Hackers traditionaly hold to the ethic of do no harm. It's one thing to get into a box poke around get some evidence that you were there and not damamge anything besides covering your tracks
What you are describing is still a system cracker.
The "do no harm" philosophy is pure ignorance.
Someone breaking into a machine and covering his
tracks can do a lot of unintentional harm.
Those who hack the XBox don't have to worry about
causing harm because they are working entirely on
their own equipment.
US drivers, especially the Pacific Northwest, suffer from some strange illness that impairs their ability to drive on the freeways.
California is the only state where the majority of
drivers can handle the freeways. Everywhere else I
have at least one asshole a day try to kill me with
dangerously inept driving.
Maybe if they kept the theme music and threw every other "classic" element away...
But will they still use those ridiculous time
measurements? I haven't seen the show in 20+
years so I'm a little fuzzy on the what they
were.
Or will they show that same fighter launch
sequence over and over?
My guess is that the show will contain
a couple tributes/gibes to the original and ignore
it other than than that (a la the non-explantion
of old Klingons vs. new Klingons in Star Trek).
truss under Solaris is even more useful than strace under Linux or ktrace under the BSDs; you can also trace function entry points into user-level ELF solibs.
Unfortunately, not under 2.6. It does work on 2.8+
and can occasionaly be a lifesaver. 'ltrace' under
Linux does pretty much the same thing.
Jesus preached acceptance, inclusion, even friendship with "outsiders".
Think not that I am come to destroy the law,
or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to
fulfill.
Mathew 5:17 KJ
This is the same law that condemned anyone who
broke the sexual laws to death, that legalized
slavery (with a buyout clause after a period of
time), treated women as property,
and had a variety of rules for which the
punishment was death. Jesus was saying that people
deserved a chance and that it was okay for the
Jews (and later Gentiles who became Christians) to
associate with them for the purpose of trying
to convert them. The writings of Paul make this
very explicit.
governments... try to watch what we're doing all
the time... change allegience with foreign governments, or dictatorships, on a whim...
people being whisked away to imprisonment and torture without being charged with a crime or given due process... lie to us or make false
claims to justify their actions.
Try reading "The Prince" or the Bible or the myths
of most any culture. Those activities have been
part of the art of statecraft since there have
been states. Big Brother is slightly ridiculous
because the entire idea is so inefficient and huge
and clumsy that that style of control and
survellience could not work in the US
(especially against a population forewarned).
We have to
be wary in defense of our liberties because it is
the nature of states to try to maintain
power, not
because some ideological supervillain wants to
rule over an enslaved humankind.
I'm not sure if you're actually disagreeing with what the parent post had said, i.e. that communism had conquered the world. If what you're saying is that in "1984" the West had become communist, but not through military conquest, then it seems to me that you're right.
I wasn't really disagreeing, just making what I
thought was an important clarification - that the
real danger of war can be the damage you do to
yourself to survive, the steps onto the "slippery
slope" all us
paranoids here on/. are always yammering about.
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1984--a distopia illuminating a potential future where communism has conquered the world
Not quite. It was a warning that communism's enemies in
the west (the democracies) could easily make themselves
into what they fought.
The spectre of 'Big Brother' is slightly ridiculous now,
thanks in some part to the warning that '1984' gave
us.
Yeah, yeah, and "Americans enjoy many freedoms not
guaranteed or protected by the constitution". I wish you
people (and your apologists) would just hurry up and die.
He never went to jail, he was also not banned
from involvement with a FDIC (or other fed
insurance) covered institution (as were many of
the others involved in the S&L scandal), and was
bailed out of paying the fine and settlement by
a republican fund raiser.
And Falun Gong is a dangerous cult. The fact that they are also against the Chinese government doesn't change it.
This is pretty much the opinion held by most
Chinese I've spoken with about it. I don't think
the US government has ever had anything good to
say about FG, but
freedom of religion makes for good propoganda and
yet another human rights issue to beat up China
over - so the US media has a tendency to whitewash
the FG.
The people who are calling you just have crappy jobs and probably really need the money, they aren't calling you up specifically just to piss you off.
Ah yes, the infamous Nuremberg defense. Historically it has
a poor success rate, you might want to switch to the
Chewbacca defense - I hear that works.
You do realize, right, that this is a very bad idea? I mean, how many valid e-mail addresses would you get by harvesting this list? When's the last time you saw a spammer who cared about the rules (or the law)?
