I propose setting up slashdot-poster-controlled robots to hunt down and exterminate Timothy. Posters consider editing by insertion of political messages 'a disgrace to slashdot'.
One thing I am really sick of is this idea the media seems to have of "bioethics" as some kind of received truth handed down from authorities whose credentials are never discussed. No one ever talks about the ethics that these "bioethics" are supposed to be derived from.
The Safari browser now subscribes to R.S.S. news feeds, And its "private browsing" mode conceals the tracks of online deeds. There are archives now, and log files, when you send or get a fax; You can make the pointer bigger on those Jumbotron-screened Macs. You can start a full-screen slide show from some photos on demand; And the voice that reads the screen aloud can lend the blind a hand. There's a password-phrase suggestor meant to make yours more secure, And the Grapher module draws equations simple and obscure. Then the Automator program is a geeky software clerk - You just choose the steps you want performed, and it does all the work. There's a lot of miscellany, lots of spit-and-polish stuff, But it works and doesn't slow you down - and these days, that's enough.
Generally speaking, if you're carrying a weapon concealed, you're supposed to keep it concealed unless you're drawing it to use it. Displaying it without planning to use it can be considered "brandishing", which is basically threatening, and can cost you your license.
If CA/whoever don't like the kernel direction, they should hire some kernel hackers of their own, pay someone to finish the HURD (or, god forbid, switch to *BSD) or else *shut up*. Unlike Windows, no one's forcing them to use Linux.
Then call it Darwinism in action. I, for one, don't want the "weak-minded" reproducing. There are enough easily swayed idiots out there, something on which we can all agree, no matter our political persuasion. After all, the last four presidential elections have all come down to less than 5% margins.
IANAL either, but AFAIK, exclusionary rules for bad evidence only apply to the government. She may have a *separate* claim against the RIAA for illegal wiretapping, or indeed be able to press criminal charges, but she can't get the evidence excluded from her trial/suit. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to private citizens.
Why does this come up *every single fucking time* there's a story on GPL enforcement? Go ye and read stuff at gnu.org, the answer is obvious: the GPL is a *patch* on the copyright system that undermines copyright so long as copyright is enforced. If we got rid of copyright all together, we would have no need for the GPL, because we could reverse-engineer and modify code at our leisure.
Actually, plurals of single letters are one of the few cases where using an apostrophe is allowed. Plurals of numerals (e.g. "How many 1's are in this byte?") is the primary other one.
Most of Gibson is crap. If you want interesting, *thoughtful* computer-related SF, read Vinge. He invented virtual reality with his short story "True Names", and has been ahead of just about everyone else ever since.
Unfortunately, the courts seem to be going towards a literalistic, hardware-based view of such things, rather than the much more sensible logical, software-based view. IOW, it doesn't matter where the beginning and ending points of the call are, so much as where the packets were routed. This is how sending a threatening email to your next-door neighbor becomes a federal crime: the intervening server was in another state.
There is no such thing as a perfectly secure wipe, especially not of a drive you can't write to. Crack the case, pull the platters, run them through an industrial metal shredder. I defy anyone to retrieve useful data from a mixed box of shreddings from multiple platters from multiple drives.
The problem is that unlike the average Catholic girl, the average Muslim girl is going to be so brainwashed by her peers and elders that she won't know she has any alternative to the virtual slavery of shari'a. Allowing shari'a-based arbitration condemns Muslim women to permanent second-class citizen status.
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I propose setting up slashdot-poster-controlled robots to hunt down and exterminate Timothy. Posters consider editing by insertion of political messages 'a disgrace to slashdot'.
I certainly hope Yahell!'s shitty single-sign-on architecture isn't the model Google's using--I can't even begin to describe how broken it is.
One thing I am really sick of is this idea the media seems to have of "bioethics" as some kind of received truth handed down from authorities whose credentials are never discussed. No one ever talks about the ethics that these "bioethics" are supposed to be derived from.
