You need 12 hrs of sleep? Are you sure you don't have some sort of psychological issue (depression?) or physical one (stroke?). I thought 8 hours was the norm, and once you go above 10 or below 6 or 7, you are either pushing things or are ill.
I had 2 strokes, and I probably vary between needing 8-12 hours of sleep...depending. I also have kidney failure, so that may add some to the mix. Though if I am fairly active for 2 hours or more in a day I may need more sleep, but the pain can keep me from falling asleep. If I am active like that every day, after a week or two, I won't just be sleepy, I will be so tired I cannot stay awake no matter what and when I am awake it can be too painful to be active. It sort of corrects itself.
You should really talk to a doctor about your condition if you haven't done so, maybe it is treatable.
I do wonder if this medication could help me some. To at least make it so I can have a more normal level of activity. Who knows.
IANAL, but if it is interstate commerce, then no, state sales taxes do not and should not apply. Most states try to get around this by calling it a "use tax", but I still think that is questionable. Now if the federal governemnt created a interstate sales tax, then online companies would have to pay sales tax to the feds on their shipments across boundries and it would all be legal.
None of this would stop the state from breaking down your door and pointing guns at you if you don't pay their "use tax." And obviously, all this bullshit about the tax being earmarked for certain purposes is a lie. Once the video game tax is in effect, the politicians will use most of it to line their pockets and the pockets of their corporate buddies. The money going to "save the children" my ass...
... systems programming for it is easier - you don't have to e.g. jump through hoops to get raw sockets...
You don't have to jump through hoops to get raw sockets on Linux, you just have to become root....ummm yeah. On any reasonably configured Linux system, getting root is usually a difficult hoop to jump through, assuming there is no social engineering of someone who has the root account. Then again, with things like Nvidia's (an other mfgrs) buggy drivers and Ubuntu's let's just make people use sudu instead of a real root account, I suppose that hoop has become easier to jump through...
I think I'd call mine super_pr0n_queen with the arguements "--enhance-pr0n --doublestuff ~/superpr0n.mp4" and the installer would put a very "interesting" movie in ~/superpr0n.mp4. A sure-fire guarantee to never be deleted!
Why even pay anyone when there are plenty of musicians willing to do it for free. Just look around the internet. They are not hard to find. Yeah, a lot of it sounds amateurish and crappy, but that is because they have no budget and have crappy equipment.
If you want a "solution", why not create a site to help people find these musicians, and also a system to get them some decent equipment--maybe a donation system which sends new equipment to the most popular musicians. Maybe have free music studios available....then again I swear this sounds familiar...has this been done already?
At any rate, creating music is a social activity which the music "industry" has caused to degenerate into a passive activity. It used to be that common people would write / perform music to send a message or just to socialize with people. Why can't it be that way again?
Yeah, but how many people have any actual experience with ogg video? Versions of Theora outside of experimental CVS haven't been around very long. In fact, even now you have to stumble upon the right video player/encoder in the right package to be able to use the format. You may as well ask why people aren't using Tarkin already. People can only discus based on actual experiences, not imaginary ones...
The keywords "supports video" makes the difference. If a player has the processing power to play video, then it can easily run a software based ogg vorbis decoder. The bottom of the barrel mp3 players don't have anywhere near the ability to decode any audio with software, let alone ogg vorbis.
How about not buy the server in the first place, if they are going to do that. There are plenty of legal ways to create content which anyone is allowed to copy. My computers have always had a sound card with a mic input for at least the past 10 years, and digital video camcorders are becoming quite popular.
The only people who say multimedia files should be considered "pirated" by default are dumbassed peices of shit who have their own agenda contrary to the rights of the general public. If you add in some sort of "technology" to devices I own which prevent me from distributing or creating my works, you are infringing on my copyrights and my freedom of speech.
At least it is not like claiming sharing entire movies with 40,000 of your closest "friends" is "fair use." Then those who are trying to make a legitimate case against the RIAA/MPAA's unfair tactics of attacking and taking away the rights of people who didn't even violate copyrights don't have to worry about being mixed up with you.
More than that, they are auctioning off the public airwaves. From what I understood, the analog TV spectrum was supposed to be allocated for wireless networking. Yet I hear they are auctioning it away now.
The problem at the moment is, with the vast majority of the content available on P2P being illegal content, the ISP becomes a knowing party to the redistribution of copyrighted material....
If this where true, all of Usenet would have been shut down a long time ago. From what I've seen, there is plenty of content in the binary groups which are probably copyrighted and/or pr0n which is illegal in many jurisdictions. Similar situation with ISPs who use proxies.
