Personally, I favor Timothy Leary's pronouns: "sHe" and "hir". Yeah, it looks silly, but no worse than the rest of the English laguage. (Your link is down, so I can't comment on the Spivak Pronouns.)
An un-routable packet won't go "nowhere", it'll go to your router - since only the router can decide if the packet is un-routable. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) So you're still wasting bandwidth for the sake of a file that you DON'T want. If you're running your own router, this won't be a BIG problem, but it's still not the optimal solution. Wouldn't it be better to use a software firewall to drop all outgoing connections to certain hosts?
Microsoft was not the first to either invent or implement the start menu, the integrated file system / net browser, or the safety-checked bytecode-based API. In fact with all of these they were literally years and years behind other commercially successful implementations.
That might be true, but lately I'm actually starting to see some signs of innovation and creative thinking coming from MS. The new "pop-up blocking" technology in Internet Explorer is a very good example.
Yeah, so did I. (Not this edition - this was a few years ago.) I was applying for a job that required "knowledge of Linux" - which I didn't have at the time. I called the geekiest one of all my friends and asked him for advice; he told me to get "Linux for Dummies". And it turned out to be exactly what I needed. No, I didn't get the job, but I did learn the basics of using Linux, and got a sufficient foundation to start learning more on my own.
I've seen plenty of MS ads here, and I use Safari most of the time. We can talk about the finer points of browser detection, but I suspect that the OSDN ad server is just sending those things my way because it can tell I'm not cool enough.
I never saw the show, but the article was overall pretty insipid - the author doesn't understand the nature of either cooking or science. Take this paragraph:
Brown's hyperrational approach defies conventional wisdom about food preparation. Cooks typically regard their culinary traditions as gospel, whether they learned them at the Sorbonne or from their great aunt Sibby. Tampering with recipes only leads to trouble.
All the serious cooks I've ever met (I've been cooking professionally for several years, by the way) tamper with recipes every day. That's what serious cooks DO. Who wants to have a "perfect" chocolate mousse if it's indistinguishable from the one they're serving across the street? (Although chefs HAVE been known to get offended if I mess with their old family recipies.)
By the way, the Sorbonne is a liberal arts university - just because they're French doesn't mean they teach cooking.
The "art or science" question misses the point. Cooking is a synthesis of technical knowledge and aesthetic knowledge. The two are mutually dependent - if you ignore the first one, your food will be ruined half the time, if you ignore the second one, you'll wind up with mass-produced McFood.
While we're at it, I should be able to get a few like-minded friends together and fork my own democracy. The one we have now is just too buggy and resource-hungry.
1. Yes, you SHOULD be that paranoid, unless you don't care if people steal elections.
2. There have been various schemes proposed to guarantee the integrity of the code - basically, a super-secure source control system to keep people from making unauthorized changes, and an independent auditing body that oversees development, tests for bugs, and supervises the installation of the software, then seals the boxes. The idea being to have multiple, redundant levels of oversight for EVERY step of the process, and to keep that oversight transparent to the public.
Doing it right will take a bit of work, but it's definitely possible. It'll never be 100% secure, but way more secure than just handing Diebold a check and trusting them to act professionally.
Evidence? You mean like this? But I guess the Boston Globe isn't on your list of approved news sources, so it doesn't count.
9/18/2003
WASHINGTON -- President Bush said yesterday that the US government has no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, thereby undermining a claim that a majority of Americans believe is true. [...]
I would love to buy such a gadget and accompanying software to train myself into a wine connoisseaur - without having to open a single bottle of wine.
What the hell's the point of being a wine connoisseur if you don't like to drink wine? Are you just one of those pretentious assholes who talk about wine to make themselves look "cultured"?
Why does a worm need root access? A process running as a regular user can still open a TCP connection, right? Which is all a worm needs in order to spread. It won't be able to do quite as much damage to the host machine, but it can still play hell with the network.
Haven't seen this one up close, but I'm guessing that the bulk of the program is indeed pure Java, with a thin wrapper around it to better integrate into the host environment. Most desktop Java apps are packaged that way. And that's not really a shortcoming of Java, it just reflects the fact that all the different environments have slightly incompatible designs.
A lot of small town newspapers in the US publish a short column of who was arrested last night and for what. (Not in the big cities, though - there wouldn't be enough room.) They're definitely not required to do it - it's just a part of reporting the local news.
Arrest records SHOULD be public information; otherwise the cops can just make you disappear with no paper trail showing where you went.
