Actually I do an instantaneous time travel into the future every night. I'm just relaxing in the evening, and then suddenly it happens to be morning, with no apparent time in between (Ok, sometimes I happen to go to some strange world in between, but the time I spend there is shorter than the night, so it's still a true time travel even in those cases).
What sacrifices do you make to which dieties to ensure the power doesn't go out while it's in progress?
Well, first sacrifice to the power deity. That is, switch off everything except your computer. This includes everything in your neighborhood, too (yes, your neighbours will get angry on you, but then, it's sacrificing, so it should hurt you a bit). Then, sacrifice to the god of information. For example by burning one of your favourite book (books not available anymore work best). And of course, you have to sacrifice to the goddess of fragmentation. After all, you de-fragment, so you should give her replacement fragments. Breaking an expensive glass will usually do. However, for heavily fragmented disks, you'll possibly have to break quite a few of them.
Note that there's no guarantee that the deities (all three of them!) will accept your sacrifices. Also, there's a chance that another deity will interrupt power due to some independent reason, so make sure that you please those other deities as well.
Microsoft buys Slashdot. Linus Thorvalds buys Linux License from SCO. Hubble Space Telecope observes Intergalactic Spaceship. Space Probe Reveals: There is No Intelligent Life on Earth. Harvard Researcher creates Dupe Detection Software. Soon to be Installed on Slashdot.
No, the internet obviously needs more moral. However, contrary to current believe the problem is not that the people are so bad, but that there are simply no free implementations of moral around. All existing versions of moral come with quite stringent licensing conditions, and are usually controlled by big companies like the churches. As usual, any modification of the moral code by the user is disallowed. This is usually implemented directly into the moral (everything which contradicts the original version of the moral is considered immoral), making the moral vendors the first implementors of DRM schemes. So what is needed is an open source version of moral, where everyone is allowed not only to share their version of moral, but also to freely modify your own version.
Well, the typical release date for an open source project is "when it's ready". Therefore to be late means not to be released for some time despite being ready. How often does this happen?
Well, a hack is a quick&dirty solution to a problem. This definitively was a quick&dirty solution to the problem of bad grades. Therefore it was a hack.
While most of what you say is correct, the following is wrong:
If nothing else, this should be the proof: neutron is heavier than proton---by conservation of mass and energy, neutron cannot be a component of proton.
The nucleus of every atom (except for hydrogen, obviously) is smaller than the sum of the masses of its nucleons. If your proof were valid, then they couldn't consist of the nucleons they consist of. The point is that the binding energy also contributes to the mass, and since the binding energy is negative (the bound state has less energy than the unbound state), this means it reduces the mass.
No, the ultimate proof that a neutron is not part of the proton are accelerator experiments which agree with the established theories where the proton is not a neutron with a positron.
If an OEM installs another media player out of the box (i.e. the computer as the user gets it plays videos just fine, it just doesn't use WMP for it), then the average user will have no incentive to download WMP.
The point is that OEMs using the N version don't need to sell the computer without any media player. They could bundle their computer with e.g. RealPlayer. Or with Quicktime. Or with whatever other mediaplayers there are under Windows.
This is completely independent from the problem of bundling other OSs. There are today many people who would choose Windows over another OS even if they had a free choice, however I doubt that there's a equal number of people who would choose WMP over any other media player. Therefore offering this choice on Windows is important, because MS has already an effective monopoly on the OS market, and tries to use it to get a monopoly on media playing.
Ok, then the hacker will have to compromise the network connection... how secure are NAT routers? Could a malicious software silently reprogram them from the PC to transparently translate the bank's IP numbers to the attacker's? Note that this wouldn't have to be done while Knoppix is running; do it while the normal (vulnerable) system is running, and then rely on the reprogrammed NAT router to silently re-route no matter how secure the system currently running on the PC is.
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Actually I do an instantaneous time travel into the future every night. I'm just relaxing in the evening, and then suddenly it happens to be morning, with no apparent time in between (Ok, sometimes I happen to go to some strange world in between, but the time I spend there is shorter than the night, so it's still a true time travel even in those cases).
Well, first sacrifice to the power deity. That is, switch off everything except your computer. This includes everything in your neighborhood, too (yes, your neighbours will get angry on you, but then, it's sacrificing, so it should hurt you a bit).
