You might want to differ. Installing software on foreign computers without consent is perfectly legal in lots of jurisdictions, in some western nations it is even tried by the state. Why should it be acceptable for the state to install trojans to monitor your net use (see: Bundestrojaner, EU in general), but despictable to kill a botnet with similar tactics?
Anti-Virii are no new invention - they were around in the 1990s.
Just follow one coding standard and stick to it, preferably a aerospace and/or military related one (as those are the ones that happen to be the best worked-out I've seen).
Personally, I prefer 2RDU00001, because not only it has the rules, but explains why every single specific rule makes sense, thus making it easier to enforce in a team.
The point is: as soon as Google documents its algorithms for the general public, they become meaningless, because it would get just too easy to game them.
Google will *never* allow anyone outside the developer teams to know about how the system works in detail.
Not really an option. It would force you to do the ad marketing to ad agencies yourself, leading to a laborous and tedious job. In fact, it is so difficult for smaller websites to talk to ad agencies (which only care about "reach", and talking to a mere 20000-User/Month-Webmaster is like talking to a toddler) that they would most likely vanish. Moreover, the time invested in ad marketing would be better spend in creating more useful content for the websites' userbase.
> And only some final code will be signed by CA accredited keys. But that is fine if the O/S allows you to make statements of the sort 'drivers have to be signed by a trusted root, programs signed off a Web o' Trust key can run but only with restricted privs'.
Wow, is it just me, or did you just announce the death of homebrew software, freeware and OSS on the respective OS?
Not everyone has a credit card to whip out (in Europe, a mere 16% apply for a credit card, the others quite happily use their bank accounts). Some people got burnt by PayPal.
Make it easy to pay.
Get a working non-creditcard-based international payment system out the door, and I will happily but Indy Games - Either that or get your game boxed in a retail shop near me. This second option worked great for DefCon, which now belongs to my collection.
I'm positive that I've read such findings in the ADAC's bulletin in the early 1990s... I also recall getting taught about this effect in drivers school in the mid 1990s...
So what's the new point of this study?
(For non-Germans: The ADAC is a car-users society.)
"Genuis" is a term that often is used to compare people. In direct comparison to Joe Sixpack, Reiser is. Compared to most of us software engineers, he might not be.
Every person I've met encouraging eugenics in the one or other form has himself a genetic flaw which could result in his/her extermination/sterilisation. Having a need for glasses could be a reason, for example. Mild forms of Aspergers (which often is linked to geekdom) could qualify (and - in fact - are currently fought against with Ritalin). Maybe the society just does not like your hair color. Where do you draw the line?
> Intended to replace the aging Ming-class submarines, the first Song-class submarine was launched on 25 May 1994 and started sea trials in August 1995. but did not become operational until 1998.
... not since "a long time ago", but since 1956 when Congress added the line as a second national motto (not replacing "E pluribus unum"). Seems like appeasement to the McCarthy-era to me.
Also, I find Heavy Metal to be a bit of a stretch for music being generally favoured by gifted children. I can understand Rock music, but Heavy Metal is merely a variant that puts extreme focus on volume rather than anything else.
You, sir, have a very limited idea of the musical and lyrical differences between Rock, Hard Rock and Heavy Metal in its different variants. You might reconsider to reeducate yourself on this issue. Keep in mind, tough, that there are about a douzand major variants of Metal that differ widely (don't even try to compare Cannibal Corpe's Death Metal (personal categorisation, dont crucify me, death metalheads;)) to something more lyrical like the bardish, Epic Metal of Blind Guardian or Demons and Wizards. There *is* a difference between viking Metal and Apocalyptica.
Other stuff I regulary find many geeks have in common are a tendency to hate idiots, even to an unhealty extend, and having a special affection to eastern, especially japanese culture or cultural products (or p0rn).
(currently just rocking to Manowar's "Swords in the Wind", swapping trough Kodansha's Encyclopaedia for a good definition of Takeda Shingens first military campaign)
You scare me... you know, first this is against kiddie porn, then terrorism, and in a not all-too-far future, it is for the war on tax evasion or for finding that Bittorrent files you have...
There should be limits on what can be done legally. And that script kiddie should be jailed, too.
You seem to suffer from the missconception that democracy actually works.
Forbidding (we are not talking "ban for minors" here) of CS is the least of Germany's IT problems. Currently, Judical battle is waged on wether to allow a "Bundestrojaner" or "Federal Trojan", a tool that would allow our Federal Police to actively and secretly swap trough the files on every of our computers (and most likely we're supposed not to enforce a strict security concept for our networks, as it'll rise suspicion.
Those were the news that led me to an active encryption of all my harddisks and an cascade of firewall servers. Not because I am child molester, terrorist or criminal, but because I handle data too sensitive for some idiot at the BKA to read.
They say it's against terrorism. Sure. Like the times our bank secrecy was abandoned for the "fight against terrorism" (Nowadays, most the time "Vater Staat" looks at bank accounts, it's for the "fight against tax evasion") Not a time to be proud being a German... Just like the rest of the western world, we again are taking huge steps towards a facist system.
the Enterprise is always carrying medicine or supplies, implying that the replicators can only produce certain types of objects ... or they plan for a worst-case scenario: Need for medication when the replicator has ceased working (as in: massive energy loss, massive damage, stranded in a defective shuttlecraft on some remote moon...)
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You might want to differ. Installing software on foreign computers without consent is perfectly legal in lots of jurisdictions, in some western nations it is even tried by the state. Why should it be acceptable for the state to install trojans to monitor your net use (see: Bundestrojaner, EU in general), but despictable to kill a botnet with similar tactics?
