Yes, you don't get it. These bills are a legal tender, and the shop (e.g. the manager) needs to be aware of this fact. I mean, that's their business, isn't it, accepting money for stuff people buy.
Furthermore, he did it to show that he wasn't happy with the fact that they put a bill on him. If he was right, I don't know, but I think it got there attention just fine. Obviously the arrest was very illegal and the guy should take further action - at least against the police force.
One thing I can't abide is people not knowing their own business. The cops and the store manager should have known better. This story is as rediculous as the fact that the bills actuall *can* smear. I mean, for gods sake, we're talking about badly printed money there.
After having used Dutch "guilders" for a life-time and euro's for some time now, you can pretty well conclude that pounds (and the former Irish pounds) are _way_ too big. I think that the average Dubliner has lost about 1kg per person after they went with the euro's. Probably more due to inflation.
Well, you could write a nice artilce about wikipedia and see if it gets incorporated in Encarta. And then you could follow up with Linux, free software foundation etc. I would like to see to which extend they would try to censorize the submitted content (e.g. by not putting it in there in the first place).
But for me, the last thing I need is a large monopolistic media/software corporation controlling an encyclopedia, so if you don't mind, I will personally not submit a single bit to it.
The idea of shielding applications is in the right direction, but the idea of virtual paths does not seem too usefull to me.
I would love to have the OS install an application, and then put restrictions on it. Games do not need to know what's in the "My Documents" folder; a Word processor should not be able to take over the screen like a game does. So we need to put applications within groups, and put default permissions on them (which the application can overwrite with the permission of the user).
Types of restrictions: memory uses, number of processes, threads, sockets, number of windows (and other widgets), file system access, calls to other processes etc. etc.
For this to work the OS will have to be on a different level then the current operating systems though, which are little more than glorified disk operating systems with a GUI. I mean, any install on Windows can mess up any other install, what's that about? And if the deinstaller is badly written, it can mess things up as well. Don't even think about talking dynamic link libraries, because that's what's really badly implemented.
Yes, there are many improvements in newer operating system, and I look forward to the new features in Longhorn, and I'll try out OS X out soon as well. Linux seems to be stuck with its age-old file based ideas, with applications spread out all over the disk. They are still more secure than Windows though, and SE linux is a good idea.
Unfortunately a lot of LCD monitors are pretty crap, though they have fastly improved the last two years. People tend to look at processor specs when buying a notebook. Ever seen an ad that displays the viewing angle for a laptop screen? Neh, I'm not interested.
I once downed a valid client certificate + private key that contained no certificate extensions. MS (IE) trusts all certificates signed by this certificate, even though it is not a CA certificate. That means you will have to actively look at the certificate to make sure it is not a spoof, and understand X.509 extensions or recognize the server CA. The chance of this happening is close to zero. Man in the middle attacks made easy department. I don't know if MS has fixed this issue in the latest service packs, but as far as I know, the attack is still valid.
The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.
-- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers
But as far as Mini-ITX, except for the 533 C3 boards, they all have fans.
This is simply not true. Besides, you can make them fanless by applying a Zalman northbridge cooler (as seen on the net). I haven't done any burn in testing with mine though. One hint: putting them in a wooden enclosure like a wine-box does not do any good. If you need to do stupid things like that you *need* a fan. And a fire-alarm (though you can get the motherboard/cpu to shut down, it has temperature sensors). Yes, I tried.
If it has the "Eden" or "E" name in it, it is fanless. Pretty easy browsing once you notice this. It is not explained anywhere visible on the VIA sites though.
From the manual: can also be used as a heat gun. Get two tools for one. Burn off the paint of your car quickly. Do not point at face. Distance 20 cm minimum.
Developer Editions (at least on many software products) mean a free, limited version used for developing an application. Now if Intel would make it free for developers... sure thing. Now I think most companies with a reasonably intelligent marketing dept. would not spend a thousand quit on a processor that might be slightly faster, so they can forget about that market fast enough. Furthermore, to get to the corporate market you need to have decent production, replacement parts, time schedules etc.
