Not quite. It's not the administrative (or, in Unix/Linux speak root) password that sudo wants, it's your regular password. You see, sudo was originally created to allow specified users to run certain commands that normally took elevated privileges without knowing the root password. Ubuntu is oriented toward users who only want one account on their machine and don't want to remember two passwords, so it uses sudo instead of expecting you to know how to use su to switch to root.
I do hope you're just trying to be funny, because you miss my point: considering the definition for Top Secret, how would you define a higher classification? Yes, I realize that you could define it as, "Information that might get the President impeached if it got out," but I'm asking for a serious definition.
Of course not. I didn't develop it until I was over fifty. I suspect it's a delayed response to Agent Orange, but as I was off-shore (and steaming through clouds of debris from B-52 raids) the VA hasn't agreed yet. However, I was writing only against Juvenile Onset Diabetes, AKA Type I. Type II, which you had and I have is different and can be caused by many things other than genetics. My point was, and is, that 1000 years ago, natural selection would have quickly removed children with Type I diabetes from the gene pool, but wouldn't now because of changes in how we handle the condition.
Exactly my point. 1000 years ago, natural selection would quickly remove a diabetic child from the gene pool. Now, because we know how to treat the issue, it doesn't. There will always be reasons for nature to select for or against different traits, and there will always be evolution.
I agree, but usually those "saved" people don't breed or become uncapable of.
1000 years ago, a child who developed diabetes would probably die long before they were able to reproduce. If they were lucky, and had parents wealthy enough to afford the best medical care the times could provide, they might live into their early twenties. Now, of course, a diabetic child can grow up to live a happy, healthy, normal life, including raising a family.
Your link also makes plain a point that I was going to make. Top Secret is reserved for information that would cause "exceptionally grave damage to the United States" if it fell into the wrong hands. Now, I'm willing to admit that it's possible for there to be a higher classification, but I can't imagine how it would be defined.
How can a person stand against government electronic surveillance while at the same time say the behavior of this individual is acceptable?
Don't you understand? For many people, their principles and ideals only apply to people they like. They think it's OK to do anything you want to your enemies. This is not new, BTW; if you read up on chivalry, as an example, you'll find that all those rules only applied to other knights and nobles; slaughtering peasant foot soldiers during a route or riding down (and trampling) archers who couldn't get out of your way (as the French did at Crecy) was perfectly acceptable.
Politicians don't deserve the same freedoms as citizens.
What makes you think politicians aren't citizens? They are, or they couldn't hold office, and they're entitled to the same civil liberties and protections as any other citizen. If you think otherwise, I suggest that you take the time to read The Fourteenth Amendment.
I also learned she is as technically illiterate as McCain. A Yahoo account, using basic password recovery questions, and her zip code?
If so, she's no worse than 99% of all Americans. I've got a news flash for you: most people don't understand how computers work, or what it takes to have a secure password, and they like it that way. That doesn't make them stupid, any more than your complete lack of interest in such things as the history of the Plantagenet Dynasty makes you stupid because you don't know who John of Gaunt was. Remember: for all practical purposes, most people think of computers as working by magic. I'm sure that you can find many valid reasons to bag on Sarah Palin without insulting her for not knowing more about computers.
4) Driver's License or SSN - The former requires having a car,
Two more nits that nobody else here has picked. First, you only need access to a car to get your first license in most (if not all) states. You can renew your license simply by taking a written test. Second, even if you did need access to a car to renew, once you have one it's good for several years so a homeless person could still have a valid driver's license because they got it before they became homeless.
Go there and do your damn job! Stand by tour record.
I can't speak for anybody else, but personally, I find it interesting that McCain is more interested in making sure the voters know Obama's record than Obama is.
Bush Sr. said no new taxes. But a tax hike was required at an important time, so he helped raise taxes. He was then voted out
I've always thought he deserved more credit in that than he's ever been given, for two reasons. First, when push came to shove, he did what had to be done, knowing what it would do to his chances for re-election and putting the nation's welfare ahead of his own. Second, it can be argued that he didn't violate his pledge because raising an existing tax isn't creating a new tax. Yes, most people would have (and probably still would) consider that quibbling, but that's the way I viewed it at the time. Still, there are many politicians who would have tried that argument but not Bush Sr. He knew that in the eyes of the voters he'd broken his word and he didn't try to make excuses or argue about the definition of "is"^W"new taxes."
Well, I haven't needed to do a BIOS upgrade in this millennium, I think, and I only had one motherboard that needed a jumper change. As far as your comedy of errors goes, anybody who didn't plan ahead and make sure the update was already on the hard disk before starting deserves all the problems you described. And, of course, flashing the EEPROM on a NIC should be a rare event. Nice strawman, though.
He's got good reason. It should be impossible for the system to write to the EEPROM without special measures being taken, possibly a jumper that has to be removed to allow it. And, if possible, the card won't work right (in some way that doesn't prevent boot) until the jumper's put back to normal. That way, if you really have to re-flash it, you can, but it's not going to happen by accident.
