Come to Canada, particularly BC. We're getting police enforcement cut, but an extra (at least) 100 officers coming into "traffic patrol" next year, coincidentally also when speednig fines are supposed to take a big jump.
Men aren't offended by the "men are useful with tools," or other such things implied by a gift of tools, in fact they're useful.
A gift that, alternately, implies a woman's place is at home cleaning might be bad depending on the woman. Other things such as cooking pots are usually taboo, but my mother was very pleased to get a new stove.
Even a guy might be slightly offended if he received power tools and a broad hint that "now you can more easily fix XYZ that I've been biatching at you about for the last month"
I think that we need a "no shit sherlock" category here. Somebody has to say it, but isn't it bloody annoying when one nerd assumes that his/her values apply to all the rest of nerdome?
Some of us like games, some like anime, some like cartoons such as the simpsons. No nerds are all alike, and the grandparent should be ashamed of assuming thus.
Maybe we should add that comment to the simpsons ticker:
Newsflash: Nerds like the simpsons... George bush really Kodos in disguise...
There are API functions that would allow one to build a shell that handles this and many other functions. I remember writing a problem that allowed me to telnet to a remote machine, and one command would acquire a list of process name-ID combos, allowing me a custom "kill (PID)" or "killall (NAME)", although of course if didn't detect certain child processes, still showed more than Process Manager
Haven't tried rsync, but "cp -vfr" works nicely, don't need -a really since I'm just copying winblows drives.
The drive truncation was what I was figuring what would happen, but thanks for confirming (although in some cases I've noticed that winblows doesn't properly recognise when 'nix resizes its partitions).
Interesting applications (or frightening ones depending on where you come down on the security vs. privacy thing:
You have to consider that almost anything can be abused, and in many cases the worst are the ones that we aren't prepared for. I'd say this is no more threatening than many other methods out there.
Einstein didn't predict the nuclear bomb, though it certainly made him regret his contributions
All the above has a history of evilness, apple might just be breaking into the market now (though I'm hoping that this is just delay and not profiteering on their part)
The highest bidder gets the most prominent ads... and remember, in this case it's not a bug, it's a feature!
However, I could just see the fun that covert shopping-cart-mod hackers would have with these.
"Geeze, don't buy that brand of toilet paper, it's rip yer a**hole up."
or, more appropriately
"Extra large size condom eh? I'd suggest you go with the slim-fit there bub!"
There's a common cause that both large organizations and inviduals share alike when it comes to lawsuits. From soccer mom to university... that common cause is money. And even with a board of directors, the discussion is probably not so much as "do you think we're in the right to sue," as "do you think we'll win/profit?"
I'm a happy morphix user. They've got distros with games (linux games incl on disc), for games (Wine for windoze games configured), and for general light/heavy GUI stuff. I've passed out a few Morphix LightGUI discs at work. They came in most handy when two servers inexplicably had/usr and/etc nuked by a script following bad symlinks. Bootup up, got on the net, mounted drives (SCSI even), and copied the files from another very similar machine with no fuss.
I've also used it to copy over a bad windows drive to a good one, mounting both drives and doing a good ol' "cp -vfr/mnt/hdb1/*/mnt/hda1" (wonder if "dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/hda1" would work too?). Otherwise, I'd have to hook both up to a windows machine with a third bootable drive in order to avoid "file in use" errors.
A fine under $1000 is painful to many normal individuals. But a fine of $1000 is meaningless to many large operators.
It's fine to say that spam is low-damage, but if it were $10/email you wouldn't get anywhere unless you collected together an awful lot of individuals in a class-action against the spammer.
If you could wrangle $300 worth of your time from a spammer easily, it might satisfy you, but it wouldn't help the problem.
Oh, and we're not just questioning the RIAA's action of suing people, the real root of it is whether the DCMA is a violation of people's rights, especially in reference to seizure of personal info without a court warrant.
But nonetheless, a blanket fine of $2,000,000 against a filesharer is stupid, and so is a $25 fine against a spammer for spamming.
It's called a "Joe Job", and it's easy to do. Maybe a spammer doesn't like it when company XYZ calls to complain about the emails they've been getting. Therefore, next time around said spammer uses XYZ as the return address and also spams out "Buy product X from company XYZ" to the annoyance of thousands.
