in English, and not dictated by some zealous national linguistic academy (* koff koff France *). So in the Commonwealth countries we have "flavour," and in the US we have "flavor". In Enghald it's "labour," over here it's "labor."... and the Statue of Liberty was donated by the Freedom nation.
Re:It's that way with nuclear too....
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The British spell it nuclear, while we spell it nuculear
It's nucular, you dumbass! Your way would be pronounced "new kyool ear".
Actually, you got it backwards. It's ham over tcp/ip and I get it all the time in my inbox, usually in the form of a viagra or other penis-enhancing spam.
Would it be a huge problem for Slashdot to download the video first and then put up a bittorrent link for the file? Really -- any video link posted in a story immediately goes down due to mega-traffic.
Tracing route to life.liberty.pursuit-of-happiness [123.45.67.89] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 28 ms 29 ms 29 ms 89.1.23.11
2 29 ms 30 ms 30 ms 89.1.227.153
3 44 ms 29 ms 29 ms patriot.congress.gov [140.147.249.9]
Using your theory, the person who spent hours laboring trying to develop the universal joint wouldn't be able to apply for a patent. After all, he just took a bunch of gears and stuff (which he didn't invent) and threw in some joint parts and an axle (which he didn't invent) and called it new.
Granted, buy it now + auction is extremely trivial, but how do you define the level of complexity required before it's no longer an obvious invention?
And here where I live (a northern part of Russia), street lamps get turned off after 10 pm in August, so getting home after long coding sessions becomes an exercise in celestial navigation.
Wait a sec... you mean, the stars don't navigate YOU?
Providing cash incentives to pursue exploits is one reason why this is a bad idea. You'd get much more hacking/cheating in a game if people were not only profiting in game-world but real-world also (and it would be 'legal', well, I doubt anyone would go to jail over it at least, just get their game account banned).
Prosecution: Your honor, we are charging Joe User under the DMCA for circumventing a technological measure in our software. We are also further charging he defendent for trafficking in illegal weapons, namely a fully automatic plasma cannon.
Judge: How do you plead?
Joe User: Uh [sweating profusely] not guilty, your honor.
Prosecution: As shown by the evidence in Exhibit A, the defendent circumvented our software in order to profit from his illegal activities. We show that the defendent repeatedly took advantage of what's known as an "exploit" to further his own person.
Judge: Is this true?
Joe User: Well, it's like this your honor, I...
Judge: Yes or No only, please. Remember you are under oath.
Joe User: Uh, yes I suppose, but...
Judge: Thank you. Please continue.
Prosecution: Exhibit B details a listing on the popular auction site eBay for one automatic plasma cannon sold by "joeuser" who, according eBay's records, is the defendent's account.
Judge: Is this your account on eBay?
Joe User: Well, yes.
Judge: And you listed this automatic weapon for sale on eBay?
Joe User: Uh, you see...
Judge: Yes or No!
Joe User: [gulp] Uh, yes, howev...
Judge: Thank you. This court finds the defendent guilty of posession of a restricted weapon and sentences him to 3 years in federal custody. Also, guilty of circumvention of a technological measure as provided for by the DMCA is punishable by 5 years imprisonment. Trafficking in restricted weapons carries with it a mandatory 5 year sentence. And under the PATRIOT act, as this falls under the anti-terrorism mandate, an automatic 20 year additional sentence. This court remands Joe User to 33 years in federal custody with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Last fall I had my credit card number lifted from a small website I ordered some electronic parts from. They maxed out the card very fast, and many of the charges turned out to be for places selling penis enlargment products, and things of that sort.
Given that some of them earn $60 a pop commission for each order placed, it's no wonder your card was maxed out. These scammers simply take stolen credit cards and rack up the orders and, therefore, their commissions.
I am Ryan Lackey, the ex-CTO of Sealand. I apologize for the nature of this letter, but I am assured that your confidential manner is paramount to the successful conclusion of this transaction. I have the sum of $25,000,000 (TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) stored in the closet of Sealand with no way to get it out. I need a safe partner abroad to help me transfer these funds.
Why waste the time and money sending Marines anywhere? Just cut the link between Sealand and the internet. They have a backup satellite link, but that's slooow
Some backup. One sniper shot from half a mile away and that satellite becomes a useless hunk of garbage. Somehow I don't think that they have a spare satellite kicking around in just such an emergency.
