You begin to understand, young one. Smoking is very harmful, but it is not harmful to the people lining law makers' pockets. It's quite profitable in fact. They therefore write laws to defend it. Same goes for guns.
Little do these law makers realize how much tax money will be used hospitalizing and caring for smoking related illness and gun related injuries. Until it effects the law makers personally in a negative way, gun manufacturers and cigarette companies will keep thriving with the law on their side. When a senator's child kills himself with a gun, or when a family member is diagnosed with lung cancer, their tune will change. But since it has to happen to 450 of them for anything to come of it, nothing will come of it.
Unfortunately, anything IT related doesn't have this luxury, because they simply don't understand the laws they're writing. And I'm not even being cynical.
We have a machine in our Distributed and Parallel lab called honeypot. After careful consideration, we decided to let the name be. After all, it's the only honeypot most of our Computer Science students will ever get to play with.
how come there is never a list of the 10 worst cars?
Probably because people are much better informed about cars than peripherals through word of mouth and reputation. Price can also be a decent indication of a car's quality, which doesn't necessarily apply to this stuff.
It would be amusing to see a Chevy Cavalier and Dodge Neon fight it out though.:)
This is a link to his slides in the first class. Look at slides 7 and 8.
http://cr.yp.to/2004-494/0823.pdf
I'm not sure how I feel on this one. As a CS student doing PhD research and having been at university for a while, I know that some courses are more demanding than others, and a 49x code class is likely a senior level special interest course. Secondly, he had all semester to do this. On the other hand, if no student meets the requirements you set out, then the professor is likely at fault, since students' effort and skill should be normally distributed and a good percentage of them would pass if grading is done fairly, while a few might excel.
To DJB's defense, the requirement was for 10 bugs in any deployed UNIX software from what I'm reading. It shouldn't have been so hard. Assuming he taught what he was supposed to teach.
an entire flock of Colorado geese are completely disoriented tonight. They have been waddling around bumping into garbage bins and parked cars without rhyme or reason.
This odd sighting is being reported only blocks away from the residence of the woman who was inadvertently hypnotized by her electricity meter earlier today.
Let me get this straight. This system promotes talking on the phone to your parents while driving, assuming you're a teenager hurtling down a road in a car you're likely not experienced enough to drive to begin with.
If a group of cars is travelling in one direction, this system will give them green lights ahead of them. When the group passes, the lights will eventually turn red in the same sequence. This is fine... unless you're travelling in the opposite direction. You see, lights are coupled. If you have a green light to go straight, the guy opposite you also has a green light to go straight. So when the light behind you turns red, the light in front of the guy travelling in the opposite direction also turns red. If you turn lights green in favour of one direction, you're turning lights red to the detriment of the other.
What does the system do if there is enough traffic load to trigger this system in both directions? And if the system is only effective when there are no cars on the road, is it worth it instead of just using common pressure pads at intersections?
I was being euphemistic. The challenges to life as we know it that will arise from this type of development are serious, and he didn't address a single one of them. There's plenty of conventional room to put people. Been to the Midwest lately?:)
Umm, that makes no sense. For starters, Blizzard has their own protocol, it's not even normal BitTorrent (that's why Brian Cohen is working for them). Secondly, they have dedicated tracker(s), as they wouldn't allow arbitrary people to be in control of their patch distribution. Lastly, even if neither is the case, what would getting patches have to do with knocking trackers offline? Even thousands of people getting patches at roughly the same time wouldn't have this effect. They were attacked, no ifs ands or buts.
It's not useless, it serves a well defined albeit misdirected purpose.
The problem is that I doubt the spam sites domain names are hard coded into the screensaver. If they're not, the screensaver has to retrieve them from a remote source, and within days the spammers will simply squelch this uprising by DDoSing that source, rendering this entire approach useless.
The advantage of paying for AdAware is to get AdWatch, a live detection program which blocks registry modification, browser hijacks, etc. as they happen. It is very customisable and can react autonomously or can prompt for action. No burning desire, just a good product. (No affiliation)
As to this douche installing programs advertised by popups, what does he expect? If your advertising strategy is popups, you're selling crap. If your purchasing strategy is popups, you're buying it.
note the double lines around the portrait, one is really text
Neat. I'm holding an old $5 from 1995 next to a new $5 from 2003. The old $5 has text as the entire outer line, but the newer one only has it for about 1cm of the middle line (there are now three lines) near the name Lincoln.
I've just dealt with something similar. The first step is to go through (manually and painfully) Win32 file associations and make sure nothing points to Internet Explorer. That, and having FF set as the default browser, should significantly reduce the need for IE.
The next step, and one that I have yet to try, is to find a test system and symlink the IE binary to FF. It's a disaster waiting to happen, I know, but I think the experiment itself is worth the effort, let alone any possible success. In case you're wondering how to link in Win32, take a gander here.
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50MB downloads linked by/. ? No wonder they can't do the math.
Maybe/. should start running it's own BitTorrent tracker, and ask permission from the content owners to host it. When/if they say yes, the story can be updated with a link to the torrent, ending their misery and ours.
