I was on facebook for kicks and I quickly realized it's full of little kids and their horrible grammar. In every group I joined [from singles groups to music/piano player groups] there was a continual barrage of horribly misspelled postings, lots of retarded "lols" and all that jazz.
If we're talking about child-porn and regular crime (not international espionage) all you need do is make it impossible for them to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you were breaking the law (and knew it).
If they don't find evidence of a steganographic or cryptographic application on your hard drive, it means nothing that you have a few hundred wallpapers containing child-pornography. If the wallpapers were publicly downloadable, then how would they go about proving someone was aware that they contained the child porn?
If they do find steg/crypto software on your PC, you simply point them to your folder of holiday snaps and give them the keys to unlock your family recipe for swedish meathballs or bank account details or whatever. The police can suspect and investigate all they like, but if the crypto is up to it, they won't get anywhere beyond supposition and circumstantial evidence...
"As for use in distribution, encryption is far easier, if I know you then I can just send the file encrypted and nobody will be the wiser. If I don't know you and post it blindly on a public site, how are you going to know how to get the content out?"
What if the person you are sending to no longer has control of their machine because they've been arrested? The police now know that you sent an encrypted message to a suspected criminal. If the message was encrypted and stuffed inside an image, you have plausible deniability. "Why officer, I had no idea the other members of my photography club were drug dealers! I've just been innocently swapping my large uncompressed nature pictures with them! I am *shocked*!"
It might not be perfect, but as a "willingness to do what others want" indicator and visual shortcut, it does have some functionality. Now, Stallman doesn't work for these people, that's true. But if he wants to influence them, to make them think he's got their own interests at heart, the symbolic wearing of a suit, or something similar may go a long way.
Everything you say is right, but I don't think you get it. He doesn't want to express his willingness to do what others want. The people wearing the suits want him to do things that he knows to be morally wrong.
The "symbolic wearing of a suit"? Surely, as he is taking a diametrically opposed viewpoint to "the suits" it's entirely appropriate for him to shun what must seem to him to be yet another stupid little restriction.
By NOT wearing a suit he's had more of an impact on the people he was addressing. By NOT wearing a suit, and presenting his arguments so well that the house sided with him will have had far more of an impact than if he'd toed the line and arrived in top-hat and tails.
There are people like Linus who represent the world of Open Source, and who are quite happy to hack the kernel and have that be the end to it. They are not overly concerned with licensing or copyright, or even Freedom. People like that don't effect global change. You need firebrands like rms to stand up in tatty clothing and say, "You are all wrong, here is my reasoning. Do you understand now?" to shake things up and get people excited, for better or worse. Bob Geldof doesn't fit into your little toe-the-line and you might do better plan either, why does he litter his rants about world-poverty with expletives? In a corporate world he'd get nowhere, but, like rms, he doesn't care what people think about him. He knows that his message is absolutely correct, and he doesn't need to fit in to make people see that.
Maybe he saw what happened to Jeffrey Archer, life-peer, London mayoral candidate and liar, when he sued for libel, and won. It later emerged that the stories published by the Daily Star were in fact true, and that he had committed perjury?
Calculate the odds of the plane crashing, multiply by the odds of a crash occurring over a residential area when flying South through North America, multiply by the odds of the FAA not being alerted by the pilots before the crash occurs, multiply by the odds of the crash occurring over a playground, multiply by the odds of children being around at the time of the crash, multiply by the chance of the missiles cracking and there being a radiation leak, multiply by the chance of the kids going towards the cracked missiles rather than away, multiply by the chance the radiation gives one of the kids radiation poisoning.
And if that number is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
In PHP at least there is a function: <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.token- get-all.php">token_get_all</a>. This will return an array of tokens contained within a string, which you can then loop through and do magick upon.<br/> Please note...this is a very naive and hacky example<br/>
Like so: function getFunctionNames($source_file){ $source = file_get_contents($source_file); $tokens = token_get_all($source);
An average *can* be a poor approximation, but plotting the strength of human beings on two axes, strength on the X and number/percentage of sample on the Y? A torus? Please enlighten me. Unless, of course, for all these years I've misunderstood the meaning of the word, I don't see how your contrived example could have any bearing on this discussion.
mplayer is 35% faster? Presumably you mean mencoder, the encoding tool that comes with mplayer is 35% faster?
Sorry, but saying a media player is 35% faster is just retarded, what, you can watch a video in 35% less time than I can?:-o I call bullshit on your bullshit on his bullshit! The only way you would see any benefit from this extra 35% faster mplayer, is if the generic package was juddering/skipping frames etc.
Yet if you can compare a generic packaged mplayer compiled for i386/i586 with something compiled especially for your processor on the same machine, you still must have some x86 compatible processor. What x86 processor do you have that has trouble playing mpeg files without skipping when using only i386 optimisations?
How about hating it because an upgrade to the latest version, so I could watch a video, caused firefox on GNU/Linux to crash for me, whenever I landed on a page that had ANY flash on it whatsoever?
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Mods? Parent +1 funny please for trying to perpetuate the comparison between Access and MySQL.