I don't see how caching downloads could be seen as changing their common carrier status, unless they are picking and choosing what is allowed in a very specific way.
Try running it while you are raytracing an animation, converting a video to high def Divx, doing updatedb, compiling the kernel, playing the latest Unreal Tournament, doing a particle simulation of the universe, all while simulating a virtual girlfriend! Then you will value a small and efficient system.
Theres legit reasons to not want arbitrary code running on a device. Look at how much crap Rockstar got in over people going out of their way to modify their software(GTA3) to get to a sex scene that is otherwise not at all accessible.
That is a total crap excuse. Just look at a previous game title attacked by congress: Night Trap. Night Trap could've been declared a G rated movie for kids. There was no sex or little violence. No sane person could possibly call that violence. Creatures wearing black clothes grabbing people and sucking red food coloring through a tube. Oh yeah, scary violence which should be banned forever.
Then you get to the real reason "they" want to put in restrictions on devices, so they can stop people from fully using property they bought. I remember buying a digital camera from Aiptek, and it said I wasn't allowed to let anyone outside of my immediate family use it. WTF? So, if I'm in Paris, and I ask some stranger (or even a friend) to take my picture in front of some landmark, then I'm breaking the "license" for the camera???? I suppose next they'll require me to pay them a fee to copy pictures I took. After all, they made the camera, and so therefore all pictures taken by that camera are their "intellectual property" because the pictures are derivative works.
Yeah sure, and your parents have the right to abuse you because they created you, right?
The printer manufacturer wouldn't acknowledge the problem, and refused to let RMS see the source code so he could "fix" a bug they wouldn't acknowledge.
For a real programmer, the binary is the source code! Don't you people have hex editors? I remember back in the day I had to program with lights and dip switches. We laughed at those old phogies who used punch cards. Now people keep complaining they need this "source code." They're wimps I tell ya. WIMPS.
nscrupulous people have sought out loopholes to subvert the GPL, hence GPL v2, and now, with the advent of MS's "trusted computing initiative" and tivoization, GPL v3 to protect those freedoms in the face of some very powerful entities manipulating very powerful copyright and patent laws with the intent of subverting, even destroying, those same freedoms.
Yeah, like that guy who was handing out free legal advice for Open Source programmers, but only if they handed over the copyright to their code. All these conspiracies to take away our freedom. Freebanders unite! Then there where those guys who released a Linux distro, where the installer required you to have files signed by a "trusted" source (them), but the signatures were not on the DVD or CD media, they where only available through the internet. We should rise up and defeat our "Free Software" overlords!
...and Paris Hilton was standing on top of a huge phallic symbol yelling: "Hey guys! Why didn't you pick me?!?" The nerd who captured Nicole Richie was found hours later, his brain encrusted with neurosyphilis. Lindsey Lohan and Britney Spears were found in a closet "lezzing out" with some butch roaches. When prompted for a statment, they replied "this doesn't mean we're gay. They're not even the same species as us."
Do you really think they are going to charge you less for the advert infested DVDs? No, they will just tack it on all their new DVDs, so if you want it, you have to watch all the adverts. They are probably reasearching a way to force you to sit down and watch the adverts, so you can't just do something else while you are waiting for the movie to start.
It is better to just avoid these companies as much as you can. They will do everything they can think of to squeeze money out of you and screw you for as much as they are able.
That is a bad example. I don't know about gOS, but Ubuntu comes with Synaptic installed. No apt-get command line required. Even though I think it is a piece of crap, any MS Windows user would probably be comfortable with it.
Exactly, this means psychopathic pieces of crap who have nothing better to do than constantly complain will get improved service, while normal people will have to wait.
They already lost me when I bought a few computer books, and they apparently decided I was a millionaire, so started charging me much, much more. I think it was even above normal retail for many items. It would take a lot to ever convince me to ever shop with the bastards at Amazon again. They just seem to have the mindset to screw over everyone and get away with as much as they can. What kind of sane person would want to deal with that?
A much more obvious example is traffic lights. Anyone remember the stories of cities reducing the time of yellow lights after they installed red light enforcement cameras?
Reading these posts, it makes me wonder why they just don't put mini-games in during loading times. I remember a friend installing a linux distro which let you play tetris while it was installing. He loved it. Then again, I wonder why they don't let you make config settings while the packages install--yeah, I imagine it would be difficult to parallelize that...
Yeah, they didn't worry about security at all, but as I recall, they didn't crash nearly as much by themselves (at least personal computers) and the programmers usually went out of their way to optimize, instead of today where they seem to be looking for new ways to waste resources for no reason. Not even all of the eye candy can account for the absurd bloat they have today. Many things take longer than they did back with a 1 MHz processor, and I have a 1.2 GHZ supercomputer now.
