What are your thoughts -- do Firefox and the open source community welcome this kind of analysis?
I would think the answer would be "yes, absolutely so."
Personally I've always thought people should make more extensive use of these kinds of automated code analysis tools. When there are classes of problems that can be found using fairly mechanical means that can be programmatically driven, it just makes sense to do so, IMO.
When does this war end? Do I *ever* get my right to privacy back?
It can't end, because it never started. It doesn't even make sense to talk about being at war with "Terror" when Terror is just an abstract concept. Nations go to war with each other; they don't declare war on a concept. It's all about as stupid as the "War on Drugs" or the "War on Poverty."
This "war" is just a way to promote hysteria, keep the population in a state of fear and allow for more government control.
Who cares? Humans are doomed anyway, in the long term, so why worry about one specific interval in time? I mean, either the universe is going to expand forever and die of heat death, or it's going to collapse into a singularity. Either case will surely destroy any living creatures...
Since when cant we videotape what happens on OUR OWN FUCKING PROPERTY?
Since we all forgot that we are sovereign individuals, and not subjects of any nation-state or government; since we all began to accept that the government has some intrinsic authority which overrules our own sovereignty; since we all began to believe that we answer to the government, instead of them answering to us; since we all forgot that we are EXACTLY as free as we CHOOSE to be; since we all forgot that we have as much freedom as we choose to have and are willing to defend.
I don't personally think there will ever be a time when it's "right" to make such a game.
But, free speech rights trump my personal sense of morality, dignity, whatever; so if they want to make it, more power to 'em. I won't be buying it though, and I hope nobody else does either.
this discussion... EVERY time this comes up on slashdot, people make the same stupid assumptions and generalizations and trot out the same tired lines.
".. those who don't' have experience or can't "do", get certified...""
Yes, I'm sure they do... but SO DO plenty of people who CAN "do." This is not an "either / or" situation people, where you either have experience, are smart/talented/whatever, OR you get certified. Some very smart, talented people realize that *some* employers do put significant weight on paper credentials, and choose to get certified as just one more part of the overall picture.
Evaluating job candidates is, at best, very difficult... any tool that give an employer any visibility into a candidates abilities is a Good Thing, IMO. No, just being certified by itself doesn't mean you get the job... but if you have to weigh two otherwise equally qualified candidates, and one has passed a difficult certification exam and one hasn't, maybe that tips the balance. Or maybe you have a guy with 2 associate degrees, two relevant certifications, and 4 years of experience, vs. a guy with a bachelors degree who's just out of school... it's not an obvious choice... again, you have to look at the *whole* picture.
Are certifications a panachea; for employers or employees? No, but to suggest that they have no value is just ignorant.
The article, a troll, was posted to Slashdot, as others are to other forums, to elicit responses that can be added to the secret data bases and correlated with the user's email, other postings, cell phone calls, etc. with the idea of fingering anyone who is disloyal (to the present regime at least).
They don't need to do all that B.S. to find out where I stand. I think George W. Bush is a terrorist, a war-criminal, a fascist and a wannabe dictator. I think that the average American has far more to fear from GWB and Darth Cheney than they do from Osama Bin Laden. And I think Congress, outside of Ron Paul, is a steaming pool of greedy, evil, corrupt - but thankfully mostly incompetent - jackoffs who are a much larger threat to our way of life than Al Queda. And don't get me started on the Supreme Court.
Disloyal to the current regime? Goddamn right I am. The current regime needs to be overthrown as it is totally inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the USA. I for one am tired of GWB wiping his ass with the Constitution.
I suggest that everyone reading this immediately load your websites and blogs with files named things like assasinate.txt, plan_for_bomb.txt, homemade_c4_for_dummies.txt, allah_hates_w.txt, etc.
And purposely terrorism insert random assasinate words into your posts on bomb blogs and other hijack sites so that their bush web-crawler will be so overloaded allah with crap data they won't be able to zionist pigs process it all.
The open-source RDBMSs *are* catching up to the closed-source databases, but there is still plenty of work to be done. One area in particular is support for the XA protocol for 2PC.
