For large people, capitalizing on longer reach and effectively countering the small person's attacks wins, because they aren't going to out-race or easily out-maneuver the small guy.
I still disagree with your characterisation of the large as "slow". I am six foot seven, and I assure you, quite light on my feet. Part of this is innate, and part of this is training, and will thus vary by school, but I think it would be a serious risk to make assumptions.
If you study in a very technique oriented school such as I do at the moment, you're educated from a pretty early period that reach and strength are not be relied upon, because no matter how big you are, there is always someone out there who is bigger. Flexibility, lightness and adaptability are first priority for all students, no matter in which direction their natural gifts lie.
I don't believe Gage suffered any damage to his CC. I was always told the damage was centralised on his left frontal lobe, but this webpage talks about a variety of possible damage scenarios.
While your assumptions are most likely correct, complacency is the friend of the buffer overflow. Depending on your implementation of the clib, printf, usually considered safe, could possibly be a problem - particularly as it ends up using the locale system and the user settable LC_NUMERIC to determine how to represent numbers, radix, etc.
My favourite printf gotcha however is the seldom used %n conversion character - unlike it's brethren, this one writes data to the pointer in the argument list ( the number of characters printed so far ). This can be used to scribble over various pointers in the arg list and is why you should never, ever allow users to provide format strings to the program without vetting them first.
I thought we already paid for all this when we paid our bills to our service providers, who in turn pay taxes up the chain and so on. If the state wants to levy an across the board tax on internet use, that would be one thing ( and another debate to have ), but this seems to indeed be a tax to subsidise non-existant additional expenses. I don't know what local and state representatives are paid in California, but if it's anything like New South Wales, Australia, I can point you to some better places to start making cuts.
At the end of the day, why is someone who choses to shuffle six hundred meg of SIP traffic across their link with corresponding lost opportunity to a long distance telco required to suffer additional penalties compared to someone moving six hundred meg of email, with equivalent lost revenue to the postal service, or six hundred megabytes of purient imagery with attendant lost opportunity to the local blue bookstore? It should not be the states responsibility to prop up the failing business models of large telecommunications services - the only possible justification that could be made for such a tax, as it's not like VoIP data is heavier and somehow causes the lines to sag closer to the ground, for example.
I'm not so sure I'm convinced. For one, if this story broke around March/April, how come other March/April news stories have already found their way back into the index? ( Such as this item from 'The Age', found with a search for 'John Howard', our PM ). Second, do you honestly think that all the PFC. England photos in the index during this earlier period were all hosted on various news-wires?
I dunno if Google has done anything dodgy here, but it's all bit weird to say the least. I might start using another image searcher that's a bit more up to date.
Exactly! What the hell are all these people whinging about? The last time I wanted to move the music off my iPod, I just went into the/Volumes/ entry for it, and used find with an exec statement of "open". With iTunes library consolidation turned on, this happily copies everything back.
I sure hope this isn't another round of Apple Shareware Idiots charging people $29.99 for something that could have been done with a five second Applescript droplet.
Oog is my all time favourite slashdot troll. You can check out his work from his profile page. He was capable of the occasional insightfulrumination as well... something lost to todays formletter trolls.
Perhaps we'll get a version of the Chinese Governments 48 posture reformulation of the Yang style. The beauty of a martial arts game based upon Tai Chi is that you wouldn't need a fast computer to run it.
The Indymedia thing to me sounds like a case of an ISP doing everything it can not to get into trouble. Its been shown time after time and even tested, ISPs will remove/giveup anything if they told.
Hah! ISP's? Most people react this way. While many slashdotters would be familiar with Milgrams Experiment, I'm not sure how many realise what for me is the real insight here - not only will people submit before authority, they will submit before an unsubstantiated image or impression of authority. Rarely do people ask to see the papers, authorisations or justifications of those who seem to know what they're doing ( and I've experienced this effect first hand in the healthcare industry ).
Ok, rant over. But I think you'll be surprised how quickly the average person will be cowed by an authority figure ( lawyer, policeman, person in an expensive suit ) regardless of whether or not their claims have merit. The change that has to be made is not just for ISP's, but for all citizens.
