When I want people to have problems with my pictures, I simply wear clothes with the EURion constellation printed on them. If I want to have a blured face, I wear a hat, sun glasses and a fake beard. This story is a stupid article about a dumb idea to idioticly solve a simple problem, in a pathetic way that will work much worse than all of the other solutions combined. It's essentially: "Buy this great technology to screw people with our cameras! And by the way, buy this great camera... It has a great feature, it won't allow you to photograph some people." No, thanks. my "Lumberjack Beard" from the local toy store works just fine, thank you very much. This story might be used as a prime example of an argument against patents on technology. What an unbelievably stupid idea.
a project to create an operating system whose security relied on capabilities rather than the traditional Unix model of root or non-root.
This has been possible in Linux (and some proprietary Unices) for some time now. Why the need for a separate OS?
Linux? Kids these days... Capabilities is a feature from the 1970s. If Coyotos is anything like EROS or KeyKOS, then they don't mean POSIX "capabilities" but real capabilities as described in 1975 by
Jerome Saltzer and Michael Schroeder in the famous The Protection of Information in Computer Systems paper: "Capability--In a computer system, an unforgeable ticket, which when presented can be taken as incontestable proof that the presenter is authorized to have access to the object named in the ticket." For an excellent introduction to capabilities, read What is a Capability, Anyway? by Jonathan Shapiro. Then read the Capability Theory by Sound Bytes essays by Norman Hardy for more informations. Those papers are classics, just like Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson. It's a must-read for anyone who wants to have even the slightest idea about computer security at all.
Do they look like rock stars? No. More like 1980s rap stars. Who looks like rock stars then? Kernel hackers. OS hackers look like church music stars and hacker anthropologists look like movie stars. As you see, all of the hackers look like stars, but only kernel hackers look like rock stars, except those who look like sport stars. If you have any other "Ask Slashdot" questions, you know where to find me.
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Don't bother. Just mention somewhere that it is 250 pages.
At that length I doubt most/.ers will actually read before commenting.
Are you seriously suggesting that anyone would comment an article without reading it when it is 250 pages? I hope those lazy slashdotters would read at least 50 pages.
(By the way, please let me introduce myself. I am new here.)
First of all, the parent first post would be +5, Funny if it was "First post turns to Linux." Second of all, why this story is not on the front page? This is a very important news. Does the Slashdot editors think that the Czech Post is less important than Munich with its weekly front page news? Hint: "Czech Post is the second largest employer in the Czech Republic with nearly 3,400 post offices and 40,000 employees." Don't the editors read even the first line of the stories they submit?
I am sure that none of us would want to hear any jitter that sounds like ass--i.e. like this--but that doesn't mean that any of us would buy a $1900.00 USB cable. Also, the USB power is strong enough to power the iGrill (which is great, by the way, because now I don't have to carry around the bulky Zero-Point generator while I'm hunting when I have a laptop anyway), so we also don't have to worry about the power line impedance so much, unless we use kilometres long USB cables, which is not so popular as it used to be with null modems any more, since we have an easy access to the Interweb.
Now seriously, I have noticed that people usually stop listening when I start talking about the "science stuff" so they don't really care if it is Fourier series or quantum cleaning of dirty electrons, since they don't listen anyway. As long as it sounds scientific, it is scientific, for all they care. And of course I must be lying to them because I am only their friend while the guy who just sold them a wooden potentiometer knob for $500 must be an expert, because otherwise he wouldn't have a job selling expensive equipment, right? Here the cognitive dissonance kicks in: "I am not a sucker, but I have just bought an ugly wooden knob for $500, therefore people who say that buying ugly wooden knobs for $500 is dumb must be mistaken."
Now, when they say that it was an "expert" in the audiophile store who has told them--or the "expert" in the Stereophile Magazine who has written--what they are telling you about, what they need here is a good ipse dixit and argumentum ad populum, for they won't listen to any other argument at all.
