is using Slashdot as his personal political advertising board. Sims is a hardcore communist, and Dean is the only semi-communist contender with a chance of actually winning. Therefore, Sims has decided that Dean will be the next President, and is using every bit of power he has to see that occur.
This is not News for Nerds. This is not even Stuff that Matters. This is Sims taking even more license of his position as "editor". I highly suggest that Slashdot stop posting editorials and get back to posting real news.
I'm only trying to establish how this is remotely worthy of inclusion in this forum.
Posted by michael on Thursday December 11, @02:21AM
The Americans are being "mean". In this particular editor's mind, the United States == imperialist capitalist evil incarnate, so any article which casts the US or its citizens in a bad light puts the man a few more inches up on his high horse.
A pirate has come to mean something too cuddly and innocuous. In fact, the loose use of the term to describe otherwise ordinary people engaging in distribution of material copyrighted by others has done much to diminish the proud tradition of "pirate".
From now on, all official BSA pronouncements will obide by a new naming scheme. Opponents of BSA will be referred to as "digital terrorists", "hackers", and "pedophiles", preferably in the same sentence
Why this is useful
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Javascrypt
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I see a lot of posts here wondcering how this is useful and why not just use PGP.
I can't imagine people really trust PGP anymore. No longer open source, no longer affiliated with Phil Zimmerman... and his statement when he left was scary.
For those who don't know, Phil stated when he left that every PGP product released while he was there contained no hidden back doors. Knowing that companies like PGP were being pressured, it makes me think the creative differences were them wanting to build something in that he thought shouldn't be in.
Re:Petition to remove Michael
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Javascrypt
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· Score: -1, Offtopic
20 years and a little analogy to biology
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20 Years of Virii
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Put enough people into a system and it starts to behave like an organic system rather than individuals each doing their thing.
Viruses, worms, trojans are way past the point of being expressions of individualistic derangement.
They represent the nasty side of the biology of the Net: the fact that any simulated or real ecosystem produces more parasites than non-parasites, and that non-parasites have to spend a significant amount of energy fighting off the bugs.
Two decades is not significant in itself, but it should be a stark warning that viruses are not going to go away, that the Net is turning "wild", and that we need something other than daily antivirus updates to keep our systems safe.
Pamela Jones, the proprietor of Groklaw, suggests Linus Torvalds would have a great case for defamation as a result of this letter
The article:
Now that Linus has a lawyer, maybe they'll take note and consider if the necessary elements for an action for defamation are now available. They are hard cases to win, particularly for a public figure, so they may not want to go that route
The requirements to file a suit? Yes. A "great case"? Hell no.
What I want in 2004 . . .
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Linux in 2004?
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· Score: 4, Insightful
I think there needs to be more unification and simplification over the way things are installed in , not only Linux, but the BSDs as well.
I think everyone agrees that rpms suck. Most of the good code comes in source tarballs - configurable for any *nix... but this is where the user experience falls apart. What person is going to want to dig out the command line to compile source code, and will he or she know about all the ocnfigure options... and then, will there be dependency issues (or should the source contain the dependencies too?). Then there are the legal issues of bundling dependancies... and then there will be future commercial Linux apps which won't want to include source code.
In an ideal world, packaged installs will be a compressed single file, containing all source code, configurable on any *nix like normal source code EXCEPT that now there's a graphical interface so that setting compile options, creating desktop shortcuts, and "Make clean, make install, make uninstall" now all work under X with a point-and-click.
PLEASE! Will someone serious about standardizing Linux installs do something about this... or desktop Linux will never take off.
1. What is wrong with this class heirarchy? Fix the problem ( destructors should be virtual, the wrong type of delete is being used, the copy constructor is using an unsafe cast )
2. Implement a small application that accepts a string from stdin and outputs the five most frequent characters in the string.
I've been in the market for a good developer for over half a year now. As part of the standard interviewing process, I give the applicant my laptop, with a series of programming problems that should take no more than 15 minutes to solve.
Without exception, everybody fails or takes WAY too long to solve. This, in my mind, is a sign of incompetence, the reason of which I still have not filled the position.
The vast majority of the applicants got their BS in CS or CSE because they thought it would be a good way to make money; very few of the applicants have been truly passionate about technology, and those that were, were incompetent.
For all of you who bitch and complain about how hard it is to find a job, perhaps you ought to sharpen your skillset and seek out the employers who will appreciate it. And for those who got into computing because you heard that there was good money in it, but you'd rather be out windsurfing, get out of computing, get a job windsurfing, and leave room in the market for those who actually have skills, so resume reviewers don't have to waste time with you.