If there was a proper law that explicitly made it illegal
for MakeMoneyFast.com to send UCE, and also provided
penalties for companies (or their agents) who hire
spammers to advertise on their behalf, then the
business of spam for hire would suffer.
Plus, how hard is it for professional spammers to find valid
email addresses? Since email is a communications
application your email address has to be public to some
degree in order to be useful. Even if you control access to
your email address it can be leaked by anyone you
ever communicated with. I get plenty of spam that I know
was generated as a result of communication with customers
or vendors - some unethical person (maybe even the
postmaster) at one of those sites sold the list of addresses.
That sort of behaviour is a bonus from my view:)
The problem I had with Win95 PPP, which was never
really addressed, involved the 'try and go with
anything' model (which often creates ambiguity)
combined with incorrect LCP negotiation for several options (which also creates ambiguity).
You'd be
surprised at how much program logic and how many
meetings about interoperability Win95 PPP creates
to this day. It's mostly just due dilligence at
this point, but still a bother.
95B usb support was bad. I wound up reinstalling
Windows twice after trying to get usb
devices working. I pretty much gave up on USB
until Win98 came out.
Win95 supports DirectX 8.0.
Ah, my mistake - I thought DirectX support for win95
ended with 7.x
There are numerous updates to Windows 95's PPP support.
I've dealt with modem products for
several years and Windows PPP gave me a rash
until XP. If there were upgrades for PPP available
then users did not apply them.
I consider The Big Lebowski to be good low-brow fun.
Not even close to arty - try "The Cook, The Thief,
His Wife, and Her Lover" for gag me with a Brie de
Meaux levels of artiness. I guarantee you will
understand the difference between offbeat and arty
after watching that film.
The only reason (that I can think of) that the US
does not support Japan
having an offensive force is that it could
seriously complicate relations with China. We could
really use China in our corner to keep N. Korea
under control. China supporting N. Korea would be
a complete disaster, not that I imagine that is
likely.
I think the last war that the US realy won was vs Japan where we insured that there was no posibility of them every becoming militarily dangerious.
Very dangerous view, the Japanese could become
militarily dangerous again very easily. The latest
scary idiocy from N. Korea could provoke Japan into
seriously re-millitarizing.
Those camel-fuckers in Iraq are out there day and night making a sherade of what we worked so hard to establish on this earth... peace and liberty.
Preach it! Your buddies didn't die face down in the
mud in Vietnam so some rich fuck could make snide
comments about the US on some liberal discussion
board.
You might have mistaken my post for the
original post I replied to that claimed no
improvement from 9x to XP. I was saying that
I agreed that XP has vastly improved security and
stability, but users don't count those as features.
I actually like XP (aside from the ridiculous
and insulting product activation) and use it on
two of my computers.
Small businesses (read 1-10 people) tend to be a bit more practical. They're specifically interested in whether you can do the particular job they need you to do.
I've had the opposite experience, small businesses
need someone who can wear lots of different hats,
large companies are more likely to need a highly
skilled specialist.
You're right, but I was just talking about user
visible improvements. Security and stability are
hygienic features - they cause dissatisfaction when
absent, but are ignored by users when present.
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What you are describing is still a system cracker. The "do no harm" philosophy is pure ignorance. Someone breaking into a machine and covering his tracks can do a lot of unintentional harm.
Those who hack the XBox don't have to worry about causing harm because they are working entirely on their own equipment.
California is the only state where the majority of drivers can handle the freeways. Everywhere else I have at least one asshole a day try to kill me with dangerously inept driving.
If you pay the actors what they can now demand you could wind up with Buffy season 7. The world cannot risk that happening again.
But will they still use those ridiculous time measurements? I haven't seen the show in 20+ years so I'm a little fuzzy on the what they were.
Or will they show that same fighter launch sequence over and over?
My guess is that the show will contain a couple tributes/gibes to the original and ignore it other than than that (a la the non-explantion of old Klingons vs. new Klingons in Star Trek).
Unfortunately, not under 2.6. It does work on 2.8+ and can occasionaly be a lifesaver. 'ltrace' under Linux does pretty much the same thing.
This is the same law that condemned anyone who broke the sexual laws to death, that legalized slavery (with a buyout clause after a period of time), treated women as property, and had a variety of rules for which the punishment was death. Jesus was saying that people deserved a chance and that it was okay for the Jews (and later Gentiles who became Christians) to associate with them for the purpose of trying to convert them. The writings of Paul make this very explicit.
