The Anglo-American university system introduced this idea of majors within a wider range of general courses.
Less of the ‘Anglo’ please: university courses in England concentrate on a single field, without the US concept of ‘majoring’ in a subject but still studying many others. (There’s often flexibility to take some modules from other subjects, should you choose to, but it’s a far cry from high school 2.0).
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that the facts make a difference... there's more than enough in this story that can be spun as “think of the children”...
These "civil liberties" types, as you call them, are the ones who are not likely to compromise on principles like presumption of innocence, even if they have to hold their noses about the issues that support their case.
Which, as I say, can only be a good thing. Unfortunately, the “civil liberties types” (no slur intended—I’d count myself among their number), do not necessarily have a controlling stake in the government—so while they can (and should) fight every single erosion of essential liberty, they’re inevitably going to lose some of the battles on the way... and any battle that involves pornography (check), child abuse (check), tabloid outrage (check) and government support (check) is bound to be one of the hardest!
“possession of violent pornography is now punishable by three years in prison”
Umm... no it isn’t. FTFA:
The government has announced plans to make the possession of violent porn punishable by three years in jail.
The government have announced plans to make it illegal. So it may happen. But also, the civil liberties types have plenty of time to raise objections, get the sentence changed, get exemptions added etc... which has got to be a good thing.
The words "Microsoft Internet" being drilled subconsciously into the minds of everyone using it.
Sadly there’s a lot of truth in this. I once nearly freaked out when my sister said “But the internet is made by Microsoft isn’t it? That’s why it’s called the Microsoft Internet Explorer”...
The guy I replied to was talking about illegally downloading copyrighted material through BitTorrent.
No he wasn’t—or at least, that’s certainly not how I read the post. He was saying that it’s very important to keep pointing out that there are many legal uses of BitTorrent, because otherwise the *IAA will find it easier to convince legislators (who probably don’t spend much time downloading Linux distributions) to outlaw all uses of BitTorrent, or all peer-to-peer software, on the grounds that “it’s only ever used for illegal filesharing so must be inherently evil”.
Ignorantia legis neminem excusamus [sic] That's Latin for "ignorance of the *law* is no excuse"
(emphasis mine) That legal principle only means that you can't murder someone, and then claim “...but I didn’t know that was against the law” and hope to be let off. In order to commit a crime, you have to have mens rea (to use yet more Latin)—that is, a “guilty mind”—so storing data that you genuinely didn't know was illegal isn’t a crime. And in this case, there are plenty of possible, perfectly legal reasons for wanting to store encrypted data (for example, there’s a huge market for offsite backup for corporations, who tend to want to keep their stuff secret), so the storage providers are probably OK (disclaimer: the above is about criminal law, civil law is a bit murkier, IANAL etc). On the other hand, it would be very hard to be certain that no trace of the illegal data remained on the client machine (especially if you don’t want to type a twenty-word passphrase every time you want to listen to a new track;-)
OTOH there was a philosopher called Karl Marx whos work has been much abused.
:-)
As it happens, in Russian (which uses the Cyrillic alphabet), there is no letter "x"—so there is no distinction between the names of Marx-the-founder-of-communism and Marks-as-in-Marks-and-Spencers [UK shopping chain]—these would be regarded as the same name...
You can only get 16 addressing "modes" if you count each register as a different mode. And the indirect Y mode I don't think anybody ever found a use for. More like 6 usable modes.
Nonsense, I used it all the time. A typical use would be calculating the start address of a screen line, storing the address in zero page, then iterating along that line using the Y register as an index.
2) Do the same as above, but don't bother with print. Compile the references and post them on an internal webserver
We use a wiki for exactly this purpose. That way it’s easy to correct mistakes, and it’s searchable (if your internal webserver doesn’t already have this).
Last time I checked, Europe was a collection of countries with their own laws. Yes, the EU has had some influence in bringing some of those laws closer in recent years, but AFAIK this has not yet extended to Telecoms regulation.
It most certainly has extended to telecoms regulation: check out Regulation EC/2887/2000 for starters.
The incumbant telecoms operator has not been forced to open the local loop,
Of course, some countries may be slower than others at taking action—indeed it seems from the article I linked above that Germany in particular has taken a stand against the directive...
(Word choice and grammar are essentially the same things.)
Not at all. Gramatically, "I never made mistakes" and "I never swam mistakes" are equally correct. But the second one would be a very poor choice of words:-)
"Made" is the past-tense of "make." "I never make mistakes", and "I have never made mistakes" are all subtly shades of the exact same meaning.
No, they are not: "I never make mistakes" conveys that you are now in the habit of always being correct (and so won't make any mistakes in the future, or haven't in the recent past). It doesn't say anything about the distant past—so you could quite happily say something like "Now that I read slashdot I never make mistakes"(!). "I have never made mistakes" conveys that, up until now, you haven't made a single mistake—but says nothing about what you intend to do in the future: so you could say "I have never made mistakes, but I want to start now".
I think the GP's intended meaning would probably be best conveyed by saying "I never used to make mistakes"—indicating that, in the past, he wasn't in the habit of making mistakes, with the implication that that's not true now.
The govt record aside, what exactly prevents two enforcers from the Russian mafia walking into the house of the technical staff responsible for Clean Feed in the middle of the night with a gun?
What prevents them doing this at <insert name of large ISP>?
Windows can't delay metadata writes on FAT32. See my comments earlier about synchronous metadata writes in FAT32 on Windows due to the whole floppy disk legacy.