This is not Firefly, this is not Farscape, this is not Star Trek. As far as I'm able to tell, it is a short-lived cartoon that I nobody I know had heard about until today.
Could someone please explain to me how this possibly qualifies as important enough to make the front page of Slashdot ?
Santa Cruz Operation, Orem UT Chief Financial Officer
Looking for someone willing to completely ignore the Sarbanes-Oxley Securities Act( total ignorance of this legislation a plus! )and sign off on dubious financial reports. Experience with Enron, WorldCom, or Tyco preferred.
Education Requirements: 1.0 GPA or lower in Corporate Ethics
The Cornyn-Feinstein bill also creates another federal felony, punishable by up to five years in prison, for using "an audiovisual recording device" in a movie theater to make a copy of a film and boosts civil penalties available to MPAA member companies when suing over prerelease movies placed on the Internet.
This is truly astonishing, and to my knowledge, unprecedented. Note that all cases of prohibition of cameras, tape recorders, MD recorders, etc from concerts, variety shows, etc, have ALWAYS been civil matters; rules set and enforced by the persons or companies doing the entertaining.
This is the first instance I can think of where this type of activity has crossd over from civil to criminal jurisdiction. The only possible good that can come out of this is that a conviction will require unanimous guilty verdict from a jury, whereas civil cases are decided by judicial fiat or a majority of the jury.
Why do the feds have such a hard time connecting the dots on cases like this?
If you were a publically-funded bureuacrat, mooching off the taxpayers' teat, having virtually no accountability to anything, and having your power and salary linked closely with the size of your department, and you had two options:
A. Manage a fully competent operation, maximize efficiencies, and report that you're doing so well that you can do the job with an even lower budget next year.
B. Bungle up every possible part of your operation, breed and encourange inefficiency, and report that you need a 50% budget increase next year to keep up with the horrendous workload.
Slashdot Mirror
This may just end up being a fizzle
Fo shizzle, my nizzle.
is using Slashdot as his personal political advertising board. Sims is a hardcore communist, and Dean is the only semi-communist contender with a chance of actually winning. Therefore, Sims has decided that Dean will be the next President, and is using every bit of power he has to see that occur.
This is not News for Nerds. This is not even Stuff that Matters. This is Sims taking even more license of his position as "editor". I highly suggest that Slashdot stop posting editorials and get back to posting real news.
I'm only trying to establish how this is remotely worthy of inclusion in this forum.
Posted by michael on Thursday December 11, @02:21AM
The Americans are being "mean". In this particular editor's mind, the United States == imperialist capitalist evil incarnate, so any article which casts the US or its citizens in a bad light puts the man a few more inches up on his high horse.
A pirate has come to mean something too cuddly and innocuous. In fact, the loose use of the term to describe otherwise ordinary people engaging in distribution of material copyrighted by others has done much to diminish the proud tradition of "pirate".
From now on, all official BSA pronouncements will obide by a new naming scheme. Opponents of BSA will be referred to as "digital terrorists", "hackers", and "pedophiles", preferably in the same sentence
I see a lot of posts here wondcering how this is useful and why not just use PGP.
I can't imagine people really trust PGP anymore. No longer open source, no longer affiliated with Phil Zimmerman... and his statement when he left was scary.
For those who don't know, Phil stated when he left that every PGP product released while he was there contained no hidden back doors. Knowing that companies like PGP were being pressured, it makes me think the creative differences were them wanting to build something in that he thought shouldn't be in.
"I"
he decided to spruce it up a bit
That's nothing. Check out this spruced-up case mod.
Put enough people into a system and it starts to behave like an organic system rather than individuals each doing their thing.
Viruses, worms, trojans are way past the point of being expressions of individualistic derangement.
They represent the nasty side of the biology of the Net: the fact that any simulated or real ecosystem produces more parasites than non-parasites, and that non-parasites have to spend a significant amount of energy fighting off the bugs.
Two decades is not significant in itself, but it should be a stark warning that viruses are not going to go away, that the Net is turning "wild", and that we need something other than daily antivirus updates to keep our systems safe.
The submitter:
Pamela Jones, the proprietor of Groklaw, suggests Linus Torvalds would have a great case for defamation as a result of this letter
The article:
Now that Linus has a lawyer, maybe they'll take note and consider if the necessary elements for an action for defamation are now available. They are hard cases to win, particularly for a public figure, so they may not want to go that route
The requirements to file a suit? Yes. A "great case"? Hell no.
I think there needs to be more unification and simplification over the way things are installed in , not only Linux, but the BSDs as well.
