For me, the draw isn't ``live as long as possible'', it's ``be physically able to live 'til I die.''
That is a well-solved problem. Just make sure you die before you get old. See "Logan's Run" for an example implementation. It doesn't even need to be that complicated; there are many ways to die young, many examples to follow.
My grandfather worked in the textile mills in Lawrence, MA, circa 1905. You worked every day for 12 hours including Saturday, and you worked hard, and if you were sick and didn't show up or you didn't work as hard as you were supposed to, then they fired you, and there were a zillion immigrants standing outside shivering waiting to take your job.
Aye, all this while we were living in a shoe box in middle of t'road and eating a handfuls of cold gravel for breakfast.
Try telling that to kids nowadays tho', they won't believe you!
True, it was a joke, and it was funny, highlighting an apparent irony (lawyer complaining about gobbledegook). gbulmash took it badly and overreacted, bringing in racism, hate, bashing people's heads with hammers; he practically accused DAldredge of being a Nazi. Jokes can be funny even if they leverage unfair prejudices, and DAldredge's was really pretty mild. I bet gbulmash's dad would have laughed at it; I can laugh at meaner jokes than that one when they stereotype me.
If it's not funny, just call it another dumb joke and move on. No need to puff up with indignation and argue about it.
If I want to run the microwave oven with the door open, why shouldn't I be able to? The microwave oven should do what I tell it to, it is a tool, nothing more.
Removable drives would be intolerably slow without caching. The system tries to prevent you (or at least warn you) from removing the drive before the cache is flushed and the drive fully updated. This is a good thing.
However, it could be done better. The drive should be kept as up-to-date as possible, with the cache flushed and all filesystem structures fully updated as soon as there's idle time available. So any time the system has been idle for a few seconds it should be acceptable to yank the removable drive with no warnings or negative consequences. And there should ALWAYS be an override to get the floppy (or other removable media) out RIGHT NOW, regardless of how "safe" it is.
The OS would
not even need to know the power was ever out, except to fix the system time.
Whoa, careful there. The OS would have to "reboot" all the hardware (reinitialize peripherals, system chipset, drivers) when power is restored, just like coming out of the "hibernate" state. Applications and outer layers of the OS wouldn't need to know about the power failure, but the kernel sure as heck would have to know.
It would not suprise me if most of the stuff you drag home marks its territory too, including ink jets.
Lucky for me I have a Lexmark. The print quality is so wildly erratic you can barely read the text, let alone some hidden 1mm yellow bar code. Yellow only works about 10% of the time anyway.
I use Samba+SMBFS to share read-only trees with multiple filesystems mounted in them. NFS can't really handle this, at least not reliably. For this purpose SMB works well enough. Is there something better?
I only block ads that make it difficult for me to concentrate on the actual content of the host page. For example Google-style text ads are fine, I never block them, and I've even clicked on a few of them and actually bought stuff.
Officers of a corporation can get in big trouble for intentionally misleading investors or potential investors. For a publicly traded company (like MSFT) there are thousands of investors, and everyone is a potential investor. So any public statement about the company by the officers must be truthful, or at least not intentionally misleading. The viability of MSFT's competitors (such as Linux) is directly applicable to the value of the company.
If Steve Ballmer knows, or reasonably ought to know, that the study's implications are the opposite of his representation, then he as an officer of the corporation has intentionally misled potential investors.... Oops!
Hm, this has been a common complaint and the answer seems pretty obvious. If you get a message without a signature, but the "mail from" domain does publish a key, then you know it's a forgery and you can reject it. No evidence of "spam" anywhere, just forgery. You don't have to wait for anything, this works right away.
The version of Napster that I downloaded and played with for five minutes before uninstalling it forever was definitely not good code. It was a half-assed program hacked together by a novice programmer to accomplish a fairly obvious task that could already be done in other ways. Much more talented programmers had the same idea before him, but dismissed it because they could easily see how to accomplish the same task with existing tools. Fanning didn't see the alternatives so he forged ahead with his own solution. Other networking novices who likewise couldn't see the alternatives found his solution useful. It turned out that there was a niche there for a highly targetted solution to a specific area (music) of a more general problem (peer to peer data sharing). He was neither innovative nor clever nor talented, he just happened to crank out the exact dumb little applet that the world was very very ready for.
If he had been aware of why there was such great demand for his little hack, he would have been a lot more careful and avoided the giant gangbang he got from the copyright cartel.
someone to convince all the myopic NIMBY types to give the pebble bed reactors a try
Maybe they'll be convinced after they see it operating safely in your back yard for a few years. You don't mind having a nuclear power station as a neighbor, do you?
I've been using mainly Windows and DOS since 1985 and never had a worm, virus, spyware, or any other sort of computer "infection". I don't even use "anti-virus" software, except maybe once a year or so just out of curiosity.
Security isn't about the OS, it's about awareness and prudence. I don't run software of unknown provenance or whose capabilities I don't fully understand. I keep Linux-based firewalls between the (mostly unpatched) Windows machines and the Internet. I don't use Internet Explorer or Outlook.
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Try telling that to kids nowadays tho', they won't believe you!
If it's not funny, just call it another dumb joke and move on. No need to puff up with indignation and argue about it.
"bulletproof hosting" is also a good search to turn up spammer ads.
It works for me in Mozilla 1.7.3.
Lad Vampire is still going strong. It's similar to the Lycos thing but only targets 419 scammers.
Removable drives would be intolerably slow without caching. The system tries to prevent you (or at least warn you) from removing the drive before the cache is flushed and the drive fully updated. This is a good thing.
However, it could be done better. The drive should be kept as up-to-date as possible, with the cache flushed and all filesystem structures fully updated as soon as there's idle time available. So any time the system has been idle for a few seconds it should be acceptable to yank the removable drive with no warnings or negative consequences. And there should ALWAYS be an override to get the floppy (or other removable media) out RIGHT NOW, regardless of how "safe" it is.
I use Samba+SMBFS to share read-only trees with multiple filesystems mounted in them. NFS can't really handle this, at least not reliably. For this purpose SMB works well enough. Is there something better?
Unethical? Whatever.
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If Steve Ballmer knows, or reasonably ought to know, that the study's implications are the opposite of his representation, then he as an officer of the corporation has intentionally misled potential investors.... Oops!
Lucky you. I read at 4 with sigs turned off and I still see about one free[whatever]scam link a day. (It's not just ipods any more.)
(They haven't.)
Also the FA is about 32" monitors. Presumably they draw a little more power than a 19".
It's racism when they hate Japanese people who clearly had nothing to do with any atrocities, being born after the war ended.
Hm, this has been a common complaint and the answer seems pretty obvious. If you get a message without a signature, but the "mail from" domain does publish a key, then you know it's a forgery and you can reject it. No evidence of "spam" anywhere, just forgery. You don't have to wait for anything, this works right away.
If he had been aware of why there was such great demand for his little hack, he would have been a lot more careful and avoided the giant gangbang he got from the copyright cartel.
In this case though a more appropriate word would be "extinction".
Please explain how the license specifically prohibits GPL use. I can't find anything like that in the license.
Security isn't about the OS, it's about awareness and prudence. I don't run software of unknown provenance or whose capabilities I don't fully understand. I keep Linux-based firewalls between the (mostly unpatched) Windows machines and the Internet. I don't use Internet Explorer or Outlook.