You know... I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Windows machine for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder.
Um, copying a file from one folder to another shouldn't actually move any information on the hard drive, and should take less than a second.
Or maybe you should have studied and answered the questions by knowing them. It probably would have saved you a ton of time, tool. Beating the system to make a point is smart, but beating the system just for its own sake is stupid.
Very well put, makes me wish I had mod points...
To be fair, however, Johnson truly believes that the ends justify his means. The ends being a society healthier than that of our current wickedness and immorality.
So don't take anything he says too seriously, here's something about his book from Wikipedia:
In fact-checking Johnson's books Darwin on Trial and Defeating Darwinism, a reviewer discovered that almost every scientific source Johnson cited had been misused or distorted, from simple misinterpretations and innuendos to outright fabrications. The reviewer, Brian Spitzer, described Darwin on Trial the most deceptive book he had ever read. [22]
Another option would be to setup a Linux (or other UNIX) and then have a shell script run every 5 minutes or whatever and scan a range of hosts...
Or you could do that exact same thing in Windows, or pretty much any other modern operating system.
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However, if you want to appear to be actually producing a worthwhile product instead of just ripping off everyone else's, you have to do what Microsoft isn't doing - _innovate_!
Sounds nice, would be nicer if it were true. If Microsoft doesn't innovate, how come they have the most widely used OS? And I don't see much competition to their Office package...
That's because it isn't true. "Geeks", as used most commonly now are people who lack social skills. They go on to become programmers and various specialists that don't need social skills. They are good at this, and yes, they can make a 6-digit salary, but the girls at your high school will still find them dry, boring, and unattractive.
Even if I'm innocent, I'd still want a lawyer. What Eric is saying is that, in a perfect world, in a perfectly free market, in the very long run, closed source models would win lose to open source ones. This assumes that Microsoft will compete fairly, not use it's market dominance, etc.
It's horsefeathers! RMS believes in freedom as a right - the freedom to know what's running on your computer. He wants anything he writes to never be run on a user's machine without their knowing what it is - hence, the GPL.
I'm not sure why, but I've also always had the feeling that ebay was tres suck... their website is a bit slow, and loads funny. I can't wait for google wallet to pwn paypal, I have a lot more faith that google will get a lot of things right that these guys get wrong.
What stops two bots from playing in the same game?
As far as I know, most online poker places have explicit rules against this, the Poker Room License Agreement, for example, states:
PokerRoom.com also has the right to hold any and all of a player's funds indefinitely if it is found, determined at the sole discretion of PokerRoom.com, that the player has been involved in fraudulent activity on PokerRoom.com. Fraudulent activity may include, but is not limited to, stolen credit cards, transfer of funds to other player accounts (chip dumping), forgery, collusion and the provision of false account information.
My guess is that they have bots to find correlations between players winning and who's at the table, different patterns raising flags, and freezing accounts.
Remember when the US Federal Gov'nt was having a royal fit about encryption and then just kinda "gave up"? Unless they can crack it, they wouldn't have given up (use 4096 encryption, people!)
(C) the terrorist activity 1a/ or terrorism of the organization threatens the security of United States nationals or the national security of the United States.
If it wasn't for this, it would seem that many branches of the US military may be declared terrorist organizations... then again, don't frivilous wars for oil threaten our national security?:)
Software patents inherently favor large corporations with teams of lawyers over not-for-profit organizations funded by individual donations... in a world of strongly enforced software patents, big companies will have one more effecive way to "compete" with the little guys.
Wouldn't that list give an unfair advantage to people already on top? Nearly everyone who clicks on the/. link will then check out the top one, two, or three sites... how's that fair to those trying to catch up?
From what I remember from history class, factories are very hard to hit in a night raid, and on average, only 2% of the bombs hit a target, so allied bombing raids often targeted residential areas because it was more effective - if you bomb the homes of 2/3 the workers in a factory, it'll shut down the factory more efficiently than trying to actually bomb that.
No, they sue from a much bigger angle. They sue with the claim that file sharers have cost them thousands of CD sales...
So why not $sue_for = $ESTIMATED_LOSS / $NUMBER_OF_FILE_SHARERS... that way, everyone they sue is paying the $50 or so that number should come out to...
Microsoft is a business. Business exists to make money. Competition forces innovation, because it gives money to companies that innovate. Microsoft is innovating before it's losing money (although, in the long run, IE6 being a POS is bad on lots of levels for them...)
What my point is, and what the average/.'er refuses to admit, is that MS could (and could have) easily make a browser better than Firefox, but they just have had no incentive to do so untill now...
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You know... I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Windows machine for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. Um, copying a file from one folder to another shouldn't actually move any information on the hard drive, and should take less than a second.
Or maybe you should have studied and answered the questions by knowing them. It probably would have saved you a ton of time, tool. Beating the system to make a point is smart, but beating the system just for its own sake is stupid.
