"when it gets down to specifics the police that I know personally err on the side of caution"
I have to concur. When a police officer recieves a complaint or sees something suspicious, the first thought is to take care of the situation as quickly as possible by using whatever methods they have at their disposal.
These include:
Speaking to the subject(suspect) Confiscation of item(s) Arresting the subject(suspect) or taking the subject into custody (these are different things, of course). Shooting or disabling the subject (almost always a last resort).
Anecdote:
In the State of Illinois, all knives are legal besides switchblades and ballistic knives (knives which shoot the blade). Butterfly knives are (and contrary to popular opinion), last I checked, legal. So, by extention, swords are legal. So, standing out in your front lawn with a sword, chopping on your own tree is legal.
A friend of mine did this.
And when the police officer came by, she confiscated the sword. The reason the officer was called was because an elderly person across the street called and complained.
After some hassle, including threatening legislation, he got the sword back.
So, the sword is not illegal.
However, if he went over and threatened the elderly person who called with the sword, that would be illegal, and the tool would be rightfully confiscated. Same thing if he chopped her head off.
But the real think, for me, is that I don't create those type of documents.:-)
I'm an English Major. I write stories. It works for that. And, if I want an equasion in there, I can do it. It just takes some messing around, which I admit, is inconvienient.
you don't have to use the mouse to make a word bold, or italic, or underline in word 97 (and 2000). I think, it's been a while since I've used 97.
To make a word italic, you select the word (I use the shift, control, and leftarrow key), then hit control+i. There ya go! Bold, control+b. Underline, control+u. I think.
and
You can put underscores and astricks like as so: _italic_ and *bold*.
Then again, I know a lot of keyboard shortuts, I hate moving my hand around to use the mouse (and my mouse sometimes doesn't like to move left, so it's a pain).
Hmm, since I've lost my LAN connection, I've felt really disconnected and lonely.
Go figure.
I also have more hobbies than the average Multiple Personality inflicted person.
Part of my loneliness, I know, comes from me really wanting attention, and it's hard on the 'net to get that. So, twice a week, I go and tell stories at open mics around the area.
And I play music, and 4 or 5 video games, too, that i play over and over.
And my quake levels (q3 level, http://www.ilstu.edu/~drmaure/Q3/cath-drm.zip).
And I write papers for all my classes, too.
and I reload slashdot for the 6 hours a day I'm online, over a modem. Doesn't it suck.
"IMHO you're only "running" when you can legally hold the office if you win."
Bah! Shows how much you know, I'm running for the 2016 elections! HA!
No, seriously, I understand where you're coming from, but I still think it's funny. I really don't care if my campaign is legitimate. I don't accept donations, either . . .
I'm concerned. AMD's got a nice processor. I have no first hand knowlege of it, because I'm still a step or two behind (CELERY 300a! Hell yeah), anyway.
Intel's major foibles seem to occur when it tries something new, like this RAMBUS thing. Has AMD tried anything new, besides the change to slot 1 and a new chipset. Intel seems to be trying to break new ground in a major way, not just steps.
I'm a usual supporter of the underdog, but only if they are better for what I need.
So, what do you guys think? Is AMD just sitting still, not really doing much besides evolving, where Intel is running into trouble because they're trying something new.
Of course, I could be wrong and missed something that AMD has done.
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"You sir, are obviously a twat who should be moderated way, way down..."
You, sir, are a moron for not reading the subject and getting the slightly stupid joke.
"I don't know abou you, but if I did not have my CS degree I would feel like a 2nd rate techie."
Aww. Inferiority issues?
"I am a Junior and a CS major, and have had the option to switch majors to CIS (which would be worlds easier IMHO) but I would not feel "up" for the job....any tech job that is."
If you have to have that peice of paper saying that "I'm a techie and I'm okay!" then you've definatly got issues.
Maybe it's just me, but I've learned so little in class that's applicable to real world situations. Aside from pointers in programming, maybe, and I don't get those entirely.:-)
"You go ahead and get your english major. I will be seeing you at McDonalds..."
Very cute. One, it's an English degree, not an "english major", and there is no reason for the ellipse thing you put there.
The inability to communicate effectively will be many geeks' downfall.
"And about recruiting men into those majors, the society we live in would laugh at the guys who go into those fields(not manly or macho or whatever)."