At that point, I usually shout at them: "Does Deutsche Grammophon use this junk to 'purify' their music while they record it? No? Then why on Earth do you think I need it to listen?! Now, will you excuse me, I need to drink my snake oil," and I leave in furious anger. Later when I talk to them, they sometimes ask me: "Are you serious that the record industry don't use such cables? Why?" To which I answer: "Because they are not bloody idiots, that's why! Do you need to spend millions on sound equipment? Then go to the recording studio, see what they use, and buy the same stuff. You will still be a sucker to buy something that you don't need, but at least you will have something that actually works."
It is surprisingly difficult to explain the truth to anyone who have bought audiophile lacquer or the wine clip, but it is still nothing compared to e.g. homeopathy or any other quackery when we are talking about peoples' health and lives, not just some useless junk. People will just not accept that they are suckers. Remember this story?
Indeed what their sayin is true. U can learn English very well, especially grammer readin/. frist psots. Teh intarweb seems to certainly kick arse for that sorta research. Very 1337 articel. Thx d00dz.
I have just read the above and I must admit it: I am teh lame, amn't I?
That's amazing. Years ago kids at school used to call me a robot-playing sucker, and now I'm building my own soccer-playing robot. Who's laughing now? Losers!
Ha haa, you robot-playing sucker!
Seriously, I have no idea why the grandparent post is not Score:5, Funny yet.
Indeed what their sayin is true. U can learn English very well, especially grammer readin/. frist psots. Teh intarweb seems to certainly kick arse for that sorta research. Very 1337 articel. Thx d00dz.
That's amazing. Years ago kids at school used to call me a robot-playing sucker, and now I'm building my own soccer-playing robot. Who's laughing now? Losers!
It was basically this idea but in a fancier, higher-tech looking package, and more expensive.
"Sharpen razors overnight with a patented proprietary magnetic field. After each shave simply place the blade edge on the Razor-Mate. Razor blades are reported to last up to ten times longer, and give a smoother, closer shave." Looks impressive, but I only use free magnetic fields and I am strongly against field patents.
Don't forget to use the www.spreadfirefox.com links every time you refrence someone to download Firefox to increase the counter. Also, never let anyone use IE User-Agent when they are using Firefox, because using counterfeited User-Agent unfairly skews the statistics to the side of Microsoft, and we all know that this is a two-handed sword.
Isn't conspiracy to steal copyrighted materials also a crime?
Psst, I know where to get some Debian isos, copyrighted Debian isos, want to download them?
Yes, please send them to me by email. It reminds me my surprise when I wanted to make a full Debian mirror on my new webserver only to find out that I couldn't fit nearly enough disks in my server to hold Debian. Just for the record, here are the ISOs torrents for the current stable version of Debian:
$1,200.00 is not that much for a high quality digital cable, but notice the arrows on the pictures. They indicate the direction in which the sound should flow. Of course it works best with quantum sound purifiers which strips electronic noise from individual electrons. When you are at it, don't forget to buy your tuning dots: "Marigo's VTS Tuning Dots have been one of the most effective and dramatic steps I have taken to improve my system's performance. The improvements were not sublte. They brought great transparency without losing musicality. Clarity, dynamics, inner detail, midrange bloom, bass slam and articulation have such an improved sense of openness that they represent a major paradigm shift in resonance control." Yes, those are little round stickers in various sizes that cost between $5 and $20 a piece, that you should stick to every single piece of equipment and flat surface in your listening room. It is not surprising that when James Randi offers them a million dollars
if they can demonstrate that it works in a simple double-blind test (search the commentary archive for audiophile) they don't want it--if I was selling stones and sticks for thousands, I wouldn't want that laughable million either.
As I have already said countless times on such occasions, now astrologers, psychics and other quacks are going to force their supersticious, geocentric, pseudoscientific, religious, flat earth, stupid mambo jumbo upon us, because those solar storms must surely have an influence on people. At least there will be something interesting to read on Randi.org, I guess.
I'm sure that the guys who are selling audiophile
lacquer for $200/oZ and wooden potentiometer knobs for $500 a piece will have a much more amazing explanation involving quantum audiodynamic subparticle field wavetransformation theory, that not only makes your audio equipment sound more open and free flowing with a nice improvement in resolution, better dynamics and improved overall naturalness, but also improves the taste of wine making it older in a matter of seconds (a widely known property of magnets), but I--a boring scientist--will only tell you this: they bounce.
