Hopefully they get Paul McGann to come back as the 8th Doctor for a while... if no, at least they need to get him to do a cameo for a regeneration scene, like Sylvester McCoy did in the Fox movie...
Well perhaps this will get it thru people heads once and for all that a corporation having rights is a *fallacy*, Only living breathing people have rights. And in this case a judge doesn't want your right to privacy and the right to not be harassed protected.
Now *that* is the most insightful post I've read on/. in a long, long time. I'm glad somebody else "gets it." Companies do fucking not HAVE rights... PEOPLE have rights...
Ok, here we go... goto Halloween IX: It Ain't Necessarily SCO and look for the "Exhibit C" stuff.
In particular, part of IBM's agreement with AT&T reads:
Regarding Section 2.01, we agree that modifications and derivative works prepared by or for you are owned by you. However, ownership of any portion or portions of SOFTWARE PRODUCTS included in any such modification or derivative work remains with us.
So, it would appear that IBM's "derivative works" ARE fully owned by IBM, unless they in turn *contain* original Unix source... Or at least that's the way it reads, to this non-lawyer.
The only thing I didn't like about the letter was that they failed to mention SCO's claims about derivative technologies in Linux.
One of the sites that's covering this case in detail, and I'm sorry I can't remember which one at the moment, has the text up of IBM's original agreement with AT&T. While IANAL, it seems to pretty clearly spell out that IBM retains full rights to it's derivative works. I'll see if I can chase down the link later, if I have time.. or maybe somebody else knows it by heart... any takers?
AC/DC Amorphis Anthrax Alice Cooper Annihilator Artch Babylon A.D. Bad Company Bon Jovi Bad English Bathory Borknagar Beautiful Creatures Black Sabbath Blind Guardian...
As I understand it, not all of them featured Alfred Hitchcock... IIRC, the earlier ones had Hitchcock, and the later ones switched to "that other guy."
I'm not sure why the switch, though. Does anybody else have any details on why the Alfred Hitchcock character got dropped? I never even really thought about it when I was reading those books as a kid...
Does anybody remember those "The Three Investigators" books? In one of those, the Investigators were investigating some "haunted house" or something and, in the story, they talked about how a pipe organ playing a very low frequency tone was causing the fearful sensations that everybody was getting.
Of course, being/. I didn't RTFA... so, is this research claiming to have discovered something new and previously unknown, or are they saying they've simply confirmed something which has been suspected for some time?
Sure, it *could* be considered "secure," but are you telling me it's not possible to write exploitable, insecure code in Java or Python?
Java and Python give you mechanisms to help make your code more secure, but I still disagree that it makes sense to label the language itself as intrinsically secure.
All I ask that they please write it in a language other than C or C++. Linux has tons of security holes. Most of those security holes exist only because the software was written in one of the least secure languages in the industry.
How the fuck did this flame-bait shit get modded "Interesting?" Moderators, lay down the crack pipe.
In fact, there is no such fucking thing as a "secure language" or "non-secure language." A language is just a language... applications are secure or not secure depending predominantly on factors like:
The skills of the programmers working on them Corporate culture Software process etc.
and not the language they are written in. Now granted, certain languages may *emphasize* security, or make it easier to achieve good security, but no language is intrinsically secure or not-secure in and of itself.
You miss a little point. Even on countries with no censorship, take Brazil for example, 57% of the population dont like americans nor 'the american way of life' and aproves some terrorist actions on then.
WTF? I call bullshit. I have several friends from Brazil, and a bunch of friends who have travelled to Brazil on multiple occassions, and I have never heard anything about any kind of widespread Anti-American sentiment in Brazil.
If anything, I hear a lot of talk from my friends, about wanting to move here and become U.S. citizens.
Easy, they don't have to make a choice. They can just use whatever default GUI their distro installs. What is the problem with that?
EXACTLY!!!! Give this man a cookie!
