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Sudo vs. Root
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Bottom line is that the only thing sudo *REALLY* buys you is the ability to log who did what when with root access. And as has been pointed out, there are innumerable ways to circumvent even that (sudo vi;:!sh). It's a way to keep honest folks honest and have a way to go ask someone what they were trying to do; I've also used it for myself to create session logs for audit purposes. Someone bent on nefarious uses can easily cover their tracks.
The Death tax hurts little people, too. I have a friend who's parents died recently, and as an only child, left him pretty much everything. Unfortunately, he couldn't afford the taxes associated with his parent's estate, mainly the house his parents were living in - a house that had been in their family for four generations. Yeah, that death tax was real fair!
According to this, at least the first $1M in an estate is exempt from estate tax. To say he "couldn't afford the taxes" is a bit misleading. I could believe that he was forced to sell the house to cover the taxes on the excess value over $1M, but that's not the same thing, and it's not a problem most people would be afraid to face.
That said, I would have no problem supporting heavy estate taxes if I thought the government would do a better job of handling the money than most heirs do, but sadly, nothing is further from the truth. Frankly, I'd rather some spoiled rich brat spend it than Robert Byrd and his ilk.
If that is still too insecure for you, meet the recipient in the middle of the park for a strolling conversation; and don't forget the white noise generator.
If these are traditional medicine, nobody can patent it because of prior art, and whoever claims it will not stand long in the court.
From TFA:
"Under normal circumstances, a patent application should always be rejected if there is prior existing knowledge about the product."
"But in most of the developed nations like United States, "prior existing knowledge" is only recognised if it is published in a journal or is available on a database - not if it has been passed down through generations of oral and folk traditions."
Examples are given in the article about just how long it can "stand in the court". Court battles are rarely short, and even more rarely inexpensive.
Now that they put everything online, accessible by anyone anywhere, wouldn't that make piracy easier?
If you had bothered to read and comprehend TFA, you would realize that they are trying to put these remedies IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
From TFA:
"When we put out this encyclopaedia in the public domain, no one will be able to claim that these medicines or therapies are their inventions. Till now, we have not done the needful to protect our traditional wealth," says Ajay Dua, a senior bureaucrat in the federal commerce ministry.
...to say that "the church" (I believe you are refering to catholics) are the spawn of Satin, would clearly be passing judgement on those people, and that is a job reserved for God himself.
Hmmm... I'm having a bit of trouble getting a mental picture of the offspring of a swatch of fabric...
CLASSPATH for sure, but how about the lack of upward compatibility of the various runtimes? Who hasn't had to install yet another jre because this app doesn't quite work right with the latest runtime. Take a look at Oracle for an example. Long after java 1.4 was out, Oracle 8i STILL required 1.2. I think the latest Oracle (10g) runs 1.4.
A closed source voting system is the same as the vote counting that goes on behind closed doors.
Is it? Traditional vote counts are done by volunteers, are they not? And the parties do have representatives present for the counts, right? With closed source, all you've essentially got is a for-profit company's assurances that it's all on the up-and-up. I would say the open source voting approach is more like the current vote counting system, if not more so, since anyone who wants to can lay eyes on the vote counting process.
Anyone else remember the "Cities in Flight" novels by James Blish? Whole cities lifting off from the Earth, off to find brave new worlds... Blish not only wrote many of the Star Trek novels, he wrote dozens of sci-fi books over about 4 decades.
The jail sentence is the maximum allowed under the law, due to Carmack's prior felony conviction for fraud in a federal case involving fake money orders, McCarthy said.
Prior felonies? Doesn't this guy know what damage he's doing to the spammer image?
Most insurance companies will go to great lengths to not have to cover a procedure.
That's not necessarily so. What they will do is go to great lengths to understand the risks they are taking to cover a hazard. They have to do this - to not understand the ramifications of a risk before covering it is financial folly. And like it or not, the insurance companies are in the business of making money. They have based their rates on covering a known set of risks. If new risks are found, then either they must exclude them or charge more for the coverage.
It was fairly recently that even pregnancy coverage was mandated by the government.
So? With that mandate comes higher premiums. It's a risk that wasn't covered because it's a risk people choose to undertake and should be prepared to handle on their own. If I understand this mandate correctly, it simply amounts to subsidized health care as opposed to risk mitigation. Of course, that's what health insurance is evolving into these days anyway, so no surprise, I guess.
Actually, a friend of mine (welder) was always fond of saying that "the only two things a plumber needs to know are which way the prevailing wind blows and that shit flows downhill".
we have to know math because the math majors cant program, usually.
Is this your opinion, or do you have some sort of factual evidence to back up this claim? I have a math degree and can program quite well, thankyouverymuch. I know two PhD's in math who can sling code better than most CS majors ever will. I know other math degree holders in the programming field who are extremely competent. While I have no actual statistics to back up my observations, at least I have anecdotal evidence gained over my 25+ years in the IT field, and I find your statement to run counter to my observations.
To relate this to the original article: the article is dead on, but I'd take it a step further. Ditch the CS degree. Get a math degree and use your electives to learn about computers, programming, databases, and software engineering, the emphasis being on practical rather than theoretical. This approach will likely gain you a minor in CS as well, an impressive 1-2 combination. By the time you complete the CS degree in the article, you're 2/3 the way to a math degree anyway. Want to distinguish yourself from the crowd? The math degree folks hold an edge over CS degree folks in this regard. If you can do math, you can do anything you set your mind to.