As I said, I can only speak from my experience, and I've only analysed copy protection schemes on Windows, Linux & Mac. If you don't mind me asking some questions, were these moves to DSP actualy copy protection methods, or ways to work around system limitations? And also, how much did they end up adding to cartridge fabbing costs?
I dunno, offloading program functionality to custom per-application hardware like this is a very interesting idea, but in my experience, protection coders seem to be quite conservative ( and halfhearted ), and this is a big step and a big conceptual adjustment.
Still, I wouldn't mind seeing it come along - the more core program function you offload into hardware, the easier it is to port ( provided the target has USB ports, of course ).
We hate licensing and the such, but how far away are we from USB dongles?
Not a good idea. USB devices can be easily emulated in software ( c.f. various "virtual cdrom" drives that appear as being on the USB bus ), and there is a well developed and sophisticated toolchain on nearly all platforms of note for debugging and analysing USB information flow.
Unfortunately, there is precious little other in the way of standardised ports to plug into. Some machines are even shipping without Parallel ports now, if the word I'm hearing is correct, which is a bit troublesome if you're trying, for example, to run Compumedics Profusion 2 which uses a parallel dongle.
Not exclusively a Linux oversight as well - many Mac games run on dual head setups take over all the screens and blank the unused ones out. This is super annoying - I should be able to play Battlefield on the lcd while watching mail and irc on the second monitor, instead of having it just sit there black.
While it was no 'Mote in Gods Eye', I give the story more credit than that. The concept of the ring as a weapon, and the cryptic remarks made by 343 Guilty Spark managed to inject a little more interest, at least by me. Dissapointed that I didn't find any Pak Protectors, however.
Out of interest, do you feel the same way about being bound by any federal or state law that you didn't write yourself? It seems freedom, where you come from, largely amounts to the freedom to refrain from changing the status quo.
Strangely, from personal experience, countries with mandatory voting don't seem to just fall out randomly. Perhaps a culture of mandatory voting encourages at least a passing interest in the system?
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I still disagree with your characterisation of the large as "slow". I am six foot seven, and I assure you, quite light on my feet. Part of this is innate, and part of this is training, and will thus vary by school, but I think it would be a serious risk to make assumptions.
If you study in a very technique oriented school such as I do at the moment, you're educated from a pretty early period that reach and strength are not be relied upon, because no matter how big you are, there is always someone out there who is bigger. Flexibility, lightness and adaptability are first priority for all students, no matter in which direction their natural gifts lie.
I don't believe Gage suffered any damage to his CC. I was always told the damage was centralised on his left frontal lobe, but this webpage talks about a variety of possible damage scenarios.
While your assumptions are most likely correct, complacency is the friend of the buffer overflow. Depending on your implementation of the clib, printf, usually considered safe, could possibly be a problem - particularly as it ends up using the locale system and the user settable LC_NUMERIC to determine how to represent numbers, radix, etc.
My favourite printf gotcha however is the seldom used %n conversion character - unlike it's brethren, this one writes data to the pointer in the argument list ( the number of characters printed so far ). This can be used to scribble over various pointers in the arg list and is why you should never, ever allow users to provide format strings to the program without vetting them first.
YLFII thought we already paid for all this when we paid our bills to our service providers, who in turn pay taxes up the chain and so on. If the state wants to levy an across the board tax on internet use, that would be one thing ( and another debate to have ), but this seems to indeed be a tax to subsidise non-existant additional expenses. I don't know what local and state representatives are paid in California, but if it's anything like New South Wales, Australia, I can point you to some better places to start making cuts.
At the end of the day, why is someone who choses to shuffle six hundred meg of SIP traffic across their link with corresponding lost opportunity to a long distance telco required to suffer additional penalties compared to someone moving six hundred meg of email, with equivalent lost revenue to the postal service, or six hundred megabytes of purient imagery with attendant lost opportunity to the local blue bookstore? It should not be the states responsibility to prop up the failing business models of large telecommunications services - the only possible justification that could be made for such a tax, as it's not like VoIP data is heavier and somehow causes the lines to sag closer to the ground, for example.
I think I see a way to kill two bees with one stone here.
Oog the open source cave bee crush thorax with open source honeycomb.