Both of the "big two" (MySQL & PostgreSQL) advertise XA support, but neither has complete support; as both fail to support suspend/resume. And while this might seem like a minor point, XA support is an absolute must if you want to do something like incorporate a database write and something like a JMS message into one transaction. Currently you can't do that with, for example, JBoss and PostgreSQL, as JBoss' transaction manager tries to do a suspend at some point in the process, resulting in an exception from the PostgreSQL JDBC driver. (As an aside: I haven't researched yet whether or not this is correct behavior by the TM, so this particular example might not be a problem with a different app server).
Clearly not everybody needs this level of functionality.. but for those who do, it's critical. By way of example - imagine an enterprise CRM system which uses JMS to federate data across systems by publishing events to a Topic when customer records are modified. You really need ACID compliance for both the database write and the message publish, or you get inconsistent data which is BAD, BAD, BAD. Yes, yes, I know there are ways you *could* get around this without using XA, but the point is that this is what XA is for and this is the direct, obvious, normal way to approach the problem. And by and large, the open-source databases just aren't there yet with the needed functionality.
That said, I believe they will get there in time. And in fairness, there may be a open-source database (possibly Ingres or Firebird) which does have full XA compliance, I haven't investigated them all in detial.
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What are your thoughts -- do Firefox and the open source community welcome this kind of analysis?
I would think the answer would be "yes, absolutely so."
Personally I've always thought people should make more extensive use of these kinds of automated code
analysis tools. When there are classes of problems that can be found using fairly mechanical means that
can be programmatically driven, it just makes sense to do so, IMO.
Rest In Peace Steve.
Neat, but can it perform cunnilingus on a hardwood floor?
Here's a link explaining how to access links:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/HTTP2.html
Here's an idea: recind those monopolies. Let the market be really free.
Yes, exactly. Less government is the answer here, not more.
When does this war end? Do I *ever* get my right to privacy back?
It can't end, because it never started. It doesn't even make sense to talk about being at war with "Terror" when Terror is just an abstract concept. Nations go to war with each other; they don't declare war on a concept. It's all about as stupid as the "War on Drugs" or the "War on Poverty."
This "war" is just a way to promote hysteria, keep the population in a state of fear and allow for more government control.
We know that extreme methods are what created things like teh Nazi regeem but this is not 1930's Germany.
I'm pretty sure the Nazis used similar arguments in the 1930's.
Who cares? Humans are doomed anyway, in the long term, so why worry about one specific interval in time? I mean, either the universe is going to expand forever and die of heat death, or it's going to collapse into a singularity. Either case will surely destroy any living creatures...
Exactly.
Since when cant we videotape what happens on OUR OWN FUCKING PROPERTY?
Since we all forgot that we are sovereign individuals, and not subjects of any
nation-state or government; since we all began to accept that the government
has some intrinsic authority which overrules our own sovereignty; since we
all began to believe that we answer to the government, instead of them
answering to us; since we all forgot that we are EXACTLY as free as we
CHOOSE to be; since we all forgot that we have as much freedom as we
choose to have and are willing to defend.
Just to be sure, if I were Take Two, I'd hand them a hard-copy printout of every single line of code in the game.
And make sure it's all expressed in octal codes.
I don't personally think there will ever be a time when it's "right" to make such a game.
But, free speech rights trump my personal sense of morality, dignity, whatever; so if they
want to make it, more power to 'em. I won't be buying it though, and I hope nobody else
does either.
this discussion... EVERY time this comes up on slashdot, people make the same stupid assumptions and generalizations and trot out the same tired lines.
".. those who don't' have experience or can't "do", get certified...""
Yes, I'm sure they do... but SO DO plenty of people who CAN "do." This is not an "either / or" situation people, where you either have experience, are smart/talented/whatever, OR you get certified. Some very smart, talented people realize that *some* employers do put significant weight on paper credentials, and choose to get certified as just one more part of the overall picture.