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You begin to understand, young one. Smoking is very harmful, but it is not harmful to the people lining law makers' pockets. It's quite profitable in fact. They therefore write laws to defend it. Same goes for guns. Little do these law makers realize how much tax money will be used hospitalizing and caring for smoking related illness and gun related injuries. Until it effects the law makers personally in a negative way, gun manufacturers and cigarette companies will keep thriving with the law on their side. When a senator's child kills himself with a gun, or when a family member is diagnosed with lung cancer, their tune will change. But since it has to happen to 450 of them for anything to come of it, nothing will come of it. Unfortunately, anything IT related doesn't have this luxury, because they simply don't understand the laws they're writing. And I'm not even being cynical.
We have a machine in our Distributed and Parallel lab called honeypot. After careful consideration, we decided to let the name be. After all, it's the only honeypot most of our Computer Science students will ever get to play with.
Probably because people are much better informed about cars than peripherals through word of mouth and reputation. Price can also be a decent indication of a car's quality, which doesn't necessarily apply to this stuff.
It would be amusing to see a Chevy Cavalier and Dodge Neon fight it out though. :)
This is a link to his slides in the first class. Look at slides 7 and 8.
http://cr.yp.to/2004-494/0823.pdf
I'm not sure how I feel on this one. As a CS student doing PhD research and having been at university for a while, I know that some courses are more demanding than others, and a 49x code class is likely a senior level special interest course. Secondly, he had all semester to do this. On the other hand, if no student meets the requirements you set out, then the professor is likely at fault, since students' effort and skill should be normally distributed and a good percentage of them would pass if grading is done fairly, while a few might excel.
To DJB's defense, the requirement was for 10 bugs in any deployed UNIX software from what I'm reading. It shouldn't have been so hard. Assuming he taught what he was supposed to teach.
No wonder I was having deja vu!
an entire flock of Colorado geese are completely disoriented tonight. They have been waddling around bumping into garbage bins and parked cars without rhyme or reason.
This odd sighting is being reported only blocks away from the residence of the woman who was inadvertently hypnotized by her electricity meter earlier today.
Let me get this straight. This system promotes talking on the phone to your parents while driving, assuming you're a teenager hurtling down a road in a car you're likely not experienced enough to drive to begin with.
The critical thinking of Tommy Franks at work.
Thanks!
How priceless would it be if they got his name wrong in Encarta too.
If a group of cars is travelling in one direction, this system will give them green lights ahead of them. When the group passes, the lights will eventually turn red in the same sequence. This is fine ... unless you're travelling in the opposite direction. You see, lights are coupled. If you have a green light to go straight, the guy opposite you also has a green light to go straight. So when the light behind you turns red, the light in front of the guy travelling in the opposite direction also turns red. If you turn lights green in favour of one direction, you're turning lights red to the detriment of the other.
What does the system do if there is enough traffic load to trigger this system in both directions? And if the system is only effective when there are no cars on the road, is it worth it instead of just using common pressure pads at intersections?
It was a joke, jackass.
This is wonderful news for all those handicapped people that can climb four feet.
I was being euphemistic. The challenges to life as we know it that will arise from this type of development are serious, and he didn't address a single one of them. There's plenty of conventional room to put people. Been to the Midwest lately? :)
does he plan to put 50 billion people?
Umm, that makes no sense. For starters, Blizzard has their own protocol, it's not even normal BitTorrent (that's why Brian Cohen is working for them). Secondly, they have dedicated tracker(s), as they wouldn't allow arbitrary people to be in control of their patch distribution. Lastly, even if neither is the case, what would getting patches have to do with knocking trackers offline? Even thousands of people getting patches at roughly the same time wouldn't have this effect. They were attacked, no ifs ands or buts.
It's not useless, it serves a well defined albeit misdirected purpose.
The problem is that I doubt the spam sites domain names are hard coded into the screensaver. If they're not, the screensaver has to retrieve them from a remote source, and within days the spammers will simply squelch this uprising by DDoSing that source, rendering this entire approach useless.
The advantage of paying for AdAware is to get AdWatch, a live detection program which blocks registry modification, browser hijacks, etc. as they happen. It is very customisable and can react autonomously or can prompt for action. No burning desire, just a good product. (No affiliation)
As to this douche installing programs advertised by popups, what does he expect? If your advertising strategy is popups, you're selling crap. If your purchasing strategy is popups, you're buying it.
Red, no green, wait blue, noooooooo.......!!!
Neat. I'm holding an old $5 from 1995 next to a new $5 from 2003. The old $5 has text as the entire outer line, but the newer one only has it for about 1cm of the middle line (there are now three lines) near the name Lincoln.
I learn something every day.
Customary international law, by definition. Wait, the US doesn't want to be a part of the ICJ either. Surprise bloody surprise.
How many Kleenex do you go through to install Linux?
I've just dealt with something similar. The first step is to go through (manually and painfully) Win32 file associations and make sure nothing points to Internet Explorer. That, and having FF set as the default browser, should significantly reduce the need for IE.
The next step, and one that I have yet to try, is to find a test system and symlink the IE binary to FF. It's a disaster waiting to happen, I know, but I think the experiment itself is worth the effort, let alone any possible success. In case you're wondering how to link in Win32, take a gander here.
They never said anybody received anything ...
But were they pointing and laughing too?
50MB downloads linked by /. ? No wonder they can't do the math.
Maybe /. should start running it's own BitTorrent tracker, and ask permission from the content owners to host it. When/if they say yes, the story can be updated with a link to the torrent, ending their misery and ours.