Oddly the unix shell I wrote for my OS class I named Mush (Matt's Useless Shell), little did I think it could also stand for Microsoft's Useless Shell.
Dude the government is us! If enough people care, you will see the law go through congress like nothing else. No congress person is going to go against 50 million Americans, no matter what. There are not enough special interests in the world for them to even think about it.
If enough people want it, sometimes Congress actually responds to the needs of the people, pretty neat idea huh?:)
Every friend of mine who has entered into the water cooling realm has burned out at least one CPU before getting the system stable enough to work properly. Have fun, but be safe:)
Getting through the installer, I realized that Emacs was taking up too much of my diskspace. So hey, Debian has a great package manager right? So I try to remove the emacs package and see that half of debian seemed to depend on emacs. It wasn't long after that I switched to Red Hat.
Extremely unrealistic... The same case could be made for Slashdot itself. In the early days of/. there were no user accounts, there was no karma whoring because there wasn't a need for moderation at all. The "community" was small enough that you knew everyone and people could be trusted not to spoof other people. As/. grew, changes had to be made to the social structure in order to cope with scale.
This is true of any society. This is not anything new, as society changed from small family groups to tribes to cities to city states to nations, more laws and force had to be applied to keep things moving smoothly.
The challenge isn't keeping a state of "quasi-anarchy" at all costs, and whining about your rights. The challenge is taking responsibility and tutoring your elected officials on how law, technology and society intersect. Personally, I think there should be some regulation on unsolicited commercial email. Back in the good ole days I could actually use my email, now I get 20-25 spams a day vs about 1 or 2 actual useful e-mails. Personally, I find that a great restriction on my behavior and a burden to my resources.
If only that was all the mattered to getting a job... I'm a currently unemployed recent Computer Science graduate. Anyone got a job? I've got a really low slashdot id, that means i'm l33t right? Anyone? Anyone?
My US Robotics V.everything modem. One of the most beautiful pieces of computer hardware I've ever owned. Even though I despise dialup, I love this modem, I don't think I'll ever get rid of it. Had it for too long now.
"That's how the FBI caught the unabomber, they just kept looking and looking and looking and then they got him."
Only half right. The FBI did not get tired of looking for him, but that is not what lead to his capture. The fact that the unabomber got cocky, published his manifesto and the feds got lucky enough that his brother had the moral fortitude to turn in his own brother.
The FBI deserves almost no credit for catching the unabomber. Even their much vaunted behaviorial profiles were off the mark.
Serveral friends and I started a site called signalnine.com, but not a lot of tech seems to get discussed.... most of us still seem to just read slashdot.
Yes, I remember those days as well.... People were actually upset that UIDs and accounts were created... After all, before then the "community" was small enough that you could actually trust people to put the proper credentials. Its been downhill ever since;)
A simple run through indent would mask code copying this way. As an undergrad our software engineering class had us write a cheat detector for C source code. Our code removed white space and comments and then tokenized the C code. It compared the tokenized versions across multiple lines. You could move functions around, change variable names, add white space and comments and our program could detect a similarity.
Running a MD5 hash is quite frankly useless. Almost certainly the two kernel trees have different code styles. Linus uses an 8 space indent, which as far as I can tell is pretty rare. Any code that would have been inserted would have at least been ran through indent.
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First of all this violates the concept of the United States, second it doesn't even solve the problem. There are radicalized Islamic terrorists from places like Indonesia, Great Britian, Morroco, and the United States. They can come in all sizes and genders. Relying on that for security would be suicide.
Unfortunately, the officials implementing a system such as this are going to get crucified either way. If they let a known terrorist onto a plane and a terrorist act happens, their heads are going to roll. Every journalist will be screaming that, "this terrorist has been on the FBI watch list for 2 years, a simple misspelling of his name allowed him to foil the multi-million dolar no fly system".
On the other hand, false positives are going to make the system useless as the boy who cried wolf one too many times found out. There doesn't seem to be an easy solution to this problem.
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Apt-get works with Redhat too.
http://freshrpms.net
By far my favorite desktop. Redhat + Ximian Gnome = Goodness.