(Most of) my systems have fans and tend to eat stuff called electricity. And most operating systems can keep running as long as you don't install new drivers. Yes, Linux is better than Windows with respect to restarting after loading drivers. On the other hand Linux power safe support is pretty abysmall compared to OSX or WinXP.
Oh, boy, is that anoying. You think you are ready for work, but due to the harddisk loading background processes for some time you can be sure that your application will start very slowly - messing up the background startup as well. Also, if you have smartcard logon, you will have to wait for that process to start as well. If the reader has been disconnected you will wait forever for the reader icon to show up. No, I don't see this as psychological relief.
Note that with a Win 2k or Linux PC you get the same effect due to the number of autorun processes starting up. Solution: faster seek times and tagged command queueing on the harddisks. IDE disks never have been good at multitasking. Buying a faster computer also helps, but that's a sliding slope.
The problem with the record company's is that it is impossible to get anything in the air or the shops without signing a license with a record company. In this license you sign that you will use the *insert big evil, monopolistic organization* to gather your reward. These organizations are normally protected by law as well.
Basically, what I am saying is that in the ideal situation the copyright holder would be able to control what is shared and what is not. In practice however, this seldom works. My ISP tried to do a copyright free festival, but the artists had already sold too many of their rights. This is the default.
Fortunately the artists get so rich nowadays that they are becoming a force of their own. So you see one or two copyright free tracks to be found on the internet by well known artists.
The protocols were invented by a bunch of students for the US DoD. Therefore, the internet is owned by students. If you look at the amount of (illegal) trafic that universities and students generate, this might even be true:).
A lot of educational/scientific institutions are still at the heart of the internet as we know it. And most of them don't like oppressive/regulative governments at all.
Yes, the parent is a troll, but he/she only states that religion has caused more harm than good (over the past thousand years or so...). Maybe the Third Reich or Stalin did more harm in terms of dead persons, but that does not negate his premisses.
Actually, both tended to murder Jews, so I don't know if you can't put that down to religion. Furthermore, many persons have died due to religion during the centuries. Maybe not by direct war, but there's the inquisition, witch hunts, church split offs, crusades...
I must admit that with the current Catholic church, it seems that they have switched from killing people to keeping them alive ad infinitum. I'm not sure which one is better.
Java has a very good security record. Anyway, this java stuff has not to do anything with remote execution, just with application code. The chance that there is a buffer overrun in Java is very small (it would mean a serious bug in the JVM). No software is perfect, but Java has a much better security record than most execution environments out there (compare it for instance with ActiveX).
The problem is that there is little to choose from if you want rapidly developed, secure code. C++ code gets complex very fast, and is difficult to check for memory leaks, buffer overruns etc. PERL and Python are less maintainable. IDE's for Java are getting very easy to use as well. MONO, well, this IS a Sun project...
Why does evolution always catch more attention when it is played out in the real world? It looks to me that a virtual world is much more practical for such purposes. Here is a guy showing just two simple bots and a bit of text on a website and it is suddenly interesting. Now if the bots build other bots it would be interesting, but before that...
I've never understood this. In the Netherlands we need to use an authenticator (yes, two-factor authentication, something you have and something you know) for any internet banking. This is not as safe as it should be, but it is a hell of a lot safer than username password combination on a web page (no less).
It seems to me that US banks do rely on username/password for internet banking. Could someone inform us Europeans on this (we'll get ready to ROFL in the mean time).
Anyway, IE is still suceptible to session hijacking (creating a leaf certificate under another leaf certificate without the right bits set). So as long as your authenticator does not sign e.g. the amount you pay, you can STILL be hacked. Happy surfing guys.
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All the time they try to get away from tabs, favouring top level windows (which stack into the retarded XP taskbar). And now suddenly tabs? What's next? Finding out that personalized menu's are crap?
Funny thing to see Microsoft rewrite their entire GUI guidelines just to combat Firefox.
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Yes, you don't get it. These bills are a legal tender, and the shop (e.g. the manager) needs to be aware of this fact. I mean, that's their business, isn't it, accepting money for stuff people buy.
Furthermore, he did it to show that he wasn't happy with the fact that they put a bill on him. If he was right, I don't know, but I think it got there attention just fine. Obviously the arrest was very illegal and the guy should take further action - at least against the police force.