The "clueless windoze lusers" that he's talking about, WON'T be in a position of having to choose what desktop environment / window manager/whatever, to use... they'll either use whatever their distro defaults too (if they're installing Linux themselves) or whatever their IT people install for them (in a corporate environment).
All this crap about how choice is bad is a load of monkey-shit, IMHO.
Having said that however, it IS important, IMHO, that applications work across GUI environments as seamlessly as possible. For example, you should be ahle, in an ideal world, to cut / copy / paste stuff between apps, regardless of whether they're written for KDE or Gnome... same for drag n' drop of data between apps... and an OLE like mechanism for directly sharing documents between apps would be better if it worked regardless of which environment the app was written for. Of course, all of this may already be in place... I don't use the linux desktop enough to know... Just Mozilla for posting to/.:-)
I realized at that tournament that most places that teach martial arts are just diploma mills, and never went to another tournament. They really held no interest for me after that.
I had a similar experience. I "fought" in one Karate tournament, and it was such a joke, I vowed then and there to never do it again. Now I've gone back to wrestling and competing in sport jiu-jitsu... both have MUCH more practical application to fighting / self-defense than the fare from the typical McDojo.
Please tell me that you are a girl. Guys who kick other guys in the nuts are not playing with a full deck themselves. I mean I had my sure of bullying and I through a couple of J's in defense but I would never go below the belt.
FUCK that shit. There's no such thing as a "fair fight."
Me personally, if somebody attacks me with the intention of hurting me, I'm doing to do anything and everything I can to defend myself. If it means kicking 'em in their nuts, sticking my thumb in their eye and trying to gouge their eye out, fish-hooking, hair-pulling, picking up a handful of sand and throwing it in their eyes, picking up a lead pipe and bashing them with it, whatever....
Of course, my preferred method of dealing with attackers isn't by "fighting dirty." My point is just that I'll do it if I have too. If I can hit a clean duck-under and go behind, then an over the shoulder suplex, and finish the guy with a rear naked choke, then so be it. But if the technical shit fails for whatever reason, man, I'm goin' to the the bag of dirty tricks in a heartbeat.
I call bullshit. You can not get your black belt in any reputable martial art in one fucking summer. It takes years, not months.
Agreed. Actually, it usually takes at least A year, if not more, to earn a black-belt at the average Tae-Kwon-Do McDojo / Black-Belt Mill. And even doing TKD or Shotokan Karate, it will take several years to earn a black-belt if you're at a school with any sense of realism.
And God forbid one should take up Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu expecting a quick black-belt. It just ain't gonna happen. In fact, many who train in BJJ will never earn a black-belt. Which is OK though, since the average BJJ blue-belt will usually kick the shit out of the average karate or TKD black-belt, since those guys have no clue what to do once the fight hits the ground.
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I've felt both a time or two (accidentally). 110 is really more of a tickle and certainly won't kill you.
You've got to be respectful of it but with 110 I didn't even realize I was being shocked until well after the fact.
Dude, 110 volts is most certainly enough to kill. True, most of us have been "tingled" by 110/115 a few times, and didn't die... all that proves is that we were lucky on those occassions.
For an interesting discussion of why low voltages *can* be deadly, see this page.
The bottom line is, lower voltages tend to be "safer" due to the resistance of your body, and the fact that low voltage power sources also usually have a fairly low current capacity. But try wetting your hands and grabbing the leads from an arc welder set on 200+ amps sometime, if you don't think low voltage can f#@k you up.
I've worked with mains voltage in the past (wiring new rooms, installing lighting), but nothing on this scale, both in terms of complexity and potential for death. How do you industrious Slashdot readers go about fixing a mess like this (on a tight budget, no less) without getting a mains-induced glimpse at the great beyond?"
I Am Not An Electrician, and from the sounds of it, neither are you.
I have an IBM Scrollpoint mouse here that I've had for a couple of years, that lets you scroll both horizontally and vertically, without using the on-screen navigation bars.
