One thing worth pointing out is that in real-life situations, the box isn't usually set aside as "the box to be hacked"... its an active machine doing normal things with real people logging into it one way or another regularly.
Nobody who relies on Copyright for revenues wants to fight a Copyright battle in court against someone else's rights to do the same.
Microsoft doesn't want Copyrights defeated for its own sake, and the GPL is just a "take it or leave it" implicit license; if you violate it, assume that you've broken Copyright law and are doomed.
I would like to point out to DVD manufacturers that with the new DVD-2/Bluray/etc. spec being still up in the air, please throw some weight behind user-choice. If you build a player that lets me put the disc in and jump straight to the title if I want to (no previews, no warnings) for a reasonable price, I'll buy it.
I'm already ticked off every time I try to play a DVD that won't let me skip parts I should be allowed to skip because the author's didn't think through the encoding process.
Why can't you rewind Disney trailers at the beginning of some kid's movies? You can skip them, but not rewind. Does that make sense?
How many other stupid situations will we end up in if broadcasters get to control how you use your TV?
I even don't mind basic screening questions -- watching for poor reactions to the questions is a good way to weed out people with ill intentions who are hoping to "fly under the radar" to use a poor pun.
Although a huge Dr. Demento fan, I must admit that even posing the leading question is a fault in your writing. There was no need to add the sensationalism in question, and it simply adds fuel to the fire that Slashdot is a poor way to get news.
They don't have to be prosecuted for it to be illegal -- someone needs to be prosecuted so we know how the court decides to apply the law.
The judiciary handles the after-charged part of the issue, whereas the elected officials handle the pre-charged part. If nobody's been charged, we're just taking politician's words for it that this will stand in court. It may very well not.
Please read the other responses before mine -- but this is one of the things that pisses me off about Windows Server. Microsoft makes an attempt to make serious decisions about your network or server trivial to do by an untrained employee.
If you can't figure out how to script a remote update, you shouldn't be making the decisions about which updates to apply.
For an example of triviality, run an hourly cron on a remote machine that does "rpm -Fvh/var/spool/updateonly/*.rpm" and then when you decide to send along an update, do "scp blah.rpm remote:/var/spool/updateonly/"
(I recommend a seperate directory for installations from updates -- some machines don't have an RPM installed and you don't want to -Uvh it and install it for no reason, also, make sure your configuration checks signatures).
You've never written Linux applications have you? How many GUI apps are on a Fedora Core 3 installation vs. command-line apps?
How many of those GUI apps use tools from this guide, in spite of being GUI-oriented?
Knowing how to write *nix applications without concerning one's self with the GUI is a necessary issue, regardless of the end-target.
Consider also that "drawing buttons" is done entirely by libraries that handle such things for you if you know what you're doing and you'll realize most of what you're looking for just isn't programming, its GUI design -- and shouldn't be done by programmers anyway. See grip for evidence.
I'd like to point out that the edited pictures being used to find the accused is a completely different act than using those edited pictures at trial. The originals (or copies thereof), even with black marker across necessary bits, should be used at trial to convict -- these are just being used to go out and grab the perp and get them away from the child in question.
This is the great irony of his statement -- Linux is surprisingly interoperable with Windows, which is purposely trying to be uninteroperable with Linux.
The open development model means that if I figure out one little trick to help Samba move along, I can contribute it. If SCO wants to use OSS code to interoperate between Unixware and Windows, they need to contribute back the changes they made.
Another Slashdotter recently pointed out that BSD is a good license for making example source for new algorithms, etc. because you want them to be freely available to anyone.
That said, the GPL guarantees that if anyone distributes modified versions of a program you have, you can get those modifications too.
Last I checked, Dilbert wasn't written by an engineer. Maybe P.Eng. or two should point this out to Mr. Adams? IIRC, he's just a vegan with his own line of food and a good idea for making fun of the techies that used to be around him at work.
I'd like to see a PSP upgrade that uses Bluray discs. Why? So we can watch real movies on it -- and use it as a Bluray player for some additional cost for docking station / whatever.
Sure, Bluray's bigger (physically) -- but pick up your CD player and hold it between your hands -- too big to play games on? I think not.
I was talking about Microsoft's keys that permit you to play the music you've downloaded, and Sony's DRM software. Neither of the above have details on how to backup their key information nor warnings about doing so.
CDs say "don't expose to sunlight." That's all I expect from DRM sellers -- "don't... "
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You set your writes to non-blocking of course; ... /* looping */ ...
... /* more looping */ ...
if (/* select says outfd is writable */) {
wrote = write(outfd, buf + offset, buflen - offset);
offset += wrote;
}
This is what extradition is for.
In a significant case, the USA, Canada and the UK all believe in following procedures and allowing extradition of their citizens.
This is total FUD.
Multithreading is a very inefficient way to handle something that can be done with a simple select in this case.
Threads have overhead, select (almost) does not. For the way BitTorrent works, select for read/write decisions is a much better goal, imho.
PS, using Twisted allows this to happen behind the scenes.
One thing worth pointing out is that in real-life situations, the box isn't usually set aside as "the box to be hacked" ... its an active machine doing normal things with real people logging into it one way or another regularly.
Nobody who relies on Copyright for revenues wants to fight a Copyright battle in court against someone else's rights to do the same.
Microsoft doesn't want Copyrights defeated for its own sake, and the GPL is just a "take it or leave it" implicit license; if you violate it, assume that you've broken Copyright law and are doomed.