Anti-Virii are no new invention - they were around in the 1990s.
A law that actively hinders human development and protects criminal activities is immoral.
Immoral laws should not be followed.
Just follow one coding standard and stick to it, preferably a aerospace and/or military related one (as those are the ones that happen to be the best worked-out I've seen).
Personally, I prefer 2RDU00001, because not only it has the rules, but explains why every single specific rule makes sense, thus making it easier to enforce in a team.
The point is: as soon as Google documents its algorithms for the general public, they become meaningless, because it would get just too easy to game them.
Google will *never* allow anyone outside the developer teams to know about how the system works in detail.
BTW: If I u
How eerily accurate, even for the Wife Beta-version (aka. "SignificantOther")
Not really an option. It would force you to do the ad marketing to ad agencies yourself, leading to a laborous and tedious job. In fact, it is so difficult for smaller websites to talk to ad agencies (which only care about "reach", and talking to a mere 20000-User/Month-Webmaster is like talking to a toddler) that they would most likely vanish. Moreover, the time invested in ad marketing would be better spend in creating more useful content for the websites' userbase.
> And only some final code will be signed by CA accredited keys. But that is fine if the O/S allows you to make statements of the sort 'drivers have to be signed by a trusted root, programs signed off a Web o' Trust key can run but only with restricted privs'.
Wow, is it just me, or did you just announce the death of homebrew software, freeware and OSS on the respective OS?
Not everyone has a credit card to whip out (in Europe, a mere 16% apply for a credit card, the others quite happily use their bank accounts). Some people got burnt by PayPal.
Make it easy to pay.
Get a working non-creditcard-based international payment system out the door, and I will happily but Indy Games - Either that or get your game boxed in a retail shop near me. This second option worked great for DefCon, which now belongs to my collection.
> Too bad Mars doesn't have oil.
Says who?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsautomotive/wa5.mspx ... the day I stopped buying cars from BMW.
I'm positive that I've read such findings in the ADAC's bulletin in the early 1990s... I also recall getting taught about this effect in drivers school in the mid 1990s...
So what's the new point of this study?
(For non-Germans: The ADAC is a car-users society.)
"Genuis" is a term that often is used to compare people. In direct comparison to Joe Sixpack, Reiser is. Compared to most of us software engineers, he might not be.
As an atheist, let me suggest you something...
Every person I've met encouraging eugenics in the one or other form has himself a genetic flaw which could result in his/her extermination/sterilisation. Having a need for glasses could be a reason, for example. Mild forms of Aspergers (which often is linked to geekdom) could qualify (and - in fact - are currently fought against with Ritalin). Maybe the society just does not like your hair color. Where do you draw the line?
We are all mutants, you know...
Well, as you do not seem to have a realistic grasp on technology, I think this discussion is over.
Well, most of modern cars are derived from the Benz model of 1885. This does not make a modern days sports car a 130 years old model... ;)
> Intended to replace the aging Ming-class submarines, the first Song-class submarine was launched on 25 May 1994 and started sea trials in August 1995. but did not become operational until 1998.
GlobalSecurity again. Do you do research before posting?
Wasn't this like late 2006 or something?
GlobalSecurity, most of the time a reliable source, says so.
... not since "a long time ago", but since 1956 when Congress added the line as a second national motto (not replacing "E pluribus unum"). Seems like appeasement to the McCarthy-era to me.
You, sir, have a very limited idea of the musical and lyrical differences between Rock, Hard Rock and Heavy Metal in its different variants. You might reconsider to reeducate yourself on this issue. Keep in mind, tough, that there are about a douzand major variants of Metal that differ widely (don't even try to compare Cannibal Corpe's Death Metal (personal categorisation, dont crucify me, death metalheads
Get some, hear some, get an own educated opinion.
Other stuff I regulary find many geeks have in common are a tendency to hate idiots, even to an unhealty extend, and having a special affection to eastern, especially japanese culture or cultural products (or p0rn).
(currently just rocking to Manowar's "Swords in the Wind", swapping trough Kodansha's Encyclopaedia for a good definition of Takeda Shingens first military campaign)
You scare me ... you know, first this is against kiddie porn, then terrorism, and in a not all-too-far future, it is for the war on tax evasion or for finding that Bittorrent files you have...
There should be limits on what can be done legally. And that script kiddie should be jailed, too.
Because if you don't, this might happen to Toronto and Montreal... it'd be a shame, wouldn't it?
> [ ] Incarceration in "country-club" for white-collar criminals.
Sheez, you forgot the "federal pound-in-the-ass prison"
You seem to suffer from the missconception that democracy actually works.
Forbidding (we are not talking "ban for minors" here) of CS is the least of Germany's IT problems. Currently, Judical battle is waged on wether to allow a "Bundestrojaner" or "Federal Trojan", a tool that would allow our Federal Police to actively and secretly swap trough the files on every of our computers (and most likely we're supposed not to enforce a strict security concept for our networks, as it'll rise suspicion.
Those were the news that led me to an active encryption of all my harddisks and an cascade of firewall servers. Not because I am child molester, terrorist or criminal, but because I handle data too sensitive for some idiot at the BKA to read.
They say it's against terrorism. Sure. Like the times our bank secrecy was abandoned for the "fight against terrorism" (Nowadays, most the time "Vater Staat" looks at bank accounts, it's for the "fight against tax evasion") Not a time to be proud being a German... Just like the rest of the western world, we again are taking huge steps towards a facist system.
Makes sense to me.