?
And by the same token, if someone physically breaks into the nuclear power plant, and causes deaths, security personnel should be held accountable? Both cases are terribly unrealistic...where do you draw the line? A sysadmin can only protect with as much knowledge of the system as they have, and if a yet-unknown Apache vulnerability exists, the sysadmin has no way of preventing exploits against it. Is the buck now passed to Apache for having that code vulnerability?