I fired up khexedit and it took several seconds. Yeah, I didn't have any other KDE programs running, so it had to load a few daemons, but then why would a hex editor need any daemons. Don't tell me it's for cut and pasting. Even if it was, it shouldn't take more than a fraction of a second to load a cut and paste daemon. WTF???
That is why you md5 or crc all your backup files and verify when the copy is done. IIRC, gzip does crc for you, so if you compress your backups, all you have to do is run gzip -t on the files to see if they are okay. In fact, if you have the habit of keeping your files compressed on your main system, you have an easy way to test if they are corrupted.
Maybe all file formats should have some sort of error checking/correction built in. Would make detecting such problems much easier.
I didn't say you claimed sanity checks weren't needed at all. I said this guy's proposal was a valid thing to add to a program and anything to make sure your program doesn't die by covering multiple bases is a good thing. You do realize all programmers make mistakes, don't you? Good programmers try to minimize the effects of those mistakes.
Was he really saying to do that instead of sanity checks? I didn't see anywhere in his post where he explicitly said to do the "guard page" trick and not ever do any other sanity checks. The way he started off by saying how people get sanity checks wrong, it seems to me he was saying you should do that in addition to normal sanity checks, so if you really screw them up, you will still have some protection... Then again, maybe he was just trying to offer a more simple and efficient solution for those who can't get it right or are worried about wasting CPU cycles.
At any rate, the "guard page" trick coupled with the bitmasking certainly looks like it would be difficult or impossible to write outside the buffer, unless there is some sort of exploit I didn't see. Unlikely since I am quite familiar with assembly language and binary operations. It looked easy and foolproof to me--assuming no one makes a typo or other mistake, but other sanity checks are just as vulnerable to those problems. Just read the strlcpy paper written by Todd C. Miller and Theo De Raadt. Here is a relevant excerpt:
There are several problems encountered when strncpy() and strncat() are used as
safe versions of strcpy() and strcat(). Both functions deal with NUL-termination and the length parameter in different and non-intuitive ways that confuse even experienced programmers. They also provide no easy way to detect when truncation occurs. Finally,strncpy() zero-fills the remainder of the destination string,
incurring a performance penalty. Of all these issues, the confusion caused by the length parameters and the related issue of NUL-termination are most important. When we audited the OpenBSD source tree for potential security holes we found rampant misuse of strncpy() and strncat(). While not all of these resulted in exploitable security holes, they made it clear that the rules for using strncpy() and strncat() in safe string operations are widely misunderstood.
It is difficult to write functions which prevent security flaws. The trick r00t proposed sounds as good as any. You may not catch many bugs with binary masking, but then that is what a debugger and assert() are for.
Your comments about it being "complicated" and a "complex plan" suggest to me you know nothing about boolean algebra or low level programming. Maybe you should learn a bit more before you write inflammatory comments.
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You need 12 hrs of sleep? Are you sure you don't have some sort of psychological issue (depression?) or physical one (stroke?). I thought 8 hours was the norm, and once you go above 10 or below 6 or 7, you are either pushing things or are ill.
I had 2 strokes, and I probably vary between needing 8-12 hours of sleep...depending. I also have kidney failure, so that may add some to the mix. Though if I am fairly active for 2 hours or more in a day I may need more sleep, but the pain can keep me from falling asleep. If I am active like that every day, after a week or two, I won't just be sleepy, I will be so tired I cannot stay awake no matter what and when I am awake it can be too painful to be active. It sort of corrects itself.
You should really talk to a doctor about your condition if you haven't done so, maybe it is treatable.
I do wonder if this medication could help me some. To at least make it so I can have a more normal level of activity. Who knows.
IANAL, but if it is interstate commerce, then no, state sales taxes do not and should not apply. Most states try to get around this by calling it a "use tax", but I still think that is questionable. Now if the federal governemnt created a interstate sales tax, then online companies would have to pay sales tax to the feds on their shipments across boundries and it would all be legal.
None of this would stop the state from breaking down your door and pointing guns at you if you don't pay their "use tax." And obviously, all this bullshit about the tax being earmarked for certain purposes is a lie. Once the video game tax is in effect, the politicians will use most of it to line their pockets and the pockets of their corporate buddies. The money going to "save the children" my ass...
You don't have to jump through hoops to get raw sockets on Linux, you just have to become root....ummm yeah. On any reasonably configured Linux system, getting root is usually a difficult hoop to jump through, assuming there is no social engineering of someone who has the root account. Then again, with things like Nvidia's (an other mfgrs) buggy drivers and Ubuntu's let's just make people use sudu instead of a real root account, I suppose that hoop has become easier to jump through...