And typing on a keyboard and moving a mouse around is manly or macho? "I compiled my kernel yesterday." {insert snorting/laugh noise here}
Listen, I'm an English major, and I've NEVER had anyone make fun of me being an English major (aside from teacher jokes, when they know I'm not going to be a teacher, in any case). Most people realize that there is a perfectly logical explanation for what I like to do.
And if they cannot see that, then they are stupid. Simple.
You don't even need a degree in CS to get a decent tech job. You don't even need a degree.
Any real leet hacker knows you don't use anything but machine code. Compilers are for wussie programers!
I use Brain Gain 4000 to keep ahead of those new gigahertz systems coming out any day now. You just watch it.
Seriously, though. I know a guy (yes, I know him) who broke into _____'s mainframe and transfered 100,000 (US dollars) into his bank account (I don't know if it was Swiss or not), and got away with it.
Wanna know how he did it? Machine code. He was trained to code like that. I think he did something at login that, when inputed and executed, exited the authorization section of the program and dumped him to something else. This was back in the day, like late 70s to mid 80's.
Stupidly he tried it again and got caught, and then he went to jail.
Hmm, okay. I wasn't going to ask you any questions, because I don't really see a point, because I came late, but I'll do it anyway.
I ask this because I find your writing stle very rough and slapdash. While I read your articles when I started here, I find myself often passing over them, looking for more, shall I say, meaty topics. Your grammar leaves something to be desired, as does mine (and spelling too), but I'm not in the position that you are in. You often speak in abstracts and split metaphors. I don't know if this is lack of talent or trained behavior from journalism or whatever.
As a writer and, more importantly, as a READER, I find that your work could use a lot of improvement, not just in content but in style as well.
The more time I spend writing anything (stories, poetry, non-fiction), the more I realize that other people are key here, especially when you're trying to communicate ideas, like you are. Which, incidently, I don't think you have the right audience here.
So, this is (these are) my question(s):
How much time and effort do you put into your essays? Are you the last person who reads it before it's posted here? If so, are you aware at how irresponsible that is?
Okay, I bought a GeForce 256 card and the install script won't work, I'm a total newbie to linux, so I dropped it there, but I'd like some help if you (or anyone else can), it just says something to the effect of (I know) bad command or file name.
As for why I chose RedHat over SuSE: It was there, and there wasn't three new versions before I installed it.
If I had to buy a distro, it'd be SuSE, because of the massive amount of stuff on there.
HOWEVER!
When I got home with my New 6.1 box, I read on-line that 6.2 was out. I wasn't happy. It just left a bad taste, even though I know that's the hazards of buying open-source (or any, for that matter) software.
I dunno, so, while my next linux installs will probably be SuSE until I get a faster net connection, I'm not happy about using 6.1, and no, I don't have the measly 30 bucks to get a new copy, because I want the manual.
bobby says my site isn't approved, which simply doesn't make sense taking in the whole site.
To go to my site, you see there are two ways to get into the two main "features" of the site, one by imagemap, and one by a plain ol' text link. Bobby says that I need to have alt tags for my imagemaps, why? They're the same links as below!
I dunno, it did make me relize I have to work on my spelling on the site.:-)
"Freedom of speech does not include freedom to yell "fire" in a crowded theater, remember?"
There's nothing to remember, it's obvious you're thinking within the law, I am not. There's self-censorship, which I support, which means than an individual makes an intelligent decision on what he or she should do.
Unfortunatly, we can't, as a society, expect everyone to behave in a responsible fashion.
Saying fire is a bad example, because yelling fire does not do anything bad, the reactions of the listeners are what's key here. I could walk into a theatre and yell "Tyranosaurus!" or "SANTA!" or "Jesus is here!" and the only thing that I could be held accountable for is the possible problems that I know would be caused.
"Nor there's a freedom to ruin somebody's life just because you feel like it."
Why not? It's just a life. They're 6 billion more where that one came from. You put too much stock in the sanctity of life.
"I know of a case (outside of US) when a young girl was publicly accused of theft by a store manager -- complete with suggestion to go and hang herself. Guess what? She did."
And she should of, if she was stupid enough. It may sound cruel, but we, as a species, have lost any sense of evolution. Would I have said the same thing, no, probably. There's no learning curve in that. I want people to learn, not to die.
"And the man went to prison. I think he well deserved that."