Hopefully Fedora will keep pace with things.
This is gonna be fun. Anyone care to short SCO?
Oddly the unix shell I wrote for my OS class I named Mush (Matt's Useless Shell), little did I think it could also stand for Microsoft's Useless Shell.
Yeah, I remember Rob trying to sell stuff he made in art class on the homepage also :)
AFAIK ESD already does this.
Dude the government is us! If enough people care, you will see the law go through congress like nothing else. No congress person is going to go against 50 million Americans, no matter what. There are not enough special interests in the world for them to even think about it.
:)
If enough people want it, sometimes Congress actually responds to the needs of the people, pretty neat idea huh?
Every friend of mine who has entered into the water cooling realm has burned out at least one CPU before getting the system stable enough to work properly. Have fun, but be safe :)
shhhhhhh
Getting through the installer, I realized that Emacs was taking up too much of my diskspace. So hey, Debian has a great package manager right? So I try to remove the emacs package and see that half of debian seemed to depend on emacs. It wasn't long after that I switched to Red Hat.
Extremely unrealistic... The same case could be made for Slashdot itself. In the early days of /. there were no user accounts, there was no karma whoring because there wasn't a need for moderation at all. The "community" was small enough that you knew everyone and people could be trusted not to spoof other people. As /. grew, changes had to be made to the social structure in order to cope with scale.
This is true of any society. This is not anything new, as society changed from small family groups to tribes to cities to city states to nations, more laws and force had to be applied to keep things moving smoothly.
The challenge isn't keeping a state of "quasi-anarchy" at all costs, and whining about your rights. The challenge is taking responsibility and tutoring your elected officials on how law, technology and society intersect. Personally, I think there should be some regulation on unsolicited commercial email. Back in the good ole days I could actually use my email, now I get 20-25 spams a day vs about 1 or 2 actual useful e-mails. Personally, I find that a great restriction on my behavior and a burden to my resources.
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My US Robotics V.everything modem. One of the most beautiful pieces of computer hardware I've ever owned. Even though I despise dialup, I love this modem, I don't think I'll ever get rid of it. Had it for too long now.
Is dead.
mod me up if you agree
sucks. that is all.
Only half right. The FBI did not get tired of looking for him, but that is not what lead to his capture. The fact that the unabomber got cocky, published his manifesto and the feds got lucky enough that his brother had the moral fortitude to turn in his own brother.
The FBI deserves almost no credit for catching the unabomber. Even their much vaunted behaviorial profiles were off the mark.
Serveral friends and I started a site called signalnine.com, but not a lot of tech seems to get discussed.... most of us still seem to just read slashdot.
Yes, I remember those days as well.... People were actually upset that UIDs and accounts were created... After all, before then the "community" was small enough that you could actually trust people to put the proper credentials. Its been downhill ever since ;)
A simple run through indent would mask code copying this way. As an undergrad our software engineering class had us write a cheat detector for C source code. Our code removed white space and comments and then tokenized the C code. It compared the tokenized versions across multiple lines. You could move functions around, change variable names, add white space and comments and our program could detect a similarity.
Running a MD5 hash is quite frankly useless. Almost certainly the two kernel trees have different code styles. Linus uses an 8 space indent, which as far as I can tell is pretty rare. Any code that would have been inserted would have at least been ran through indent.
Wait for PHP5. :)
First of all this violates the concept of the United States, second it doesn't even solve the problem. There are radicalized Islamic terrorists from places like Indonesia, Great Britian, Morroco, and the United States. They can come in all sizes and genders. Relying on that for security would be suicide.
Unfortunately, the officials implementing a system such as this are going to get crucified either way. If they let a known terrorist onto a plane and a terrorist act happens, their heads are going to roll. Every journalist will be screaming that, "this terrorist has been on the FBI watch list for 2 years, a simple misspelling of his name allowed him to foil the multi-million dolar no fly system".
On the other hand, false positives are going to make the system useless as the boy who cried wolf one too many times found out. There doesn't seem to be an easy solution to this problem.
Linux doesn't, Alan Cox wrote the Linux stack IIRC.
OH NOES