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Funny. I remember saying 'once' to an American thrice. He thought I was stammering.
When I want people to have problems with my pictures, I simply wear clothes with the EURion constellation printed on them. If I want to have a blured face, I wear a hat, sun glasses and a fake beard. This story is a stupid article about a dumb idea to idioticly solve a simple problem, in a pathetic way that will work much worse than all of the other solutions combined. It's essentially: "Buy this great technology to screw people with our cameras! And by the way, buy this great camera... It has a great feature, it won't allow you to photograph some people." No, thanks. my "Lumberjack Beard" from the local toy store works just fine, thank you very much. This story might be used as a prime example of an argument against patents on technology. What an unbelievably stupid idea.
Why should I be paranoid? After all, doesn't everyone have my best interests at heart?
No.
Linux? Kids these days... Capabilities is a feature from the 1970s. If Coyotos is anything like EROS or KeyKOS, then they don't mean POSIX "capabilities" but real capabilities as described in 1975 by Jerome Saltzer and Michael Schroeder in the famous The Protection of Information in Computer Systems paper: "Capability--In a computer system, an unforgeable ticket, which when presented can be taken as incontestable proof that the presenter is authorized to have access to the object named in the ticket." For an excellent introduction to capabilities, read What is a Capability, Anyway? by Jonathan Shapiro. Then read the Capability Theory by Sound Bytes essays by Norman Hardy for more informations. Those papers are classics, just like Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson. It's a must-read for anyone who wants to have even the slightest idea about computer security at all.
Do they look like rock stars? No. More like 1980s rap stars. Who looks like rock stars then? Kernel hackers. OS hackers look like church music stars and hacker anthropologists look like movie stars. As you see, all of the hackers look like stars, but only kernel hackers look like rock stars, except those who look like sport stars. If you have any other "Ask Slashdot" questions, you know where to find me.
The hippies are the missing link? I knew it!
Are you seriously suggesting that anyone would comment an article without reading it when it is 250 pages? I hope those lazy slashdotters would read at least 50 pages. (By the way, please let me introduce myself. I am new here.)
First of all, the parent first post would be +5, Funny if it was "First post turns to Linux." Second of all, why this story is not on the front page? This is a very important news. Does the Slashdot editors think that the Czech Post is less important than Munich with its weekly front page news? Hint: "Czech Post is the second largest employer in the Czech Republic with nearly 3,400 post offices and 40,000 employees." Don't the editors read even the first line of the stories they submit?
I am sure that none of us would want to hear any jitter that sounds like ass--i.e. like this--but that doesn't mean that any of us would buy a $1900.00 USB cable. Also, the USB power is strong enough to power the iGrill (which is great, by the way, because now I don't have to carry around the bulky Zero-Point generator while I'm hunting when I have a laptop anyway), so we also don't have to worry about the power line impedance so much, unless we use kilometres long USB cables, which is not so popular as it used to be with null modems any more, since we have an easy access to the Interweb.
Now seriously, I have noticed that people usually stop listening when I start talking about the "science stuff" so they don't really care if it is Fourier series or quantum cleaning of dirty electrons, since they don't listen anyway. As long as it sounds scientific, it is scientific, for all they care. And of course I must be lying to them because I am only their friend while the guy who just sold them a wooden potentiometer knob for $500 must be an expert, because otherwise he wouldn't have a job selling expensive equipment, right? Here the cognitive dissonance kicks in: "I am not a sucker, but I have just bought an ugly wooden knob for $500, therefore people who say that buying ugly wooden knobs for $500 is dumb must be mistaken."
Now, when they say that it was an "expert" in the audiophile store who has told them--or the "expert" in the Stereophile Magazine who has written--what they are telling you about, what they need here is a good ipse dixit and argumentum ad populum, for they won't listen to any other argument at all.