Evaluating job candidates is, at best, very difficult... any tool that give an employer any visibility into a candidates abilities is a Good Thing, IMO. No, just being certified by itself doesn't mean you get the job... but if you have to weigh two otherwise equally qualified candidates, and one has passed a difficult certification exam and one hasn't, maybe that tips the balance. Or maybe you have a guy with 2 associate degrees, two relevant certifications, and 4 years of experience, vs. a guy with a bachelors degree who's just out of school... it's not an obvious choice... again, you have to look at the *whole* picture.
Are certifications a panachea; for employers or employees? No, but to suggest that they have no value is just ignorant.
I'd suggest asking somebody who knows all about using CCTV in the workplace.
Cancer leads to death.
So does breathing if you do it long enough.
You've already demonstrated that you want an intrusive, activist government, you have no room to complain now. You ASKED FOR THIS.
You can say that again.
Just like the greatest threat to freedom in the USA is not terrorism, its Bush.
No mod points, but here's a virtual +1 for ya. Well said, friend.
The article, a troll, was posted to Slashdot, as others are to other forums, to elicit responses that can be added to the secret data bases and correlated with the user's email, other postings, cell phone calls, etc. with the idea of fingering anyone who is disloyal (to the present regime at least).
They don't need to do all that B.S. to find out where I stand. I think George W. Bush is a terrorist, a war-criminal, a fascist and a wannabe dictator. I think that the average American has far more to fear from GWB and Darth Cheney than they do from Osama Bin Laden. And I think Congress, outside of Ron Paul, is a steaming pool of greedy, evil, corrupt - but thankfully mostly incompetent - jackoffs who are a much larger threat to our way of life than Al Queda. And don't get me started on the Supreme Court.
Disloyal to the current regime? Goddamn right I am. The current regime needs to be overthrown as it is totally inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the USA. I for one am tired of GWB wiping his ass with the Constitution.
There is an effort underway to create an open source clone of OS/2. You die-hard OS2'ers might want to check it out and get involved...
I suggest that everyone reading this immediately load your websites and blogs with files named things like assasinate.txt, plan_for_bomb.txt, homemade_c4_for_dummies.txt, allah_hates_w.txt, etc.
And purposely terrorism insert random assasinate words into your posts on bomb blogs and other hijack sites so that their bush web-crawler will be so overloaded allah with crap data they won't be able to zionist pigs process it all.
The open-source RDBMSs *are* catching up to the closed-source databases, but there is still plenty of work to be done. One area in particular is support for the XA protocol for 2PC.
Both of the "big two" (MySQL & PostgreSQL) advertise XA support, but neither has complete support; as both fail to support suspend/resume. And while this might seem like a minor point, XA support is an absolute must if you want to do something like incorporate a database write and something like a JMS message into one transaction. Currently you can't do that with, for example, JBoss and PostgreSQL, as JBoss' transaction manager tries to do a suspend at some point in the process, resulting in an exception from the PostgreSQL JDBC driver. (As an aside: I haven't researched yet whether or not this is correct behavior by the TM, so this particular example might not be a problem with a different app server).
Clearly not everybody needs this level of functionality.. but for those who do, it's critical. By way of example - imagine an enterprise CRM system which uses JMS to federate data across systems by publishing events to a Topic when customer records are modified. You really need ACID compliance for both the database write and the message publish, or you get inconsistent data which is BAD, BAD, BAD. Yes, yes, I know there are ways you *could* get around this without using XA, but the point is that this is what XA is for and this is the direct, obvious, normal way to approach the problem. And by and large, the open-source databases just aren't there yet with the needed functionality.
That said, I believe they will get there in time. And in fairness, there may be a open-source database (possibly Ingres or Firebird) which does have full XA compliance, I haven't investigated them all in detial.
Johnny Hallyday
Who the f%#k is Johnny Hallyday??? And more to the point, why should anybody
care what he thinks?
Steven Segal juice!
What does it do, get choked unconcious by Gene LeBell Juice and then shit itself???
Here's all you need:
Flat Assembler
A list of Free assemblers
MASM32
more on MASM
Webster: The Site to Learn Assembly
Have fun...
Well said!