Granted, it isn't exactly like the MS mouse being described, since it doesn't have a wheel, but a stick (ala the Thinkpad "J stick").... but it's hardly a huge innovation to use the wheel to scroll horizontally.
Okay, off topic, but are they *any* downsides to AS400s?
Probably the biggest downside is that OS/400 simply isn't particularly user friendly. Leaving aside for a moment the existence of Client Access, OS/400 is completely command line and/or menu driven. Everything is "green screens" and dumb terminals (or terminal emulators running on a PC ). There really isn't any GUI, except the "psuedo-GUI" you get by running Client Access on a PC.
I spent about 4 years working primarily with AS/400's, and I can say from experience that OS/400 just feels kinda clunky compared to *Nix or even Windoze.
In theory, I suppose none of that matters for servers, though. I think maybe the reason they aren't used as servers more, is really a marketing thing. AS/400's were traditionally positioned as being mainly for running financial apps / ERP software / accounting / etc. And while they can act as general purpose file / web / app servers, they just weren't ever marketed as being primarily for that.
Also, keep in mind that, to some degree, the different platforms IBM puts out compete with each other. There is always internal politics within IBM, debating whether or not the AS/400 is cannabilizing sales from the RS/6000, and whether the RS/6000 is cannibalizing sales from the S/390 or AS/400, etc, blah, blah. That can lead to confusing marketing message from IBM to the world, about the intended use of each platform.
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Hopefully they get Paul McGann to come back as the 8th Doctor for a while... if no, at least they need to get him to do a cameo for a regeneration scene, like Sylvester McCoy did in the Fox movie...
Gotta keep continuity, and all.....
Well perhaps this will get it thru people heads once and for all that a corporation having rights is a *fallacy*, Only living breathing people have rights. And in this case a judge doesn't want your right to privacy and the right to not be harassed protected.
/. in a long, long time. I'm glad somebody else "gets it." Companies do fucking not HAVE rights... PEOPLE have rights...
Now *that* is the most insightful post I've read on
What is so hard to understand about this??
Halloween IX: It Ain't Necessarily SCO and look for the "Exhibit C" stuff.
In particular, part of IBM's agreement with AT&T reads:
Regarding Section 2.01, we agree that modifications and derivative works prepared by or for you are owned by you. However, ownership of any portion or portions of SOFTWARE PRODUCTS included in any such modification or derivative work remains with us.
So, it would appear that IBM's "derivative works" ARE fully owned by IBM, unless they in turn *contain* original Unix source... Or at least that's the way it reads, to this non-lawyer.
The only thing I didn't like about the letter was that they failed to mention SCO's claims about derivative technologies in Linux.
One of the sites that's covering this case in detail, and I'm sorry I can't remember which one at the moment, has the text up of IBM's original agreement with AT&T. While IANAL, it seems to pretty clearly spell out that IBM retains full rights to it's derivative works. I'll see if I can chase down the link later, if I have time.. or maybe somebody else knows it by heart... any takers?
at the risk of being completely pedantic, the rule is: i before e except after c.
Hmmm, that doesn't sound correct to me here in Raleigh, NC.
And B) has been going downhill steadily for years... at least since about 1992 or 1993.
Most of the good music now comes from the Scandinavian countries...
Pick any of:
AC/DC
Amorphis
Anthrax
Alice Cooper
Annihilator
Artch
Babylon A.D.
Bad Company
Bon Jovi
Bad English
Bathory
Borknagar
Beautiful Creatures
Black Sabbath
Blind Guardian...
etc....
As I understand it, not all of them featured Alfred Hitchcock... IIRC, the earlier ones had Hitchcock, and the later ones switched to "that other guy."
I'm not sure why the switch, though. Does anybody else have any details on why the Alfred Hitchcock character got dropped? I never even really thought about it when I was reading those books as a kid...
Does anybody remember those "The Three Investigators" books? In one of those, the Investigators were investigating some "haunted house" or something and, in the story, they talked about how a pipe organ playing a very low frequency tone was causing the fearful sensations that everybody was getting.
