So the KKK'esk guy arrested who was packing a biological weapon capable of making 9/11 look like a scratched knee, with apparent plans to use it near or in a Federal building (ala McVeigh) was not a terrorist? What about the anthrax mailings that disappeared off the news as soon as it became apparent that it was not the work of evil guys in turbans, but more likely white supremacists who "borrowed" the samples from the US government lab they where traced back to. Domestic terrorism is alive and well, but people are ignoring it because its more convient to have a single enemy, whose skin color, religion and society is different.
On topic this won't do any good, in most ways it just helps Bin Ladin. As we saw in the first 9/11 commisions results, one intercepted transmission showed that they actually did a complete dry run to determine if they could sneak weapons through security and onto a plane. With this kind of permanent security designation, its just a matter of sending agents on normal flights and seeing which ones get stopped for searchs and which ones go on the plane. Then you send the green ones on your suicide mission.
>The UN resolution explicitly required - no, demanded - that they give a full and complete inventory of their WMDs.
>"So they lost a few rounds after the war" is no excuse. Imagine the noise you liberal asshat would make if the US lost a few nuclear warheads...
>So please do us a favor and shut up. Jackass.
How exactly can a country provide inventory of something lost? (and like Soviet era nuclear production, they didn't have accurate numbers themselves due to inventory overstatements made to fill quotas).
To compare, in 2002 the US military missplaced 56 airplanes, 32 tanks, and 36 Javelin missile command launch-units (that comes from the 2003 accounting statements, which also show over $1 trillion was unaccounted [and that's not black-ops spending, black-ops spending properly balances the books with $1000 hammers and $15,000 toilets])
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/arti cles/0519pentagon19.html
Quoting from
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/ 85676
You may not be counting, but there are about a dozen active perl 5
developers on p5p, about half with commit rights. Similarly parrot has
about 5 active committers.
This is the number of competent volunteers that a well established 16-year
old programming language used by many individuals and many organisations
can muster. From the entire world.
Now tell me, when was the last time *you* actually downloaded some open source software, and instead of using it (a home user really has no user for custom government software designed to sort peoples tax returns or other similar jobs) you went through the code line per line looking for bugs.
Assuming you somehow got past question one by fudging the truth (i.e. you downloaded something OS for personal use, and seeing a "source" directory you spent 2 minutes randomly opening files for fun), when was the last time you actually identified a bug, and submitted it (20 bonus points if you actually produced a patch yourself)
Simply put, even with several million people world wide who have the equipment and skills (most of that 6 billion lives in poverty, and most of those rich enough to own computers usually don't even understand the concept of right click), there are not enough willing to give up their time to do code reviews, especially on a piece of software they personally will never use and will never care about.
To perhaps better highlight the flaw in your logic, shouldn't litter be non-existant? With 6 billion people on the planet there should be more than enough willing to volunteer their time to go out to parks and streets they don't ever visit and pickup trash. The reality of course is that even the people who use those streets almost never think to pick up a piece of litter.
>I bet you were the guys in school who ratted on the people who were cheating in an exam.
>THAT's pathetic.
Yes, because knowingly letting someone cheat on an exam, and thus possibly *steal* your position at whatever university/college you might want to go to, or perhaps (but less likely since most employers aren't looking at exact scores) *steal* the job you applied for because they appear more qualified on paper, is sooo "uncool". Of course you do realize it was the losers too stupid to pass a simple exam who came up with that and other illogical stigmas in an attempt to cover their asses.
>>It no longer has spyware.
Real Networks has stated that a number of times. However there seems to be a pattern of people using packet sniffers and discovering that RealPlayer sends out machine specific identifiers and urls to Real's network. To which Real replies "opps, guess we missed that one"
Or even Quake 2. Quake 2 can run in software mode, full detail (except for the fake alpha blending), 1024x768x60fps on a K6-2 300 (and that's how I played it since it didn't like my video card at the time).
Above post is stolen from another site, specifically from a comment made by me.
Last Post [gamedev.net] on the page. Posted 9:12AM (9AM when you take into account that GD.net clock is fast)
Who said anything about Microsoft? He was probably refering to the Mozilla team, or any other OS project that has a policy of covering up security exploits and hoping that enough people are downloading builds on a weekly basis.
Perhaps they announce the bugs just after Microsoft does in hopes that the OSS community will still be bashing the "M$ is teh suc" drum loud enough that they won't notice yet another exploit (BTW, has buggy Outlook been able to beat Mozilla's "run arbitary code just by *connecting* to a POP mail server" exploit yet?)