At that point, I usually shout at them: "Does Deutsche Grammophon use this junk to 'purify' their music while they record it? No? Then why on Earth do you think I need it to listen?! Now, will you excuse me, I need to drink my snake oil," and I leave in furious anger. Later when I talk to them, they sometimes ask me: "Are you serious that the record industry don't use such cables? Why?" To which I answer: "Because they are not bloody idiots, that's why! Do you need to spend millions on sound equipment? Then go to the recording studio, see what they use, and buy the same stuff. You will still be a sucker to buy something that you don't need, but at least you will have something that actually works."
It is surprisingly difficult to explain the truth to anyone who have bought audiophile lacquer or the wine clip, but it is still nothing compared to e.g. homeopathy or any other quackery when we are talking about peoples' health and lives, not just some useless junk. People will just not accept that they are suckers. Remember this story?
I have just read the above and I must admit it: I am teh lame, amn't I?
Seriously, I have no idea why the grandparent post is not Score:5, Funny yet.
Indeed what their sayin is true. U can learn English very well, especially grammer readin /. frist psots. Teh intarweb seems to certainly kick arse for that sorta research. Very 1337 articel. Thx d00dz.
That's amazing. Years ago kids at school used to call me a robot-playing sucker, and now I'm building my own soccer-playing robot. Who's laughing now? Losers!
"Sharpen razors overnight with a patented proprietary magnetic field. After each shave simply place the blade edge on the Razor-Mate. Razor blades are reported to last up to ten times longer, and give a smoother, closer shave." Looks impressive, but I only use free magnetic fields and I am strongly against field patents.
I don't remember...
There's a lot of them. It's like an entire cluster of movies.
Yeah, just imagine it!
Don't forget to use the www.spreadfirefox.com links every time you refrence someone to download Firefox to increase the counter. Also, never let anyone use IE User-Agent when they are using Firefox, because using counterfeited User-Agent unfairly skews the statistics to the side of Microsoft, and we all know that this is a two-handed sword.
Yes, please send them to me by email. It reminds me my surprise when I wanted to make a full Debian mirror on my new webserver only to find out that I couldn't fit nearly enough disks in my server to hold Debian. Just for the record, here are the ISOs torrents for the current stable version of Debian:
$1,200.00 is not that much for a high quality digital cable, but notice the arrows on the pictures. They indicate the direction in which the sound should flow. Of course it works best with quantum sound purifiers which strips electronic noise from individual electrons. When you are at it, don't forget to buy your tuning dots: "Marigo's VTS Tuning Dots have been one of the most effective and dramatic steps I have taken to improve my system's performance. The improvements were not sublte. They brought great transparency without losing musicality. Clarity, dynamics, inner detail, midrange bloom, bass slam and articulation have such an improved sense of openness that they represent a major paradigm shift in resonance control." Yes, those are little round stickers in various sizes that cost between $5 and $20 a piece, that you should stick to every single piece of equipment and flat surface in your listening room. It is not surprising that when James Randi offers them a million dollars if they can demonstrate that it works in a simple double-blind test (search the commentary archive for audiophile) they don't want it--if I was selling stones and sticks for thousands, I wouldn't want that laughable million either.
You mean the printed circuit boards? Good point.
See also: iPod Shuffle Deconstructed.
No. And you are also not the only one if you read the story and thought "great, another IIS vulnerability."
As I have already said countless times on such occasions, now astrologers, psychics and other quacks are going to force their supersticious, geocentric, pseudoscientific, religious, flat earth, stupid mambo jumbo upon us, because those solar storms must surely have an influence on people. At least there will be something interesting to read on Randi.org, I guess.
I'm sure that the guys who are selling audiophile lacquer for $200/oZ and wooden potentiometer knobs for $500 a piece will have a much more amazing explanation involving quantum audiodynamic subparticle field wavetransformation theory, that not only makes your audio equipment sound more open and free flowing with a nice improvement in resolution, better dynamics and improved overall naturalness, but also improves the taste of wine making it older in a matter of seconds (a widely known property of magnets), but I--a boring scientist--will only tell you this: they bounce.