Now, XYZ was never involved in spam, but if they were charged we've got a bunch of emails with their business name on it, and maybe even a phone-record that they called the spamming "advertiser" (even though the call was actually to complain).
Among them, there is restitution (making amends, usually paying back), but another purpose is deterrence, and well as punitive purposes.
These fines are intended to server as a punitive measure, as well as a deterrent from further such actions from the charged as well as others with similar ideas - which is what we want to help in stopping spam.
Indeed, who gets to choose what equates harm. For many lighter things, most people would equate it to a pleasant experience. I have a pierced ear, should that have been illegal, since in most cases the basic concept of perforating one's body could be considered "damage" or "harm."
Hell... judging from past experience eating bean burritos with a few glasses of beer should be harmful... the aftereffects are much less pleasant than many other things
But you could, perhaps, make it do an automatic but thourough lookup of the infected domain, attempt to determine the associated admin email, and fire off an email to said admin.
If attacks persist from a host after a month, then perhaps a flag for an automatic response would be appropriate
Winamp asks for certain info the first time you run it after install, but I've not had it bug me afterwards (unless perhaps the weblet is on). Maybe you have some odd plugins installed?
I wonder about how long these things will work without maintenance before they clog up. I mean, nice summer day, clean roads, it will be fine. But throw in some dirt+rain=mud, or even snow, and they aren't going to last long. The article is sitting on "Loading" still so I guess that I won't be able to check up on the article, but I'd it a somewhat safe assumption that the devices have to be somewhat near ground-level in order to pick up significant readings.
Granted, I definately agree that "have" should be replaced with "use" (as in on traffic lights). And "irresponsible use" should in fact cover using them on systems intended for emergency personnel only.
Much the same way you can have a red flashing police-type light for your bedroom, but not your car (unless perhaps your car is your bedroom, but that's another story)
I think in this case it is the case of a badly configured light. My idea in catching "false positives" with the camera angle would be to take note of people that occur multiple times or freqeuently enough to indicate they are zapping the signal - this should halt incidental changes.
As per the light themselves, I think they do have technical issues at times, as I have heard of an accident where one flipped straight from Red to Green (the claimant was found at-fault as the insurance company didn't believe this, but I did see the light do this once in a seperate incident). I would recommend fixing the system first, but also issuing warnings about abuse once it is secured properly.
A lot of people discussing the benefits/drawbacks of circuits on paper. I am just wondering though, would it not be possible to print to thin paper-like substances, but something not made from pulped-dead-tree. Are there any plasticy substances you can print to? I know that inkjets used to be friendly to some forms of overhead-projector sheets (the transparent ones), how about lasers?
Would any of these make a better medium for circuits?
Oh, and I think this would be even more useful on a photocopier. Just dry/print a diagram of a circuit, and use the copier to product them in functional format.
I think that there's a danger in any particular distribution of linux gaining too much market, particularly the more commercial ones. Commercial-driver-development has been quite telling in the area of distro-preference, with RedHat (and actually, quite often SuSe already) being the common distros supported by hardware vendors?
What does that mean to me? A lot of hardware comes touted as "supports linux," but when you really get down to it and read the accompanying docs, it means "supports RedHat" or "supports SuSe" and not any others without large amount of hassle. Because of this, it just gets harder for other distros to gain power or popularity in the market, because of the old cycle (and where have we heard this before): users won't use it 'cause it doesn't work (well/easily) on their hardware. Vendors won't fully support it until the user-base increases.
I'd like to see SuSe trim the edges off RedHat a bit, and hopefully some of the distros catch up as well (Debian, or debian-based such as knoppix/morphix). If there were at least a few more major players in the linux market, perhaps we might see more source or at least non-packager-specific (RPM) drivers/etc.
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Come to Canada, particularly BC. We're getting police enforcement cut, but an extra (at least) 100 officers coming into "traffic patrol" next year, coincidentally also when speednig fines are supposed to take a big jump.
Men aren't offended by the "men are useful with tools," or other such things implied by a gift of tools, in fact they're useful.
