I saw a film (possibly the minor Clint thriller 'The Eiger Sanction') where the hero puts on his headlights in daylight to make the car behind think he's braking. I've only tried it in the M6 fast lane once, and it seemed to scare the shit out of the impatient old couple in the following Landcruiser quite effectively. I'm not sure how I would have felt if I'd seen it swerve, flip over onto its roof and burst into flames, though.
Spam is a problem for everyone, secular or religious. Anti spam proposals can be justified in emotionally neutral terms, rather than being sold on an emotive ticket linking religion, porn and kids. Call me cynical, but whenever I hear this kind of rhetoric, there is invariably some assault on civil liberties going on under the surface.
A publically available database of addresses, all self-validated as belonging to real people in the world's richest country, will be prime spamming material to anyone outside the US.
From the fact sheet:
Anyone who sends spam to these
addresses will be subject to stiff fines. The database will be protected by military-caliber
encryption to ensure the protection of its contents.
Nonsense. How can the database be encrypted if all potential spammers are deemed to have notice of every address on it?
That's really going to irritate everyone in Kansas that fought to have evolutionary theories suppressed...
The case for evolution is already overwhelming to anyone who cares about evidence. The others consider it a virtue to believe what they believe in spite of the evidence. These discoveries probably won't change anybody's mind.
The press release is only about Porn targetted at children,
shouldn't that be unwanted email targeted at everybody??
As they stand, the proposals seem to target all spam, not just porn, although it's clear that the christians are in it to stop the porn. It makes me uneasy when reasonable people ally themselves with crazy people, even if the end is good. How long before some of the christians realise that the bill does nothing to combat the exchange of pornographic materials between consenting adults?
Wanking jokes aside, are RSI problems specifically associated with touch typing? I know how to type without looking at the keyboard, but I've never managed to get through the initial pain barrier until it becomes natural. I don't find it affects my productivity, except when I post to Slashdot. The problems I need to solve when programming are difficult enough that typing speed isn't a bottleneck.
Here's the mail I sent out:
<snip polite, non-zealous, informative mail>
Contrast this with RMS's version linked to in the article. Any reasonable person would respond positively to the parent poster's mail. Any reasonable person receiving RMS's mail would (i) forward it to their colleagues to laugh at (ii) reply with another, bigger Word attachment.
OK, OK. I've had a look at the disassembly. It's a buffer overflow accessing the stack pointer, etc, stuff not available in C and friends. Point taken.
Ahem, since this virus was clearly written in assemlber then they are actually publishing the source code.
How do you determine that a bit of machine code came from assembly rather than being the stripped, optimised output of some compiler for some high level language? It's not that I doubt you, I'm just curious.
The NY Post article says: "The code has been available - along with a patch for months." This can only mean the disassembly. Even if you're correct, it's still stretches the truth to claim to be publishing 'the source code', as opposed to 'some probably similar source code'.
GPS measurements have also allowed scientists to show that the UK is drifting about 2-3 cm each year in a north-easterly direction.
I disagree. The UK is only drifting north. Since we have no east or west pole, the east-west component of the velocity can only be stated relative to some other plate. We could just as well assert that the UK is stationary in the east-west direction, and the other plate is moving west.
Europe should simply wait a generation or two until creationist christians have complete control of the US government and education system. When the entire US public believes the sky to be an inverted bowl suspended over a flat earth, it will be safe to resume space travel.
You have old tools that require all options to be in front of filenames. SCO crap maybe?
$ grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.5
Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
In any event, use of the -r extension with GNU grep is (i) inefficient (ii) unportable. You should be using find & exec.
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This law only keeps unapproved information out of the hands of poor kids, who probably won't need it and can't be trusted to use it responsibly.
I didn't even know they'd made zebrafish yet, let alone coloured ones.
I saw a film (possibly the minor Clint thriller 'The Eiger Sanction') where the hero puts on his headlights in daylight to make the car behind think he's braking. I've only tried it in the M6 fast lane once, and it seemed to scare the shit out of the impatient old couple in the following Landcruiser quite effectively. I'm not sure how I would have felt if I'd seen it swerve, flip over onto its roof and burst into flames, though.
Good point. Mod grandparent down!
I was on a karma roll today, and thought I could do no wrong.
