Disney, like any company whose product requires creativity, goes through cycles. Recall that from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, they were heavily dependent on their theme park income while their movie studios were putting out bomb after bomb after bomb. Until they acquired New Line, their best live-action movie was 1976's Freaky Friday. They had movies with laugh tracks, for Ghod's pointy sake. BTW their was an unbelievable shit storm over Jodie Foster's simultanious appearance as a teen prostitute in Taxi Driver.
From 1967's Jungle Book until 1989's The Little Mermaid, their animation studio was churning out some pretty sorry stuff, and both of those two hits were based on works that had fallen into the public domain.
The Disney company is only good at adaptation; in other words, at ripping off and distributing other people's stuff. Pirates is based on a theme park ride, itself an amalgamation of public domain stories. When they finally do create something, they work very hard at protecting it, so they can exploit it for generations to come. Witness, for example, their role in lobbying for hundred-year copyrights. Their corporate culture simply doesn't allow for creativity or other forms of risk-taking.
A intermediate-grade script kiddie finds the source to a virus that does three things: (a) spread, (b), DoS a particular web site, and (c), set up the victim as a zombie. He's interested in (a) and (b), but too lazy or too unskilled to cut out (c). So he changes the DoS URL to litigious bastards, makes a couple of social engineering twiddles (changing the body text, putting the cargo in an attached.zip file), and sends it on its merry way, not caring at all what holes it opens on targeted machines, so long as it DoSes SCO.
Of course, the bottom-feeding spammers don't mind that there are newly-vulnerable machines out there...
Just a theory. Occam's Razor suggests you are more likely right than I.
"Literally" does not add emphasis like "totally" or "really really". It means "to be taken in a literal sense". Yes, yes, ESL issues give Linus some forgiveness points, but still.
If you literally wrote a tool, that means you took a pen and deposited ink on some paper. And the person who says "I'm an hour late for lunch---I'm literally starving to death" needs to be walled up alive so they appreciate the difference.
Almost a century ago, a patent attorney named George B. Selden sued Ford Motor Company, claiming he held the patent on the automobile. When Henry Ford laughed in his face, he started demanding licence fees from owners of Fords, Cadillacs, and other cars. An abridged story of the legal battle is here, although Googling for "Selden Ford patent" brings up other goodies.
I abandoned Clancy for Pratchett a long, long time ago, but I see your point <g>.
You can't supply a universal backup patch that works in all situations, with all software, etc.
I can if we reach a sufficient degree of software homogenization. The Irish Potato Famine makes for a good analogy, I think.
I don't have to destroy absolutely everything. If I manage to destroy 50% of everything, I'll call it a day.
Paranoid thinking is occasionally a good habit. Bear in mind that the September 11 attacks were planned for about two years and exploited vulnerabilities in a homogeneous but fairly complex security system.
OK, a couple of things. First, "it disrupts backup systems". Riiiight. So this Flaw in 'the internet infrastructure' can also get to tape backups in safes? OH NOS!!!1!
You disrupt backup systems by perverting the backups as they are being made.
Break into the system.
Install your rootkit or whatever.
Install a patch on the backup and restore procedures. A backup made with the backup patch in place cannot be restored unless the restore patch is in place.
Wait a couple of months.
Use the rootkit to attack.
During the attack, remove the patch from the restore procedure, preventing restores from existing backups.
Seems pretty straightforward to me, aside from the fact that "Digital Pearl Harbor" ain't gonna happen at all. And is it just me that has a hard time typing "pearl" instead of "perl"?
Yeah. Remember how at 12:01 AM on January 1, 2000, all the lights went out, then it began to get cold?
In my case I was trying to dance around in the front yard with my shirt off but it got stuck pulling it over my head. Then I fell down. Remember how at 12:01 AM on January 1, 2000, all the lights went out,then it began to get cold, and you skinned your elbow?
I don't know which is worse: your regionalist prejudices or the regionalist prejudices of whoever thinks you are "insightful" or "interesting". At least two Texas high schools have devils as their mascots if Google is to be trusted; why would they have devils as their mascots if they are as ignorant as you have demonstrated yourself to be?
Congratulations on your degree. You are right to be proud of your accomplishment, but it's an accomplishment you share with tens of millions of others, so stop being so goddamned arrogant. In a competitive field where a college degree is an entry requirement, you are at the bottom rung of the career ladder. Very few companies are going to trust you with anything other than entry level work before giving you the opportunity to undertake some real challenges.
Also, you must reexamine how you are conducting your job search. You should have started your job hunt at least half a year before graduation. In the meantime, you are complaining bitterly after only a month of searching. You are ignoring possibilities outside your narrow criteria. You are job hunting with your ego rather than with a realistic view of how marketable your skills and background actually are. You are "firing off resumes" instead of searching for a job. Get a copy of What Color Is Your Parachute, read it, and apply its suggestions. Finally, quit acting like your shit don't stink, because plenty prospective employers could wipe their asses with your diploma for what it's worth to them without at least some real industry experience to back it up.
