From this we gather that Congress is the only part of federal government that can make laws (techincally others, like the President, might write up a bill, but it's Congress which makes it a law), laws are how Congress carries out such things as funding, and that funding, if Constitutional, could be construed to be a part of "provide for the general welfare". As such, no sort of federal funding can go towards abridging speech, and any organization that deals with the US federal government should realize this. Certainly a court case could make any company return said federal funds if they took said funds and abridged speech. And like I said, such an act could be seen as fraud or possibly collusion.
That has to be some of the most tenuous reasoning I have seen in some time. And this is/. Well done!
OK, I give. What in the name of hell is an "AnCap"? Google mostly comes up with the "Australian New Car Assessment Programme", but I figure that ain't it...
I beleive it means AnarchoCapitalist. I'm pretty sure I've seen him (her?) use that term before.
Re:Is programming getting much harder? GET WHAT?
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30 Get A$
So when did it become Get, let alone accept lower case?
In my day it was:
30 INPUT A$
and that's all there was to it.
It's been a looong time, but IIRC INPUT A$ would store a string from stdin after a user hit the enter key. GET A$ would actually wait for a keypress and store that ASCII value in A$ and move on. If you wanted a string you'd have to execute a for...next loop and put the GET values into a array of A of type CHR$.
At the end of the day, not only do they check that money in register equals total of prices, but they also look to see which items were sold below the ticket price.
That makes no sense. Everything *would* match up. The barcode does not change the price of an item. It identifies the item. The computer then matches the item with a price. He didn't use a "made-up" barcode, he used one that was legitimate for a pair of cheap headphones (IIRC $4.99). The computer wouldn't record the sale of an iPod, it would record the sale of the "4.99 headphones" - what the bar code said it was. Since he paid $4.99 it would match what the computer expected. The accounting only matches what was scanned with how much money is in drawer.
e. For Class 5 felonies, the jury or court may choose imprisonment for one to 10 years or jail for up to 12 months and a fine of up to $2,500, either or both.
I have a pretty good idea of what headphones he has (hint =Shure). I'm guessing he has an the e2c. I got those using a gift certificate, and they do make a marked change in listening to music on my iPOD. I have since purchased the e5c (and they cost more than the iPod) and I am astonished at how well they perform. Especially with the custom ear forms.
Seriously, anyone who listens on substandard computer speakers or headphone (like the POS ones that come with the iPod) is going to have a really cruddy listening experience.
The point is that a 35km commute is _short_ commute for an american, a long one for a european. With rising oil-prices americans too would stop commuting more than 50km each way.
And I still fail to see how that's a good thing. By raising transportation costs, you've effectively raised the price of everything. Food, clothing, commodity goods. They all have to get to the store somehow. If transportation costs rise, the wholesale price is going to rise. This doesn't even begin to cover the rising cost of manufacture and getting the raw materials to the factories in the first place. In your world, only the mega-corps will be around since they are the only ones that could survive on the increasingly shrinking margins this idea would create. And that's good, how?
I love how people spout out ideas, thinking "it's all so simple, if only people would do X". Well, it ain't simple. There are too many dependancies that all interconnect to think there's some easy fix.
I understand where you're coming from here, but I think that this was actually more consistant than it appears.
IIRC, It was Windows version 3 (after Windows 1.0 and 2.0). The NT referred to New Technology (meaning non-DOS based kernel). So the naming did kinda make sense. You could get Windows 3 as layer above DOS or you could Windows 3 with NT kernel. Plus the kernel version starts at 3 for NT. Windows 2000 reports as NT kernel 5.0 and XP reports as 5.1.
these were skilled professions who practiced their profession for their country; they cannot be tarred with a single 'Nazi eugenics' brush that's tacitly implied.
Right! It's not like some were officers in the SS, and worked slave labor to death producing V2 rockets *cough*Von Braun*cough*
Well, if they were runlevel 5 (which is the default for almost all distros these days), it would just respawn GDM/KDM/XDM - not drop them to a command line.
