Your argument is still hard for me to swallow. He was not telling people to commit a crime. He was asking them to do something which did indeed cause harm to someone else, true. However that harm was not severe, and could be easily mitigated. I just don't see how telling people to do something which is not a crime is a crime.
Fair enough. He encouraged others to do something which would harm the school district. So is organizing a massive write-in or phone-in campaign. It ties up resources for the target in all cases, but is still legal. The one exception to this is with regard to faxes (junk fax laws). It's up to the target to respond accordingly. He has the right to ask people to join in his campaign. Those people have a right to join him. Is he an asshole? absolutely. But dealing with assholes is a part of the cost of a free society.
Hmmm... Which is better at providing safe and cost-effective missions: the government or a private company?
On the one hand, being in a bidding situation forces companies to have a lid on their costs, while on the other it encourages said companies to cut corners whenever they can. If NASA were competently managed, then it would be obvious that outsourcing the missions would be silly. However NASA's management has some issues, so maybe this is the right move.
I purchased a CD, and have unlimited access to WAV files, FLAC, Ogg, vbr and 128k and 256k mp3s, and aac (drm-less). Unfortunately, if you order a physical CD from them, it comes with the label's cover etc, rather than album art.
The use of goto in this manner in the Linux kernel is used as a poor-mans exception, which C does't have, and use of goto in this manner is more common in C. It's a crummy way of doing your error handling, since it has all of the flaws of exceptions and hardly any of the benefits, as well as introducing a few flaws of its own
What about performance? Exceptions are slow, because they are allowed to travel between functions. A goto is a single instruction. Fast. An exception has to be constructed, then you have to go look up where the exception is supposed to go, then you have to execute a bunch of code that makes it safe across function boundaries, then you can make the jmp that you would have made.
you may as well just hash once to MD5 and once to SHA-1.
all it has to do is collide with MD5 or the two MD5 hashes have to collide with SHA-1. Or are you suggesting storing two hashes and verifying that both hashes match?
an IDE will show you unreachable code, not code that is never reached... int foo(int x) {
if(x <= 2) return 0;
int f = factorial(x);
if(isprime(f){return -1;}
return 1; }
That never returns -1, but a compiler can't know that
How else do you think they'll react when they'll expect a RFID signal and will get none?
They'll assume the RFID chip broke. It happens occasionally. My college has had RFID-based ID cards, and there have been instances when the cards just suddenly stop working. The office in charge of them seemed to know that this occured and was ready to make new cards if needed.
Well, the problem is that there are characters in unicode that in some/many fonts use the same glyph to display them. This means that a user can be sent to a phishing site by a site abusing IDN functionality to register a domain name that is visually identical to another site and then entice users to click on a link to go to it. That's why its a good idea to disable IDN.
That's an interesting idea, but unfortunately the regions are a bit too big to make that work. I can still go from Brazil to Argentina, or England to Germany, without region coding acting as a gatekeeper.
Also, many times the only differences between movies released in differnt regions are encoding (NTSC, PAL, etc.) and the language that the title is displayed in.
It references Title 17 Chapter 1 Section 106. Hence we see that making a copy is copyright infringement, and the copyright owner can take action against the copier. The content of an e-book is definitely copyrightable material. I'd quote statutes if you want it, but I don't think that's necessary.
However, that being the case, the individuals do have those rights, and the society must respect them
For a limited time. The right to control dsitribution should be limited by time. If the author doesn't publish the work, then it really isn't benefiting society.
Without imposing something rather severe, like universal, worldwide guidelines on how any archive must be run, compulsory registration by all archives with some centralised service, and the absolute right of any copyright owner to have their content removed from all archives just by providing proof of their copyright ownership to that service, it's hard to see how you can reconcile the basic right of a copyright holder with the desirability of allowing archiving where no-one objects.
Ugh. Copyright is not for keeping documents hidden. Copyright is for giving the author/artist a chance to profit from their work before other publishers get the chance to.
It's not the compiler's fault if the processor says that it supports a feature set and doesn't implement it properly. The proper behavior for runtime code path selection is to perform the CPUID call, then check for the specific features that are needed and seledct a code path based on that, and NOT based merely on the processor string. There's a reason that IA-32 has CPUID give you all that information about what features the chip supports. Then Intel decides to ignore that to unfairly hamstring all other chip makers
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right, but you only have to provide source code to others who you distribute to.