Where exactly are they getting "new" from. The FireGL X1 card may as well have cobwebs on it. The current workstation cards being pushed by ATI are the FireGL X2 and FireGL T2 (X2 being highend as the X1 was, T2 being targeted at the budget market). Claiming "NVIDIA still has a stronghold in this market" is deceptive at the very least. Would you find a CPU benchmark accurate if they compared an Athlon XP 3200+ with a Pentium 4 @ 2.4GHz and concluded that AMD was leading the market?
Is it just me, or did that article seem to be more toward executives who want to see their companies name than people who want to know what is going on? While I see a bunch of stuff about how this will "revolutionize" the industry, I could just barely get the info on what IT actually was. It would have been nice to actually see some info like how this USB2/PCMCIA/PCI connection is going to work or what it will look like? Is it something where you buy an adapter cable depending on which of the three you're plugging it into?
Silly old me, this whole time I was under the mistaken impression that 1984 was about Communist Russia...
Silly old you indeed, 1984 was not about Communist Russia at all (perhaps you are thinking of one of his other books, Animal Farm). 1984 was about a captitalist society (the country focused on was the UK/Europe, but it was explained that the whole world was basically working the same way, just under different flags) whose populus was controlled though fear and a perpetual war (of which the enemy and ally where constantly changing places, but the people where manipulated into believing it had always been the same). I suggest you actually read the book, it might let you understand what others are talking about, instead of making you look like a fool whenever you open your mouth.
Maybe you should actually read what you link to. As was pointed out several times, the article was based on *assumptions* regarding *inconclusive data* made several *years* ago, by a person who admitted that they *didn't* know much about what they where talking about. And further more, those people who did not ready to blindly board the anti-MS bandwagon the second it appeared, actually did testing to verify whether that theory held any water. Guess what, it didn't. IE was shown to operate in a completing normal manner.
The open source movement would be a lot better off if it *didn't* have the "support" of parrot mouth lamers who spout off the "MS bad, Linux good" line before they even know what is going on. Quality over quantity people.
Unfortunately I think it would be bad *either* way. Now since "stolen music" is somewhat debateble here on/., and most people aren't too worried about being charged with terrorism, I'll try something more clear cut: Kiddie pron.
Ruling 1: You are responsible for what is on your HD
Result: Someone backs up their illegal pics to your harddrive (you don't know this because it's encrypted), you (innocent) get charged for it and sent to jail.
Ruling 2: You are not responsible for encrypted content that appears to have been generated by this netbackup program.
Result: Every pedophiles dream has come true. They simply encrypt their stuff and spoof it to look like someone elses backup file. They are now immune from procecution because "it's someone elses". Same applies to anyone else that wants to store something illegal on a computer system.
Obviously there needs to be a way to positively indentify who "owns" what content on your harddrive before a system like this could become [legally] safe.
What is to say that the FBI/RIAA won't come to your house, claiming you have terrorest information/stolen music stored on your harddrive? And assuming it was true, would you be legally/crimminally liable for it? This gives a whole new meaning to the excuse "well I was just holding it for a friend".
I was more refering to the pointless "M$" bashing. There are plenty of *real* reasons to find fault with Microsoft. What I'm pointing out is the constant wave of entirely baseless bashing. While the handful of *nix bigots out there might enjoy it, I find it's foolish to substitute real news with crap from the "I think M$ suks 2, can I hang around with you kool Linux people now" children.
Sample code is designed to be short and easily understandable, it's rarely designed to be production code. You are supposed to learn from sample code, not copy and paste it into your production code. Anyone stupid enough to do that deserves to get fired.
Now please, show me some (complete) sample code from any company that I *can't* rip apart for flaws.
I would make a more extensive reply, but you're an idiot so I won't waste all that time.
Microsoft is not responsible for what 3rd party vendors produce. In order to be responsible in any way, they would have to implement a policy where by Microsoft inspects all source code for anything made for Windows, and only then "allow" it to be shipped. If Microsoft controlled developers like that I suspect you'd be doing a lot more kicking and screaming (and then you'd actually have a reason, rather than now when you *don't*).
I really can't understand why people say that free software which copies established UIs is a "bad thing", like a flaw or failure or something.
The problem is that with commercial a gui (Apple, Microsoft, etc), you only see the *end result* of their research, not all the information that led up to it. Blindly copying more often than not ends up creating a bad interfaces, as the copier usually misses some of the most important but subtle features of a gui element. What remains is something that looks similar, but in actual use is subpar if not an outright annoyance to the end user.
