The difference here: if I recall correctly, Madoff was arrested by a couple (or at the most 5 or 6) lightly armed FTC investigators and FBI agents wearing ties. Madoff's crime: investor fruad in which he bilked hundreds of people directly out of $50 billion in a 20 year operation that had the respect of many wall street "experts" before he was caught. Wasn't he called the "darling" of wall st. or some shit? Dotcom: arrested by over 30 heavily armed New Zealand peace officers in armour using paramility tactics. Dotcom's crime: he sold advertising on a website that stored files placed there by users.
To add; on windows, after invoking ff my system locks up (meaning COMPLETELY unresponsive, for at least 5 minutes (yes, FIVE minutes, if not longer), until it finishes doing whatever it does.) I've tried sitting on the problem through two unpdates. After the second without any change to the problem I switched to chrome, which I dislike compared to my previous experience with ff. But to date, I still use chrome on Windows. On linux I never had a problem. The current version of linux ff runs like it always did, a champ. Through several iterations I've had one or two plug-ins give me a problem. So, still loving ff- as long as I'm on Linux.
Having to choose between 50 different lubs to maintain an addmiteddly complicated system means I can't post on slachdot? "And surely you're not that stupid about real-life combat situations" asks the jarface ('91, Iraq.)
Both your statements make my point. GI's often grabbed captured AK's for use in the jungle where reliability was highly valued. As for jets requiring specialized lubes in too may cases- I think that's a problem.
The big defense contractors are definitely in bed with the government...
Oh please, you're just now understanding the Real World? Put on your big boy pants. The REAL story here is if an improper lube can cause a system to fail, what does that say about modern American aircraft design? Out in the field units run out of things. I think we need to start designing things for real-world combat again. Read about the differences between an M-16 and an AK-47 some time.
Frankly a root exploit is one of their lesser sins.
Then their cardinal sins must be Hitlerian; (from David Arlie's write-up)
It basically abuses the fact that the/dev/nvidia0 device accept
changes to the VGA window and moves the window around until it can
read/write to somewhere useful in physical RAM, then it just does an
priv escalation by writing directly to kernel memory.
It doesn't take a lot of thought to understand the implications of the hole. And smacks of pure lazyness on the part of nVidia.
I just can't wait for the legislation sponsered by the RIAA that simply allows the labels to send armed gaurds to anyone's home and hold them up for wallet cash and loose change at any time.
His ebay description says its still in the shrink wrap yet he posts a link to a video of him playing the game with the cart shoved in to an NES console.
BUT: I need to run Linux on a somewhat underpowered netbook. With Gnome 3/Unity the system is just sluggish enough to be annoying. I suppose I could take the time to figure out all the tweaks and effects off switches and what not; OR: I can simply install Xfce and have access to everything I need to tweak without re-learning all the new crap. Guess which road I travelled.
No. Not that important, and hardly out of the realm of possibility, in fact they've been big enough for you to easily google up such stories yourself. It it sounded too fantastic to believe I might, but sadly, easily believable in my opinion.
You seem to be working under an assumption that NO private citizen can ever be able to use a gun proficiently. By the way, if killing you by accident means me, my wife, my kids, or my friends live, you're gone pal. Unlikely, but you never know. All the sherrif's idiots, er, deputies in the world aren't going to change that.
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The difference here: if I recall correctly, Madoff was arrested by a couple (or at the most 5 or 6) lightly armed FTC investigators and FBI agents wearing ties. Madoff's crime: investor fruad in which he bilked hundreds of people directly out of $50 billion in a 20 year operation that had the respect of many wall street "experts" before he was caught. Wasn't he called the "darling" of wall st. or some shit? Dotcom: arrested by over 30 heavily armed New Zealand peace officers in armour using paramility tactics. Dotcom's crime: he sold advertising on a website that stored files placed there by users.
I for one have a problem with this.
...cluck-a-geddon.
apt-get? LUXURY! Us Slackware users use tar -zxf && ./configure && make install!
You were lucky! In my day Matthias Ettrich would chuck us a tarball, scream "Make sure this works!", then thrash us to sleep with his belt.
To add; on windows, after invoking ff my system locks up (meaning COMPLETELY unresponsive, for at least 5 minutes (yes, FIVE minutes, if not longer), until it finishes doing whatever it does.) I've tried sitting on the problem through two unpdates. After the second without any change to the problem I switched to chrome, which I dislike compared to my previous experience with ff. But to date, I still use chrome on Windows. On linux I never had a problem. The current version of linux ff runs like it always did, a champ. Through several iterations I've had one or two plug-ins give me a problem. So, still loving ff- as long as I'm on Linux.
Having to choose between 50 different lubs to maintain an addmiteddly complicated system means I can't post on slachdot? "And surely you're not that stupid about real-life combat situations" asks the jarface ('91, Iraq.)
Not my job. I'd love for you to design a plane with simpler aircraft maintnance. Apparently that's your job.
Both your statements make my point. GI's often grabbed captured AK's for use in the jungle where reliability was highly valued. As for jets requiring specialized lubes in too may cases- I think that's a problem.
Agreed.
The big defense contractors are definitely in bed with the government...
Oh please, you're just now understanding the Real World? Put on your big boy pants. The REAL story here is if an improper lube can cause a system to fail, what does that say about modern American aircraft design? Out in the field units run out of things. I think we need to start designing things for real-world combat again. Read about the differences between an M-16 and an AK-47 some time.
Of all the things the UN needs to devote its attention to control of the internet is not one of them.
because it makes steam obsolete.
Bwa ha ha ha!!! Yeah, that's a good one...
It's not a new problem: Any time the executive wants to flip off the judiciary, it can.
Sure, but time was the judiciary had balls. See Watergate.
Um... Intel...? Just sayin', nVidia isn't your only choice for Linux support.
Frankly a root exploit is one of their lesser sins.
Then their cardinal sins must be Hitlerian; (from David Arlie's write-up)
It basically abuses the fact that the /dev/nvidia0 device accept
changes to the VGA window and moves the window around until it can
read/write to somewhere useful in physical RAM, then it just does an
priv escalation by writing directly to kernel memory.
It doesn't take a lot of thought to understand the implications of the hole. And smacks of pure lazyness on the part of nVidia.
~chuckle~ Good Point!
You just made me shit.
I just can't wait for the legislation sponsered by the RIAA that simply allows the labels to send armed gaurds to anyone's home and hold them up for wallet cash and loose change at any time.
His ebay description says its still in the shrink wrap yet he posts a link to a video of him playing the game with the cart shoved in to an NES console.
BUT: I need to run Linux on a somewhat underpowered netbook. With Gnome 3/Unity the system is just sluggish enough to be annoying. I suppose I could take the time to figure out all the tweaks and effects off switches and what not; OR: I can simply install Xfce and have access to everything I need to tweak without re-learning all the new crap. Guess which road I travelled.
Xfce + Cinnamon = a usable Gnome 3 DT. No, really, just try it.
By far. Plus more.
Double plus ungood even.
Yup. Except I went with Xfce. Nice, lightweight, does what I need it to do. So in love...
Ah, now, sophistry doesn't become you...
No. Not that important, and hardly out of the realm of possibility, in fact they've been big enough for you to easily google up such stories yourself. It it sounded too fantastic to believe I might, but sadly, easily believable in my opinion.
You seem to be working under an assumption that NO private citizen can ever be able to use a gun proficiently. By the way, if killing you by accident means me, my wife, my kids, or my friends live, you're gone pal. Unlikely, but you never know. All the sherrif's idiots, er, deputies in the world aren't going to change that.