/. I didn't RTFA... so, is this research claiming to have discovered something new and previously unknown, or are they saying they've simply confirmed something which has been suspected for some time?
Of course, being
Maybe if we all take up a collection, we can get a good arsonist to go torch their crib.
Sure, it *could* be considered "secure," but are you telling me it's not possible to write exploitable, insecure code in Java or Python?
Java and Python give you mechanisms to help make your code more secure, but I still disagree that it makes sense to label the language itself as intrinsically secure.
All I ask that they please write it in a language other than C or C++. Linux has tons of security holes. Most of those security holes exist only because the software was written in one of the least secure languages in the industry.
How the fuck did this flame-bait shit get modded "Interesting?" Moderators, lay down the crack pipe.
In fact, there is no such fucking thing as a "secure language" or "non-secure language." A language is just a language... applications are secure or not secure depending predominantly on factors like:
The skills of the programmers working on them
Corporate culture
Software process
etc.
and not the language they are written in. Now granted, certain languages may *emphasize* security, or make it easier to achieve good security, but no language is intrinsically secure or not-secure in and of itself.
You miss a little point. Even on countries with no censorship, take Brazil for example, 57% of the
population dont like americans nor 'the american way of life' and aproves some terrorist actions on then.
WTF? I call bullshit. I have several friends from Brazil, and a bunch of friends who have travelled to Brazil on multiple occassions, and I have never heard anything about any kind of widespread Anti-American sentiment in Brazil.
If anything, I hear a lot of talk from my friends, about wanting to move here and become U.S. citizens.
Easy, they don't have to make a choice. They can just use whatever default GUI their distro installs. What is the problem with that?
/whatever, to use... they'll either use whatever their distro defaults too (if they're installing Linux themselves) or whatever their IT people install for them (in a corporate environment).
/. :-)
EXACTLY!!!! Give this man a cookie!
The "clueless windoze lusers" that he's talking about, WON'T be in a position of having to choose what desktop environment / window manager
All this crap about how choice is bad is a load of monkey-shit, IMHO.
Having said that however, it IS important, IMHO, that applications work across GUI environments as seamlessly as possible. For example, you should be ahle, in an ideal world, to cut / copy / paste stuff between apps, regardless of whether they're written for KDE or Gnome... same for drag n' drop of data between apps... and an OLE like mechanism for directly sharing documents between apps would be better if it worked regardless of which environment the app was written for. Of course, all of this may already be in place... I don't use the linux desktop enough to know... Just Mozilla for posting to
I realized at that tournament that most places that teach martial arts are just diploma mills, and never went to another tournament. They really held no interest for me after that.
I had a similar experience. I "fought" in one Karate tournament, and it was such a joke, I vowed then and there to never do it again. Now I've gone back to wrestling and competing in sport jiu-jitsu... both have MUCH more practical application to fighting / self-defense than the fare from the typical McDojo.
Please tell me that you are a girl. Guys who kick other guys in the nuts are not playing with a full deck themselves. I mean I had my sure of bullying and I through a couple of J's in defense but I would never go below the belt.
FUCK that shit. There's no such thing as a "fair fight."
Me personally, if somebody attacks me with the intention of hurting me, I'm doing to do anything and everything I can to defend myself. If it means kicking 'em in their nuts, sticking my thumb in their eye and trying to gouge their eye out, fish-hooking, hair-pulling, picking up a handful of sand and throwing it in their eyes, picking up a lead pipe and bashing them with it, whatever....
Of course, my preferred method of dealing with attackers isn't by "fighting dirty." My point is just that I'll do it if I have too. If I can hit a clean duck-under and go behind, then an over the shoulder suplex, and finish the guy with a rear naked choke, then so be it. But if the technical shit fails for whatever reason, man, I'm goin' to the the bag of dirty tricks in a heartbeat.
Just my $00.02 worth....
I call bullshit.
You can not get your black belt in any reputable martial art in one fucking summer.