I remember picking up CD set (there were 5 I think) at Border's for $25 a long, long time ago (I also bought Yggdrasil at that time - so that may give you a time frame). I think it was a Walnut Creek thing. It had Slack on one CD, RedHat on another, Debian on the third, a CD with tux X-11 archive, and one more I can't remember...
[I'm assuming you're talking about the rootkit installed by the CD - NOT the removal patch] The Sony modification meets those criteria.
Except for the whole access thing. The DRM software on the CD is malware. It is in no way a back-door. Just because something is hidden does not make it a back-door. It is more accurate to just call it malware.
access technique that isn't detected, guarded against, or wanted
What access technique are you talking about? An "access technique" is not installing something in an undetectable manner. An "access technique" is a methodology used to get into a system. Telnet is an access technique. SSH is an access technique. Using netcat to attach to a BackOrifice port (37337 or 12345 - how clever) is an access technique. Install a rootkit with no network listeners or even creating a dummy account is not an access technique. How am I able to use this rootkit to access a system that has it installed? How is Sony able to access a system with this rootkit installed?
Their removal patch, on the other hand, will allow web sites to arbitrarily install software. That will permit the installation of a malicious software remotely. That, my friend, is a backdoor. Not the original rootkit.
Sometimes the punchline of a joke is what's not said. In your attempt to show that you were clever enough to unearth that unsaid gem, you managed to leech out whatever humor there was. And I do mean attempt... Anyone with half a brain could see that staggering over the hill, and yet you still felt some need to point it out. There's always a couple like you in the pubs on Saturday nights... and they wonder why no one wants to sit and talk to them.
What was that a couple post above about geeks being socially inept?
For the love of _______! (fill in appropriate name for your particular beliefs)
Someone mod the GP post Funny, before we get more "informative" posts. It looked like a tongue-in-cheek comment to me. I actually laughed. Then I saw the follow-ups from the Unfunny Brigade... It was a joke!
Seriously, who doesn't know about the SHA-1 weakness by now.
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You actually installed it? Even with the *huge* security hole it leaves in its wake? I thought the recommendation was to wait until a real un-installer was made, rather than this hacky piece-o-crap "patch" from Sony.
I've got this web site you should visit...
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In the first place, people like me don't get the flu as I already said, moron.
Not everyone lives in a "bubble" in their parents' basement like you.
In the second place, people like me aren't stupid enough fuckheads to go into work or school or the general population when we are sick and put dozens or hundreds of other people who are forced to be confined in the same place at risk of catching it.
There is typically an incubation period with these things. You can be infectious for time (hours, days...) before any symptoms become evident. It is very easy to be a vector for disease without even realizing you have one. Moron.
Comparing it to Battlestar Galactica is a bit of a reach. I loved that show growing up. I recently bought it. Somehow in my memories of the show, I forgot about the trip to the cannibal disco planet.
BS. I start MAYBE a dozen or so programs a day on my computer. So how significant is my difference? I would have saved what on Linux, a fraction of a half of a second?
Perhaps if you're running a server AND using some stone-age CGI executable that's called millions of times the differences may start to pile up... but probably not. Most such things on Windows are created as services that are always running, don't need process creation to do their jobs, and use threads that are faster than Linux versions.
Ahh... And I was wondering when the clueless would start to chime in.
Your workstation != Real world servers under high load
Read some of the above comments to see exactly why using threads are not the optimal solution for high availability server applications.
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"and here kid, get yourself a haircut".
No, that would be in the case of North Korea...
From this we gather that Congress is the only part of federal government that can make laws (techincally others, like the President, might write up a bill, but it's Congress which makes it a law), laws are how Congress carries out such things as funding, and that funding, if Constitutional, could be construed to be a part of "provide for the general welfare". As such, no sort of federal funding can go towards abridging speech, and any organization that deals with the US federal government should realize this. Certainly a court case could make any company return said federal funds if they took said funds and abridged speech. And like I said, such an act could be seen as fraud or possibly collusion.
/. Well done!