Plus, with Mr. Conehead no longer there, the network's going to go down the one toilet they have.
Two things to remember in a raid...
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First, if you're ever arrested and read your rights, the person reading them will conclude with something like "Do you understand these rights as I have read them?" The correct answer to this is always, "No, I don't." This isn't being facetious either -- without a background in law and how the exercise (or not) of those rights will affect your legal position, you are in no way capable of understanding the full ramifications.
Secondly, if you're ever in a position where you're being interrogated, the answer to any question is always, "I want my lawyer." Never, under any circumstances, agree to anything unless you have first spoken to your lawyer. Oh, and here's a freebie... even if you have 25 heavily armed agents in riot gear storming your house, remember this piece of advice: right after you shit your pants, always ask to see their search warrant. No warrant, and they'll need to take that double-barrel shotgun elsewhere, thank you very much.
but complex ones? I imagine what this software does is it scans the binary for things like instances of strcpy calls instead of explicit strncpy calls. Given that the software is likely not executed, how would it be able to catch more complex bugs? How can it find all instances of user interaction which could modify a variable where that variable is used as a parameter in strncpy for example?
Dollars to do[ugh]nuts says that even with a program that gets a clean bill of health, there are still countless bugs undiscovered.
It is nearly always wrong to attempt to apply 'our' laws to another society - look historically at all the attempts to enforce new laws and ways of life on indigenous populations.
Thank you, Picard, for pointing out that whenever mankind interferes in a primitive society, the results are invariably disastrous.
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in English, and not dictated by some zealous national linguistic academy (* koff koff France *). So in the Commonwealth countries we have "flavour," and in the US we have "flavor". In Enghald it's "labour," over here it's "labor." ... and the Statue of Liberty was donated by the Freedom nation.
The British spell it nuclear, while we spell it nuculear
It's nucular, you dumbass! Your way would be pronounced "new kyool ear".
You can also listen to this sound file for a sample of the radio inteference.
I am sure it will bring a new meaning to the flying toasters...
You can tell when this happens when you pull your toast out of the toaster in the morning and you see:burnt into the bread.
Does such a thing exist as tcp/ip over ham?
Actually, you got it backwards. It's ham over tcp/ip and I get it all the time in my inbox, usually in the form of a viagra or other penis-enhancing spam.
Would it be a huge problem for Slashdot to download the video first and then put up a bittorrent link for the file? Really -- any video link posted in a story immediately goes down due to mega-traffic.
Thoughts?
C:\>tracert life.liberty.pursuit-of-happiness
Tracing route to life.liberty.pursuit-of-happiness [123.45.67.89]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 28 ms 29 ms 29 ms 89.1.23.11
2 29 ms 30 ms 30 ms 89.1.227.153
3 44 ms 29 ms 29 ms patriot.congress.gov [140.147.249.9]
*** Destination host unreachable: life.liberty.pursuit-of-happiness
C:\>
You can not steal an idea, except perhaps in some far-out science fiction where neuron transplants occur
Just like you can't steal an mp3 you downloaded off Kazaa. So does this mean that what occurred is idea infringement?
Using your theory, the person who spent hours laboring trying to develop the universal joint wouldn't be able to apply for a patent. After all, he just took a bunch of gears and stuff (which he didn't invent) and threw in some joint parts and an axle (which he didn't invent) and called it new.
Granted, buy it now + auction is extremely trivial, but how do you define the level of complexity required before it's no longer an obvious invention?
I, for one, welcome our new night sky overlords!
And here where I live (a northern part of Russia), street lamps get turned off after 10 pm in August, so getting home after long coding sessions becomes an exercise in celestial navigation.
Wait a sec... you mean, the stars don't navigate YOU?
My god... I can't believe I typed MMPORG. What the hell is that?
Massively Multiplayer Pornographic Orgy Roleplaying Game
Providing cash incentives to pursue exploits is one reason why this is a bad idea. You'd get much more hacking/cheating in a game if people were not only profiting in game-world but real-world also (and it would be 'legal', well, I doubt anyone would go to jail over it at least, just get their game account banned).
Prosecution: Your honor, we are charging Joe User under the DMCA for circumventing a technological measure in our software. We are also further charging he defendent for trafficking in illegal weapons, namely a fully automatic plasma cannon.
Judge: How do you plead?
Joe User: Uh [sweating profusely] not guilty, your honor.
