I know its ancecdotal but, the orgininal Ask Slash dotters statement seems to be as well, flash works just fine on all the linux boxes I browse the web with.
True but unless you are dealing with the really really insane murder tends to be a crime of passion. You are generally not all that passionate about people you dont know. The majority of murder victims do have a relationship to the killer.
Just because you know something about the pattern of where the real nut jobs select their victims does not mean you have control over where yours is. So the information is not helpful to most would be killers. The real wack jobs who could use the information are pretty hard to catch anyway and probably already knew this, if only in an intuative way. Its still ture any way you don't want kill someone to close to you because someone who knows you might figure it out. You proably can't kill someone to far out side your buffer zone becuase of travel time, you are going to need better alibi to explain longer absenses. Its much harder to wack someone, clean up all the evidence, and be at the office the next morning if you have to drive an hour each way to do it on top of that. I have never tried but sitting here I can't think of any quick ways to dispose of a body that wont have it found pretty fast. You need to burry it deep, burn it completely, or sink it and make sure it stays sunk for a good long time otherwise modern technology / dogs are going to find it and its going to still contain enough evidence to lead back to the killer.
That is like saying attaching a bunch of fine print to the bottom of an advertisement which directly contradicts what all the other material of the add implies is not an attempt at deception. Sure we know when its important to watch for it because we have been taught to do so. Still it often works and it certainly is an attempt to deceive if a not whole effective and thinly veiled one.
If I put together a broadcast which appears to be news coverage of an event repeated play a sequence of video after only once quickly stating its a artists conception or whatever, and then continue to talk for an hour about how impressive the event was and so fourth, I am certainly trying give you a particular impression of events and its certainly my artistic version rather then the reality.
If you disagree with the terms of the EULA, you can return the software to the vendor and you are entitled to (usually) complete refund.
Ok go to your local BestBuy, Target, WallMart, {insert other box stores here} and buy some boxed software. Take it home and open it, insert the disk and decline the EULA. (You can just pull the shrink wrap off in the parking lot too to test my theory). Now try and return it, you can even tell them its because you found the EULA unacceptable. You are going to get stonewalled. Few retail places are taking returns of open item movies, music, or software. I don't know but I don't think you will get very far attempting to return it directly to the publisher either, even if you can I am certain you will have to eat the shipping costs.
True but its not very often you get read that EULA before you purchase no free software. I think there is the problem. Legal arguments asside, I think simple reason dictates that sellars must make the terms clear before someone leases( not buys ) a software license at least if they expect customers to be actually held to those terms.
In that sense they GPL may have more force then shrink wrap licenses, you can always read the GPL ahead of time, and you are in total control of the transaction. Since its nothing but you makeing a choice about using the software or not. If any money has changed hands its for some other service like proding the software to you on a shiny disk, with some documentation or support services.
I know this is slashdot so you have probably not spent much time around females at leat not those of our species, but let me tell you an angry one is a dangerous creature. All of them do get pissed off some of the time. You can be the greatest guy ever and sooner or later you will make a mistake. The good news if you are a good guy they will forgive you but the period between your screw up and their forgiveness can be extreemly hazardous.
Buffy is a fun show and all but if I were ordering robo girl, I am not sure I would spec out one with more addittude then usual, super strength, and a strong preference for solving her problems by hitting.
Does the author really think that kids in third world countries are going to be doing development work on these limited devices?
I don't see why he would not expect that, I learned my first programing in basic on a much smaller machine in terms of power and storage, even if it was much larger and more power hungry (TI99/4A).
Are hacking skills of value when you live in a mud hut?
I don't see why not, not every application has to be some complex financial app, or web browser, big gui anything. Maybe you need a basic calculater to help you decide when to plant crops. I can easily imagine some farmer wanting to record daily temperatures or rain fail year over year and have the computer provide some basic trends. That is the kind of thing you could do in BASIC or Python and could be highly useful.
I think that is sorta the point. What is "needed" on the OLPC and XO is something simple that someone with not experience, and limited reading skills, a child in the developing world for example is something like sugar.
If you are trying to decide to ship Windows XP or Linux with Sugar on top, it might be useful to compare them from the point of view of the target user. Also Sugar is just the shell, the linux based operationg system its running on is still a "versatile monster trying to offer all things to all people. It is hugely complex and requires the average person a great deal of time to pickup and use." Once they start learning they can go on to use just about and UNIX software which as a general rule has a lot better odds of doing something useful on such a limited hardware platform then any Windows based counter part.