That has to be some of the most tenuous reasoning I have seen in some time. And this is
OK, I give. What in the name of hell is an "AnCap"? Google mostly comes up with the "Australian New Car Assessment Programme", but I figure that ain't it...
I beleive it means AnarchoCapitalist. I'm pretty sure I've seen him (her?) use that term before.
30 Get A$
So when did it become Get, let alone accept lower case?
In my day it was:
30 INPUT A$
and that's all there was to it.
It's been a looong time, but IIRC INPUT A$ would store a string from stdin after a user hit the enter key. GET A$ would actually wait for a keypress and store that ASCII value in A$ and move on. If you wanted a string you'd have to execute a for...next loop and put the GET values into a array of A of type CHR$.
90% of the idiotic population of this world hears the word "radiation" and IMMEDIATELY thinks "nuclear radiation"
Yeah, and the rest of the idiots make up stats...
At the end of the day, not only do they check that money in register equals total of prices, but they also look to see which items were sold below the ticket price. That makes no sense. Everything *would* match up. The barcode does not change the price of an item. It identifies the item. The computer then matches the item with a price. He didn't use a "made-up" barcode, he used one that was legitimate for a pair of cheap headphones (IIRC $4.99). The computer wouldn't record the sale of an iPod, it would record the sale of the "4.99 headphones" - what the bar code said it was. Since he paid $4.99 it would match what the computer expected. The accounting only matches what was scanned with how much money is in drawer.
e. For Class 5 felonies, the jury or court may choose imprisonment for one to 10 years or jail for up to 12 months and a fine of up to $2,500, either or both.
Re-read that. Where do you get the "AND/OR"?
Have anyone else noticed how slow the console is on a RedHat Enterprise 3 server?
Hmm... my airmchair diagnosis is that you may be suffering from a PEBKAC issue.
I keed! I keed!
From looking at the box, could you tell the difference between a Disney game and a Conker game?
The "E" on the front of the Disney game and the "M" on the front of the Conker game.
Playboy... is it actually illegal to sell a Playboy to a minor?
Yes.
Nah, probably referring to the Democratic Underground. Ever read that site? Yikes!
Well, I don't know about paying less... :)
I have a pretty good idea of what headphones he has (hint =Shure). I'm guessing he has an the e2c. I got those using a gift certificate, and they do make a marked change in listening to music on my iPOD. I have since purchased the e5c (and they cost more than the iPod) and I am astonished at how well they perform. Especially with the custom ear forms.
Seriously, anyone who listens on substandard computer speakers or headphone (like the POS ones that come with the iPod) is going to have a really cruddy listening experience.
The point is that a 35km commute is _short_ commute for an american, a long one for a european. With rising oil-prices americans too would stop commuting more than 50km each way.
And I still fail to see how that's a good thing. By raising transportation costs, you've effectively raised the price of everything. Food, clothing, commodity goods. They all have to get to the store somehow. If transportation costs rise, the wholesale price is going to rise. This doesn't even begin to cover the rising cost of manufacture and getting the raw materials to the factories in the first place. In your world, only the mega-corps will be around since they are the only ones that could survive on the increasingly shrinking margins this idea would create. And that's good, how?
I love how people spout out ideas, thinking "it's all so simple, if only people would do X". Well, it ain't simple. There are too many dependancies that all interconnect to think there's some easy fix.
The bacteria die because they get boiled in their own water. Boiling from inside out is a painful way for them to die.
Bacteria feel pain? I always assumed you need a nervous system for that.
Great, one more thing for PETA to annoy us about...
I understand where you're coming from here, but I think that this was actually more consistant than it appears.
IIRC, It was Windows version 3 (after Windows 1.0 and 2.0). The NT referred to New Technology (meaning non-DOS based kernel). So the naming did kinda make sense. You could get Windows 3 as layer above DOS or you could Windows 3 with NT kernel. Plus the kernel version starts at 3 for NT. Windows 2000 reports as NT kernel 5.0 and XP reports as 5.1.
these were skilled professions who practiced their profession for their country; they cannot be tarred with a single 'Nazi eugenics' brush that's tacitly implied.