It takes years, not months.
Agreed. Actually, it usually takes at least A year, if not more, to earn a black-belt at the average Tae-Kwon-Do McDojo / Black-Belt Mill. And even doing TKD or Shotokan Karate, it will take several years to earn a black-belt if you're at a school with any sense of realism.
And God forbid one should take up Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu expecting a quick black-belt. It just ain't gonna happen. In fact, many who train in BJJ will never earn a black-belt. Which is OK though, since the average BJJ blue-belt will usually kick the shit out of the average karate or TKD black-belt, since those guys have no clue what to do once the fight hits the ground.
I've felt both a time or two (accidentally). 110 is really more of a tickle and certainly won't kill you.
You've got to be respectful of it but with 110 I didn't even realize I was being shocked until well after the fact.
Dude, 110 volts is most certainly enough to kill. True, most of us have been "tingled" by 110/115 a few times, and didn't die... all that proves is that we were lucky on those occassions.
For an interesting discussion of why low voltages *can* be deadly, see this page.
The bottom line is, lower voltages tend to be "safer" due to the resistance of your body, and the fact that low voltage power sources also usually have a fairly low current capacity. But try wetting your hands and grabbing the leads from an arc welder set on 200+ amps sometime, if you don't think low voltage can f#@k you up.
I've worked with mains voltage in the past (wiring new rooms, installing lighting), but nothing on this scale, both in terms of complexity and potential for death. How do you industrious Slashdot readers go about fixing a mess like this (on a tight budget, no less) without getting a mains-induced glimpse at the great beyond?"
I Am Not An Electrician, and from the sounds of it, neither are you.
I'd suggest hiring one.
"In the Soviet Union, our iron-eating overlords goatse all your base with dead *BSD!"
There, I think that covers all of the troll/offtopic cliches.
Nah, you left out any reference to SCO, hot grits, and Natalie Portman.
..somebody really pissed off the BOFH this time....
I have an IBM Scrollpoint mouse here that I've had
for a couple of years, that lets you scroll both horizontally and vertically, without using the on-screen navigation bars.
Granted, it isn't exactly like the MS mouse being described, since it doesn't have a wheel, but a stick (ala the Thinkpad "J stick").... but it's hardly a huge innovation to use the wheel to scroll horizontally.
I mean really, come one, what's next? Are they going to ally with the mafia and start extorting the money personally?
Of course not. They're going to sue the Mafia for $1399 for every copy of Linux they're running.
You didn't REALLY think the Mafia was still running a paper-based office, did you?
Is it possible to basically do a DOS-like attack with lawsuits?
Wish I had mod points right now, you'd definitely get a +1 Interesting for that.
It's a hell of a question, actually. "Can you DOS somebody with lawsuits?"
Welcome to the 2000's....
Okay, off topic, but are they *any* downsides to AS400s?
Probably the biggest downside is that OS/400 simply isn't particularly user friendly. Leaving aside for a moment the existence of Client Access, OS/400 is completely command line and/or menu driven. Everything is "green screens" and dumb terminals (or terminal emulators running on a PC ). There really isn't any GUI, except the "psuedo-GUI" you get by running Client Access on a PC.
I spent about 4 years working primarily with AS/400's, and I can say from experience that OS/400 just feels kinda clunky compared to *Nix or even Windoze.
In theory, I suppose none of that matters for servers, though. I think maybe the reason they aren't used as servers more, is really a marketing thing. AS/400's were traditionally positioned as being mainly for running financial apps / ERP software / accounting / etc. And while they can act as general purpose file / web / app servers, they just weren't ever marketed as being primarily for that.
Also, keep in mind that, to some degree, the different platforms IBM puts out compete with each other. There is always internal politics within IBM, debating whether or not the AS/400 is cannabilizing sales from the RS/6000, and whether the RS/6000 is cannibalizing sales from the S/390 or AS/400, etc, blah, blah. That can lead to confusing marketing message from IBM to the world, about the intended use of each platform.