I think I'd call mine super_pr0n_queen with the arguements "--enhance-pr0n --doublestuff ~/superpr0n.mp4" and the installer would put a very "interesting" movie in ~/superpr0n.mp4. A sure-fire guarantee to never be deleted!
Why even pay anyone when there are plenty of musicians willing to do it for free. Just look around the internet. They are not hard to find. Yeah, a lot of it sounds amateurish and crappy, but that is because they have no budget and have crappy equipment.
If you want a "solution", why not create a site to help people find these musicians, and also a system to get them some decent equipment--maybe a donation system which sends new equipment to the most popular musicians. Maybe have free music studios available. ...then again I swear this sounds familiar...has this been done already?
At any rate, creating music is a social activity which the music "industry" has caused to degenerate into a passive activity. It used to be that common people would write / perform music to send a message or just to socialize with people. Why can't it be that way again?
Yeah, but how many people have any actual experience with ogg video? Versions of Theora outside of experimental CVS haven't been around very long. In fact, even now you have to stumble upon the right video player/encoder in the right package to be able to use the format. You may as well ask why people aren't using Tarkin already. People can only discus based on actual experiences, not imaginary ones...
The keywords "supports video" makes the difference. If a player has the processing power to play video, then it can easily run a software based ogg vorbis decoder. The bottom of the barrel mp3 players don't have anywhere near the ability to decode any audio with software, let alone ogg vorbis.
Never say in person what you can slurp into their head with your mind control device. Get your tinfoil hats on friends, it's a comin'!!!
How about not buy the server in the first place, if they are going to do that. There are plenty of legal ways to create content which anyone is allowed to copy. My computers have always had a sound card with a mic input for at least the past 10 years, and digital video camcorders are becoming quite popular.
The only people who say multimedia files should be considered "pirated" by default are dumbassed peices of shit who have their own agenda contrary to the rights of the general public. If you add in some sort of "technology" to devices I own which prevent me from distributing or creating my works, you are infringing on my copyrights and my freedom of speech.
At least it is not like claiming sharing entire movies with 40,000 of your closest "friends" is "fair use." Then those who are trying to make a legitimate case against the RIAA/MPAA's unfair tactics of attacking and taking away the rights of people who didn't even violate copyrights don't have to worry about being mixed up with you.
More than that, they are auctioning off the public airwaves. From what I understood, the analog TV spectrum was supposed to be allocated for wireless networking. Yet I hear they are auctioning it away now.
If this where true, all of Usenet would have been shut down a long time ago. From what I've seen, there is plenty of content in the binary groups which are probably copyrighted and/or pr0n which is illegal in many jurisdictions. Similar situation with ISPs who use proxies.
I don't see how caching downloads could be seen as changing their common carrier status, unless they are picking and choosing what is allowed in a very specific way.
Try running it while you are raytracing an animation, converting a video to high def Divx, doing updatedb, compiling the kernel, playing the latest Unreal Tournament, doing a particle simulation of the universe, all while simulating a virtual girlfriend! Then you will value a small and efficient system.
You don't need a special plugin. You just need to specify a program which displays tiff files to your browser.
That is a total crap excuse. Just look at a previous game title attacked by congress: Night Trap. Night Trap could've been declared a G rated movie for kids. There was no sex or little violence. No sane person could possibly call that violence. Creatures wearing black clothes grabbing people and sucking red food coloring through a tube. Oh yeah, scary violence which should be banned forever.
Then you get to the real reason "they" want to put in restrictions on devices, so they can stop people from fully using property they bought. I remember buying a digital camera from Aiptek, and it said I wasn't allowed to let anyone outside of my immediate family use it. WTF? So, if I'm in Paris, and I ask some stranger (or even a friend) to take my picture in front of some landmark, then I'm breaking the "license" for the camera???? I suppose next they'll require me to pay them a fee to copy pictures I took. After all, they made the camera, and so therefore all pictures taken by that camera are their "intellectual property" because the pictures are derivative works.
Yeah sure, and your parents have the right to abuse you because they created you, right?
For a real programmer, the binary is the source code! Don't you people have hex editors? I remember back in the day I had to program with lights and dip switches. We laughed at those old phogies who used punch cards. Now people keep complaining they need this "source code." They're wimps I tell ya. WIMPS.
