"I'm certain pilots worldwide are going to love this."
From TFA:
"The Laddermill would only be flown where aircraft are banned. One such area is the zone along the US-Mexican border, where high-flying balloons fitted with radar are used to combat drug traffickers."
*n?x apps, OTOH, are designed to function properly under the "least privilege" model.
Unfortunately, the 'least privilege' in unix is 'full privileges' as the user. So full access to his homedir, ample opportunity to install backdoors (as the user), infect binaries, become a spam/ddos drone, etc.. sound familiar? The fact that the system is protected from the user isn't interesting to the user..
Finally, the Management Science department all acted like they were getting it from the departmental secretary, but I have it on good authority that this wasn't true.
I'm sure she told all the boys they were the only one;)
I strongly suggest you take some math and physics courses. That's like claiming a boat traveling 30 knots is not traveling over the ocean floor at that same speed. It makes absolutely no sense.
Thanks for the advice:). However, there is a difference.. of course the plane is moving with 220km/h relative to the base station when it's directly above it, but slower relative to the base station the further away from it the plane is. Because the plane's direction isn't perpendicular to the vector of base station/plane.
Maybe it makes no difference in the scenario discussed. But I hope I've clarified my point now.
Fascinating.. I always thought that GSM would not work if the cell phone is moving faster than 220 km/h... so, to me, it seems very suprising that cell phones work in planes.
Well I don't know that much about GSM or RF, but maybe it's because the plane isn't moving faster than 220km/h relative to the GSM base station, due to the huge altitude..
it's just basic logic to come up with this stuff. yet, regularly, people making stupid flash games for stupid marketing campaigns don't think of these things and their games end up being owned by cheaters.
Wait.. We're discussing 'cheating' in 'stupid flash games for stupid marketing campaigns':-) ?
In linux, doing "mount -o async/dev/ABCD/path/to/mount" should tell the kernel to immeidately flush this buffer to disk immediately.
That is awfully wrong. async does the opposite; it performs i/o asynchronously, not taking care to leave the metadata in a consistent state. Fast (esp. vs. synchronous on harddisks) but dangerous (esp.. etc). If it helps at all in this setting, you'd want sync.
.. but what makes me sceptical about machines that can fix themselves - if they're smart enough to understand what's wrong, they shouldn't break in the first place..
YES. In fact, it's probably worth $28 an hour, plus a full benefits package, flexible scheduling and a pension. $15 an hour is chickenshit. Most companies spend more than that on plastic plants for the lobby. Being a cashier is not unskilled labor. Working anywhere for ten years
deserves respect.
Couldn't agree more. I'd add you to my friends list, but you were already there.
Let's start using something stable for critical shit, shall we?
I've seen plenty of crashing linux installations causing terrible trouble for their owners. Modern linux installations without hardware problems, doing simple things (e.g. mysql). Crashing (lockups). Really, linux isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I've found at work and at home that Windows (since late NT4) can be quite stable ~if~ you don't install tons of junk software.
I've had to put my 6 year old on her own machine because her kiddy games makes Windows unstable, but my wife and myself both run tons of "mainstream" software, ranging from Doom to UT to banking software to Eclipse to video editing software.
My machine doesn't lock up and it doesn't crash and neither does hers.
If you have to protect an operating system from the applications yourself, it isn't doing its job.
2 people's computers not crashing or locking up says nothing about the reliability of the operating system.
(That said.. In my experience XP is OK too, as a desktop system of course.. But the linux/unix zealots around here don't seem to realise that *ix is every bit of the toy operating system compared to some others.)
Good point. Shows produced in the U.S. are usually one season (at the very least) behind here in the EU, so downloading gives us the leverage of being able to watch the "new" shows - instead of the "old" ones - sooner.
true, but i wonder if leverage means what i think you think it means.
But from the title I thought you were going to say one of two other things..
PC's and software are going to get better; so much better that not only won't they have difficulties such as spam, trojans, worms, viruses, and regular problems suchs as driver problems, crashes, application crashes etc., but they'll actually be easier to use for what people want to use it for, just like an appliance, despite the much higher complexity (and power) of computers. I believe this will happen in some number of years. Just look at XP compared to Win 95 or 3.x.
In another generation's time, there will be new and complicated technology that we will not have kept up with, and have to ask for help for. This always seems to happen as people grow older, so it'll happen to us too; asking the next-door 16-year-old for help with your new holographic projector to watch some porn, for instance.
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An URL that works is http://finger.planetquake.com/plan.asp?userid=john c&id=15753.. Hmm, that error message suggests a rather nasty lack of input validation.. I wonder .... :)
From TFA:
No mods (with a sense of humour) seem to have got it yet.
Don't you mean not even on /. ;-) ?
Unfortunately, the 'least privilege' in unix is 'full privileges' as the user. So full access to his homedir, ample opportunity to install backdoors (as the user), infect binaries, become a spam/ddos drone, etc.. sound familiar? The fact that the system is protected from the user isn't interesting to the user..
Finally, the Management Science department all acted like they were getting it from the departmental secretary, but I have it on good authority that this wasn't true.
I'm sure she told all the boys they were the only one ;)
Thank you for your candid assessment :). However, please see my other reply.
Thanks for the advice :). However, there is a difference.. of course the plane is moving with 220km/h relative to the base station when it's directly above it, but slower relative to the base station the further away from it the plane is. Because the plane's direction isn't perpendicular to the vector of base station/plane.
Maybe it makes no difference in the scenario discussed. But I hope I've clarified my point now.
Well I don't know that much about GSM or RF, but maybe it's because the plane isn't moving faster than 220km/h relative to the GSM base station, due to the huge altitude..
I think it's rampantly clueless to omit (esp.) Von Neumann and Knuth from this list.
Wait.. We're discussing 'cheating' in 'stupid flash games for stupid marketing campaigns' :-) ?
That is awfully wrong. async does the opposite; it performs i/o asynchronously, not taking care to leave the metadata in a consistent state. Fast (esp. vs. synchronous on harddisks) but dangerous (esp.. etc). If it helps at all in this setting, you'd want sync.
.. but what makes me sceptical about machines that can fix themselves - if they're smart enough to understand what's wrong, they shouldn't break in the first place..
Couldn't agree more. I'd add you to my friends list, but you were already there.
Hm, what's so special about that?
we're probably supposed to read realloc().
And for that, you deserve a place on my friends list.
How do you think Kerry losing caused the OBL tape and Fox news?
I've seen plenty of crashing linux installations causing terrible trouble for their owners. Modern linux installations without hardware problems, doing simple things (e.g. mysql). Crashing (lockups). Really, linux isn't all it's cracked up to be.
- If you have to protect an operating system from the applications yourself, it isn't doing its job.
- 2 people's computers not crashing or locking up says nothing about the reliability of the operating system.
(That said.. In my experience XP is OK too, as a desktop system of course.. But the linux/unix zealots around here don't seem to realise that *ix is every bit of the toy operating system compared to some others.)true, but i wonder if leverage means what i think you think it means.
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In mystic force and magic spelling
Celestial sprites elucidate
All my own striving can't relate
Funny way to spell 'terrorism' ;)
But from the title I thought you were going to say one of two other things..
This violates the requirement that voters can't be coerced, threatened, bought etc. You can't be able to prove to someone else what you voted for.