Few years ago, my parents got a subscription to a European newspaper. For the first couple of months, the papers would come pretty irregularly, and they'd take even longer than regular overseas mail. Then I noticed that the mailing labels on the papers only contained our last name, the name of our town, and "USA". The fact that they got delivered at all is definitely a testament to the USPS. (Though come to think of it, it may have been cheaper for them to look up the address than to send the stuff back.)
they can go to congress to get more funding whenever they want.
Where did you get that impression? I thought that the USPS was entirely self-funded.
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Trying not to troll here, but this document is not that news-worthy, is it?
I don't think you're trolling, just wrong. The article is a direct rebuttal of the Brown Book by one of Brown's primary sources. I'd call that pretty newsworthy.
If a manager 'falls for' (lets assume the Ken Brown book is purely Microsoft Marketing driven) the arguments of the book, he's probably not of the sort to go look for Andrew Tanenbaum's site.
So what? If you know any people like that, send them a copy of the article. A lot of managers aren't up on all the technical details of modern kernel design, because they're too busy managing. It's up to the geeks to advise them.
require all documents be written in fixed-width fonts
That's no solution at all. You can still determine the word based on the context and the character count. It's just that the pool of possible solutions will be a little bigger.
There's a story like that in Stanislaw Lem's "Cyberiad". Might be the one you're thinking of. Basically, one character sends messages to another one; the messages are intentionally trite, with no hidden meaning whatsoever, but everyone thinks that it's a fiendishly complicated cypher. In the end, it turns out that the only purpose of the messages was to discredit the recipient in the eyes of his paranoid master, who, unable to discern the "secret", simply assumes the worst.
Actually, you might be better off putting the safe on the front porch. As long as you anchor it properly, so the thieves can't just carry it away. If you had to crack a safe, would you rather do it in the privacy of a windowless basement, or out on the porch where any passerby can see you?
You speak the truth, sir. From what I've seen, most cliff-related accidents are caused by either sheer stupidity, or drunkenness, or both. (A friend of mine fell some 50 feet due to a combination of beer, acid and not having a flashlight... He got off easy - a broken finger and a mild concussion.) It's not that I don't feel any pity for those fools, it's just that I don't think a warning sign would help them.
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Personally, I favor Timothy Leary's pronouns: "sHe" and "hir". Yeah, it looks silly, but no worse than the rest of the English laguage. (Your link is down, so I can't comment on the Spivak Pronouns.)
An un-routable packet won't go "nowhere", it'll go to your router - since only the router can decide if the packet is un-routable. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) So you're still wasting bandwidth for the sake of a file that you DON'T want. If you're running your own router, this won't be a BIG problem, but it's still not the optimal solution. Wouldn't it be better to use a software firewall to drop all outgoing connections to certain hosts?
Microsoft was not the first to either invent or implement the start menu, the integrated file system / net browser, or the safety-checked bytecode-based API. In fact with all of these they were literally years and years behind other commercially successful implementations.
That might be true, but lately I'm actually starting to see some signs of innovation and creative thinking coming from MS. The new "pop-up blocking" technology in Internet Explorer is a very good example.
Yeah, so did I. (Not this edition - this was a few years ago.) I was applying for a job that required "knowledge of Linux" - which I didn't have at the time. I called the geekiest one of all my friends and asked him for advice; he told me to get "Linux for Dummies". And it turned out to be exactly what I needed. No, I didn't get the job, but I did learn the basics of using Linux, and got a sufficient foundation to start learning more on my own.
any dummy who shells 90$ for a hardcopy
RTFA - it's $30.
I've seen plenty of MS ads here, and I use Safari most of the time. We can talk about the finer points of browser detection, but I suspect that the OSDN ad server is just sending those things my way because it can tell I'm not cool enough.
I never saw the show, but the article was overall pretty insipid - the author doesn't understand the nature of either cooking or science. Take this paragraph:
Brown's hyperrational approach defies conventional wisdom about food preparation. Cooks typically regard their culinary traditions as gospel, whether they learned them at the Sorbonne or from their great aunt Sibby. Tampering with recipes only leads to trouble.
All the serious cooks I've ever met (I've been cooking professionally for several years, by the way) tamper with recipes every day. That's what serious cooks DO. Who wants to have a "perfect" chocolate mousse if it's indistinguishable from the one they're serving across the street? (Although chefs HAVE been known to get offended if I mess with their old family recipies.)
By the way, the Sorbonne is a liberal arts university - just because they're French doesn't mean they teach cooking.
The "art or science" question misses the point. Cooking is a synthesis of technical knowledge and aesthetic knowledge. The two are mutually dependent - if you ignore the first one, your food will be ruined half the time, if you ignore the second one, you'll wind up with mass-produced McFood.
