The problem ultimately comes down to what one's definition of "random" is. Most people like to think of random like a deck of playing cards... you must go through each unique one before repeating a number a second time.
Personally I like what I call "dice random" where there IS the possibility that you can roll the same number an infinite amount of times in a row.
When discussions like this come up, this is the main point of argument because everyone has their own idea of what random really is. Let us focus on that, give them proper terms, then start these discussions over again.
I have no doubt that malware is likely for linux, but unlike Windows, you can't guarantee a compatible vector for every linux box. Read for instance the problems Google has had with Chromium porting to linux. They couldn't even expect a consistent thread API to be there, depending on whether you were a 2.4 kernel, a 2.6 kernel with pthreads, a 2.6 kernel with NPTL only, . The cost/benefit ratio is just not there for someone to put the time into this kind of attack vector. The code written would have to be bigger, more clever, and hit significantly less people than its Windows counterpart.
It is like the difference between a job that earns $6 per hour doing ditch digging or a job that earns $300 per half hour just to tell someone they are crazy.
Id like to comment on your bit about abstinence education. I don't think it is totally without merit... it just isn't effective as is. If you could give them the experience of working 50+ hours a week to come home to a screaming brat, and have your money earned already spent before you even get it, just to take care of the child, the population growth would fall real fast.
Sure, you can't really do this for so many obvious reasons, but it is the way people are being educated, not the education idea itself.
detailed research into the melting point of diamond found it behaves like water during melting and freezing -- with its solid form floating on the liquid
I only point this out because you would be surprised at how many human beings don't know this, but for it to float to the top, that means its frozen state is less dense, hence expands, when freezes. Almost nothing else does this.
Not really. With the multicore, gigabytes of ram type, systems becoming norm, think ThinApp + VMWare you can start having applications running in a completely disposable virtual machine and it would work just like a regular application, only it can't ACTUALLY access your system.
Not that it truly matters. There are roughly 27 states in which you can marry your FIRST cousin. To many, this seems "sick" because of the social implications it presents (100 years ago, you'd be fortunate to see some first cousins once or twice in your lifetime. Now it is common to see most of them several times a year, along with any other common relatives). However, you are genetically diverse enough from your first cousin that there are no genetic problems, other than sharing undesirable, recessive, genetic diseases.
These would be the same people that turned on "Allow unsigned ActiveX controls" and had a pirated version of windows, so they never got their ActiveX killbits information installed.
I'm not totally blaming the user, but most of the exploited folks are running unpatched, pirated windows versions with every option turned off just to make it "easier" to usw (say UAC)
FYI man, alright. You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!
Well, not a cure, per se, but Alzheimer's is (overlimplified), your brain falling apart like an asprin would in water. That would tell me that the brain tissue just doesnt have a base to grow cancer vary well. On the other hand, if you have a brain tumor, that suggests that its structurally solid and would hinder alzheimer's from startiig/doing well at all
Alternately, I have two 150+ super-awesome-featured DVD players that won't play some DVDs that my $27.99 walmart special will... as a matter of fact, I have yet to come across a disc that it won't play. Every other player I've owned/own, they had problem with at least one disc.
When the rumors started, I looked at the options chains for AAPL and saw that there was a large call to put ration meaning that the market was very bullish on AAPL - it also means that some folks are in fact trading on these "rumors" and making a few bucks on it.
If the word "trading" wasn't in there, I'd have thought you were just speaking some British/Australian slang descibing your night out drinking.
Indeed! Needs ultimately are products of wants. You need to eat because you want to live. You need a job because you want to be financially capable. You need beer because you want to tune the bitch out...
It's a database server. Since when has a "non-techie" needed one of those, let alone there is no sanity in letting a "non-techie" maintain a database server?
See, this is just a matter of weeding out the less fit. You don't say "I am going to kill you". You say something along the lines of "You are going to die". The first one is pretty clear on your intentions. The latter can be a "misunderstanding" when things like this happen:
"No sir. I had no intentions of killing this person. I was just stating fact that they were going to die. After all, we all are! There was just some miscommunication, that's all!"
At 5 feet, the helicopter wouldn't reach the impact speed of a 35 foot helicopter crash. It also may be the case that most crashes below 35 feet tend to be less serious... and anything past 35 feet is going to kill you regardles
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The problem ultimately comes down to what one's definition of "random" is. Most people like to think of random like a deck of playing cards... you must go through each unique one before repeating a number a second time.
Personally I like what I call "dice random" where there IS the possibility that you can roll the same number an infinite amount of times in a row.
When discussions like this come up, this is the main point of argument because everyone has their own idea of what random really is. Let us focus on that, give them proper terms, then start these discussions over again.