I remember having a motherboard with a jumper that had to be specially set to update the BIOS. The smart way was to power down, open the case and pull the jumper so that you could flash the EEPROM. Then, of course, once that was done, reverse the procedure for safety. I always regarded anybody who left the jumper off for the rare convenience as fools who deserved anything that might happen.
a country which refuses to pay for a national 'free at point of provision' health service, supported by taxes,
But the US does have that, paid for by the US government. I know, because I use it for my medical care. It's called "Veteran's Benefits." If you want that type of care for the rest of your life, you can get it the same way I did: serve in the US military. (US Navy in my case. '69-'73.)
Otherwise, guys like me will continue enjoying 20 minute boots while we drink coffee:)
As long as it's on the company's dime, why should you care? If they'd rather pay all their developers to sit and watch their computers boot than pay somebody in IT to compile a custom kernel, test it and roll it out, that's their problem, not yours. You know what they say, "Penny wise and pound foolish."
My install of ubuntu on my PC takes about 2.5 minutes while XP is up and running in about 1.5.
My laptop boots Linux in about 1.5 minutes and it's a P II 233 with only 96 Meg of RAM. Of course, it's booting Puppy Linux, with the default JWM window manager. Still, it's about half the time it took to boot Win98 SE, assuming it didn't hang or crash during boot.
Note that nowhere in the article is there any mention of the processor, its speed or the number of cores. There's also not one word about how much RAM the machine has. With enough RAM, you can load your entire system into a RAMdisk and even if you don't have SSM access time becomes (effectively) zero. Also, of course, a 2Ghz quad core machine is going to boot faster than a 1 Ghz single core. I'm not saying they're cheating or anything, but these specs are something you need in order to evaluate what they've done, and they're not telling us.
Most Windows users don't know that the default colors can be changed. As far as the background goes, I worked for four months in a small tech shop and was the only person there not using the default wallpaper. Not because everybody else was too busy to do it, just too lazy.
Am I the only one getting really really annoyed by captchas that use mixed-case letters and numbers that aren't distinguishable even to an actual human?
No, especially when I'm never sure if the reply is case sensitive or not. Sometimes I have to try three and four times, even when I'm sure I've gotten it right. However, the thought occurs to me that the site might simply require you to get three successive captchas right to make it harder on bots.
We may or may not know just what the submitter had on his mind when he suggested porn-to-porn fileswapping, but I'll be we known what he had in his hand!
Thank you for that exposition, although I suspect you went into more detail than the average Slashdotter wanted. From what I gather, basic Arithmetic, with zero, positive integers but no fractions or negative numbers is complex enough if you include infinity.
I'm no more of a mathematician than you are, but I've had the chance to discuss this with people who really do understand it. Your description is, I think, correct, but not your conclusion. What Goedel proved was not that such an endeavor was impossible, but that it could not be complete. This is because in any system sufficiently advanced to be interesting, there would always be some things that were true but which couldn't be proven to be true. (There would also, BTW, be things that were false but couldn't be shown to be false.)
In any case, if the tech support crew actually offer some guidance rather than a blanket prohibition,
As somebody who's done tech support, I can assure you that most of the time we'd rather do exactly that. Alas, tech support doesn't write the rules it just enforces them or gets punished if they don't.
Slashdot Mirror
Not quite. It's not the administrative (or, in Unix/Linux speak root) password that sudo wants, it's your regular password. You see, sudo was originally created to allow specified users to run certain commands that normally took elevated privileges without knowing the root password. Ubuntu is oriented toward users who only want one account on their machine and don't want to remember two passwords, so it uses sudo instead of expecting you to know how to use su to switch to root.
I do hope you're just trying to be funny, because you miss my point: considering the definition for Top Secret, how would you define a higher classification? Yes, I realize that you could define it as, "Information that might get the President impeached if it got out," but I'm asking for a serious definition.
Of course not. I didn't develop it until I was over fifty. I suspect it's a delayed response to Agent Orange, but as I was off-shore (and steaming through clouds of debris from B-52 raids) the VA hasn't agreed yet. However, I was writing only against Juvenile Onset Diabetes, AKA Type I. Type II, which you had and I have is different and can be caused by many things other than genetics. My point was, and is, that 1000 years ago, natural selection would have quickly removed children with Type I diabetes from the gene pool, but wouldn't now because of changes in how we handle the condition.
Exactly my point. 1000 years ago, natural selection would quickly remove a diabetic child from the gene pool. Now, because we know how to treat the issue, it doesn't. There will always be reasons for nature to select for or against different traits, and there will always be evolution.
1000 years ago, a child who developed diabetes would probably die long before they were able to reproduce. If they were lucky, and had parents wealthy enough to afford the best medical care the times could provide, they might live into their early twenties. Now, of course, a diabetic child can grow up to live a happy, healthy, normal life, including raising a family.
Your link also makes plain a point that I was going to make. Top Secret is reserved for information that would cause "exceptionally grave damage to the United States" if it fell into the wrong hands. Now, I'm willing to admit that it's possible for there to be a higher classification, but I can't imagine how it would be defined.