An interesting view. I've always thought that the OSS model is closer to Anarchy than Socialism.
(Hint: don't throw either of those words around when you're trying to sell Linux to MBAs. They find them alarming.)
when does American democracy get a bugzilla page?
While we're at it, I should be able to get a few like-minded friends together and fork my own democracy. The one we have now is just too buggy and resource-hungry.
1. Yes, you SHOULD be that paranoid, unless you don't care if people steal elections.
2. There have been various schemes proposed to guarantee the integrity of the code - basically, a super-secure source control system to keep people from making unauthorized changes, and an independent auditing body that oversees development, tests for bugs, and supervises the installation of the software, then seals the boxes. The idea being to have multiple, redundant levels of oversight for EVERY step of the process, and to keep that oversight transparent to the public.
Doing it right will take a bit of work, but it's definitely possible. It'll never be 100% secure, but way more secure than just handing Diebold a check and trusting them to act professionally.
Evidence? You mean like this? But I guess the Boston Globe isn't on your list of approved news sources, so it doesn't count.
9/18/2003
WASHINGTON -- President Bush said yesterday that the US government has no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, thereby undermining a claim that a majority of Americans believe is true. [...]
I would love to buy such a gadget and accompanying software to train myself into a wine connoisseaur - without having to open a single bottle of wine.
What the hell's the point of being a wine connoisseur if you don't like to drink wine? Are you just one of those pretentious assholes who talk about wine to make themselves look "cultured"?
Why does a worm need root access? A process running as a regular user can still open a TCP connection, right? Which is all a worm needs in order to spread. It won't be able to do quite as much damage to the host machine, but it can still play hell with the network.
Haven't seen this one up close, but I'm guessing that the bulk of the program is indeed pure Java, with a thin wrapper around it to better integrate into the host environment. Most desktop Java apps are packaged that way. And that's not really a shortcoming of Java, it just reflects the fact that all the different environments have slightly incompatible designs.
A lot of small town newspapers in the US publish a short column of who was arrested last night and for what. (Not in the big cities, though - there wouldn't be enough room.) They're definitely not required to do it - it's just a part of reporting the local news.
Arrest records SHOULD be public information; otherwise the cops can just make you disappear with no paper trail showing where you went.
Few years ago, my parents got a subscription to a European newspaper. For the first couple of months, the papers would come pretty irregularly, and they'd take even longer than regular overseas mail. Then I noticed that the mailing labels on the papers only contained our last name, the name of our town, and "USA". The fact that they got delivered at all is definitely a testament to the USPS. (Though come to think of it, it may have been cheaper for them to look up the address than to send the stuff back.)
they can go to congress to get more funding whenever they want.
Where did you get that impression? I thought that the USPS was entirely self-funded.
Trying not to troll here, but this document is not that news-worthy, is it?
I don't think you're trolling, just wrong. The article is a direct rebuttal of the Brown Book by one of Brown's primary sources. I'd call that pretty newsworthy.
If a manager 'falls for' (lets assume the Ken Brown book is purely Microsoft Marketing driven) the arguments of the book, he's probably not of the sort to go look for Andrew Tanenbaum's site.
So what? If you know any people like that, send them a copy of the article. A lot of managers aren't up on all the technical details of modern kernel design, because they're too busy managing. It's up to the geeks to advise them.
require all documents be written in fixed-width fonts
That's no solution at all. You can still determine the word based on the context and the character count. It's just that the pool of possible solutions will be a little bigger.
There's a story like that in Stanislaw Lem's "Cyberiad". Might be the one you're thinking of. Basically, one character sends messages to another one; the messages are intentionally trite, with no hidden meaning whatsoever, but everyone thinks that it's a fiendishly complicated cypher. In the end, it turns out that the only purpose of the messages was to discredit the recipient in the eyes of his paranoid master, who, unable to discern the "secret", simply assumes the worst.
Then they'd just kick you in the balls instead.
DUDE
They kept saying they believe in nothing.
WALTER
Nihilists! Jesus. Say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
starting to understand that all this grand standing is bad for business.
What business?
Actually, you might be better off putting the safe on the front porch. As long as you anchor it properly, so the thieves can't just carry it away. If you had to crack a safe, would you rather do it in the privacy of a windowless basement, or out on the porch where any passerby can see you?
You speak the truth, sir. From what I've seen, most cliff-related accidents are caused by either sheer stupidity, or drunkenness, or both. (A friend of mine fell some 50 feet due to a combination of beer, acid and not having a flashlight... He got off easy - a broken finger and a mild concussion.) It's not that I don't feel any pity for those fools, it's just that I don't think a warning sign would help them.