Sugar / the windows shell, in this case should be almost thought of as a boot strap for the user. Its supposed to be providing them enough access to get started without much prior education so they can go on an teach themselves from there. Having never used sugar only reading about it a looking at pictures that it appears it might be a success where XP is obviously a total failure at such an objective. Evidence you say just look at all the thick dead tree books, and traning videos designed to teach basic Windows usage to extreemely well educated by comparison users here in the Western World. Windows is not some magically intuative system most people can just figure out, its just that its so popular everyone gets exposure.
You are correct but there is a difference here between something being illegal and criminalized. If our ferderal government makes growning pot a crime, its a crime everywhere include the whole of CA. Now CA can decide its not going to enforce that federal law, or enforce it only conditionally, provided the codifiy the conditions they will enforce under ( still have to have due porcess and equal protection ).
So you can be growning pot on your front porch in parts of CA and if a local cop rolls down the street he may very well do nothing, if a federal agent rolls down the street he can snap the cuffs on you. The reality is though in the United States it is local law enforcement that does most of the enforcing . Federal Agents don't work a beat, as a rule. The investigate and go after priority offenders, the guy growing fields of it or transporting it across multiple state lines running some sort of distribution network, not the guy who takes a hit or two from the stuff grown in his closet after work, that person will never be a federal priority.
The answer is it can't. There may be rare (sadly, I like many conservative Americans feel the modern USSC has adopted an incorrectly borad interpretation of this) case where the commerce clause is not sufficent to allow federal law to be applied within a state, gernerally though ferderal law always has supremacy. Now the feds can't be everywhere and depend on state and local law enforcement to cooperate and sometimes they don't. Sometimes they even make it a law not to cooperate. A local city could pass a ordinance that its police force is to treat a drug in fraction as a secondary offense, state officers are not to book anyone unless they are also breaking some other law. This is what we call decriminalizing something. Basically its still a crime but those who could enforce the law chose not to do so.
There is also a huge difference in not snitching because you fell intemidated and not snithcing because you don't want to. You may feel a law is unimportant, unjust, unreasonable, etc and don't feel much sense of civic dubty when it comes to participation in assisting the government with its enforcement.
The former is a big problem that later not so much.
I don't think that would work very well. Symlinks are stored in most file systems as "special" files. You would have to seek read the read the link. Since dot files are usually pretty small ie would fit in one block or a few consequtive blocks, any time at all spent accessing the SSD will be a loss, because you will have done all the expensive part of the operation on the traditional disk. Now its possible some filesystems that keep more data about a link in their internal structures would end up having that info cached but you would have research all that pretty carefully.
This strikes me as extreemly misdirected. Nobody working at the tech support stand has an influcence whatsoever with regaurd to effecting the changes the FSF would like to see. All that is going to happen here is that these people will be politely asked to leave and when they don't the police will be called and they will be removed. They are going to end up looking like asshats, the only policy changes at Apple that will even possibly result form this is their retail arm might rethink physical security in the stores, hardly the goals of the FSF.
The telivision and print media will pick up the story because its Apple and they always do. They mostly won't understand what was being said by the FSF people since they won't understand it. The report will come off something like, "a radical hackor group, called the fSF, caused dissruptions in Apple stores accross the nation today." All this will do is make FSF look bad, and Apple like a victim.
His point is that the harddisk to the computer is one long stream of bytes. There is no organization of files. What there is are special values stored at defined offsets that say a file starts here and continues for x blocks or is continues y more bytes in, etc etc. The hirearchy as we are generally presented often does not even exist. Lots of filesystems store directorys the same way as other files, the are just lists of what files are in the directory.
You claim that trees don't grown in dirt but soil, but then link a definition for dirt where the number one entry is "earth or soil". Cleary from your own link dirt is often a synonym for soil.
I would like to point out that you can't use a dictionary.
We would have to be litteral willing to blockade it though, its not like, China, Korea, and the Mid East powers are going to stop buy just because we do.
True, but CPU you can do, I mean it should be trival to cut the image into areas and thus parallize the decompression job in a way that you can hand it off to a number of CPUs.