""High school graduate" is [a requirement]"
Well there goes the half of the MMO population that is in middle and high school!
(good riddance!)
doesn't a protest still block the street even if it's peaceful? a DOS doesn't cause permanent damage.
Your argument is still hard for me to swallow. He was not telling people to commit a crime. He was asking them to do something which did indeed cause harm to someone else, true. However that harm was not severe, and could be easily mitigated. I just don't see how telling people to do something which is not a crime is a crime.
Fair enough. He encouraged others to do something which would harm the school district. So is organizing a massive write-in or phone-in campaign. It ties up resources for the target in all cases, but is still legal. The one exception to this is with regard to faxes (junk fax laws). It's up to the target to respond accordingly. He has the right to ask people to join in his campaign. Those people have a right to join him. Is he an asshole? absolutely. But dealing with assholes is a part of the cost of a free society.
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Ilfak's patch required a reboot to start applying to new processes, rtffaq.
except they're not random people. You'd think they were your friends.
Hmmm... Which is better at providing safe and cost-effective missions: the government or a private company?
On the one hand, being in a bidding situation forces companies to have a lid on their costs, while on the other it encourages said companies to cut corners whenever they can. If NASA were competently managed, then it would be obvious that outsourcing the missions would be silly. However NASA's management has some issues, so maybe this is the right move.
You mean like these guys?
I purchased a CD, and have unlimited access to WAV files, FLAC, Ogg, vbr and 128k and 256k mp3s, and aac (drm-less). Unfortunately, if you order a physical CD from them, it comes with the label's cover etc, rather than album art.
I'll second the AC that replied to the post above this.
WHOOOSH!
What about performance? Exceptions are slow, because they are allowed to travel between functions. A goto is a single instruction. Fast. An exception has to be constructed, then you have to go look up where the exception is supposed to go, then you have to execute a bunch of code that makes it safe across function boundaries, then you can make the jmp that you would have made.
now I'm thinking about thinking about polar bears!
all it has to do is collide with MD5 or the two MD5 hashes have to collide with SHA-1. Or are you suggesting storing two hashes and verifying that both hashes match?
an IDE will show you unreachable code, not code that is never reached...
int foo(int x)
{
if(x <= 2) return 0;
int f = factorial(x);
if(isprime(f){return -1;}
return 1;
}
That never returns -1, but a compiler can't know that
I didn't believe the result when I ran it until I used javap to provide the necessary insight. Nice one.
How else do you think they'll react when they'll expect a RFID signal and will get none?
They'll assume the RFID chip broke. It happens occasionally. My college has had RFID-based ID cards, and there have been instances when the cards just suddenly stop working. The office in charge of them seemed to know that this occured and was ready to make new cards if needed.
Well, the problem is that there are characters in unicode that in some/many fonts use the same glyph to display them. This means that a user can be sent to a phishing site by a site abusing IDN functionality to register a domain name that is visually identical to another site and then entice users to click on a link to go to it. That's why its a good idea to disable IDN.
This is, of course, assuming slashdotters even click on links... how many even RTFA? ;)
As many a slashdotted site will tell you, slashdot readers RTFA. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of slashdot commenters in general.
That's an interesting idea, but unfortunately the regions are a bit too big to make that work. I can still go from Brazil to Argentina, or England to Germany, without region coding acting as a gatekeeper.
Also, many times the only differences between movies released in differnt regions are encoding (NTSC, PAL, etc.) and the language that the title is displayed in.
U.S.C. Title 17 Chapter 5
It references Title 17 Chapter 1 Section 106. Hence we see that making a copy is copyright infringement, and the copyright owner can take action against the copier. The content of an e-book is definitely copyrightable material. I'd quote statutes if you want it, but I don't think that's necessary.
Okay. I predict that based on your observations, the prediction in TFA is false. Continue on with your head explosion as planned.
For a limited time. The right to control dsitribution should be limited by time. If the author doesn't publish the work, then it really isn't benefiting society.
Ugh. Copyright is not for keeping documents hidden. Copyright is for giving the author/artist a chance to profit from their work before other publishers get the chance to.
It's not the compiler's fault if the processor says that it supports a feature set and doesn't implement it properly. The proper behavior for runtime code path selection is to perform the CPUID call, then check for the specific features that are needed and seledct a code path based on that, and NOT based merely on the processor string. There's a reason that IA-32 has CPUID give you all that information about what features the chip supports. Then Intel decides to ignore that to unfairly hamstring all other chip makers