I don't, and you know why I disagree. She was stupid enough, and I don't care how old she was.
"How much can you really do with some "evil" Javascript?"
A friend of mine visited a hacked sites archive on an IE5 machine (windows 98 SE), and it executed some funky javascript program and it caused a lot of memory errors (I think, I am not a good programmer) and other funny stuff.
"Probably the most is to close the window or send a bunch of popups. This is not exactly formatting your hard drive. "
Yes, yes it is. Given the amount of times a windows machine might be rebooted, it's easy to alter the Autoexec.bat file to say something like this
deltree/y c:\windows
and then
format/q c:
I've seen it done, and another friend, visiting the same archive site, but a different page, got majorly screwed because of javascript opening a file on disk and changing the contents (or just creating a file, overwriting the old one).
http://www.2600.com has the site, I beleive, that both of them went to. So, when I went there on my linux box, I was unafraid.:-) Well, kinda. I mean, it is their fault, they said "Dangerous for windows users" right there next to the link.
So, on my windows box, I made the autoexec and config files read-only. I don't know if it'll work, given windows ability to just override that kind of thing. I don't visit those sites.
Slashdot Mirror
grr, yeah, you're right. Threatening litigation. Sorry.
later
"when it gets down to specifics the police that I know personally err on the side of caution"
I have to concur. When a police officer recieves a complaint or sees something suspicious, the first thought is to take care of the situation as quickly as possible by using whatever methods they have at their disposal.
These include:
Speaking to the subject(suspect)
Confiscation of item(s)
Arresting the subject(suspect) or taking the subject into custody (these are different things, of course).
Shooting or disabling the subject (almost always a last resort).
Anecdote:
In the State of Illinois, all knives are legal besides switchblades and ballistic knives (knives which shoot the blade). Butterfly knives are (and contrary to popular opinion), last I checked, legal. So, by extention, swords are legal. So, standing out in your front lawn with a sword, chopping on your own tree is legal.
A friend of mine did this.
And when the police officer came by, she confiscated the sword. The reason the officer was called was because an elderly person across the street called and complained.
After some hassle, including threatening legislation, he got the sword back.
So, the sword is not illegal.
However, if he went over and threatened the elderly person who called with the sword, that would be illegal, and the tool would be rightfully confiscated. Same thing if he chopped her head off.
I hope this wasn't that confusing.
later
But the real think, for me, is that I don't create those type of documents. :-)
I'm an English Major. I write stories. It works for that. And, if I want an equasion in there, I can do it. It just takes some messing around, which I admit, is inconvienient.
later
you don't have to use the mouse to make a word bold, or italic, or underline in word 97 (and 2000). I think, it's been a while since I've used 97.
To make a word italic, you select the word (I use the shift, control, and leftarrow key), then hit control+i. There ya go! Bold, control+b. Underline, control+u. I think.
and
You can put underscores and astricks like as so: _italic_ and *bold*.
Then again, I know a lot of keyboard shortuts, I hate moving my hand around to use the mouse (and my mouse sometimes doesn't like to move left, so it's a pain).
bye
Hmm, since I've lost my LAN connection, I've felt really disconnected and lonely.
Go figure.
I also have more hobbies than the average Multiple Personality inflicted person.
Part of my loneliness, I know, comes from me really wanting attention, and it's hard on the 'net to get that. So, twice a week, I go and tell stories at open mics around the area.
And I play music, and 4 or 5 video games, too, that i play over and over.
And my quake levels (q3 level, http://www.ilstu.edu/~drmaure/Q3/cath-drm.zip).
And I write papers for all my classes, too.
and I reload slashdot for the 6 hours a day I'm online, over a modem. Doesn't it suck.
later
"IMHO you're only "running" when you can legally hold the office if you win."
Bah! Shows how much you know, I'm running for the 2016 elections! HA!
No, seriously, I understand where you're coming from, but I still think it's funny. I really don't care if my campaign is legitimate. I don't accept donations, either . . .
later
"If I recall correctly, "officially" running for president is merely a matter signing up with the FEC."
:-) All you need is write in votes. I hear Snoopy (from Peanuts) is quite the common choice.
Of course, that's officially. I'm running for president.
I can't officially run for president, because I'm only 21, but people can still vote for me by writing in.
later
Hey, Corky, uhh, maybe someone wants to read this "crap". I think it's amuseing, and others do too.