I don’t have access to the Windows source code, but I see no reason in principle why the FAT32 driver couldn’t behave differently for different media, eg by checking the FILE_REMOVABLE_MEDIA and FILE_FLOPPY_DISK attributes in the Characteristics field of the device object, and delaying the metadata writes (or not) accordingly. Or is there something I’m missing?
I don't know which is worse, how breathtakingly wrong this post is (Windows: now it sees into the future) or the fact that this AC post got modded "insightful".
It doesn’t need to see into the future: just delay writing updates to the disk for a while. Most modern operating systems do this—unsurprisingly, as it usually makes things go faster:-)
It's also quite retarded by having only two real ethernet ports, one attached to a built in six port switch with vlans. Makes some kind of routing impossible, and is less secure as firewall routing rules don't apply to packets that never get seen by the kernel.
You can configure the CPU-facing port on the switch to use VLAN trunking, and assign each of the other ports on the switch to a different VLAN. Then create the appropriate number of VLAN subinterfaces in the kernel. That way it’s equivalent to having separate ethernet ports, at least from a routing and firewall perspective—so that’s not really a disadvantage... Is there anything you can’t do with this setup?
$15,600 for a house! Not anywhere remotely close to an urban center. Hell, in the DC area, show me a house for $156,000 and I'll show you a sewer or landfill. A quick search on realtor.com shows one property for less than $150,000. It has 2 bedrooms, 0.05 acres and is a "Fixer-upper/handyman special."
That's $15,600 per year. What sort of mortgage can you get for that? I don't know about the US, but in the UK you can easily get a mortgage for 15x the annual payment, likely more...
In terms of HTML, that's easy. Just run a regexp on all user-supplied data to convert < to >, and the content will be treated as text.
That’s true, but unfortunately it’s not as simple as that—most web-based bulletin-board software wants to allow the user to uselotsofemphasis. I agree that it’s still not very hard to secure—but it’s easy to see how people get it wrong...
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You seem to be under the mistaken impression that the facts make a difference... there's more than enough in this story that can be spun as “think of the children”...
Which, as I say, can only be a good thing. Unfortunately, the “civil liberties types” (no slur intended—I’d count myself among their number), do not necessarily have a controlling stake in the government—so while they can (and should) fight every single erosion of essential liberty, they’re inevitably going to lose some of the battles on the way... and any battle that involves pornography (check), child abuse (check), tabloid outrage (check) and government support (check) is bound to be one of the hardest!
Umm... no it isn’t. FTFA:
The government have announced plans to make it illegal. So it may happen. But also, the civil liberties types have plenty of time to raise objections, get the sentence changed, get exemptions added etc... which has got to be a good thing.
(clue: it’s not illegal!)
That would be a 2MHz processor...
:-)
As it happens, in Russian (which uses the Cyrillic alphabet), there is no letter "x"—so there is no distinction between the names of Marx-the-founder-of-communism and Marks-as-in-Marks-and-Spencers [UK shopping chain]—these would be regarded as the same name...
[Yes, I know Marx was German...]
Nonsense, I used it all the time. A typical use would be calculating the start address of a screen line, storing the address in zero page, then iterating along that line using the Y register as an index.
We use a wiki for exactly this purpose. That way it’s easy to correct mistakes, and it’s searchable (if your internal webserver doesn’t already have this).
It most certainly has extended to telecoms regulation: check out Regulation EC/2887/2000 for starters.
Of course, some countries may be slower than others at taking action—indeed it seems from the article I linked above that Germany in particular has taken a stand against the directive...
Not at all. Gramatically, "I never made mistakes" and "I never swam mistakes" are equally correct. But the second one would be a very poor choice of words :-)
No, they are not: "I never make mistakes" conveys that you are now in the habit of always being correct (and so won't make any mistakes in the future, or haven't in the recent past). It doesn't say anything about the distant past—so you could quite happily say something like "Now that I read slashdot I never make mistakes"(!). "I have never made mistakes" conveys that, up until now, you haven't made a single mistake—but says nothing about what you intend to do in the future: so you could say "I have never made mistakes, but I want to start now".
I think the GP's intended meaning would probably be best conveyed by saying "I never used to make mistakes"—indicating that, in the past, he wasn't in the habit of making mistakes, with the implication that that's not true now.
I don’t have access to the Windows source code, but I see no reason in principle why the FAT32 driver couldn’t behave differently for different media, eg by checking the FILE_REMOVABLE_MEDIA and FILE_FLOPPY_DISK attributes in the Characteristics field of the device object, and delaying the metadata writes (or not) accordingly. Or is there something I’m missing?
It doesn’t need to see into the future: just delay writing updates to the disk for a while. Most modern operating systems do this—unsurprisingly, as it usually makes things go faster :-)
You can configure the CPU-facing port on the switch to use VLAN trunking, and assign each of the other ports on the switch to a different VLAN. Then create the appropriate number of VLAN subinterfaces in the kernel. That way it’s equivalent to having separate ethernet ports, at least from a routing and firewall perspective—so that’s not really a disadvantage... Is there anything you can’t do with this setup?
That's $15,600 per year. What sort of mortgage can you get for that? I don't know about the US, but in the UK you can easily get a mortgage for 15x the annual payment, likely more...
I think you need to give the GP more credit—I’ve seen the film, and he definitely refers to Jigawatts, not Gigawatts...
That’s true, but unfortunately it’s not as simple as that—most web-based bulletin-board software wants to allow the user to use lots of emphasis . I agree that it’s still not very hard to secure—but it’s easy to see how people get it wrong...
That’s not even true: for a start, a UK gallon is some 20% bigger than a US gallon, and there are many more types of gallon in existence...