Don't you understand? For many people, their principles and ideals only apply to people they like. They think it's OK to do anything you want to your enemies. This is not new, BTW; if you read up on chivalry, as an example, you'll find that all those rules only applied to other knights and nobles; slaughtering peasant foot soldiers during a route or riding down (and trampling) archers who couldn't get out of your way (as the French did at Crecy) was perfectly acceptable.
What makes you think politicians aren't citizens? They are, or they couldn't hold office, and they're entitled to the same civil liberties and protections as any other citizen. If you think otherwise, I suggest that you take the time to read The Fourteenth Amendment.
If so, she's no worse than 99% of all Americans. I've got a news flash for you: most people don't understand how computers work, or what it takes to have a secure password, and they like it that way. That doesn't make them stupid, any more than your complete lack of interest in such things as the history of the Plantagenet Dynasty makes you stupid because you don't know who John of Gaunt was. Remember: for all practical purposes, most people think of computers as working by magic. I'm sure that you can find many valid reasons to bag on Sarah Palin without insulting her for not knowing more about computers.
Two more nits that nobody else here has picked. First, you only need access to a car to get your first license in most (if not all) states. You can renew your license simply by taking a written test. Second, even if you did need access to a car to renew, once you have one it's good for several years so a homeless person could still have a valid driver's license because they got it before they became homeless.
I can't speak for anybody else, but personally, I find it interesting that McCain is more interested in making sure the voters know Obama's record than Obama is.
I've always thought he deserved more credit in that than he's ever been given, for two reasons. First, when push came to shove, he did what had to be done, knowing what it would do to his chances for re-election and putting the nation's welfare ahead of his own. Second, it can be argued that he didn't violate his pledge because raising an existing tax isn't creating a new tax. Yes, most people would have (and probably still would) consider that quibbling, but that's the way I viewed it at the time. Still, there are many politicians who would have tried that argument but not Bush Sr. He knew that in the eyes of the voters he'd broken his word and he didn't try to make excuses or argue about the definition of "is"^W"new taxes."
Well, I haven't needed to do a BIOS upgrade in this millennium, I think, and I only had one motherboard that needed a jumper change. As far as your comedy of errors goes, anybody who didn't plan ahead and make sure the update was already on the hard disk before starting deserves all the problems you described. And, of course, flashing the EEPROM on a NIC should be a rare event. Nice strawman, though.
I remember having a motherboard with a jumper that had to be specially set to update the BIOS. The smart way was to power down, open the case and pull the jumper so that you could flash the EEPROM. Then, of course, once that was done, reverse the procedure for safety. I always regarded anybody who left the jumper off for the rare convenience as fools who deserved anything that might happen.
But the US does have that, paid for by the US government. I know, because I use it for my medical care. It's called "Veteran's Benefits." If you want that type of care for the rest of your life, you can get it the same way I did: serve in the US military. (US Navy in my case. '69-'73.)
As long as it's on the company's dime, why should you care? If they'd rather pay all their developers to sit and watch their computers boot than pay somebody in IT to compile a custom kernel, test it and roll it out, that's their problem, not yours. You know what they say, "Penny wise and pound foolish."
My laptop boots Linux in about 1.5 minutes and it's a P II 233 with only 96 Meg of RAM. Of course, it's booting Puppy Linux, with the default JWM window manager. Still, it's about half the time it took to boot Win98 SE, assuming it didn't hang or crash during boot.
Asked and answered. Thank you.
Note that nowhere in the article is there any mention of the processor, its speed or the number of cores. There's also not one word about how much RAM the machine has. With enough RAM, you can load your entire system into a RAMdisk and even if you don't have SSM access time becomes (effectively) zero. Also, of course, a 2Ghz quad core machine is going to boot faster than a 1 Ghz single core. I'm not saying they're cheating or anything, but these specs are something you need in order to evaluate what they've done, and they're not telling us.
Most Windows users don't know that the default colors can be changed. As far as the background goes, I worked for four months in a small tech shop and was the only person there not using the default wallpaper. Not because everybody else was too busy to do it, just too lazy.
No, especially when I'm never sure if the reply is case sensitive or not. Sometimes I have to try three and four times, even when I'm sure I've gotten it right. However, the thought occurs to me that the site might simply require you to get three successive captchas right to make it harder on bots.
We may or may not know just what the submitter had on his mind when he suggested porn-to-porn fileswapping, but I'll be we known what he had in his hand!
Thank you for that exposition, although I suspect you went into more detail than the average Slashdotter wanted. From what I gather, basic Arithmetic, with zero, positive integers but no fractions or negative numbers is complex enough if you include infinity.
I'm no more of a mathematician than you are, but I've had the chance to discuss this with people who really do understand it. Your description is, I think, correct, but not your conclusion. What Goedel proved was not that such an endeavor was impossible, but that it could not be complete. This is because in any system sufficiently advanced to be interesting, there would always be some things that were true but which couldn't be proven to be true. (There would also, BTW, be things that were false but couldn't be shown to be false.)
As somebody who's done tech support, I can assure you that most of the time we'd rather do exactly that. Alas, tech support doesn't write the rules it just enforces them or gets punished if they don't.