One thing I can't abide is people not knowing their own business. The cops and the store manager should have known better. This story is as rediculous as the fact that the bills actuall *can* smear. I mean, for gods sake, we're talking about badly printed money there.
After having used Dutch "guilders" for a life-time and euro's for some time now, you can pretty well conclude that pounds (and the former Irish pounds) are _way_ too big. I think that the average Dubliner has lost about 1kg per person after they went with the euro's. Probably more due to inflation.
Before you skip over this as a dupe...
Too late, I already skipped over it!
Well, you could write a nice artilce about wikipedia and see if it gets incorporated in Encarta. And then you could follow up with Linux, free software foundation etc. I would like to see to which extend they would try to censorize the submitted content (e.g. by not putting it in there in the first place).
But for me, the last thing I need is a large monopolistic media/software corporation controlling an encyclopedia, so if you don't mind, I will personally not submit a single bit to it.
The idea of shielding applications is in the right direction, but the idea of virtual paths does not seem too usefull to me.
I would love to have the OS install an application, and then put restrictions on it. Games do not need to know what's in the "My Documents" folder; a Word processor should not be able to take over the screen like a game does. So we need to put applications within groups, and put default permissions on them (which the application can overwrite with the permission of the user).
Types of restrictions: memory uses, number of processes, threads, sockets, number of windows (and other widgets), file system access, calls to other processes etc. etc.
For this to work the OS will have to be on a different level then the current operating systems though, which are little more than glorified disk operating systems with a GUI. I mean, any install on Windows can mess up any other install, what's that about? And if the deinstaller is badly written, it can mess things up as well. Don't even think about talking dynamic link libraries, because that's what's really badly implemented.
Yes, there are many improvements in newer operating system, and I look forward to the new features in Longhorn, and I'll try out OS X out soon as well. Linux seems to be stuck with its age-old file based ideas, with applications spread out all over the disk. They are still more secure than Windows though, and SE linux is a good idea.
A pipeline is not that bad an idea, any processor has one. Intel just stretched it a bit, while AMD was stretching their silicum :P
Also people often forget their hard-drive witch can be slow as shit.
Yeah, my hard-drive witch tends to slow down my gnome too. If it wasn't for the elf bins I'd be in serious trouble.
Unfortunately a lot of LCD monitors are pretty crap, though they have fastly improved the last two years. People tend to look at processor specs when buying a notebook. Ever seen an ad that displays the viewing angle for a laptop screen? Neh, I'm not interested.
I once downed a valid client certificate + private key that contained no certificate extensions. MS (IE) trusts all certificates signed by this certificate, even though it is not a CA certificate. That means you will have to actively look at the certificate to make sure it is not a spoof, and understand X.509 extensions or recognize the server CA. The chance of this happening is close to zero. Man in the middle attacks made easy department. I don't know if MS has fixed this issue in the latest service packs, but as far as I know, the attack is still valid.
Fortune cookie for you, Mr Dallas
The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants;
instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the
variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead
of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the
program, should the value of pi change.
-- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers
But as far as Mini-ITX, except for the 533 C3 boards, they all have fans.
This is simply not true. Besides, you can make them fanless by applying a Zalman northbridge cooler (as seen on the net). I haven't done any burn in testing with mine though. One hint: putting them in a wooden enclosure like a wine-box does not do any good. If you need to do stupid things like that you *need* a fan. And a fire-alarm (though you can get the motherboard/cpu to shut down, it has temperature sensors). Yes, I tried.
If it has the "Eden" or "E" name in it, it is fanless. Pretty easy browsing once you notice this. It is not explained anywhere visible on the VIA sites though.
From the manual: can also be used as a heat gun. Get two tools for one. Burn off the paint of your car quickly. Do not point at face. Distance 20 cm minimum.
Developer Editions (at least on many software products) mean a free, limited version used for developing an application. Now if Intel would make it free for developers... sure thing. Now I think most companies with a reasonably intelligent marketing dept. would not spend a thousand quit on a processor that might be slightly faster, so they can forget about that market fast enough. Furthermore, to get to the corporate market you need to have decent production, replacement parts, time schedules etc.
