You left one out: ignorant fools who conflate highly radioactive waste products with wastes with long half-lives. If you listen to them, you come away with the impression that the wastes from a reactor stay Highly Radioactive for thousands of years, ignoring the fact (if they're even aware of it) that unstable isotopes are either highly active or have long half lives, never both, because the two qualities are mutually incompatable.
That was my thought, too. And, unless my memory's wrong, there's not enough power involved for a cell phone. Of course, my familiarity with them is from almost forty years ago, so I wouldn't argue the point if anybody disagrees.
Copyright basically states that only the creator (or more specifically, copyright holder) can make copies of the work.
Not quite, but close. The copyright holder has the right to decide who can and who can't legally sell copies of the work and how much (if any) royalties are charged. IANAL either, but that's my understanding.
Meaningless but cool looking graphic "screen savers" could also pop up on the screens.
No matter what you do, the people working there are going to be spending at least a little time looking at things that aren't work related, especially on breaks. Make sure there's a "boss key" that flips things back to something that at least looks work related, so they can look busy when visitors come in. Yes, that includes their own managers, but so what? Presumably there's a way to monitor what they're doing, and if they need the boss key when they're not on break, they'll get busted sooner or later, but it's better if you don't have to explain to J. Random guest that it's OK for them to be checking out Slashdot because they're off-duty at the moment.
the two telcos here rely mostly on microwave links to hop from one island to the next.
Considering the relatively small distances involved, microwave links are actually faster than VSAT uplinks. Going right across from one island to the next is much shorter than up to orbit and back, and there's no need to worry about intervening landscape getting in the way.
No one "learns" to type in the span of a lesson provided by a classroom environment.
True. You can, however, learn the fundamentals of typing that way. Then, as you use them both in the classroom and at home (or work) you gradually become a good typist on your own.
We do not have the know-how to create a self-sufficient environment there or anywhere else.
And as long as all we do is sit down here, we never will, either. The only way we're going to learn how to create a self-sufficient environment is by planting a colony somewhere out there where we have two choices: become self-sufficient or die.
AIUI, that CGI was all things that Lucas had wanted to do when he first made the movie but either didn't have the technology or the budget for. If so, adding them was just bringing his original vision to life.
The original hack (messing with the C compiler) WAS IN SOURCE CODE FROM THE BEGINNING.
The point of the hack, you stupid little twit, was that after creating the hack and compiling it, he removed the hack from the source code because it wasn't needed any longer. That means that there was nothing left in the source code to show that the hack existed.
Next time, read your own article, moron.
I did, you slimy pustule on the face of Slashdot and, unlike you, I understood what it said. Schmuck!
I take it, then, that you didn't follow the link I gave, because the whole point of the hack was that none of it was in the source code. The compiler was hacked to add code to login when it compiled it, and to add code to itself (if it were recompiling itself) to do the work.
The whole point of the hack was that it wasn't in the source code, so that auditing the code wouldn't reveal it. It's not mentioned, but I'd bet that people checked it out after his talk and verified that he'd done it.
It's fairly impossible to audit all systems to the extent needed.
If the back door is as well hidden as the one Ken Thompson hid in an early version of Unix, a complete audit of the source code and complete recompile of everything won't be enough to get rid of it. Of course, not many people are capable of pulling that kind of stunt off.
some of the big PC companies which sell DRM with a game attached...
Yes. Exactly. After a while the companies end up putting more thought into the DRM than they do the games themselves and end up driving themselves out of business. Can't happen too soon, from my POV.
Indeed, it really is a slippery slope. The problem with nuclear weapons isn't that someone may use one and then stop, the problem is that once someone uses them, it's a lot easier to justify future uses for similar reasons.
And yet, in the fifty-five years since the two times they were used, we've managed to avoid sliding down that slope. So far, we've done something right; I just hope we can keep it up.
You're probably not old enough to remember, but Lurleen Wallace was elected to replace her husband as Governor of Alabama in 1967 (Only one term per person there.) with the campaign slogan of "Let George do it."
Back then, Dial-Up was king, and for most people downloading a distro was a long job. It was much easier to go to a store and buy a copy, even though what you were paying for was only the media and packaging. Now, anybody who's interested in switching to Linux probably has access to broadband and can download the.iso on their own. (I say "almost," as I do have a friend who'd like to switch over, but is stuck on Dial-Up because of financial issues.) Why pay for a copy of your distro-of-choice when it's that easy to download?
And if my assertion sounds so odd that you feel compelled to say, "citation needed", it strongly suggests you know nothing of history from that era.
I not only know the history of the era, I lived through it. As far as my request for evidence goes, you're the one making the extraordinary claim, not me; it's up to you to provide evidence, not me to go hunting for proof you were right.
And as for the "me too", the US allowed Sputnik to be launched first to specifically allow the Russians to establish a precedence of space-based overflights as not violating a countries airspace.
The legal profession is even worse, as they don't care about the laws of mathematics. In a court, you are not required to answer to a professor of mathematics, hence you can assert anything. If your opponent doesn't have the necessary skill or knowledge to call BS on what you say, you can win an argument with a completely baseless assertion
Well, then, if you expect your opponent to pull something like that, bring in a statistician, qualify him as an expert witness and let him rip the assertion to shreds.
