Locate is only useful if you know the filenames of what was installed. It's completely worthless for finding files by modification date. Plus it won't find any files that were added after the last time its database was rebuilt.
Well, they did hire some pretty good actors for the voice talent, but yes, it's the writing and tech that makes the movie good.
However, it's a powerful marketing and distribution machine that makes the big money. Some indy studio with talent can't exactly get their movie on thousands of screens and have their character put on every damn product in the grocery store.
Umm, Clear Channel doesn't just own pop stations. If they did, there would be a lot more pop stations, since they own dozens of stations in some markets (including the modern rock/alternative station in my area, which does play Rage Against the Machine songs).
Eventually the FCC will let them buy all of the TV stations, newspapers and ISPs as well, to go along with their virtual monopoly on radio stations and concert venues.
Reinstalling an OS X system is completely trivial. Making backups of all of your data every time you make a change to any document isn't. The average mac user probably doens't make regular backups at all, and I'd wager that 90% of those who do make backups do it weekly at best.
Of course, the real problem with malware running with root privileges isn't that it can delete/; it can install pretty much whatever backdoors and spyware it wants on your system and cover its tracks pretty effectively.
Playing pretty much any other game using the DDR pads is actually much more strenuous exercise than actually playing DDR. Especially the sort of fighting games that involve pounding on different button combinations really quickly.
They're meant to be accessible to people who want to read old texts, not specifically to people who want to do some sort of arcane text processing on them.
The point is that some asshats with some data mining software at a private corporation shouldn't be telling the police who to investigate. That's no more legitimate than if I sent them a list of 120,000 people I thought should be targeted for investigation.
Ok, obviously you're talking out of your ass on a topic you know nothing at all about.
The Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court did buy the statue himself. He installed in in the middle of the night when no one was around to stop it, and refused to remove it when the other 8 justices (7 of whom are Republicans) ordered him to, before the federal government even got involved.
And if tax money was involved, it would have had to have been appropriated by the Legislature, who are pretty clearly not allowed to establish religion.
Yes, and I also realize that Democrats are not likely to be the ones in favor of outsourcing responsibility for determining who is and isn't a terrorist to private corporations, and that the private corporations who are hired to do this categorization are therefore likely to be ones who support Republicans. It has nothing to do with being anti-Bush. If the article was about how the United Autoworkers were building a database of terrorists to give to a Democratic president, I'd assume they'd be more likely to target Republicans. Both sides are bought and paid for by special interests, and both are willing to do whatever sneaky underhanded stuff they can to screw the opposition.
You might recall the Bush administration had to black out a huge section of the congressional report on 9/11 which exposed Saudi Arabia's involvement, beyond the fact that it was perpetrated almost entirely by Saudi nationals.
No, no, no. The US is a democracy, so the fact that a majority of Americans believe that most of the hijackers were Iraqi makes it true. It would be downright un-American not to suppress evidence of Saudi involvement.
Subject avoids our wonderful system of 'No Child Left Behind'(TM) public education where they'll be taught useful skills like 'how to conform', 'shut up and let the teacher finish the lesson', and 'How to beat the essay E-grader' [slashdot.org]...by sending their children to private/home schools, and therefore putting them in danger of, indeed, 'being left behind'.
You're way off on that one. The purpose of No Child Left Behind is to get everyone out of the public schools and into religious schools funded by tax money, by blaming the underfunded public schools, instead of the parents and students, for their poor performance.
Do you believe that "probable cause" should be extended to include being listed in some database that a private corporation generated through some arcane means (which they probably claim as a trade secret so you can't really be sure if they're profiling your behavior or just grabbing voter registration records and claiming anyone who's not a Republican must be a terrorist, because you're either for the President or against America)?
Putting the Ten Commandments in the public entry of a courthouse is showing official recognition of a particular religion. Putting the Ten Commandments, a Buddha, or whatever the fuck else you want in your own private office is not the same thing, no matter who you work for.
My three mouse buttons all work perfectly well with my Mac. They don't restrict you to anything, they just sell their machines with a one-button mouse.
I don't even need to go hunting for drivers to install if I want to plug in another mouse, or damn near any other USB device. They just work.
From the Full Disclosure article, it does not appear that switching to another browser will help a bit. This is NOT a flaw in Safari, but a flaw in the way the OS handles help: URLs. Any browser that uses the system's settings to decide what helper application to use for a given URL is vulnerable, and any browser that doesn't obey those settings is a badly behaved app.
Fortunately, changing the app that handles help: URLs fixes the problem; unfortunately, OS X by default doesn't include a utility to change those settings. (Actually, IIRC Internet Explorer can do it, creating the irony that you need to use IE to fix a vulnerability in an y other browser. Or get a third-party utility).
And I suppose your car's milage is measured in cubic miles per gallon.
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emacs is a great editor, but I'm not about to pay $500 for it when I can get it for free.
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Well if that seems reasonable to you, why not just have the government kill everyone right now, to prevent any future crime.
