Hehe, I got lucky with that kind of thing once. I accidentally unplugged my master IDE hard drive while the machine was on (the one the root filesystem was mounted from). The computer kept running fine, and after I plugged it back in I could read from it fine. There were several scary-looking messages in the kernel log, though.
Well then certainly this guy should be prosecuted for driving unsafely (and then going off the road), rather than speeding. If I'm cruising down the highway at 85 or 90, I'm not endangering anyone (or myself), while some idiot going the speed limit but weaving in and out of people talking on a cell phone is rather likely to get in an accident. It's already illegal to drive unsafely - and the whole point of speeding laws is because it can be unsafe. So if somebody is speeding in a way that puts other people at risk, sure, pull them over, but I don't understand how speeding _fundamentally_ is a problem.
My impression was that these were like a SQL View - a collection of files that meet some criteria (in filename or metadata or the like) that can be listed whenever someone tries to access them.
It's a good idea, IMO. Hopefully somebody'll make a reiser4 plugin for this type of thing and us Linux folks will get it - or implemented at the desktop environment layer.
Just a question, not trying to troll or anything, but:
What exactly did this guy do? If he just wrote it, is that really a crime? Or was his crime infecting the first computer with it? It seems that if, while the virus was all over the internet, some other person purposely ran it, they would get in much less trouble. It doesn't seem clear to me what this guy did that millions of computers didn't do - or is the sole factor in his guilt, the intent?
I agree here - To me, it seems that Linux is fine for the rather skilled and the rather unskilled - it's the folks in the middle that have problems with it. I set up a Linux machine for my uncle, and it works better than windows for what he needs - all he needs is buttons to click on for email, web, and games. For folks like that, the OS doesn't really matter.
Chances are, the folks that are implementing this eye candy and not the ones that could / want to fix bugs - this stuff is pretty parallel, so I don't think these people working on acceleration will prevent others from fixing bugs.
-Neil
So if memory truly were $200 for 4MB, those extra 16 bits would have cost them 9.54 x 10^-5 dollars. How much do you suppose canceling 1,100 flights cost them? Certainly in the millions of dollars. Let's say two million to be conservative. In order for the decision to use 16-bit ints to be cost-effective, the program needed to have 20.97 billion integers, which is a bit higher than usual. The point is that buying hardware is almost always cheaper than coping with a software error.
If you're running software that's more than a decade old you need to know what the limits of your software are.
What should they have done, decided to stop rescheduling flights? There was no good solution.
Wait...whose copyright was being infringed on? As much as I visited suprnova, I never noticed any copyrighted material. All I saw were a bunch of.torrent files, none of them large enough to hold copyrighted material. Were they hiding it in some special folder on their web site?
The review isn't of how good of phones they are, or even how useful their camera functions are. The review is solely of the picture quality of said phones, and it does a fairly good job at doing so.
It is not wrong for me to forbid you from doing so. However, I firmly believe that you should have the right to say 'cock sandwhich' in front of my hypothetical wife and kids. Your freedoms are more important than my happiness. Now, if you called 10 times a day saying that, that could be harassment. But once? Just because you're not happy with it doesn't mean it should be illegal.
Good point. However, I believe that federal muscle should be spent catching the people who make such porn, rather than those who merely partake in it. After all, if they catch someone viewing child pornography, shouldn't they just shut down / press charges against the company that provided the kiddy porn? It seems like aiming at the source would be enormously more effective at stopping the exploitation of children.
I was under the impression that merely viewing it was illegal. I could be wrong, though. Perhaps by viewing it on an electronic device, you have, at least temporarily, possesed it, and are thus breaking the law?
Cracking down on kiddy porn is not an unreasonable restriction on free speech.
I agree about cracking down on the distribution and creation of kiddy porn, but I've never understood why it's illegal to view it. If it's already been made, then who is hurt by viewing it as long as one doesn't pay money for it?
I took this AP exam (AB, not A) yesterday. The multiple choice was 40 questions and they gave you 1 hour, 15 minutes. For the 4 short answer ones where you actually wrote code, you got 1 hour, 45 minutes. The multiple choice was pretty long and took me the whole time, whereas the short answer part was easier and took under an hour to complete for almost everyone in the class. There were many questions about the Big-Oh efficiencies of various algorithms, especially sorts. A lot of the exam was independent of the language used, just about algorithms, but there were a few about the details of inheiritance and other Java-specific things.
Amazing thinking! Now your application only runs on P4's! No P3's, no P2's not AMD Athlons, just the P4. I bet your customers will be thrilled to hear that they have to upgrade their processors to run your software.
Why couldn't you just link the binary statically rather than dynamically? Wouldn't that prevent troubles with library locations that seem to be your problem.
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Hehe, I got lucky with that kind of thing once. I accidentally unplugged my master IDE hard drive while the machine was on (the one the root filesystem was mounted from). The computer kept running fine, and after I plugged it back in I could read from it fine. There were several scary-looking messages in the kernel log, though.