If they don't find evidence of a steganographic or cryptographic application on your hard drive, it means nothing that you have a few hundred wallpapers containing child-pornography. If the wallpapers were publicly downloadable, then how would they go about proving someone was aware that they contained the child porn? If they do find steg/crypto software on your PC, you simply point them to your folder of holiday snaps and give them the keys to unlock your family recipe for swedish meathballs or bank account details or whatever. The police can suspect and investigate all they like, but if the crypto is up to it, they won't get anywhere beyond supposition and circumstantial evidence...
What if the person you are sending to no longer has control of their machine because they've been arrested? The police now know that you sent an encrypted message to a suspected criminal. If the message was encrypted and stuffed inside an image, you have plausible deniability. "Why officer, I had no idea the other members of my photography club were drug dealers! I've just been innocently swapping my large uncompressed nature pictures with them! I am *shocked*!"
The "symbolic wearing of a suit"? Surely, as he is taking a diametrically opposed viewpoint to "the suits" it's entirely appropriate for him to shun what must seem to him to be yet another stupid little restriction.
By NOT wearing a suit he's had more of an impact on the people he was addressing. By NOT wearing a suit, and presenting his arguments so well that the house sided with him will have had far more of an impact than if he'd toed the line and arrived in top-hat and tails.
There are people like Linus who represent the world of Open Source, and who are quite happy to hack the kernel and have that be the end to it. They are not overly concerned with licensing or copyright, or even Freedom. People like that don't effect global change. You need firebrands like rms to stand up in tatty clothing and say, "You are all wrong, here is my reasoning. Do you understand now?" to shake things up and get people excited, for better or worse. Bob Geldof doesn't fit into your little toe-the-line and you might do better plan either, why does he litter his rants about world-poverty with expletives? In a corporate world he'd get nowhere, but, like rms, he doesn't care what people think about him. He knows that his message is absolutely correct, and he doesn't need to fit in to make people see that.
Trivial system requirements...like being able to copy 16,384 files without rebooting. :o)
Two that have given me a lot of pleasure, though are not PS2 games...
:)
Ikaruga on the GameCube
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project on PC
And of course, the real reason it's a PS2 only list..on a cross-platform list, Mario stomps all other 2D games, up and down and left and right
sarchasm ('sär-"ka-z&m) : The giant gulf between what is said and the person who doesn't get it.
;)
Mod GP +1 Funny, he's lost my mod now. Incidentally, the first three digits of my uid are 640...what are the chances?
This is Slashdot. What do you think?
But you try telling the kids of today that!
And the 18th letter of the alphabet is 'R'!
Maybe he saw what happened to Jeffrey Archer, life-peer, London mayoral candidate and liar, when he sued for libel, and won. It later emerged that the stories published by the Daily Star were in fact true, and that he had committed perjury?
And you thought homeless people smelt bad now?
In PHP at least there is a function: <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.token- get-all.php">token_get_all</a>. This will return an array of tokens contained within a string, which you can then loop through and do magick upon.<br /> />
Please note...this is a very naive and hacky example<br
Like so:
function getFunctionNames($source_file){
$source = file_get_contents($source_file);
$tokens = token_get_all($source);
$function_started = FALSE;
foreach($tokens as $token) {
if(is_array($token)){
if(token_name($token[0])==="T_FUNCTION"){
$function_started = TRUE;
}
if(token_name($token[0])==="T_STRING" &&
$function_started == TRUE){
$function_name = $token[1];
echo $function_name,"\n";
$function_started = FALSE;
}
}
}
}
I was looking for this just last night. I can't wait for this to get ported, I want to be able to see my house from the window of my new aeroplane!!
...does he shit in the woods?
(c) Could Jesus pop so much popcorn that He Himself could not eat it all while watching Disney's Cars in HD?
An average *can* be a poor approximation, but plotting the strength of human beings on two axes, strength on the X and number/percentage of sample on the Y? A torus? Please enlighten me. Unless, of course, for all these years I've misunderstood the meaning of the word, I don't see how your contrived example could have any bearing on this discussion.
mplayer is 35% faster? Presumably you mean mencoder, the encoding tool that comes with mplayer is 35% faster?
:-o I call bullshit on your bullshit on his bullshit! The only way you would see any benefit from this extra 35% faster mplayer, is if the generic package was juddering/skipping frames etc.
Sorry, but saying a media player is 35% faster is just retarded, what, you can watch a video in 35% less time than I can?
Yet if you can compare a generic packaged mplayer compiled for i386/i586 with something compiled especially for your processor on the same machine, you still must have some x86 compatible processor. What x86 processor do you have that has trouble playing mpeg files without skipping when using only i386 optimisations?
How about hating it because an upgrade to the latest version, so I could watch a video, caused firefox on GNU/Linux to crash for me, whenever I landed on a page that had ANY flash on it whatsoever?
So wait...you're saying that if I'm patient enough, my Ford Cortina will eventually become a Ford Prefect??
I tried to measure it once, but I couldn't see the stopwatch.
You must be new here. Please work a car into your analogy next time.
"On the red planet, Angelina Jolie entangles YOU" would also have been acceptable.