Disk / network IO seems like it would be quite a bit harder. As an other poster pointed out 4Gbps only gives you about 2fps. Now I have done a little work with some low end SAN hardware. 4G is about as fast as fiber HBAs get and 10G and faster switches get fantastically expensive. A single controller can only run so many shelves of disk before it become a bottleneck itself in terms of IO, so for a job like this you are going to need lots of controllers and lots of Fiber channel switching hardware. If you can squeeze the data volume down 20% that is going to be a big win in terms of cost and performance.
The other thing you have to remember is you proably have at least a double digit number of people wanting different data at the same time so you need quite a bit more throughput then first blush.
An ISCSI san soulution could give you a pretty good control to disk ratio, you build it all on 10GigE and then maybe some sort of specialized decompression gateway between the client and the storage contollers, running 10GigE all the way to the client systems?
Thats a good point IT WILL HAPPEN. Itunes might be arround for 20 years but some day it will be closed. I think the longevity might be the sadest part of all. Unless Apple in the end pushes some automajic code in a later release that strips the DRM from any protected files it finds most people won't ever be bothered to do it, and won't be thinking about it when ITMS shuts down.
Children won't be rediscovering momy and daddys 20 year old records in the future. DRM could cause an entire generations music to be lost.
Most cable / dsl user have pretty static ips these days. I assume you log the IP of the posters? If yes then write yourself a little shell script or two, one to insert rules into ip tables and store them to a file with a date stamp and one to remove "old" rules called by cron.
Then you just insert rules with your script like $IPT -I INPUT 1 -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/32 -p tcp -j DROP
Your scripts will clean up for you so you won't end up with 10000s of rules in your runtime tables config and most griefers are going to go away and forget about you after not being able to access your site for a few days.
I am sorry but you are wrong. The component of the turing machine definition about memory is, "given and infinite amount of memory any transformation can be performed."
Chances are the system you have if equiped with unlimited memory could perform any transformation.
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I know its ancecdotal but, the orgininal Ask Slash dotters statement seems to be as well, flash works just fine on all the linux boxes I browse the web with.
True but unless you are dealing with the really really insane murder tends to be a crime of passion. You are generally not all that passionate about people you dont know. The majority of murder victims do have a relationship to the killer.
Just because you know something about the pattern of where the real nut jobs select their victims does not mean you have control over where yours is. So the information is not helpful to most would be killers. The real wack jobs who could use the information are pretty hard to catch anyway and probably already knew this, if only in an intuative way. Its still ture any way you don't want kill someone to close to you because someone who knows you might figure it out. You proably can't kill someone to far out side your buffer zone becuase of travel time, you are going to need better alibi to explain longer absenses. Its much harder to wack someone, clean up all the evidence, and be at the office the next morning if you have to drive an hour each way to do it on top of that. I have never tried but sitting here I can't think of any quick ways to dispose of a body that wont have it found pretty fast. You need to burry it deep, burn it completely, or sink it and make sure it stays sunk for a good long time otherwise modern technology / dogs are going to find it and its going to still contain enough evidence to lead back to the killer.
Yes, people who work in the banking and finance industries in particular.
That is like saying attaching a bunch of fine print to the bottom of an advertisement which directly contradicts what all the other material of the add implies is not an attempt at deception. Sure we know when its important to watch for it because we have been taught to do so. Still it often works and it certainly is an attempt to deceive if a not whole effective and thinly veiled one.
If I put together a broadcast which appears to be news coverage of an event repeated play a sequence of video after only once quickly stating its a artists conception or whatever, and then continue to talk for an hour about how impressive the event was and so fourth, I am certainly trying give you a particular impression of events and its certainly my artistic version rather then the reality.
it's a huge, if not ridiculous, stretch to claim that forged packets are some sort of illegal impersonation.
So you won't mind if I send some mail and list yours as the return address then?
If you disagree with the terms of the EULA, you can return the software to the vendor and you are entitled to (usually) complete refund.
Ok go to your local BestBuy, Target, WallMart, {insert other box stores here} and buy some boxed software. Take it home and open it, insert the disk and decline the EULA. (You can just pull the shrink wrap off in the parking lot too to test my theory). Now try and return it, you can even tell them its because you found the EULA unacceptable. You are going to get stonewalled. Few retail places are taking returns of open item movies, music, or software. I don't know but I don't think you will get very far attempting to return it directly to the publisher either, even if you can I am certain you will have to eat the shipping costs.