Try reading "The Prince" or the Bible or the myths of most any culture. Those activities have been part of the art of statecraft since there have been states. Big Brother is slightly ridiculous because the entire idea is so inefficient and huge and clumsy that that style of control and survellience could not work in the US (especially against a population forewarned). We have to be wary in defense of our liberties because it is the nature of states to try to maintain power, not because some ideological supervillain wants to rule over an enslaved humankind.
I wasn't really disagreeing, just making what I thought was an important clarification - that the real danger of war can be the damage you do to yourself to survive, the steps onto the "slippery slope" all us paranoids here on /. are always yammering about.
Not quite. It was a warning that communism's enemies in the west (the democracies) could easily make themselves into what they fought.
The spectre of 'Big Brother' is slightly ridiculous now, thanks in some part to the warning that '1984' gave us.
Yeah, yeah, and "Americans enjoy many freedoms not guaranteed or protected by the constitution". I wish you people (and your apologists) would just hurry up and die.
He never went to jail, he was also not banned from involvement with a FDIC (or other fed insurance) covered institution (as were many of the others involved in the S&L scandal), and was bailed out of paying the fine and settlement by a republican fund raiser.
This is pretty much the opinion held by most Chinese I've spoken with about it. I don't think the US government has ever had anything good to say about FG, but freedom of religion makes for good propoganda and yet another human rights issue to beat up China over - so the US media has a tendency to whitewash the FG.
Ah yes, the infamous Nuremberg defense. Historically it has a poor success rate, you might want to switch to the Chewbacca defense - I hear that works.
If there was a proper law that explicitly made it illegal for MakeMoneyFast.com to send UCE, and also provided penalties for companies (or their agents) who hire spammers to advertise on their behalf, then the business of spam for hire would suffer.
Plus, how hard is it for professional spammers to find valid email addresses? Since email is a communications application your email address has to be public to some degree in order to be useful. Even if you control access to your email address it can be leaked by anyone you ever communicated with. I get plenty of spam that I know was generated as a result of communication with customers or vendors - some unethical person (maybe even the postmaster) at one of those sites sold the list of addresses.
(By which I mean a parser that contains errors, not some sort of baby carriage configuration utility)
That sort of behaviour is a bonus from my view :)
The problem I had with Win95 PPP, which was never
really addressed, involved the 'try and go with
anything' model (which often creates ambiguity)
combined with incorrect LCP negotiation for several options (which also creates ambiguity).
You'd be
surprised at how much program logic and how many
meetings about interoperability Win95 PPP creates
to this day. It's mostly just due dilligence at
this point, but still a bother.
95B usb support was bad. I wound up reinstalling Windows twice after trying to get usb devices working. I pretty much gave up on USB until Win98 came out.
Win95 supports DirectX 8.0.
Ah, my mistake - I thought DirectX support for win95 ended with 7.x
There are numerous updates to Windows 95's PPP support.
I've dealt with modem products for several years and Windows PPP gave me a rash until XP. If there were upgrades for PPP available then users did not apply them.
I consider The Big Lebowski to be good low-brow fun. Not even close to arty - try "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover" for gag me with a Brie de Meaux levels of artiness. I guarantee you will understand the difference between offbeat and arty after watching that film.
The only reason (that I can think of) that the US does not support Japan having an offensive force is that it could seriously complicate relations with China. We could really use China in our corner to keep N. Korea under control. China supporting N. Korea would be a complete disaster, not that I imagine that is likely.
I was joking and I assume the original poster was as well.
Very dangerous view, the Japanese could become militarily dangerous again very easily. The latest scary idiocy from N. Korea could provoke Japan into seriously re-millitarizing.
Preach it! Your buddies didn't die face down in the mud in Vietnam so some rich fuck could make snide comments about the US on some liberal discussion board.
You might have mistaken my post for the original post I replied to that claimed no improvement from 9x to XP. I was saying that I agreed that XP has vastly improved security and stability, but users don't count those as features. I actually like XP (aside from the ridiculous and insulting product activation) and use it on two of my computers.
I've had the opposite experience, small businesses need someone who can wear lots of different hats, large companies are more likely to need a highly skilled specialist.
You're right, but I was just talking about user visible improvements. Security and stability are hygienic features - they cause dissatisfaction when absent, but are ignored by users when present.