From the NYT article:
The Safari browser now subscribes to R.S.S. news feeds,
And its "private browsing" mode conceals the tracks of online deeds.
There are archives now, and log files, when you send or get a fax;
You can make the pointer bigger on those Jumbotron-screened Macs.
You can start a full-screen slide show from some photos on demand;
And the voice that reads the screen aloud can lend the blind a hand.
There's a password-phrase suggestor meant to make yours more secure,
And the Grapher module draws equations simple and obscure.
Then the Automator program is a geeky software clerk -
You just choose the steps you want performed, and it does all the work.
There's a lot of miscellany, lots of spit-and-polish stuff,
But it works and doesn't slow you down - and these days, that's enough.
What is it with guys named Chandrashekhar and math?
Generally speaking, if you're carrying a weapon concealed, you're supposed to keep it concealed unless you're drawing it to use it. Displaying it without planning to use it can be considered "brandishing", which is basically threatening, and can cost you your license.
If CA/whoever don't like the kernel direction, they should hire some kernel hackers of their own, pay someone to finish the HURD (or, god forbid, switch to *BSD) or else *shut up*. Unlike Windows, no one's forcing them to use Linux.
I like that. Sounds kind of like "release the dogs".
Um, no, it's simple CS.
Forget hashes, you need to read up on compression. Hint: no algorithm can compress all files into fixed-length strings.
Except that some warlord would inform his people that whitey was trying to make them all impotent, and they'd all refuse to take it.
Then call it Darwinism in action. I, for one, don't want the "weak-minded" reproducing. There are enough easily swayed idiots out there, something on which we can all agree, no matter our political persuasion. After all, the last four presidential elections have all come down to less than 5% margins.
IANAL either, but AFAIK, exclusionary rules for bad evidence only apply to the government. She may have a *separate* claim against the RIAA for illegal wiretapping, or indeed be able to press criminal charges, but she can't get the evidence excluded from her trial/suit. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to private citizens.
But you could crack it open yourself at no legal risk, and do whatever you wanted with it--that's the whole point.
Yes, Stephenson kicks Gibson's ass.
Why does this come up *every single fucking time* there's a story on GPL enforcement? Go ye and read stuff at gnu.org, the answer is obvious: the GPL is a *patch* on the copyright system that undermines copyright so long as copyright is enforced. If we got rid of copyright all together, we would have no need for the GPL, because we could reverse-engineer and modify code at our leisure.
I'm assuming "weg" is pronounced "vay" in German?
Actually, plurals of single letters are one of the few cases where using an apostrophe is allowed. Plurals of numerals (e.g. "How many 1's are in this byte?") is the primary other one.
Most of Gibson is crap. If you want interesting, *thoughtful* computer-related SF, read Vinge. He invented virtual reality with his short story "True Names", and has been ahead of just about everyone else ever since.
Unfortunately, the courts seem to be going towards a literalistic, hardware-based view of such things, rather than the much more sensible logical, software-based view. IOW, it doesn't matter where the beginning and ending points of the call are, so much as where the packets were routed. This is how sending a threatening email to your next-door neighbor becomes a federal crime: the intervening server was in another state.
We need a scrith sheild around the Earth.
There is no such thing as a perfectly secure wipe, especially not of a drive you can't write to. Crack the case, pull the platters, run them through an industrial metal shredder. I defy anyone to retrieve useful data from a mixed box of shreddings from multiple platters from multiple drives.
The problem is that unlike the average Catholic girl, the average Muslim girl is going to be so brainwashed by her peers and elders that she won't know she has any alternative to the virtual slavery of shari'a. Allowing shari'a-based arbitration condemns Muslim women to permanent second-class citizen status.
iGuess that makes him the iCEO again.
He can add Java 1.5/J2SE5.0 or whatever they're calling it this week, and that'll be Tiger+Tiger+Tiger!