A gift that, alternately, implies a woman's place is at home cleaning might be bad depending on the woman. Other things such as cooking pots are usually taboo, but my mother was very pleased to get a new stove.
Even a guy might be slightly offended if he received power tools and a broad hint that "now you can more easily fix XYZ that I've been biatching at you about for the last month"
I think that we need a "no shit sherlock" category here. Somebody has to say it, but isn't it bloody annoying when one nerd assumes that his/her values apply to all the rest of nerdome?
Some of us like games, some like anime, some like cartoons such as the simpsons. No nerds are all alike, and the grandparent should be ashamed of assuming thus.
Maybe we should add that comment to the simpsons ticker:
Newsflash: Nerds like the simpsons... George bush really Kodos in disguise...
Erm.... I think that the content in itself should have been enough to distinguish the article as parody.
There are API functions that would allow one to build a shell that handles this and many other functions. I remember writing a problem that allowed me to telnet to a remote machine, and one command would acquire a list of process name-ID combos, allowing me a custom "kill (PID)" or "killall (NAME)", although of course if didn't detect certain child processes, still showed more than Process Manager
Haven't tried rsync, but "cp -vfr" works nicely, don't need -a really since I'm just copying winblows drives.
The drive truncation was what I was figuring what would happen, but thanks for confirming (although in some cases I've noticed that winblows doesn't properly recognise when 'nix resizes its partitions).
Interesting applications (or frightening ones depending on where you come down on the security vs. privacy thing:
You have to consider that almost anything can be abused, and in many cases the worst are the ones that we aren't prepared for. I'd say this is no more threatening than many other methods out there.
Einstein didn't predict the nuclear bomb, though it certainly made him regret his contributions
I've coated the whole motherboard with SPF-50 sunblock. Ain't none of that darn sun radiation gonna get my computer.
If anyone needs me I'll be out back holding my hotdog-on-a-stick up real high...
p.s. Anyone else smell coconut burning?
But what will we use to clean the frontpage-generated code?
All the above has a history of evilness, apple might just be breaking into the market now (though I'm hoping that this is just delay and not profiteering on their part)
The highest bidder gets the most prominent ads... and remember, in this case it's not a bug, it's a feature!
However, I could just see the fun that covert shopping-cart-mod hackers would have with these.
"Geeze, don't buy that brand of toilet paper, it's rip yer a**hole up."
or, more appropriately
"Extra large size condom eh? I'd suggest you go with the slim-fit there bub!"
With a screw loose, a vendetta, a hidden agenda, or some other complex. How hard would it be to loose a modified version of this virus?
Think nuclear weapons are scary, how about something that kills 100% and fits in a vial smaller than an inch long?
You're putting a lot of faith in people you've never met if you believe this isn't going to have possible consequences.
There's a common cause that both large organizations and inviduals share alike when it comes to lawsuits. From soccer mom to university... that common cause is money. And even with a board of directors, the discussion is probably not so much as "do you think we're in the right to sue," as "do you think we'll win/profit?"
Money is a great motivator in the legal world
I'm a happy morphix user. They've got distros with games (linux games incl on disc), for games (Wine for windoze games configured), and for general light/heavy GUI stuff. I've passed out a few Morphix LightGUI discs at work. They came in most handy when two servers inexplicably had /usr and /etc nuked by a script following bad symlinks. Bootup up, got on the net, mounted drives (SCSI even), and copied the files from another very similar machine with no fuss.
/mnt/hdb1/* /mnt/hda1" (wonder if "dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/hda1" would work too?). Otherwise, I'd have to hook both up to a windows machine with a third bootable drive in order to avoid "file in use" errors.
I've also used it to copy over a bad windows drive to a good one, mounting both drives and doing a good ol' "cp -vfr
A fine under $1000 is painful to many normal individuals. But a fine of $1000 is meaningless to many large operators.
It's fine to say that spam is low-damage, but if it were $10/email you wouldn't get anywhere unless you collected together an awful lot of individuals in a class-action against the spammer.
If you could wrangle $300 worth of your time from a spammer easily, it might satisfy you, but it wouldn't help the problem.
Oh, and we're not just questioning the RIAA's action of suing people, the real root of it is whether the DCMA is a violation of people's rights, especially in reference to seizure of personal info without a court warrant.