What about your wife?
Apparently someone never told you this great piece of advice:
Life isn't fair.
Imagine it! A dyson sphere of kudzu!!!
I have no doubt that malware is likely for linux, but unlike Windows, you can't guarantee a compatible vector for every linux box. Read for instance the problems Google has had with Chromium porting to linux. They couldn't even expect a consistent thread API to be there, depending on whether you were a 2.4 kernel, a 2.6 kernel with pthreads, a 2.6 kernel with NPTL only, . The cost/benefit ratio is just not there for someone to put the time into this kind of attack vector. The code written would have to be bigger, more clever, and hit significantly less people than its Windows counterpart.
It is like the difference between a job that earns $6 per hour doing ditch digging or a job that earns $300 per half hour just to tell someone they are crazy.
What does process id's have anything to do with this?
Id like to comment on your bit about abstinence education. I don't think it is totally without merit... it just isn't effective as is. If you could give them the experience of working 50+ hours a week to come home to a screaming brat, and have your money earned already spent before you even get it, just to take care of the child, the population growth would fall real fast.
Sure, you can't really do this for so many obvious reasons, but it is the way people are being educated, not the education idea itself.
detailed research into the melting point of diamond found it behaves like water during melting and freezing -- with its solid form floating on the liquid
I only point this out because you would be surprised at how many human beings don't know this, but for it to float to the top, that means its frozen state is less dense, hence expands, when freezes. Almost nothing else does this.
If there was one unanimously labelled "BEST" browser, everyone would be using it.
Wait... you aren't using Netscape 4.7?!
Not really. With the multicore, gigabytes of ram type, systems becoming norm, think ThinApp + VMWare you can start having applications running in a completely disposable virtual machine and it would work just like a regular application, only it can't ACTUALLY access your system.
Not that it truly matters. There are roughly 27 states in which you can marry your FIRST cousin. To many, this seems "sick" because of the social implications it presents (100 years ago, you'd be fortunate to see some first cousins once or twice in your lifetime. Now it is common to see most of them several times a year, along with any other common relatives). However, you are genetically diverse enough from your first cousin that there are no genetic problems, other than sharing undesirable, recessive, genetic diseases.
These would be the same people that turned on "Allow unsigned ActiveX controls" and had a pirated version of windows, so they never got their ActiveX killbits information installed.
I'm not totally blaming the user, but most of the exploited folks are running unpatched, pirated windows versions with every option turned off just to make it "easier" to usw (say UAC)
Why does it have to be linux? Use pfSense
FYI man, alright. You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!
Well, not a cure, per se, but Alzheimer's is (overlimplified), your brain falling apart like an asprin would in water. That would tell me that the brain tissue just doesnt have a base to grow cancer vary well. On the other hand, if you have a brain tumor, that suggests that its structurally solid and would hinder alzheimer's from startiig/doing well at all
So, anyone know any concrete numbers yet?
I don't have any concrete numbers, but I did just pick up this foam number one a few days ago...
Alternately, I have two 150+ super-awesome-featured DVD players that won't play some DVDs that my $27.99 walmart special will... as a matter of fact, I have yet to come across a disc that it won't play. Every other player I've owned/own, they had problem with at least one disc.
When the rumors started, I looked at the options chains for AAPL and saw that there was a large call to put ration meaning that the market was very bullish on AAPL - it also means that some folks are in fact trading on these "rumors" and making a few bucks on it.
If the word "trading" wasn't in there, I'd have thought you were just speaking some British/Australian slang descibing your night out drinking.
Someone might raise the concern that a car collision would lead to a devastating black hole
They are what we in the industry call "retarded"
Whoa there bucko. Sweden is next to France?!
Try ripping "Up!". Time to stop buying them.
Indeed! Needs ultimately are products of wants. You need to eat because you want to live. You need a job because you want to be financially capable. You need beer because you want to tune the bitch out...
It's a database server. Since when has a "non-techie" needed one of those, let alone there is no sanity in letting a "non-techie" maintain a database server?
See, this is just a matter of weeding out the less fit. You don't say "I am going to kill you". You say something along the lines of "You are going to die". The first one is pretty clear on your intentions. The latter can be a "misunderstanding" when things like this happen:
"No sir. I had no intentions of killing this person. I was just stating fact that they were going to die. After all, we all are! There was just some miscommunication, that's all!"
At 5 feet, the helicopter wouldn't reach the impact speed of a 35 foot helicopter crash. It also may be the case that most crashes below 35 feet tend to be less serious... and anything past 35 feet is going to kill you regardles