Very well put, makes me wish I had mod points... To be fair, however, Johnson truly believes that the ends justify his means. The ends being a society healthier than that of our current wickedness and immorality.
So don't take anything he says too seriously, here's something about his book from Wikipedia:
In fact-checking Johnson's books Darwin on Trial and Defeating Darwinism, a reviewer discovered that almost every scientific source Johnson cited had been misused or distorted, from simple misinterpretations and innuendos to outright fabrications. The reviewer, Brian Spitzer, described Darwin on Trial the most deceptive book he had ever read. [22]
I was just pointing out that installing an OS is not part of the instructions to writing a script that will scan ports.
Another option would be to setup a Linux (or other UNIX) and then have a shell script run every 5 minutes or whatever and scan a range of hosts...
Geez, I'm sorry I wasn't being OS politically correct.
Actually, you made it sound like someone had to install Linux... and politically correct would be not calling Linux "a UNIX".
Another option would be to setup a Linux (or other UNIX) and then have a shell script run every 5 minutes or whatever and scan a range of hosts...
Or you could do that exact same thing in Windows, or pretty much any other modern operating system.
However, if you want to appear to be actually producing a worthwhile product instead of just ripping off everyone else's, you have to do what Microsoft isn't doing - _innovate_!
Sounds nice, would be nicer if it were true. If Microsoft doesn't innovate, how come they have the most widely used OS? And I don't see much competition to their Office package...
Good call. It's a pretty important (although rare) distinction I should have made. I stand corrected.
That's because it isn't true. "Geeks", as used most commonly now are people who lack social skills. They go on to become programmers and various specialists that don't need social skills. They are good at this, and yes, they can make a 6-digit salary, but the girls at your high school will still find them dry, boring, and unattractive.
or funny...
Even if I'm innocent, I'd still want a lawyer. What Eric is saying is that, in a perfect world, in a perfectly free market, in the very long run, closed source models would win lose to open source ones. This assumes that Microsoft will compete fairly, not use it's market dominance, etc.
It's horsefeathers! RMS believes in freedom as a right - the freedom to know what's running on your computer. He wants anything he writes to never be run on a user's machine without their knowing what it is - hence, the GPL.
I'm not sure why, but I've also always had the feeling that ebay was tres suck... their website is a bit slow, and loads funny. I can't wait for google wallet to pwn paypal, I have a lot more faith that google will get a lot of things right that these guys get wrong.
What stops two bots from playing in the same game?
As far as I know, most online poker places have explicit rules against this, the Poker Room License Agreement, for example, states:
PokerRoom.com also has the right to hold any and all of a player's funds indefinitely if it is found, determined at the sole discretion of PokerRoom.com, that the player has been involved in fraudulent activity on PokerRoom.com. Fraudulent activity may include, but is not limited to, stolen credit cards, transfer of funds to other player accounts (chip dumping), forgery, collusion and the provision of false account information.
My guess is that they have bots to find correlations between players winning and who's at the table, different patterns raising flags, and freezing accounts.
How much of the 4M of this "spam" is customers seeking support?
Hm, I suppose I stand corrected. Would it be practical to have a summetric cipher with 4094 bit encryption, or would that make things run a bit slow?
Remember when the US Federal Gov'nt was having a royal fit about encryption and then just kinda "gave up"? Unless they can crack it, they wouldn't have given up (use 4096 encryption, people!)
(C) the terrorist activity 1a/ or terrorism of the organization threatens the security of United States nationals or the national security of the United States. If it wasn't for this, it would seem that many branches of the US military may be declared terrorist organizations... then again, don't frivilous wars for oil threaten our national security? :)
Software patents inherently favor large corporations with teams of lawyers over not-for-profit organizations funded by individual donations... in a world of strongly enforced software patents, big companies will have one more effecive way to "compete" with the little guys.
same here
Wouldn't that list give an unfair advantage to people already on top? Nearly everyone who clicks on the /. link will then check out the top one, two, or three sites... how's that fair to those trying to catch up?
From what I remember from history class, factories are very hard to hit in a night raid, and on average, only 2% of the bombs hit a target, so allied bombing raids often targeted residential areas because it was more effective - if you bomb the homes of 2/3 the workers in a factory, it'll shut down the factory more efficiently than trying to actually bomb that.
Actually, if I remember correctly, the campus newspaper reported the number as being ~2000. Students still voted on provisional ballots, however...
No, they sue from a much bigger angle. They sue with the claim that file sharers have cost them thousands of CD sales...
So why not $sue_for = $ESTIMATED_LOSS / $NUMBER_OF_FILE_SHARERS... that way, everyone they sue is paying the $50 or so that number should come out to...
Microsoft is a business. Business exists to make money. Competition forces innovation, because it gives money to companies that innovate. Microsoft is innovating before it's losing money (although, in the long run, IE6 being a POS is bad on lots of levels for them...)
/.'er refuses to admit, is that MS could (and could have) easily make a browser better than Firefox, but they just have had no incentive to do so untill now...
What my point is, and what the average