</obscure>?I'm not so sure I'm convinced. For one, if this story broke around March/April, how come other March/April news stories have already found their way back into the index? ( Such as this item from 'The Age', found with a search for 'John Howard', our PM ). Second, do you honestly think that all the PFC. England photos in the index during this earlier period were all hosted on various news-wires?
I dunno if Google has done anything dodgy here, but it's all bit weird to say the least. I might start using another image searcher that's a bit more up to date.
YLFIRight... click?
I keed, I keeeed...
Exactly! What the hell are all these people whinging about? The last time I wanted to move the music off my iPod, I just went into the /Volumes/ entry for it, and used find with an exec statement of "open". With iTunes library consolidation turned on, this happily copies everything back.
I sure hope this isn't another round of Apple Shareware Idiots charging people $29.99 for something that could have been done with a five second Applescript droplet.
Oog is my all time favourite slashdot troll. You can check out his work from his profile page. He was capable of the occasional insightful rumination as well... something lost to todays formletter trolls.
If you haven't gotten around to rolling NFS out yet, aren't you even a little curious to see if it's solved your problems?
YLFI... You are the Equation of the week. ( I wish I could find the Achewood cartoon this is from, so here's link to the T-Shirt instead. )
Just fyi, instead of using rm, use the --delete-after option to wget.
YLFINerds!
Perhaps we'll get a version of the Chinese Governments 48 posture reformulation of the Yang style. The beauty of a martial arts game based upon Tai Chi is that you wouldn't need a fast computer to run it.
YLFIHah! ISP's? Most people react this way. While many slashdotters would be familiar with Milgrams Experiment, I'm not sure how many realise what for me is the real insight here - not only will people submit before authority, they will submit before an unsubstantiated image or impression of authority. Rarely do people ask to see the papers, authorisations or justifications of those who seem to know what they're doing ( and I've experienced this effect first hand in the healthcare industry ).
Ok, rant over. But I think you'll be surprised how quickly the average person will be cowed by an authority figure ( lawyer, policeman, person in an expensive suit ) regardless of whether or not their claims have merit. The change that has to be made is not just for ISP's, but for all citizens.
YLFIAs I said, I can only speak from my experience, and I've only analysed copy protection schemes on Windows, Linux & Mac. If you don't mind me asking some questions, were these moves to DSP actualy copy protection methods, or ways to work around system limitations? And also, how much did they end up adding to cartridge fabbing costs?
I dunno, offloading program functionality to custom per-application hardware like this is a very interesting idea, but in my experience, protection coders seem to be quite conservative ( and halfhearted ), and this is a big step and a big conceptual adjustment.
Still, I wouldn't mind seeing it come along - the more core program function you offload into hardware, the easier it is to port ( provided the target has USB ports, of course ).
YLFINot a good idea. USB devices can be easily emulated in software ( c.f. various "virtual cdrom" drives that appear as being on the USB bus ), and there is a well developed and sophisticated toolchain on nearly all platforms of note for debugging and analysing USB information flow.
Unfortunately, there is precious little other in the way of standardised ports to plug into. Some machines are even shipping without Parallel ports now, if the word I'm hearing is correct, which is a bit troublesome if you're trying, for example, to run Compumedics Profusion 2 which uses a parallel dongle.
YLFINot exclusively a Linux oversight as well - many Mac games run on dual head setups take over all the screens and blank the unused ones out. This is super annoying - I should be able to play Battlefield on the lcd while watching mail and irc on the second monitor, instead of having it just sit there black.
No, no, no. Just patch the iterpreter or compiler to allow floating point line labels!
While it was no 'Mote in Gods Eye', I give the story more credit than that. The concept of the ring as a weapon, and the cryptic remarks made by 343 Guilty Spark managed to inject a little more interest, at least by me. Dissapointed that I didn't find any Pak Protectors, however.
Out of interest, do you feel the same way about being bound by any federal or state law that you didn't write yourself? It seems freedom, where you come from, largely amounts to the freedom to refrain from changing the status quo.
Strangely, from personal experience, countries with mandatory voting don't seem to just fall out randomly. Perhaps a culture of mandatory voting encourages at least a passing interest in the system?
A Fire Inside, IIRC.