I would like to point out to DVD manufacturers that with the new DVD-2/Bluray/etc. spec being still up in the air, please throw some weight behind user-choice. If you build a player that lets me put the disc in and jump straight to the title if I want to (no previews, no warnings) for a reasonable price, I'll buy it.
I'm already ticked off every time I try to play a DVD that won't let me skip parts I should be allowed to skip because the author's didn't think through the encoding process.
Why can't you rewind Disney trailers at the beginning of some kid's movies? You can skip them, but not rewind. Does that make sense?
How many other stupid situations will we end up in if broadcasters get to control how you use your TV?
If I'm not mistaken, this technique was already designed back "in the day" to discover DAME-concealed viruses.
(Dark Avenger's Mutating Engine)
I even don't mind basic screening questions -- watching for poor reactions to the questions is a good way to weed out people with ill intentions who are hoping to "fly under the radar" to use a poor pun.
Although a huge Dr. Demento fan, I must admit that even posing the leading question is a fault in your writing. There was no need to add the sensationalism in question, and it simply adds fuel to the fire that Slashdot is a poor way to get news.
They don't have to be prosecuted for it to be illegal -- someone needs to be prosecuted so we know how the court decides to apply the law.
The judiciary handles the after-charged part of the issue, whereas the elected officials handle the pre-charged part. If nobody's been charged, we're just taking politician's words for it that this will stand in court. It may very well not.
cf. Texas case w.r.t. sodomy
... and you buy Bose because they look pretty and produce something just barely resembling sound.
To have more macmini should be to have a better coolness factor at a smaller size.
To have achieved one or more macmini should be the goal.
Otherwise, it is a negative term. That is, more macmini is bad, less is better.
Sex is good because more is better.
Chocolate is good because more is better.
Macmini is bad because more is worse?
The word macmini is a fraction of a macmini.
If I'm going through a door, to follow your actual logic, I expect the building to identify itself first.
I identify myself by passing through said door.
Wireless trasponders on buildings, etc. should identify themselves before I decide to respond or not.
An SSL handshake should begin with the server proving who it is before asking me to prove who I am, etc.
Please read the other responses before mine -- but this is one of the things that pisses me off about Windows Server. Microsoft makes an attempt to make serious decisions about your network or server trivial to do by an untrained employee.
/var/spool/updateonly/*.rpm" and then when you decide to send along an update, do "scp blah.rpm remote:/var/spool/updateonly/"
If you can't figure out how to script a remote update, you shouldn't be making the decisions about which updates to apply.
For an example of triviality, run an hourly cron on a remote machine that does "rpm -Fvh
(I recommend a seperate directory for installations from updates -- some machines don't have an RPM installed and you don't want to -Uvh it and install it for no reason, also, make sure your configuration checks signatures).
That would scare me half to death.
curses is a user-interface environment.
/home | afio -ozvECI /tmp/blah.Zafio
/tmp/file.iso
So is Gtk+ and Qt.
And so, by the way, is the CLI.
find
That's a nasty looking user interface, but a user interface it is.
cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 -eject speed=24
That's also a user-interface.
Incidentally, I always tell my clients to edit files with 'vi' when on the phone, it lets me guide their fingers easier.
"Hit '/', then type 'root:', now hit '$', hit 'a', type 'loser', hit ESC, type ':wq', thanks."
User interfaces aren't just what Microsoft has tried to train you to believe they are.
PS, a great user interface is still just an interactive picture without an application.
You've never written Linux applications have you? How many GUI apps are on a Fedora Core 3 installation vs. command-line apps?
How many of those GUI apps use tools from this guide, in spite of being GUI-oriented?
Knowing how to write *nix applications without concerning one's self with the GUI is a necessary issue, regardless of the end-target.
Consider also that "drawing buttons" is done entirely by libraries that handle such things for you if you know what you're doing and you'll realize most of what you're looking for just isn't programming, its GUI design -- and shouldn't be done by programmers anyway. See grip for evidence.
I'd like to point out that the edited pictures being used to find the accused is a completely different act than using those edited pictures at trial. The originals (or copies thereof), even with black marker across necessary bits, should be used at trial to convict -- these are just being used to go out and grab the perp and get them away from the child in question.
This is the great irony of his statement -- Linux is surprisingly interoperable with Windows, which is purposely trying to be uninteroperable with Linux.
The open development model means that if I figure out one little trick to help Samba move along, I can contribute it. If SCO wants to use OSS code to interoperate between Unixware and Windows, they need to contribute back the changes they made.
cf. my last comment in the BSD thread.
That's precisely the problem with BSD licenses.
Another Slashdotter recently pointed out that BSD is a good license for making example source for new algorithms, etc. because you want them to be freely available to anyone.
That said, the GPL guarantees that if anyone distributes modified versions of a program you have, you can get those modifications too.
Last I checked, Dilbert wasn't written by an engineer. Maybe P.Eng. or two should point this out to Mr. Adams? IIRC, he's just a vegan with his own line of food and a good idea for making fun of the techies that used to be around him at work.
I'd like to see a PSP upgrade that uses Bluray discs. Why? So we can watch real movies on it -- and use it as a Bluray player for some additional cost for docking station / whatever.
Sure, Bluray's bigger (physically) -- but pick up your CD player and hold it between your hands -- too big to play games on? I think not.
I was talking about Microsoft's keys that permit you to play the music you've downloaded, and Sony's DRM software. Neither of the above have details on how to backup their key information nor warnings about doing so.
... "
CDs say "don't expose to sunlight." That's all I expect from DRM sellers -- "don't