Microsoft Excel has at least one Easter egg in it: you go to a particular cell and enter a particular equation, and the cell recalculates to an obviously absurd value. Microsoft did this to bust people who attempt to appropriate MS binaries and libraries.
Probably the whole tradition came from phone books, maps, and other databases having bogus values in them to catch unscrupulous competitors.
I write some code. I copyright it. You use it in your product. What makes you think I can't sue you for infringing on my copyright?
The GPL says that I will let you use my code in any manner you choose, so long as you agree to distribute source code along with your product. If you don't, you are using the code without my permission, because I have not placed my code in the public domain.
I've had stove/ovens with all the controls behind the cooktop with no problem. Electric ranges, of course, including the flattop style in this house. Still, the less leaning, the better: the controls be on the front edge of the range, say a glidepad and clickbutton.
Water mist from whatever dish you're cooking tends to carry particles of oil with it. The condensate lands on a surface, then evaporates, leaving the oil behind. You probably won't get splatter that far up, but you will inevitably get a film of difficult-to-remove oil residue. The "smart" thing (assuming that the LCD is smart at all) is to put it behind a glass panel.
An LCD could have certain applications: first (and most important), so you can have Emeril going "Bam!" with you as you cook. Next, and most obvious, is having recipes up there. But imagine having interactive recipes right there: One recipe per dish, timers for each dish. Timers for each step! You hit "okay" just after you've added the noodles to the boiling water, and the system turns the stove down for you to a simmer, and counts the twenty minutes to when you need to stir in the flavor packet. Then it shuts the stove off.
There is a certain sense of urgency in solving military problems. In that domain, requirements documents imply "...or many people will die". In a corporate environment, the requirements imply "...or we'll have to keep doing it the old way".
Then add to that "...and if it screws up even the slightest bit, under any circumstance, in such a way as to so much as hurt somebody's feelings, we're screwed." In that regard, the military provides a hell of a test bed for high-risk, high-concept toys, well away from the prying eyes of trial lawyers. Adaptive cruise control probably could not have been developed in a liability-conscious environment like, well, the real world. Without years in the hands of testers who knew enough about personal responsibility to be entrusted with extremely fickle multimillion dollar jets, your ludicrous SUV would be that much harder to drive inattentively. A decade keeping jet fighters about a meter from each other at supersonic speeds refined the product to the point it could be implemented in an environment that, while far more mundane, is far more expensive to fuck up in.
Can't remember what version of fileutils I was using when this happened. In the 4.0 version of GNU fileutils
ls -aR.*
happily recurses everything below.., but doesn't look for../.. so it appears one can only partially ruin things that way anymore. Without RTFS I'm only guessing ls and rm follow the same recursion rules.
For those of you playing along at home, the.* in rm -rf.* includes.. as well, and.. just happens to contain a directory called.., and hey, you did just happen to ask rm to recurse...
When AOL-Time-Warner slurps up some tiny record label and acquires all its copyrights, they can sure as hell go after that label's bootleggers, even if the infringement started well before the acquisition, hell, even if the tiny label encouraged bootlegging as a way to promote their bands!
Where SCO messed up seems to be that Amendment 2 only transfers those copyrights SCO needs in order to sell or market the product. Novell says this does not mean SCO bought copyrights on the source code. SCO says it does, of course. If SCO is wrong, then we can laugh at them even harder than we already are; if SCO is right, well, they are still going to march this band right off the end of the pier.
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Fluffee.
Disney, like any company whose product requires creativity, goes through cycles. Recall that from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, they were heavily dependent on their theme park income while their movie studios were putting out bomb after bomb after bomb. Until they acquired New Line, their best live-action movie was 1976's Freaky Friday. They had movies with laugh tracks, for Ghod's pointy sake. BTW their was an unbelievable shit storm over Jodie Foster's simultanious appearance as a teen prostitute in Taxi Driver.
From 1967's Jungle Book until 1989's The Little Mermaid, their animation studio was churning out some pretty sorry stuff, and both of those two hits were based on works that had fallen into the public domain.
The Disney company is only good at adaptation; in other words, at ripping off and distributing other people's stuff. Pirates is based on a theme park ride, itself an amalgamation of public domain stories. When they finally do create something, they work very hard at protecting it, so they can exploit it for generations to come. Witness, for example, their role in lobbying for hundred-year copyrights. Their corporate culture simply doesn't allow for creativity or other forms of risk-taking.
A intermediate-grade script kiddie finds the source to a virus that does three things: (a) spread, (b), DoS a particular web site, and (c), set up the victim as a zombie. He's interested in (a) and (b), but too lazy or too unskilled to cut out (c). So he changes the DoS URL to litigious bastards, makes a couple of social engineering twiddles (changing the body text, putting the cargo in an attached .zip file), and sends it on its merry way, not caring at all what holes it opens on targeted machines, so long as it DoSes SCO.
Of course, the bottom-feeding spammers don't mind that there are newly-vulnerable machines out there...