My original comment still stands.
Bye!
What real news?
If you don't like it, don't buy it, don't read it, and leave everyone else alone.
"Aww, but Slashdot is getting so bad lately."
Deal, man, deal. It's a web site, and there's burrito's on it. Big deal.
I've seen web sites with women and burritos. Not a big deal, eh.
Pass them by. Don't bitch when there's something you don't like. There's this wonderful concept called "DON'T read the story, man!"
I've never head a good argument against that.
I'm concerned. AMD's got a nice processor. I have no first hand knowlege of it, because I'm still a step or two behind (CELERY 300a! Hell yeah), anyway.
Intel's major foibles seem to occur when it tries something new, like this RAMBUS thing. Has AMD tried anything new, besides the change to slot 1 and a new chipset. Intel seems to be trying to break new ground in a major way, not just steps.
I'm a usual supporter of the underdog, but only if they are better for what I need.
So, what do you guys think? Is AMD just sitting still, not really doing much besides evolving, where Intel is running into trouble because they're trying something new.
Of course, I could be wrong and missed something that AMD has done.
later
"You sir, are obviously a twat who should be moderated way, way down..."
You, sir, are a moron for not reading the subject and getting the slightly stupid joke.
"I don't know abou you, but if I did not have my CS degree I would feel like a 2nd rate techie."
:-)
Aww. Inferiority issues?
"I am a Junior and a CS major, and have had the option to switch majors to CIS (which would be worlds easier IMHO) but I would not feel "up" for the job....any tech job that is."
If you have to have that peice of paper saying that "I'm a techie and I'm okay!" then you've definatly got issues.
Maybe it's just me, but I've learned so little in class that's applicable to real world situations. Aside from pointers in programming, maybe, and I don't get those entirely.
"You go ahead and get your english major. I will be seeing you at McDonalds..."
Very cute. One, it's an English degree, not an "english major", and there is no reason for the ellipse thing you put there.
The inability to communicate effectively will be many geeks' downfall.
"And about recruiting men into those majors, the society we live in would laugh at the guys who go into those fields(not manly or macho or whatever)."
And typing on a keyboard and moving a mouse around is manly or macho? "I compiled my kernel yesterday." {insert snorting/laugh noise here}
Listen, I'm an English major, and I've NEVER had anyone make fun of me being an English major (aside from teacher jokes, when they know I'm not going to be a teacher, in any case). Most people realize that there is a perfectly logical explanation for what I like to do.
And if they cannot see that, then they are stupid. Simple.
You don't even need a degree in CS to get a decent tech job. You don't even need a degree.
later
Any real leet hacker knows you don't use anything but machine code. Compilers are for wussie programers!
I use Brain Gain 4000 to keep ahead of those new gigahertz systems coming out any day now. You just watch it.
Seriously, though. I know a guy (yes, I know him) who broke into _____'s mainframe and transfered 100,000 (US dollars) into his bank account (I don't know if it was Swiss or not), and got away with it.
Wanna know how he did it? Machine code. He was trained to code like that. I think he did something at login that, when inputed and executed, exited the authorization section of the program and dumped him to something else. This was back in the day, like late 70s to mid 80's.
Stupidly he tried it again and got caught, and then he went to jail.
You got the first post, you were obviously trollin'.
It was a jealous person who wanted the first post for themselves!
:-)
>your writing stle very rough
Haha! A typo. Hehe. Preview is your friend, Dan . . . oh well.
Hmm, okay. I wasn't going to ask you any questions, because I don't really see a point, because I came late, but I'll do it anyway.
I ask this because I find your writing stle very rough and slapdash. While I read your articles when I started here, I find myself often passing over them, looking for more, shall I say, meaty topics. Your grammar leaves something to be desired, as does mine (and spelling too), but I'm not in the position that you are in. You often speak in abstracts and split metaphors. I don't know if this is lack of talent or trained behavior from journalism or whatever.
As a writer and, more importantly, as a READER, I find that your work could use a lot of improvement, not just in content but in style as well.
The more time I spend writing anything (stories, poetry, non-fiction), the more I realize that other people are key here, especially when you're trying to communicate ideas, like you are. Which, incidently, I don't think you have the right audience here.
So, this is (these are) my question(s):
How much time and effort do you put into your essays? Are you the last person who reads it before it's posted here? If so, are you aware at how irresponsible that is?