That said, I'm not slamming CS majors. I know several of them, too, who are all quite proficient at their careers. IME, the book on CS majors is that too many of them don't pay enough attention to the math side.
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Bottom line is that the only thing sudo *REALLY* buys you is the ability to log who did what when with root access. And as has been pointed out, there are innumerable ways to circumvent even that (sudo vi; :!sh). It's a way to keep honest folks honest and have a way to go ask someone what they were trying to do; I've also used it for myself to create session logs for audit purposes. Someone bent on nefarious uses can easily cover their tracks.
According to this, at least the first $1M in an estate is exempt from estate tax. To say he "couldn't afford the taxes" is a bit misleading. I could believe that he was forced to sell the house to cover the taxes on the excess value over $1M, but that's not the same thing, and it's not a problem most people would be afraid to face.
That said, I would have no problem supporting heavy estate taxes if I thought the government would do a better job of handling the money than most heirs do, but sadly, nothing is further from the truth. Frankly, I'd rather some spoiled rich brat spend it than Robert Byrd and his ilk.
I prefer the Cone of Silence to secure my communications.
It was a joke (and yes, it was pretty lame.... sorry!)
Absolute bunk. I regularly use my laptop on major commercial flights flying at 30,000 ft or more, never yet had a problem!
From TFA:
"Under normal circumstances, a patent application should always be rejected if there is prior existing knowledge about the product."
"But in most of the developed nations like United States, "prior existing knowledge" is only recognised if it is published in a journal or is available on a database - not if it has been passed down through generations of oral and folk traditions."
Examples are given in the article about just how long it can "stand in the court". Court battles are rarely short, and even more rarely inexpensive.
Now that they put everything online, accessible by anyone anywhere, wouldn't that make piracy easier?
If you had bothered to read and comprehend TFA, you would realize that they are trying to put these remedies IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
From TFA:
"When we put out this encyclopaedia in the public domain, no one will be able to claim that these medicines or therapies are their inventions. Till now, we have not done the needful to protect our traditional wealth," says Ajay Dua, a senior bureaucrat in the federal commerce ministry.
Sheesh.
I, for one, welcome our new multisided wheel vehicle riding, stair-climbing robotic overlords.
Myself, I just submitted a problem report to AOL.
Well, it appears Micro$oft has been caught with it's hand in the cookie jar and has 'corrected' the 'search flaw'.
And we know that they didn't send this site a similar note already because....? This one just happened to capture the attention of /., that's all.
More likely they've got staff doing google keyword searches and found it that way.
Hmmm... I'm having a bit of trouble getting a mental picture of the offspring of a swatch of fabric...
Hey, I *like* java, but this kind of crap is definitely shooting yourself in the foot material.
Is it? Traditional vote counts are done by volunteers, are they not? And the parties do have representatives present for the counts, right? With closed source, all you've essentially got is a for-profit company's assurances that it's all on the up-and-up. I would say the open source voting approach is more like the current vote counting system, if not more so, since anyone who wants to can lay eyes on the vote counting process.
Anyone else remember the "Cities in Flight" novels by James Blish? Whole cities lifting off from the Earth, off to find brave new worlds... Blish not only wrote many of the Star Trek novels, he wrote dozens of sci-fi books over about 4 decades.
Prior felonies? Doesn't this guy know what damage he's doing to the spammer image?
That's not necessarily so. What they will do is go to great lengths to understand the risks they are taking to cover a hazard. They have to do this - to not understand the ramifications of a risk before covering it is financial folly. And like it or not, the insurance companies are in the business of making money. They have based their rates on covering a known set of risks. If new risks are found, then either they must exclude them or charge more for the coverage.
It was fairly recently that even pregnancy coverage was mandated by the government.
So? With that mandate comes higher premiums. It's a risk that wasn't covered because it's a risk people choose to undertake and should be prepared to handle on their own. If I understand this mandate correctly, it simply amounts to subsidized health care as opposed to risk mitigation. Of course, that's what health insurance is evolving into these days anyway, so no surprise, I guess.
Actually, a friend of mine (welder) was always fond of saying that "the only two things a plumber needs to know are which way the prevailing wind blows and that shit flows downhill".
Is this your opinion, or do you have some sort of factual evidence to back up this claim? I have a math degree and can program quite well, thankyouverymuch. I know two PhD's in math who can sling code better than most CS majors ever will. I know other math degree holders in the programming field who are extremely competent. While I have no actual statistics to back up my observations, at least I have anecdotal evidence gained over my 25+ years in the IT field, and I find your statement to run counter to my observations.
To relate this to the original article: the article is dead on, but I'd take it a step further. Ditch the CS degree. Get a math degree and use your electives to learn about computers, programming, databases, and software engineering, the emphasis being on practical rather than theoretical. This approach will likely gain you a minor in CS as well, an impressive 1-2 combination. By the time you complete the CS degree in the article, you're 2/3 the way to a math degree anyway. Want to distinguish yourself from the crowd? The math degree folks hold an edge over CS degree folks in this regard. If you can do math, you can do anything you set your mind to.
That said, I'm not slamming CS majors. I know several of them, too, who are all quite proficient at their careers. IME, the book on CS majors is that too many of them don't pay enough attention to the math side.
I'm confused a bit here - are we talking flowers or musical instruments?
Sigh. I suppose we're just going to have to get used to seeing this thread in every Mars Rover/Beagle story on slashdot.
Have a look at the /. FAQ.
Actually, the point I was trying to (humorously) make was: what's so surprising about the fact that Jerry Falwell is an asshole?
What's so surprising about that?