But nonetheless, a blanket fine of $2,000,000 against a filesharer is stupid, and so is a $25 fine against a spammer for spamming.
It's called a "Joe Job", and it's easy to do. Maybe a spammer doesn't like it when company XYZ calls to complain about the emails they've been getting. Therefore, next time around said spammer uses XYZ as the return address and also spams out "Buy product X from company XYZ" to the annoyance of thousands.
Now, XYZ was never involved in spam, but if they were charged we've got a bunch of emails with their business name on it, and maybe even a phone-record that they called the spamming "advertiser" (even though the call was actually to complain).
Among them, there is restitution (making amends, usually paying back), but another purpose is deterrence, and well as punitive purposes.
These fines are intended to server as a punitive measure, as well as a deterrent from further such actions from the charged as well as others with similar ideas - which is what we want to help in stopping spam.
Indeed, who gets to choose what equates harm. For many lighter things, most people would equate it to a pleasant experience. I have a pierced ear, should that have been illegal, since in most cases the basic concept of perforating one's body could be considered "damage" or "harm."
Hell... judging from past experience eating bean burritos with a few glasses of beer should be harmful... the aftereffects are much less pleasant than many other things
But you could, perhaps, make it do an automatic but thourough lookup of the infected domain, attempt to determine the associated admin email, and fire off an email to said admin.
If attacks persist from a host after a month, then perhaps a flag for an automatic response would be appropriate
Winamp asks for certain info the first time you run it after install, but I've not had it bug me afterwards (unless perhaps the weblet is on). Maybe you have some odd plugins installed?
I wonder about how long these things will work without maintenance before they clog up. I mean, nice summer day, clean roads, it will be fine. But throw in some dirt+rain=mud, or even snow, and they aren't going to last long. The article is sitting on "Loading" still so I guess that I won't be able to check up on the article, but I'd it a somewhat safe assumption that the devices have to be somewhat near ground-level in order to pick up significant readings.
Granted, I definately agree that "have" should be replaced with "use" (as in on traffic lights). And "irresponsible use" should in fact cover using them on systems intended for emergency personnel only.
Much the same way you can have a red flashing police-type light for your bedroom, but not your car (unless perhaps your car is your bedroom, but that's another story)
I think in this case it is the case of a badly configured light. My idea in catching "false positives" with the camera angle would be to take note of people that occur multiple times or freqeuently enough to indicate they are zapping the signal - this should halt incidental changes.
As per the light themselves, I think they do have technical issues at times, as I have heard of an accident where one flipped straight from Red to Green (the claimant was found at-fault as the insurance company didn't believe this, but I did see the light do this once in a seperate incident). I would recommend fixing the system first, but also issuing warnings about abuse once it is secured properly.
A lot of people discussing the benefits/drawbacks of circuits on paper. I am just wondering though, would it not be possible to print to thin paper-like substances, but something not made from pulped-dead-tree. Are there any plasticy substances you can print to? I know that inkjets used to be friendly to some forms of overhead-projector sheets (the transparent ones), how about lasers?
Would any of these make a better medium for circuits?
Oh, and I think this would be even more useful on a photocopier. Just dry/print a diagram of a circuit, and use the copier to product them in functional format.
I think that there's a danger in any particular distribution of linux gaining too much market, particularly the more commercial ones. Commercial-driver-development has been quite telling in the area of distro-preference, with RedHat (and actually, quite often SuSe already) being the common distros supported by hardware vendors?
What does that mean to me? A lot of hardware comes touted as "supports linux," but when you really get down to it and read the accompanying docs, it means "supports RedHat" or "supports SuSe" and not any others without large amount of hassle. Because of this, it just gets harder for other distros to gain power or popularity in the market, because of the old cycle (and where have we heard this before): users won't use it 'cause it doesn't work (well/easily) on their hardware. Vendors won't fully support it until the user-base increases.
I'd like to see SuSe trim the edges off RedHat a bit, and hopefully some of the distros catch up as well (Debian, or debian-based such as knoppix/morphix). If there were at least a few more major players in the linux market, perhaps we might see more source or at least non-packager-specific (RPM) drivers/etc.