Right! It's not like some were officers in the SS, and worked slave labor to death producing V2 rockets *cough*Von Braun*cough*
[...]and then pressed Backspace
Well, if they were runlevel 5 (which is the default for almost all distros these days), it would just respawn GDM/KDM/XDM - not drop them to a command line.
There are VMS systems out there which haven't been rebooted in over a decade.
:)
Uh... did you wander into the wrong forum? We're talking about Linux in here... Slackware... Hello..? (sorry, couldn't resist)
I remember picking up CD set (there were 5 I think) at Border's for $25 a long, long time ago (I also bought Yggdrasil at that time - so that may give you a time frame). I think it was a Walnut Creek thing. It had Slack on one CD, RedHat on another, Debian on the third, a CD with tux X-11 archive, and one more I can't remember...
[I'm assuming you're talking about the rootkit installed by the CD - NOT the removal patch]
The Sony modification meets those criteria.
Except for the whole access thing. The DRM software on the CD is malware. It is in no way a back-door. Just because something is hidden does not make it a back-door. It is more accurate to just call it malware.
access technique that isn't detected, guarded against, or wanted
What access technique are you talking about? An "access technique" is not installing something in an undetectable manner. An "access technique" is a methodology used to get into a system. Telnet is an access technique. SSH is an access technique. Using netcat to attach to a BackOrifice port (37337 or 12345 - how clever) is an access technique. Install a rootkit with no network listeners or even creating a dummy account is not an access technique. How am I able to use this rootkit to access a system that has it installed? How is Sony able to access a system with this rootkit installed?
Their removal patch, on the other hand, will allow web sites to arbitrarily install software. That will permit the installation of a malicious software remotely. That, my friend, is a backdoor. Not the original rootkit.
Sometimes the punchline of a joke is what's not said. In your attempt to show that you were clever enough to unearth that unsaid gem, you managed to leech out whatever humor there was. And I do mean attempt... Anyone with half a brain could see that staggering over the hill, and yet you still felt some need to point it out. There's always a couple like you in the pubs on Saturday nights... and they wonder why no one wants to sit and talk to them.
What was that a couple post above about geeks being socially inept?
For the love of _______! (fill in appropriate name for your particular beliefs)
Someone mod the GP post Funny, before we get more "informative" posts. It looked like a tongue-in-cheek comment to me. I actually laughed. Then I saw the follow-ups from the Unfunny Brigade... It was a joke!
Seriously, who doesn't know about the SHA-1 weakness by now.
You actually installed it? Even with the *huge* security hole it leaves in its wake? I thought the recommendation was to wait until a real un-installer was made, rather than this hacky piece-o-crap "patch" from Sony.
I've got this web site you should visit...
In the first place, people like me don't get the flu as I already said, moron.
Not everyone lives in a "bubble" in their parents' basement like you.
In the second place, people like me aren't stupid enough fuckheads to go into work or school or the general population when we are sick and put dozens or hundreds of other people who are forced to be confined in the same place at risk of catching it.
There is typically an incubation period with these things. You can be infectious for time (hours, days...) before any symptoms become evident. It is very easy to be a vector for disease without even realizing you have one. Moron.
Comparing it to Battlestar Galactica is a bit of a reach. I loved that show growing up. I recently bought it. Somehow in my memories of the show, I forgot about the trip to the cannibal disco planet.
Cannibal... Disco... Planet?
I have got to get this!
Man that's annoying... let's try that again :)
BS. I start MAYBE a dozen or so programs a day on my computer. So how significant is my difference? I would have saved what on Linux, a fraction of a half of a second?
Perhaps if you're running a server AND using some stone-age CGI executable that's called millions of times the differences may start to pile up... but probably not. Most such things on Windows are created as services that are always running, don't need process creation to do their jobs, and use threads that are faster than Linux versions.
Ahh... And I was wondering when the clueless would start to chime in.
Your workstation != Real world servers under high load
Read some of the above comments to see exactly why using threads are not the optimal solution for high availability server applications.