Prosecution: As shown by the evidence in Exhibit A, the defendent circumvented our software in order to profit from his illegal activities. We show that the defendent repeatedly took advantage of what's known as an "exploit" to further his own person.
Judge: Is this true?
Joe User: Well, it's like this your honor, I...
Judge: Yes or No only, please. Remember you are under oath.
Joe User: Uh, yes I suppose, but...
Judge: Thank you. Please continue.
Prosecution: Exhibit B details a listing on the popular auction site eBay for one automatic plasma cannon sold by "joeuser" who, according eBay's records, is the defendent's account.
Judge: Is this your account on eBay?
Joe User: Well, yes.
Judge: And you listed this automatic weapon for sale on eBay?
Joe User: Uh, you see...
Judge: Yes or No!
Joe User: [gulp] Uh, yes, howev...
Judge: Thank you. This court finds the defendent guilty of posession of a restricted weapon and sentences him to 3 years in federal custody. Also, guilty of circumvention of a technological measure as provided for by the DMCA is punishable by 5 years imprisonment. Trafficking in restricted weapons carries with it a mandatory 5 year sentence. And under the PATRIOT act, as this falls under the anti-terrorism mandate, an automatic 20 year additional sentence. This court remands Joe User to 33 years in federal custody with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Last fall I had my credit card number lifted from a small website I ordered some electronic parts from. They maxed out the card very fast, and many of the charges turned out to be for places selling penis enlargment products, and things of that sort.
Given that some of them earn $60 a pop commission for each order placed, it's no wonder your card was maxed out. These scammers simply take stolen credit cards and rack up the orders and, therefore, their commissions.
For those interested, here's the link to the Free Realty project.
I am Ryan Lackey, the ex-CTO of Sealand. I apologize for the nature of this letter, but I am assured that your confidential manner is paramount to the successful conclusion of this transaction. I have the sum of $25,000,000 (TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) stored in the closet of Sealand with no way to get it out. I need a safe partner abroad to help me transfer these funds.
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(insert rest of joke here)
What in the hell is a moistened bint?
A moistened bint is your complete ignorance of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
And you call yourself a geek. Shame.
Why waste the time and money sending Marines anywhere? Just cut the link between Sealand and the internet. They have a backup satellite link, but that's slooow
Some backup. One sniper shot from half a mile away and that satellite becomes a useless hunk of garbage. Somehow I don't think that they have a spare satellite kicking around in just such an emergency.
Plus, with Mr. Conehead no longer there, the network's going to go down the one toilet they have.
First, if you're ever arrested and read your rights, the person reading them will conclude with something like "Do you understand these rights as I have read them?" The correct answer to this is always, "No, I don't." This isn't being facetious either -- without a background in law and how the exercise (or not) of those rights will affect your legal position, you are in no way capable of understanding the full ramifications.
Secondly, if you're ever in a position where you're being interrogated, the answer to any question is always, "I want my lawyer." Never, under any circumstances, agree to anything unless you have first spoken to your lawyer. Oh, and here's a freebie... even if you have 25 heavily armed agents in riot gear storming your house, remember this piece of advice: right after you shit your pants, always ask to see their search warrant. No warrant, and they'll need to take that double-barrel shotgun elsewhere, thank you very much.
...all the while eating food from arby's.
Man, now that's hungry!
but complex ones? I imagine what this software does is it scans the binary for things like instances of strcpy calls instead of explicit strncpy calls. Given that the software is likely not executed, how would it be able to catch more complex bugs? How can it find all instances of user interaction which could modify a variable where that variable is used as a parameter in strncpy for example?
Dollars to do[ugh]nuts says that even with a program that gets a clean bill of health, there are still countless bugs undiscovered.
It is nearly always wrong to attempt to apply 'our' laws to another society - look historically at all the attempts to enforce new laws and ways of life on indigenous populations.
Thank you, Picard, for pointing out that whenever mankind interferes in a primitive society, the results are invariably disastrous.
thanks to Viagra!
They [shears] would also carry a value based on the fact that your grandfather owned them for 50 years and used them to trim his prized rosebush.
Of course, they'd have a slightly different value had he used them to trim your grandmother's bush.
- "that money we were saving for a TiVo is up for grabs."
I'll take it!Congratulations. You're claimant #101. (There are 100 RIAA lawyers ahead of you in the line.)