Just a theory. Occam's Razor suggests you are more likely right than I.
If you literally wrote a tool, that means you took a pen and deposited ink on some paper. And the person who says "I'm an hour late for lunch---I'm literally starving to death" needs to be walled up alive so they appreciate the difference.
This literally pisses me off.
Does this sound familiar to anybody?
The banner ad on the page was for the BMW X3. You think Mercedes paid for it to be there?
Of course this is a haiku contest: an "Obfuscated Perl" contest would be basically redundant.
I abandoned Clancy for Pratchett a long, long time ago, but I see your point <g>.
I can if we reach a sufficient degree of software homogenization. The Irish Potato Famine makes for a good analogy, I think.
I don't have to destroy absolutely everything. If I manage to destroy 50% of everything, I'll call it a day.
Paranoid thinking is occasionally a good habit. Bear in mind that the September 11 attacks were planned for about two years and exploited vulnerabilities in a homogeneous but fairly complex security system.
You disrupt backup systems by perverting the backups as they are being made.
Seems pretty straightforward to me, aside from the fact that "Digital Pearl Harbor" ain't gonna happen at all. And is it just me that has a hard time typing "pearl" instead of "perl"?
In my case I was trying to dance around in the front yard with my shirt off but it got stuck pulling it over my head. Then I fell down. Remember how at 12:01 AM on January 1, 2000, all the lights went out,then it began to get cold, and you skinned your elbow?
I don't know which is worse: your regionalist prejudices or the regionalist prejudices of whoever thinks you are "insightful" or "interesting". At least two Texas high schools have devils as their mascots if Google is to be trusted; why would they have devils as their mascots if they are as ignorant as you have demonstrated yourself to be?
Because when people see a picture of Bill Gates, they pretty much assume they're getting a Microsoft product.
Also, you must reexamine how you are conducting your job search. You should have started your job hunt at least half a year before graduation. In the meantime, you are complaining bitterly after only a month of searching. You are ignoring possibilities outside your narrow criteria. You are job hunting with your ego rather than with a realistic view of how marketable your skills and background actually are. You are "firing off resumes" instead of searching for a job. Get a copy of What Color Is Your Parachute, read it, and apply its suggestions. Finally, quit acting like your shit don't stink, because plenty prospective employers could wipe their asses with your diploma for what it's worth to them without at least some real industry experience to back it up.
They have been told to put up or shut up. The defendant, not the government, has to make the demand.
That's because "Dear Shit-for-Brains" is the more accurate salutation.
Probably the whole tradition came from phone books, maps, and other databases having bogus values in them to catch unscrupulous competitors.
I write some code. I copyright it. You use it in your product. What makes you think I can't sue you for infringing on my copyright?
The GPL says that I will let you use my code in any manner you choose, so long as you agree to distribute source code along with your product. If you don't, you are using the code without my permission, because I have not placed my code in the public domain.
I've had stove/ovens with all the controls behind the cooktop with no problem. Electric ranges, of course, including the flattop style in this house. Still, the less leaning, the better: the controls be on the front edge of the range, say a glidepad and clickbutton.
An LCD could have certain applications: first (and most important), so you can have Emeril going "Bam!" with you as you cook. Next, and most obvious, is having recipes up there. But imagine having interactive recipes right there: One recipe per dish, timers for each dish. Timers for each step! You hit "okay" just after you've added the noodles to the boiling water, and the system turns the stove down for you to a simmer, and counts the twenty minutes to when you need to stir in the flavor packet. Then it shuts the stove off.
Then add to that "...and if it screws up even the slightest bit, under any circumstance, in such a way as to so much as hurt somebody's feelings, we're screwed." In that regard, the military provides a hell of a test bed for high-risk, high-concept toys, well away from the prying eyes of trial lawyers. Adaptive cruise control probably could not have been developed in a liability-conscious environment like, well, the real world. Without years in the hands of testers who knew enough about personal responsibility to be entrusted with extremely fickle multimillion dollar jets, your ludicrous SUV would be that much harder to drive inattentively. A decade keeping jet fighters about a meter from each other at supersonic speeds refined the product to the point it could be implemented in an environment that, while far more mundane, is far more expensive to fuck up in.
ls -aR .*
happily recurses everything below .., but doesn't look for ../.. so it appears one can only partially ruin things that way anymore. Without RTFS I'm only guessing ls and rm follow the same recursion rules.
For those of you playing along at home, the .* in rm -rf .* includes .. as well, and .. just happens to contain a directory called .., and hey, you did just happen to ask rm to recurse...
ca::ctrlaltdel:/usr/bin/logger -is -p alert "ctrl-alt-del pressed"
now or what a qualified sysadmin would say is the equivalent.
Where SCO messed up seems to be that Amendment 2 only transfers those copyrights SCO needs in order to sell or market the product. Novell says this does not mean SCO bought copyrights on the source code. SCO says it does, of course. If SCO is wrong, then we can laugh at them even harder than we already are; if SCO is right, well, they are still going to march this band right off the end of the pier.