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So the KKK'esk guy arrested who was packing a biological weapon capable of making 9/11 look like a scratched knee, with apparent plans to use it near or in a Federal building (ala McVeigh) was not a terrorist? What about the anthrax mailings that disappeared off the news as soon as it became apparent that it was not the work of evil guys in turbans, but more likely white supremacists who "borrowed" the samples from the US government lab they where traced back to. Domestic terrorism is alive and well, but people are ignoring it because its more convient to have a single enemy, whose skin color, religion and society is different. On topic this won't do any good, in most ways it just helps Bin Ladin. As we saw in the first 9/11 commisions results, one intercepted transmission showed that they actually did a complete dry run to determine if they could sneak weapons through security and onto a plane. With this kind of permanent security designation, its just a matter of sending agents on normal flights and seeing which ones get stopped for searchs and which ones go on the plane. Then you send the green ones on your suicide mission.
>The UN resolution explicitly required - no, demanded - that they give a full and complete inventory of their WMDs. >"So they lost a few rounds after the war" is no excuse. Imagine the noise you liberal asshat would make if the US lost a few nuclear warheads... >So please do us a favor and shut up. Jackass.
i cles/0519pentagon19.html
How exactly can a country provide inventory of something lost? (and like Soviet era nuclear production, they didn't have accurate numbers themselves due to inventory overstatements made to fill quotas).
To compare, in 2002 the US military missplaced 56 airplanes, 32 tanks, and 36 Javelin missile command launch-units (that comes from the 2003 accounting statements, which also show over $1 trillion was unaccounted [and that's not black-ops spending, black-ops spending properly balances the books with $1000 hammers and $15,000 toilets])
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/art
Quoting from http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/ 85676
You may not be counting, but there are about a dozen active perl 5
developers on p5p, about half with commit rights. Similarly parrot has
about 5 active committers.
This is the number of competent volunteers that a well established 16-year
old programming language used by many individuals and many organisations
can muster. From the entire world.
Now tell me, when was the last time *you* actually downloaded some open source software, and instead of using it (a home user really has no user for custom government software designed to sort peoples tax returns or other similar jobs) you went through the code line per line looking for bugs.
Assuming you somehow got past question one by fudging the truth (i.e. you downloaded something OS for personal use, and seeing a "source" directory you spent 2 minutes randomly opening files for fun), when was the last time you actually identified a bug, and submitted it (20 bonus points if you actually produced a patch yourself)
Simply put, even with several million people world wide who have the equipment and skills (most of that 6 billion lives in poverty, and most of those rich enough to own computers usually don't even understand the concept of right click), there are not enough willing to give up their time to do code reviews, especially on a piece of software they personally will never use and will never care about.
To perhaps better highlight the flaw in your logic, shouldn't litter be non-existant? With 6 billion people on the planet there should be more than enough willing to volunteer their time to go out to parks and streets they don't ever visit and pickup trash. The reality of course is that even the people who use those streets almost never think to pick up a piece of litter.
>I bet you were the guys in school who ratted on the people who were cheating in an exam. >THAT's pathetic. Yes, because knowingly letting someone cheat on an exam, and thus possibly *steal* your position at whatever university/college you might want to go to, or perhaps (but less likely since most employers aren't looking at exact scores) *steal* the job you applied for because they appear more qualified on paper, is sooo "uncool". Of course you do realize it was the losers too stupid to pass a simple exam who came up with that and other illogical stigmas in an attempt to cover their asses.
>>It no longer has spyware. Real Networks has stated that a number of times. However there seems to be a pattern of people using packet sniffers and discovering that RealPlayer sends out machine specific identifiers and urls to Real's network. To which Real replies "opps, guess we missed that one"
Or even Quake 2. Quake 2 can run in software mode, full detail (except for the fake alpha blending), 1024x768x60fps on a K6-2 300 (and that's how I played it since it didn't like my video card at the time).
Above post is stolen from another site, specifically from a comment made by me. Last Post [gamedev.net] on the page. Posted 9:12AM (9AM when you take into account that GD.net clock is fast)
Who said anything about Microsoft? He was probably refering to the Mozilla team, or any other OS project that has a policy of covering up security exploits and hoping that enough people are downloading builds on a weekly basis.
Perhaps they announce the bugs just after Microsoft does in hopes that the OSS community will still be bashing the "M$ is teh suc" drum loud enough that they won't notice yet another exploit (BTW, has buggy Outlook been able to beat Mozilla's "run arbitary code just by *connecting* to a POP mail server" exploit yet?)