True but its not very often you get read that EULA before you purchase no free software. I think there is the problem. Legal arguments asside, I think simple reason dictates that sellars must make the terms clear before someone leases( not buys ) a software license at least if they expect customers to be actually held to those terms.
In that sense they GPL may have more force then shrink wrap licenses, you can always read the GPL ahead of time, and you are in total control of the transaction. Since its nothing but you makeing a choice about using the software or not. If any money has changed hands its for some other service like proding the software to you on a shiny disk, with some documentation or support services.
Are you kidding that would violate all kinds of building codes, depending on the product!
I know this is slashdot so you have probably not spent much time around females at leat not those of our species, but let me tell you an angry one is a dangerous creature. All of them do get pissed off some of the time. You can be the greatest guy ever and sooner or later you will make a mistake. The good news if you are a good guy they will forgive you but the period between your screw up and their forgiveness can be extreemly hazardous.
Buffy is a fun show and all but if I were ordering robo girl, I am not sure I would spec out one with more addittude then usual, super strength, and a strong preference for solving her problems by hitting.
Does the author really think that kids in third world countries are going to be doing development work on these limited devices?
I don't see why he would not expect that, I learned my first programing in basic on a much smaller machine in terms of power and storage, even if it was much larger and more power hungry (TI99/4A).
Are hacking skills of value when you live in a mud hut?
I don't see why not, not every application has to be some complex financial app, or web browser, big gui anything. Maybe you need a basic calculater to help you decide when to plant crops. I can easily imagine some farmer wanting to record daily temperatures or rain fail year over year and have the computer provide some basic trends. That is the kind of thing you could do in BASIC or Python and could be highly useful.
I think that is sorta the point. What is "needed" on the OLPC and XO is something simple that someone with not experience, and limited reading skills, a child in the developing world for example is something like sugar.
If you are trying to decide to ship Windows XP or Linux with Sugar on top, it might be useful to compare them from the point of view of the target user. Also Sugar is just the shell, the linux based operationg system its running on is still a "versatile monster trying to offer all things to all people. It is hugely complex and requires the average person a great deal of time to pickup and use."
Once they start learning they can go on to use just about and UNIX software which as a general rule has a lot better odds of doing something useful on such a limited hardware platform then any Windows based counter part.
Sugar / the windows shell, in this case should be almost thought of as a boot strap for the user. Its supposed to be providing them enough access to get started without much prior education so they can go on an teach themselves from there. Having never used sugar only reading about it a looking at pictures that it appears it might be a success where XP is obviously a total failure at such an objective. Evidence you say just look at all the thick dead tree books, and traning videos designed to teach basic Windows usage to extreemely well educated by comparison users here in the Western World. Windows is not some magically intuative system most people can just figure out, its just that its so popular everyone gets exposure.
You are correct but there is a difference here between something being illegal and criminalized. If our ferderal government makes growning pot a crime, its a crime everywhere include the whole of CA. Now CA can decide its not going to enforce that federal law, or enforce it only conditionally, provided the codifiy the conditions they will enforce under ( still have to have due porcess and equal protection ).
So you can be growning pot on your front porch in parts of CA and if a local cop rolls down the street he may very well do nothing, if a federal agent rolls down the street he can snap the cuffs on you. The reality is though in the United States it is local law enforcement that does most of the enforcing . Federal Agents don't work a beat, as a rule. The investigate and go after priority offenders, the guy growing fields of it or transporting it across multiple state lines running some sort of distribution network, not the guy who takes a hit or two from the stuff grown in his closet after work, that person will never be a federal priority.
The answer is it can't. There may be rare (sadly, I like many conservative Americans feel the modern USSC has adopted an incorrectly borad interpretation of this) case where the commerce clause is not sufficent to allow federal law to be applied within a state, gernerally though ferderal law always has supremacy. Now the feds can't be everywhere and depend on state and local law enforcement to cooperate and sometimes they don't. Sometimes they even make it a law not to cooperate. A local city could pass a ordinance that its police force is to treat a drug in fraction as a secondary offense, state officers are not to book anyone unless they are also breaking some other law. This is what we call decriminalizing something. Basically its still a crime but those who could enforce the law chose not to do so.