This complex set of interactions makes plasma a unique, fascinating, and complex state of matter.
Gases and liquids are different states of matter, both fluids.Spam is a problem for everyone, secular or religious. Anti spam proposals can be justified in emotionally neutral terms, rather than being sold on an emotive ticket linking religion, porn and kids. Call me cynical, but whenever I hear this kind of rhetoric, there is invariably some assault on civil liberties going on under the surface.
From the fact sheet:
Anyone who sends spam to these addresses will be subject to stiff fines. The database will be protected by military-caliber encryption to ensure the protection of its contents.
Nonsense. How can the database be encrypted if all potential spammers are deemed to have notice of every address on it?
That's really going to irritate everyone in Kansas that fought to have evolutionary theories suppressed...
The case for evolution is already overwhelming to anyone who cares about evidence. The others consider it a virtue to believe what they believe in spite of the evidence. These discoveries probably won't change anybody's mind.The press release is only about Porn targetted at children, shouldn't that be unwanted email targeted at everybody??
As they stand, the proposals seem to target all spam, not just porn, although it's clear that the christians are in it to stop the porn. It makes me uneasy when reasonable people ally themselves with crazy people, even if the end is good. How long before some of the christians realise that the bill does nothing to combat the exchange of pornographic materials between consenting adults?
It's pretty easy to knock something if you don't really understand it or appreciate it.
Do I need to understand and appreciate the koran before I condemn 9/11?Why don't they just pray it away?
Wanking jokes aside, are RSI problems specifically associated with touch typing? I know how to type without looking at the keyboard, but I've never managed to get through the initial pain barrier until it becomes natural. I don't find it affects my productivity, except when I post to Slashdot. The problems I need to solve when programming are difficult enough that typing speed isn't a bottleneck.
<snip polite, non-zealous, informative mail>
Contrast this with RMS's version linked to in the article. Any reasonable person would respond positively to the parent poster's mail. Any reasonable person receiving RMS's mail would (i) forward it to their colleagues to laugh at (ii) reply with another, bigger Word attachment.
'Buttress of the Microsoft monopoly' indeed!"yeah, we just landed... I think I'll grab a burger and be there in an hour... yada yada yada..."
They make calls about free NY Times registration?OK, OK. I've had a look at the disassembly. It's a buffer overflow accessing the stack pointer, etc, stuff not available in C and friends. Point taken.
Ahem, since this virus was clearly written in assemlber then they are actually publishing the source code.
How do you determine that a bit of machine code came from assembly rather than being the stripped, optimised output of some compiler for some high level language? It's not that I doubt you, I'm just curious.The NY Post article says: "The code has been available - along with a patch for months." This can only mean the disassembly. Even if you're correct, it's still stretches the truth to claim to be publishing 'the source code', as opposed to 'some probably similar source code'.
No, they will publish the assembly code. Not the same thing.
His best example is the thicket of radio patents that entangled the baby radio industry
Baby radios are a fucking stupid idea. I'd rather listen to country and western, even.
Vf^2 - Vi^2 = 2ad
This formula assumes constant deceleration. However, aerodynamic drag (and hence deceleration) is proportional to the square of the velocity.
Seven astronauts lost their lives in this tragedy and all of the posts I've seen are dumb-assed jokes.
Compared to Challenger, this shuttle loss has been notable for its lack of jokes.GPS measurements have also allowed scientists to show that the UK is drifting about 2-3 cm each year in a north-easterly direction.
I disagree. The UK is only drifting north. Since we have no east or west pole, the east-west component of the velocity can only be stated relative to some other plate. We could just as well assert that the UK is stationary in the east-west direction, and the other plate is moving west.
I'd like to remind you of the fact that even though NASA is very glad to have won the race to the moon, there was no such thing.
Some respected commentators would dispute this 'fact', for example James Oberg.
Europe should simply wait a generation or two until creationist christians have complete control of the US government and education system. When the entire US public believes the sky to be an inverted bowl suspended over a flat earth, it will be safe to resume space travel.
You have old tools that require all options to be in front of filenames. SCO crap maybe?
$ grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.5
Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
In any event, use of the -r extension with GNU grep is (i) inefficient (ii) unportable. You should be using find & exec.