Maybe they just did the one thing and forgot about the other thing.
Which college? Wait, this is a public forum, forget I asked.
(Most of) my systems have fans and tend to eat stuff called electricity. And most operating systems can keep running as long as you don't install new drivers. Yes, Linux is better than Windows with respect to restarting after loading drivers. On the other hand Linux power safe support is pretty abysmall compared to OSX or WinXP.
Oh, boy, is that anoying. You think you are ready for work, but due to the harddisk loading background processes for some time you can be sure that your application will start very slowly - messing up the background startup as well. Also, if you have smartcard logon, you will have to wait for that process to start as well. If the reader has been disconnected you will wait forever for the reader icon to show up. No, I don't see this as psychological relief.
Note that with a Win 2k or Linux PC you get the same effect due to the number of autorun processes starting up. Solution: faster seek times and tagged command queueing on the harddisks. IDE disks never have been good at multitasking. Buying a faster computer also helps, but that's a sliding slope.
The problem with the record company's is that it is impossible to get anything in the air or the shops without signing a license with a record company. In this license you sign that you will use the *insert big evil, monopolistic organization* to gather your reward. These organizations are normally protected by law as well.
Basically, what I am saying is that in the ideal situation the copyright holder would be able to control what is shared and what is not. In practice however, this seldom works. My ISP tried to do a copyright free festival, but the artists had already sold too many of their rights. This is the default.
Fortunately the artists get so rich nowadays that they are becoming a force of their own. So you see one or two copyright free tracks to be found on the internet by well known artists.
The protocols were invented by a bunch of students for the US DoD. Therefore, the internet is owned by students. If you look at the amount of (illegal) trafic that universities and students generate, this might even be true :).
A lot of educational/scientific institutions are still at the heart of the internet as we know it. And most of them don't like oppressive/regulative governments at all.
Yes, the parent is a troll, but he/she only states that religion has caused more harm than good (over the past thousand years or so ...). Maybe the Third Reich or Stalin did more harm in terms of dead persons, but that does not negate his premisses.
Actually, both tended to murder Jews, so I don't know if you can't put that down to religion. Furthermore, many persons have died due to religion during the centuries. Maybe not by direct war, but there's the inquisition, witch hunts, church split offs, crusades...
I must admit that with the current Catholic church, it seems that they have switched from killing people to keeping them alive ad infinitum. I'm not sure which one is better.
Java has a very good security record. Anyway, this java stuff has not to do anything with remote execution, just with application code. The chance that there is a buffer overrun in Java is very small (it would mean a serious bug in the JVM). No software is perfect, but Java has a much better security record than most execution environments out there (compare it for instance with ActiveX).
The problem is that there is little to choose from if you want rapidly developed, secure code. C++ code gets complex very fast, and is difficult to check for memory leaks, buffer overruns etc. PERL and Python are less maintainable. IDE's for Java are getting very easy to use as well. MONO, well, this IS a Sun project...
Why does evolution always catch more attention when it is played out in the real world? It looks to me that a virtual world is much more practical for such purposes. Here is a guy showing just two simple bots and a bit of text on a website and it is suddenly interesting. Now if the bots build other bots it would be interesting, but before that...
I've never understood this. In the Netherlands we need to use an authenticator (yes, two-factor authentication, something you have and something you know) for any internet banking. This is not as safe as it should be, but it is a hell of a lot safer than username password combination on a web page (no less).
It seems to me that US banks do rely on username/password for internet banking. Could someone inform us Europeans on this (we'll get ready to ROFL in the mean time).
Anyway, IE is still suceptible to session hijacking (creating a leaf certificate under another leaf certificate without the right bits set). So as long as your authenticator does not sign e.g. the amount you pay, you can STILL be hacked. Happy surfing guys.
All the time they try to get away from tabs, favouring top level windows (which stack into the retarded XP taskbar). And now suddenly tabs? What's next? Finding out that personalized menu's are crap?
Funny thing to see Microsoft rewrite their entire GUI guidelines just to combat Firefox.