Then, sacrifice to the god of information. For example by burning one of your favourite book (books not available anymore work best).
And of course, you have to sacrifice to the goddess of fragmentation. After all, you de-fragment, so you should give her replacement fragments. Breaking an expensive glass will usually do. However, for heavily fragmented disks, you'll possibly have to break quite a few of them.
Note that there's no guarantee that the deities (all three of them!) will accept your sacrifices. Also, there's a chance that another deity will interrupt power due to some independent reason, so make sure that you please those other deities as well.
Bah, I want Linux on the toast!
I didn't know that infinity+1 = 404.
Microsoft buys Slashdot.
Linus Thorvalds buys Linux License from SCO.
Hubble Space Telecope observes Intergalactic Spaceship.
Space Probe Reveals: There is No Intelligent Life on Earth.
Harvard Researcher creates Dupe Detection Software. Soon to be Installed on Slashdot.
I don't believe you. :-)
No, the internet obviously needs more moral. However, contrary to current believe the problem is not that the people are so bad, but that there are simply no free implementations of moral around. All existing versions of moral come with quite stringent licensing conditions, and are usually controlled by big companies like the churches. As usual, any modification of the moral code by the user is disallowed. This is usually implemented directly into the moral (everything which contradicts the original version of the moral is considered immoral), making the moral vendors the first implementors of DRM schemes. So what is needed is an open source version of moral, where everyone is allowed not only to share their version of moral, but also to freely modify your own version.
Well, the typical release date for an open source project is "when it's ready". Therefore to be late means not to be released for some time despite being ready. How often does this happen?
$x^2? You mean they now take square dollars?
You misinterpreted. The groups were asked how many projects they have, and 95% of them didn't deliver that number on time.
Well, you know why there's a "Forever" in the name?
This is why it is a better idea to use makeashorterlink - they allow you to look at the URL before going there.
Here is the correct URL through makeashorterlink.
Well, a hack is a quick&dirty solution to a problem. This definitively was a quick&dirty solution to the problem of bad grades. Therefore it was a hack.
SCNR
Mandatory Access Control?
There's a difference between copying and plagiarism.
The nucleus of every atom (except for hydrogen, obviously) is smaller than the sum of the masses of its nucleons. If your proof were valid, then they couldn't consist of the nucleons they consist of. The point is that the binding energy also contributes to the mass, and since the binding energy is negative (the bound state has less energy than the unbound state), this means it reduces the mass.
No, the ultimate proof that a neutron is not part of the proton are accelerator experiments which agree with the established theories where the proton is not a neutron with a positron.
To look into the Program Segment Prefix? No, I don't think that's illegal ... :-)
... they implement the evil bit?
That project should probably consider a name change in order to avoid getting trademark problems due to this software.
y.ou s.ure.ly mea.nt ridi.culo.us!
If an OEM installs another media player out of the box (i.e. the computer as the user gets it plays videos just fine, it just doesn't use WMP for it), then the average user will have no incentive to download WMP.
The point is that OEMs using the N version don't need to sell the computer without any media player. They could bundle their computer with e.g. RealPlayer. Or with Quicktime. Or with whatever other mediaplayers there are under Windows.
This is completely independent from the problem of bundling other OSs. There are today many people who would choose Windows over another OS even if they had a free choice, however I doubt that there's a equal number of people who would choose WMP over any other media player. Therefore offering this choice on Windows is important, because MS has already an effective monopoly on the OS market, and tries to use it to get a monopoly on media playing.
Well, I have a nice hello world program I could sell you for just one million dollars. It is fully functional (prints "hello world" just fine).
Since you claimed to to take every functionality at all cost, I'm looking forward to getting your money.
Windows doesn't have fsck anyway. Try scandisk instead.
Ok, then the hacker will have to compromise the network connection ...
how secure are NAT routers? Could a malicious software silently reprogram them from the PC to transparently translate the bank's IP numbers to the attacker's? Note that this wouldn't have to be done while Knoppix is running; do it while the normal (vulnerable) system is running, and then rely on the reprogrammed NAT router to silently re-route no matter how secure the system currently running on the PC is.