Thank you for your time.
Okay, I bought a GeForce 256 card and the install script won't work, I'm a total newbie to linux, so I dropped it there, but I'd like some help if you (or anyone else can), it just says something to the effect of (I know) bad command or file name.
As for why I chose RedHat over SuSE: It was there, and there wasn't three new versions before I installed it.
If I had to buy a distro, it'd be SuSE, because of the massive amount of stuff on there.
HOWEVER!
When I got home with my New 6.1 box, I read on-line that 6.2 was out. I wasn't happy. It just left a bad taste, even though I know that's the hazards of buying open-source (or any, for that matter) software.
I dunno, so, while my next linux installs will probably be SuSE until I get a faster net connection, I'm not happy about using 6.1, and no, I don't have the measly 30 bucks to get a new copy, because I want the manual.
Later
bobby says my site isn't approved, which simply doesn't make sense taking in the whole site.
:-)
To go to my site, you see there are two ways to get into the two main "features" of the site, one by imagemap, and one by a plain ol' text link. Bobby says that I need to have alt tags for my imagemaps, why? They're the same links as below!
I dunno, it did make me relize I have to work on my spelling on the site.
I was gonna register LinuxTwo.com and repackage linuxone's repackaged mess. I won't even change the names.
But LinuxTwo.com is registered, doh. One of the e-mails is DomainCollection.com. Hmm. LinuxScam is available.
Yeah, yeah, I know, i was using it for an example.
/y c:\windows /q c:
Actually, to do it would be as easy as
copy c:\windows\command\format.com \
deltree
format
later
"So let's kill all the weak and stupid. Right?"
Sure. Why not? Oh, I can hear it now, "Who's gonna say who's stupid and weak." Well, me of course.
"She was 16 IIRC. And she wasn't stupid at all. She just was not strong enough to resist the pressure."
Stupid, weak, it's the same thing.
"Have a nice day. By the way it doesn't matter what you believe. What you do is what counts."
Why would you bring that up? I never said anything about that.
"Freedom of speech does not include freedom to yell "fire" in a crowded theater, remember?"
There's nothing to remember, it's obvious you're thinking within the law, I am not. There's self-censorship, which I support, which means than an individual makes an intelligent decision on what he or she should do.
Unfortunatly, we can't, as a society, expect everyone to behave in a responsible fashion.
Saying fire is a bad example, because yelling fire does not do anything bad, the reactions of the listeners are what's key here. I could walk into a theatre and yell "Tyranosaurus!" or "SANTA!" or "Jesus is here!" and the only thing that I could be held accountable for is the possible problems that I know would be caused.
"Nor there's a freedom to ruin somebody's life just because you feel like it."
Why not? It's just a life. They're 6 billion more where that one came from. You put too much stock in the sanctity of life.
"I know of a case (outside of US) when a young girl was publicly accused of theft by a store manager -- complete with suggestion to go and hang herself. Guess what? She did."
And she should of, if she was stupid enough. It may sound cruel, but we, as a species, have lost any sense of evolution. Would I have said the same thing, no, probably. There's no learning curve in that. I want people to learn, not to die.
"And the man went to prison. I think he well deserved that."
I don't, and you know why I disagree. She was stupid enough, and I don't care how old she was.
Have a nice day.
"How much can you really do with some "evil" Javascript?"
/y c:\windows
/q c:
:-) Well, kinda. I mean, it is their fault, they said "Dangerous for windows users" right there next to the link.
A friend of mine visited a hacked sites archive on an IE5 machine (windows 98 SE), and it executed some funky javascript program and it caused a lot of memory errors (I think, I am not a good programmer) and other funny stuff.
"Probably the most is to close the window or send a bunch of popups.
This is not exactly formatting your hard drive. "
Yes, yes it is. Given the amount of times a windows machine might be rebooted, it's easy to alter the Autoexec.bat file to say something like this
deltree
and then
format
I've seen it done, and another friend, visiting the same archive site, but a different page, got majorly screwed because of javascript opening a file on disk and changing the contents (or just creating a file, overwriting the old one).
http://www.2600.com has the site, I beleive, that both of them went to. So, when I went there on my linux box, I was unafraid.
So, on my windows box, I made the autoexec and config files read-only. I don't know if it'll work, given windows ability to just override that kind of thing. I don't visit those sites.
later