I think everyone agrees that rpms suck. Most of the good code comes in source tarballs - configurable for any *nix... but this is where the user experience falls apart. What person is going to want to dig out the command line to compile source code, and will he or she know about all the ocnfigure options... and then, will there be dependency issues (or should the source contain the dependencies too?). Then there are the legal issues of bundling dependancies... and then there will be future commercial Linux apps which won't want to include source code.
In an ideal world, packaged installs will be a compressed single file, containing all source code, configurable on any *nix like normal source code EXCEPT that now there's a graphical interface so that setting compile options, creating desktop shortcuts, and "Make clean, make install, make uninstall" now all work under X with a point-and-click.
PLEASE! Will someone serious about standardizing Linux installs do something about this... or desktop Linux will never take off.
I was really starting to miss your witty editorial commentary.
I think I speak for everyone here when I say "welcome back!"
I know, don't feed the trolls.
Those are C++ problems
Yeah, that's odd, considering the position makes heavy use of C++.
concerning the minutae of a programming language
The second problem is a general problem-solving capability test that has nothing to do with languages, but you knew that already, didn't you?
1. What is wrong with this class heirarchy? Fix the problem ( destructors should be virtual, the wrong type of delete is being used, the copy constructor is using an unsafe cast )
2. Implement a small application that accepts a string from stdin and outputs the five most frequent characters in the string.
I've been in the market for a good developer for over half a year now. As part of the standard interviewing process, I give the applicant my laptop, with a series of programming problems that should take no more than 15 minutes to solve.
Without exception, everybody fails or takes WAY too long to solve. This, in my mind, is a sign of incompetence, the reason of which I still have not filled the position.
The vast majority of the applicants got their BS in CS or CSE because they thought it would be a good way to make money; very few of the applicants have been truly passionate about technology, and those that were, were incompetent.
For all of you who bitch and complain about how hard it is to find a job, perhaps you ought to sharpen your skillset and seek out the employers who will appreciate it. And for those who got into computing because you heard that there was good money in it, but you'd rather be out windsurfing, get out of computing, get a job windsurfing, and leave room in the market for those who actually have skills, so resume reviewers don't have to waste time with you.
This is not Firefly, this is not Farscape, this is not Star Trek. As far as I'm able to tell, it is a short-lived cartoon that I nobody I know had heard about until today.
Could someone please explain to me how this possibly qualifies as important enough to make the front page of Slashdot ?
Gates and Steve Ballmer as Morpheus and Neo respectively
Um, I thought Ballmer was the fat one.
I can much more easily picture Morpheus dancing around the Zion cave shouting "DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!" ad naseum, than Neo.
Sounds like they're really taking a big RISC.
When I first read the headline, I thought it was going to be about SCO's impotent battle against reality.
Santa Cruz Operation, Orem UT
Chief Financial Officer
Looking for someone willing to completely ignore the Sarbanes-Oxley Securities Act( total ignorance of this legislation a plus! )and sign off on dubious financial reports. Experience with Enron, WorldCom, or Tyco preferred.
Education Requirements: 1.0 GPA or lower in Corporate Ethics
From the article:
The Cornyn-Feinstein bill also creates another federal felony, punishable by up to five years in prison, for using "an audiovisual recording device" in a movie theater to make a copy of a film and boosts civil penalties available to MPAA member companies when suing over prerelease movies placed on the Internet.
This is truly astonishing, and to my knowledge, unprecedented. Note that all cases of prohibition of cameras, tape recorders, MD recorders, etc from concerts, variety shows, etc, have ALWAYS been civil matters; rules set and enforced by the persons or companies doing the entertaining.
This is the first instance I can think of where this type of activity has crossd over from civil to criminal jurisdiction. The only possible good that can come out of this is that a conviction will require unanimous guilty verdict from a jury, whereas civil cases are decided by judicial fiat or a majority of the jury.
What's the difference between Darl McBride and a mallard with a cold?
You don't have to answer, I'll do it for you:
One off them is a sick duck.
. . . SCO threatened to sue New Line Cinema over unlicensed depictions of their proprietary method of using evil to dominate the world.
Why do the feds have such a hard time connecting the dots on cases like this?
If you were a publically-funded bureuacrat, mooching off the taxpayers' teat, having virtually no accountability to anything, and having your power and salary linked closely with the size of your department, and you had two options:
A. Manage a fully competent operation, maximize efficiencies, and report that you're doing so well that you can do the job with an even lower budget next year.
B. Bungle up every possible part of your operation, breed and encourange inefficiency, and report that you need a 50% budget increase next year to keep up with the horrendous workload.
What would you choose?
And if you want to avoid fattening your brain...
...you should avoid developing Tay-Sachs disease.
Thank you, I'll be here all night.
because it was their forte.
Actually, no. This was their Forte
And if you actually got that, you're too much of a Sun geek.