There is also a huge difference in not snitching because you fell intemidated and not snithcing because you don't want to. You may feel a law is unimportant, unjust, unreasonable, etc and don't feel much sense of civic dubty when it comes to participation in assisting the government with its enforcement.
The former is a big problem that later not so much.
I don't think that would work very well. Symlinks are stored in most file systems as "special" files. You would have to seek read the read the link. Since dot files are usually pretty small ie would fit in one block or a few consequtive blocks, any time at all spent accessing the SSD will be a loss, because you will have done all the expensive part of the operation on the traditional disk. Now its possible some filesystems that keep more data about a link in their internal structures would end up having that info cached but you would have research all that pretty carefully.
Yea,
This strikes me as extreemly misdirected. Nobody working at the tech support stand has an influcence whatsoever with regaurd to effecting the changes the FSF would like to see. All that is going to happen here is that these people will be politely asked to leave and when they don't the police will be called and they will be removed. They are going to end up looking like asshats, the only policy changes at Apple that will even possibly result form this is their retail arm might rethink physical security in the stores, hardly the goals of the FSF.
The telivision and print media will pick up the story because its Apple and they always do. They mostly won't understand what was being said by the FSF people since they won't understand it. The report will come off something like, "a radical hackor group, called the fSF, caused dissruptions in Apple stores accross the nation today." All this will do is make FSF look bad, and Apple like a victim.
His point is that the harddisk to the computer is one long stream of bytes. There is no organization of files. What there is are special values stored at defined offsets that say a file starts here and continues for x blocks or is continues y more bytes in, etc etc. The hirearchy as we are generally presented often does not even exist. Lots of filesystems store directorys the same way as other files, the are just lists of what files are in the directory.
You claim that trees don't grown in dirt but soil, but then link a definition for dirt where the number one entry is "earth or soil". Cleary from your own link dirt is often a synonym for soil.
I would like to point out that you can't use a dictionary.
QOS IS NOT A FEATURE its a hack! A good network should be able to move all the traffic at decent latency, not just special traffic.
We would have to be litteral willing to blockade it though, its not like, China, Korea, and the Mid East powers are going to stop buy just because we do.
True, but CPU you can do, I mean it should be trival to cut the image into areas and thus parallize the decompression job in a way that you can hand it off to a number of CPUs.
Disk / network IO seems like it would be quite a bit harder. As an other poster pointed out 4Gbps only gives you about 2fps. Now I have done a little work with some low end SAN hardware. 4G is about as fast as fiber HBAs get and 10G and faster switches get fantastically expensive. A single controller can only run so many shelves of disk before it become a bottleneck itself in terms of IO, so for a job like this you are going to need lots of controllers and lots of Fiber channel switching hardware. If you can squeeze the data volume down 20% that is going to be a big win in terms of cost and performance.
The other thing you have to remember is you proably have at least a double digit number of people wanting different data at the same time so you need quite a bit more throughput then first blush.
An ISCSI san soulution could give you a pretty good control to disk ratio, you build it all on 10GigE and then maybe some sort of specialized decompression gateway between the client and the storage contollers, running 10GigE all the way to the client systems?
Thats a good point IT WILL HAPPEN. Itunes might be arround for 20 years but some day it will be closed. I think the longevity might be the sadest part of all. Unless Apple in the end pushes some automajic code in a later release that strips the DRM from any protected files it finds most people won't ever be bothered to do it, and won't be thinking about it when ITMS shuts down.
Children won't be rediscovering momy and daddys 20 year old records in the future. DRM could cause an entire generations music to be lost.
Most cable / dsl user have pretty static ips these days. I assume you log the IP of the posters? If yes then write yourself a little shell script or two, one to insert rules into ip tables and store them to a file with a date stamp and one to remove "old" rules called by cron.
Then you just insert rules with your script like
$IPT -I INPUT 1 -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/32 -p tcp -j DROP
Your scripts will clean up for you so you won't end up with 10000s of rules in your runtime tables config and most griefers are going to go away and forget about you after not being able to access your site for a few days.
I am sorry but you are wrong. The component of the turing machine definition about memory is, "given and infinite amount of memory any transformation can be performed."
Chances are the system you have if equiped with unlimited memory could perform any transformation.
well yea, that's what they'd want you to think!