Yeah, like that guy who was handing out free legal advice for Open Source programmers, but only if they handed over the copyright to their code. All these conspiracies to take away our freedom. Freebanders unite! Then there where those guys who released a Linux distro, where the installer required you to have files signed by a "trusted" source (them), but the signatures were not on the DVD or CD media, they where only available through the internet. We should rise up and defeat our "Free Software" overlords!
...and Paris Hilton was standing on top of a huge phallic symbol yelling: "Hey guys! Why didn't you pick me?!?" The nerd who captured Nicole Richie was found hours later, his brain encrusted with neurosyphilis. Lindsey Lohan and Britney Spears were found in a closet "lezzing out" with some butch roaches. When prompted for a statment, they replied "this doesn't mean we're gay. They're not even the same species as us."
Do you really think they are going to charge you less for the advert infested DVDs? No, they will just tack it on all their new DVDs, so if you want it, you have to watch all the adverts. They are probably reasearching a way to force you to sit down and watch the adverts, so you can't just do something else while you are waiting for the movie to start.
It is better to just avoid these companies as much as you can. They will do everything they can think of to squeeze money out of you and screw you for as much as they are able.
That is a bad example. I don't know about gOS, but Ubuntu comes with Synaptic installed. No apt-get command line required. Even though I think it is a piece of crap, any MS Windows user would probably be comfortable with it.
Exactly, this means psychopathic pieces of crap who have nothing better to do than constantly complain will get improved service, while normal people will have to wait.
They already lost me when I bought a few computer books, and they apparently decided I was a millionaire, so started charging me much, much more. I think it was even above normal retail for many items. It would take a lot to ever convince me to ever shop with the bastards at Amazon again. They just seem to have the mindset to screw over everyone and get away with as much as they can. What kind of sane person would want to deal with that?
A much more obvious example is traffic lights. Anyone remember the stories of cities reducing the time of yellow lights after they installed red light enforcement cameras?
Reading these posts, it makes me wonder why they just don't put mini-games in during loading times. I remember a friend installing a linux distro which let you play tetris while it was installing. He loved it. Then again, I wonder why they don't let you make config settings while the packages install--yeah, I imagine it would be difficult to parallelize that...
Yeah, they didn't worry about security at all, but as I recall, they didn't crash nearly as much by themselves (at least personal computers) and the programmers usually went out of their way to optimize, instead of today where they seem to be looking for new ways to waste resources for no reason. Not even all of the eye candy can account for the absurd bloat they have today. Many things take longer than they did back with a 1 MHz processor, and I have a 1.2 GHZ supercomputer now.
I fired up khexedit and it took several seconds. Yeah, I didn't have any other KDE programs running, so it had to load a few daemons, but then why would a hex editor need any daemons. Don't tell me it's for cut and pasting. Even if it was, it shouldn't take more than a fraction of a second to load a cut and paste daemon. WTF???
That is why you md5 or crc all your backup files and verify when the copy is done. IIRC, gzip does crc for you, so if you compress your backups, all you have to do is run gzip -t on the files to see if they are okay. In fact, if you have the habit of keeping your files compressed on your main system, you have an easy way to test if they are corrupted.
Maybe all file formats should have some sort of error checking/correction built in. Would make detecting such problems much easier.
I didn't say you claimed sanity checks weren't needed at all. I said this guy's proposal was a valid thing to add to a program and anything to make sure your program doesn't die by covering multiple bases is a good thing. You do realize all programmers make mistakes, don't you? Good programmers try to minimize the effects of those mistakes.
Was he really saying to do that instead of sanity checks? I didn't see anywhere in his post where he explicitly said to do the "guard page" trick and not ever do any other sanity checks. The way he started off by saying how people get sanity checks wrong, it seems to me he was saying you should do that in addition to normal sanity checks, so if you really screw them up, you will still have some protection... Then again, maybe he was just trying to offer a more simple and efficient solution for those who can't get it right or are worried about wasting CPU cycles.
At any rate, the "guard page" trick coupled with the bitmasking certainly looks like it would be difficult or impossible to write outside the buffer, unless there is some sort of exploit I didn't see. Unlikely since I am quite familiar with assembly language and binary operations. It looked easy and foolproof to me--assuming no one makes a typo or other mistake, but other sanity checks are just as vulnerable to those problems. Just read the strlcpy paper written by Todd C. Miller and Theo De Raadt. Here is a relevant excerpt:
It is difficult to write functions which prevent security flaws. The trick r00t proposed sounds as good as any. You may not catch many bugs with binary masking, but then that is what a debugger and assert() are for.
Your comments about it being "complicated" and a "complex plan" suggest to me you know nothing about boolean algebra or low level programming. Maybe you should learn a bit more before you write inflammatory comments.