If you can't see a difference between allowing potentially unsafe driving conditions and having the government killing innocent people, you're a moron.
Well, there's a difference between having a password set to a null string, which will allow login without a password, and what they do with root (and other accounts which cannot log in.) If you look in NetInfo Manager, you can see all the users' encrypted passwords. Users who cannot log in (including root, if it's not enabled) have their password set to "*", which is a value that the encryption algorithm used to validate logins cannot generate for any plain text password. The login program works by encrypting the password you type in and comparing that with the stored value of your encrypted password. If the stored value is something with no corresponding plain text password, the account is effectively blocked.
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Locate is only useful if you know the filenames of what was installed. It's completely worthless for finding files by modification date. Plus it won't find any files that were added after the last time its database was rebuilt.
However, it's a powerful marketing and distribution machine that makes the big money. Some indy studio with talent can't exactly get their movie on thousands of screens and have their character put on every damn product in the grocery store.
Open ports are not inherently insecure.
Eventually the FCC will let them buy all of the TV stations, newspapers and ISPs as well, to go along with their virtual monopoly on radio stations and concert venues.
Of course, the real problem with malware running with root privileges isn't that it can delete /; it can install pretty much whatever backdoors and spyware it wants on your system and cover its tracks pretty effectively.
Playing pretty much any other game using the DDR pads is actually much more strenuous exercise than actually playing DDR. Especially the sort of fighting games that involve pounding on different button combinations really quickly.
They're meant to be accessible to people who want to read old texts, not specifically to people who want to do some sort of arcane text processing on them.
In other news, my home DSL briefly went down during a severe thunderstorm the other day.
The point is that some asshats with some data mining software at a private corporation shouldn't be telling the police who to investigate. That's no more legitimate than if I sent them a list of 120,000 people I thought should be targeted for investigation.
The Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court did buy the statue himself. He installed in in the middle of the night when no one was around to stop it, and refused to remove it when the other 8 justices (7 of whom are Republicans) ordered him to, before the federal government even got involved.
And if tax money was involved, it would have had to have been appropriated by the Legislature, who are pretty clearly not allowed to establish religion.
Yes, and I also realize that Democrats are not likely to be the ones in favor of outsourcing responsibility for determining who is and isn't a terrorist to private corporations, and that the private corporations who are hired to do this categorization are therefore likely to be ones who support Republicans. It has nothing to do with being anti-Bush. If the article was about how the United Autoworkers were building a database of terrorists to give to a Democratic president, I'd assume they'd be more likely to target Republicans. Both sides are bought and paid for by special interests, and both are willing to do whatever sneaky underhanded stuff they can to screw the opposition.
No, no, no. The US is a democracy, so the fact that a majority of Americans believe that most of the hijackers were Iraqi makes it true. It would be downright un-American not to suppress evidence of Saudi involvement.
You're way off on that one. The purpose of No Child Left Behind is to get everyone out of the public schools and into religious schools funded by tax money, by blaming the underfunded public schools, instead of the parents and students, for their poor performance.
Do you believe that "probable cause" should be extended to include being listed in some database that a private corporation generated through some arcane means (which they probably claim as a trade secret so you can't really be sure if they're profiling your behavior or just grabbing voter registration records and claiming anyone who's not a Republican must be a terrorist, because you're either for the President or against America)?
Putting the Ten Commandments in the public entry of a courthouse is showing official recognition of a particular religion. Putting the Ten Commandments, a Buddha, or whatever the fuck else you want in your own private office is not the same thing, no matter who you work for.
Since that was before you checked it, one can only assume that the site, or at least the counter, already melted.
I don't even need to go hunting for drivers to install if I want to plug in another mouse, or damn near any other USB device. They just work.
Are you really that worried that the SEC will get slashdotted that you feel the need to use google cache links?
Fortunately, changing the app that handles help: URLs fixes the problem; unfortunately, OS X by default doesn't include a utility to change those settings. (Actually, IIRC Internet Explorer can do it, creating the irony that you need to use IE to fix a vulnerability in an y other browser. Or get a third-party utility).
It's not "eye contact" when one person is looking at another person without the other person looking back.
If slashdot was around when Edison was alive, someone here would claim that his lightbulb patents were invalid because the sun was prior art.
And I suppose your car's milage is measured in cubic miles per gallon.
emacs is a great editor, but I'm not about to pay $500 for it when I can get it for free.
If you can't see a difference between allowing potentially unsafe driving conditions and having the government killing innocent people, you're a moron.
Well, there's a difference between having a password set to a null string, which will allow login without a password, and what they do with root (and other accounts which cannot log in.) If you look in NetInfo Manager, you can see all the users' encrypted passwords. Users who cannot log in (including root, if it's not enabled) have their password set to "*", which is a value that the encryption algorithm used to validate logins cannot generate for any plain text password. The login program works by encrypting the password you type in and comparing that with the stored value of your encrypted password. If the stored value is something with no corresponding plain text password, the account is effectively blocked.