Where exactly are they getting "new" from. The FireGL X1 card may as well have cobwebs on it. The current workstation cards being pushed by ATI are the FireGL X2 and FireGL T2 (X2 being highend as the X1 was, T2 being targeted at the budget market). Claiming "NVIDIA still has a stronghold in this market" is deceptive at the very least. Would you find a CPU benchmark accurate if they compared an Athlon XP 3200+ with a Pentium 4 @ 2.4GHz and concluded that AMD was leading the market?
Is it just me, or did that article seem to be more toward executives who want to see their companies name than people who want to know what is going on? While I see a bunch of stuff about how this will "revolutionize" the industry, I could just barely get the info on what IT actually was. It would have been nice to actually see some info like how this USB2/PCMCIA/PCI connection is going to work or what it will look like? Is it something where you buy an adapter cable depending on which of the three you're plugging it into?
Silly old me, this whole time I was under the mistaken impression that 1984 was about Communist Russia...
Silly old you indeed, 1984 was not about Communist Russia at all (perhaps you are thinking of one of his other books, Animal Farm). 1984 was about a captitalist society (the country focused on was the UK/Europe, but it was explained that the whole world was basically working the same way, just under different flags) whose populus was controlled though fear and a perpetual war (of which the enemy and ally where constantly changing places, but the people where manipulated into believing it had always been the same). I suggest you actually read the book, it might let you understand what others are talking about, instead of making you look like a fool whenever you open your mouth.
Enough of your borax poindexter, a man's life is at stake. We need action! (Several gunshots) Take that ya lousy dimension!
Maybe you should actually read what you link to. As was pointed out several times, the article was based on *assumptions* regarding *inconclusive data* made several *years* ago, by a person who admitted that they *didn't* know much about what they where talking about. And further more, those people who did not ready to blindly board the anti-MS bandwagon the second it appeared, actually did testing to verify whether that theory held any water. Guess what, it didn't. IE was shown to operate in a completing normal manner.
The open source movement would be a lot better off if it *didn't* have the "support" of parrot mouth lamers who spout off the "MS bad, Linux good" line before they even know what is going on. Quality over quantity people.
Unfortunately I think it would be bad *either* way. Now since "stolen music" is somewhat debateble here on /., and most people aren't too worried about being charged with terrorism, I'll try something more clear cut: Kiddie pron.
Ruling 1: You are responsible for what is on your HD
Result: Someone backs up their illegal pics to your harddrive (you don't know this because it's encrypted), you (innocent) get charged for it and sent to jail.
Ruling 2: You are not responsible for encrypted content that appears to have been generated by this netbackup program.
Result: Every pedophiles dream has come true. They simply encrypt their stuff and spoof it to look like someone elses backup file. They are now immune from procecution because "it's someone elses". Same applies to anyone else that wants to store something illegal on a computer system.
Obviously there needs to be a way to positively indentify who "owns" what content on your harddrive before a system like this could become [legally] safe.
What is to say that the FBI/RIAA won't come to your house, claiming you have terrorest information/stolen music stored on your harddrive? And assuming it was true, would you be legally/crimminally liable for it? This gives a whole new meaning to the excuse "well I was just holding it for a friend".
I was more refering to the pointless "M$" bashing. There are plenty of *real* reasons to find fault with Microsoft. What I'm pointing out is the constant wave of entirely baseless bashing. While the handful of *nix bigots out there might enjoy it, I find it's foolish to substitute real news with crap from the "I think M$ suks 2, can I hang around with you kool Linux people now" children.
Sample code is designed to be short and easily understandable, it's rarely designed to be production code. You are supposed to learn from sample code, not copy and paste it into your production code. Anyone stupid enough to do that deserves to get fired.
Now please, show me some (complete) sample code from any company that I *can't* rip apart for flaws.
I would make a more extensive reply, but you're an idiot so I won't waste all that time. Microsoft is not responsible for what 3rd party vendors produce. In order to be responsible in any way, they would have to implement a policy where by Microsoft inspects all source code for anything made for Windows, and only then "allow" it to be shipped. If Microsoft controlled developers like that I suspect you'd be doing a lot more kicking and screaming (and then you'd actually have a reason, rather than now when you *don't*).
I really can't understand why people say that free software which copies established UIs is a "bad thing", like a flaw or failure or something.
The problem is that with commercial a gui (Apple, Microsoft, etc), you only see the *end result* of their research, not all the information that led up to it. Blindly copying more often than not ends up creating a bad interfaces, as the copier usually misses some of the most important but subtle features of a gui element. What remains is something that looks similar, but in actual use is subpar if not an outright annoyance to the end user.