Assuming you have the time and skills to do so. (If you believe it takes virtually no skills, I guess you don't do tech support for family and friends)>/i?
I've downloaded and recompiled on occasion because I needed a patch before it reached the Fedora repositories. And, I might add, I can remember when the only way to upgrade your kernel was to download the source, run through whichever config routine you preferred, compile and install it. For the most part, it wasn't hard, after the first time or two. I'd not recommend it to Aunt Millie, but if she needed a patch Right Now, I'd be willing to go over and do it for her. YMMV, and probably does.
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I would have thought that this would have been more appropriate, but YMMV, and obviously does.
You left one out: ignorant fools who conflate highly radioactive waste products with wastes with long half-lives. If you listen to them, you come away with the impression that the wastes from a reactor stay Highly Radioactive for thousands of years, ignoring the fact (if they're even aware of it) that unstable isotopes are either highly active or have long half lives, never both, because the two qualities are mutually incompatable.
That was my thought, too. And, unless my memory's wrong, there's not enough power involved for a cell phone. Of course, my familiarity with them is from almost forty years ago, so I wouldn't argue the point if anybody disagrees.
The data was collected because there was no other way to identify the hooligans.
Not quite, but close. The copyright holder has the right to decide who can and who can't legally sell copies of the work and how much (if any) royalties are charged. IANAL either, but that's my understanding.
That's the least of his problems. More important is the way the dike slaps him every time he tries to stick a finger in her.
No matter what you do, the people working there are going to be spending at least a little time looking at things that aren't work related, especially on breaks. Make sure there's a "boss key" that flips things back to something that at least looks work related, so they can look busy when visitors come in. Yes, that includes their own managers, but so what? Presumably there's a way to monitor what they're doing, and if they need the boss key when they're not on break, they'll get busted sooner or later, but it's better if you don't have to explain to J. Random guest that it's OK for them to be checking out Slashdot because they're off-duty at the moment.
Considering the relatively small distances involved, microwave links are actually faster than VSAT uplinks. Going right across from one island to the next is much shorter than up to orbit and back, and there's no need to worry about intervening landscape getting in the way.
True. You can, however, learn the fundamentals of typing that way. Then, as you use them both in the classroom and at home (or work) you gradually become a good typist on your own.
That may be so, but Moses invests.
And as long as all we do is sit down here, we never will, either. The only way we're going to learn how to create a self-sufficient environment is by planting a colony somewhere out there where we have two choices: become self-sufficient or die.
AIUI, that CGI was all things that Lucas had wanted to do when he first made the movie but either didn't have the technology or the budget for. If so, adding them was just bringing his original vision to life.
The point of the hack, you stupid little twit, was that after creating the hack and compiling it, he removed the hack from the source code because it wasn't needed any longer. That means that there was nothing left in the source code to show that the hack existed.
Next time, read your own article, moron.
I did, you slimy pustule on the face of Slashdot and, unlike you, I understood what it said. Schmuck!
I take it, then, that you didn't follow the link I gave, because the whole point of the hack was that none of it was in the source code. The compiler was hacked to add code to login when it compiled it, and to add code to itself (if it were recompiling itself) to do the work.
The whole point of the hack was that it wasn't in the source code, so that auditing the code wouldn't reveal it. It's not mentioned, but I'd bet that people checked it out after his talk and verified that he'd done it.
If the back door is as well hidden as the one Ken Thompson hid in an early version of Unix, a complete audit of the source code and complete recompile of everything won't be enough to get rid of it. Of course, not many people are capable of pulling that kind of stunt off.
Yes. Exactly. After a while the companies end up putting more thought into the DRM than they do the games themselves and end up driving themselves out of business. Can't happen too soon, from my POV.
And yet, in the fifty-five years since the two times they were used, we've managed to avoid sliding down that slope. So far, we've done something right; I just hope we can keep it up.
What this AC wrote really means, "I'm not interested in this, therefore nobody in the world is, either."
You're probably not old enough to remember, but Lurleen Wallace was elected to replace her husband as Governor of Alabama in 1967 (Only one term per person there.) with the campaign slogan of "Let George do it."
Back then, Dial-Up was king, and for most people downloading a distro was a long job. It was much easier to go to a store and buy a copy, even though what you were paying for was only the media and packaging. Now, anybody who's interested in switching to Linux probably has access to broadband and can download the .iso on their own. (I say "almost," as I do have a friend who'd like to switch over, but is stuck on Dial-Up because of financial issues.) Why pay for a copy of your distro-of-choice when it's that easy to download?
I not only know the history of the era, I lived through it. As far as my request for evidence goes, you're the one making the extraordinary claim, not me; it's up to you to provide evidence, not me to go hunting for proof you were right.
[citation needed]
Well, then, if you expect your opponent to pull something like that, bring in a statistician, qualify him as an expert witness and let him rip the assertion to shreds.
I've downloaded and recompiled on occasion because I needed a patch before it reached the Fedora repositories. And, I might add, I can remember when the only way to upgrade your kernel was to download the source, run through whichever config routine you preferred, compile and install it. For the most part, it wasn't hard, after the first time or two. I'd not recommend it to Aunt Millie, but if she needed a patch Right Now, I'd be willing to go over and do it for her. YMMV, and probably does.