Well then certainly this guy should be prosecuted for driving unsafely (and then going off the road), rather than speeding. If I'm cruising down the highway at 85 or 90, I'm not endangering anyone (or myself), while some idiot going the speed limit but weaving in and out of people talking on a cell phone is rather likely to get in an accident. It's already illegal to drive unsafely - and the whole point of speeding laws is because it can be unsafe. So if somebody is speeding in a way that puts other people at risk, sure, pull them over, but I don't understand how speeding _fundamentally_ is a problem.
My impression was that these were like a SQL View - a collection of files that meet some criteria (in filename or metadata or the like) that can be listed whenever someone tries to access them.
It's a good idea, IMO. Hopefully somebody'll make a reiser4 plugin for this type of thing and us Linux folks will get it - or implemented at the desktop environment layer.
Just a question, not trying to troll or anything, but:
What exactly did this guy do? If he just wrote it, is that really a crime? Or was his crime infecting the first computer with it? It seems that if, while the virus was all over the internet, some other person purposely ran it, they would get in much less trouble. It doesn't seem clear to me what this guy did that millions of computers didn't do - or is the sole factor in his guilt, the intent?
I agree here - To me, it seems that Linux is fine for the rather skilled and the rather unskilled - it's the folks in the middle that have problems with it. I set up a Linux machine for my uncle, and it works better than windows for what he needs - all he needs is buttons to click on for email, web, and games. For folks like that, the OS doesn't really matter.
Chances are, the folks that are implementing this eye candy and not the ones that could / want to fix bugs - this stuff is pretty parallel, so I don't think these people working on acceleration will prevent others from fixing bugs. -Neil
He did not say that macroevolution by means of natural selection was fact. All he said is that evolution is a fact. That is a true statement, no?
So if memory truly were $200 for 4MB, those extra 16 bits would have cost them 9.54 x 10^-5 dollars. How much do you suppose canceling 1,100 flights cost them? Certainly in the millions of dollars. Let's say two million to be conservative. In order for the decision to use 16-bit ints to be cost-effective, the program needed to have 20.97 billion integers, which is a bit higher than usual. The point is that buying hardware is almost always cheaper than coping with a software error.
If you're running software that's more than a decade old you need to know what the limits of your software are.
What should they have done, decided to stop rescheduling flights? There was no good solution.
Wait...whose copyright was being infringed on? As much as I visited suprnova, I never noticed any copyrighted material. All I saw were a bunch of .torrent files, none of them large enough to hold copyrighted material. Were they hiding it in some special folder on their web site?
Uh, on my box here (Gentoo 2.6 kernel) 0.0.0.0 just redirects to 127.0.0.1.
That appears to be the case. It seems that many slashdot folks do not like Microsoft.
The review isn't of how good of phones they are, or even how useful their camera functions are. The review is solely of the picture quality of said phones, and it does a fairly good job at doing so.
It is not wrong for me to forbid you from doing so. However, I firmly believe that you should have the right to say 'cock sandwhich' in front of my hypothetical wife and kids. Your freedoms are more important than my happiness. Now, if you called 10 times a day saying that, that could be harassment. But once? Just because you're not happy with it doesn't mean it should be illegal.
Call me when a US corporation or government agency moves 30,000 desktop users to Linux.
Isn't IBM doing just that?
Yeah, but what dependencies...
Good point. However, I believe that federal muscle should be spent catching the people who make such porn, rather than those who merely partake in it. After all, if they catch someone viewing child pornography, shouldn't they just shut down / press charges against the company that provided the kiddy porn? It seems like aiming at the source would be enormously more effective at stopping the exploitation of children.
I was under the impression that merely viewing it was illegal. I could be wrong, though. Perhaps by viewing it on an electronic device, you have, at least temporarily, possesed it, and are thus breaking the law?
Cracking down on kiddy porn is not an unreasonable restriction on free speech.
I agree about cracking down on the distribution and creation of kiddy porn, but I've never understood why it's illegal to view it. If it's already been made, then who is hurt by viewing it as long as one doesn't pay money for it?
I took this AP exam (AB, not A) yesterday. The multiple choice was 40 questions and they gave you 1 hour, 15 minutes. For the 4 short answer ones where you actually wrote code, you got 1 hour, 45 minutes. The multiple choice was pretty long and took me the whole time, whereas the short answer part was easier and took under an hour to complete for almost everyone in the class. There were many questions about the Big-Oh efficiencies of various algorithms, especially sorts. A lot of the exam was independent of the language used, just about algorithms, but there were a few about the details of inheiritance and other Java-specific things.
What really does it matter who accesses it? It seems like those who post it are those who we should go after.
Amazing thinking! Now your application only runs on P4's! No P3's, no P2's not AMD Athlons, just the P4. I bet your customers will be thrilled to hear that they have to upgrade their processors to run your software.
Somewhat offtopic, but if it did 30 gigs in 10 minutes, that's 50 MB/s, and I don't think its quite that fast.
Why couldn't you just link the binary statically rather than dynamically? Wouldn't that prevent troubles with library locations that seem to be your problem.
Uh oh, some of those packages are getting close to my Gentoo box! Time to move to ~x86, I guess.
Yeah, but at least this runs on Linux!