I've had the full source code for "ldd" on my linux box for the past thirteen years... What good has that done in this case?
The good that it has done is that the author of this article DID have access to the source, analyzed it, found a vulnerability and now you, me or anyone else can (and no doubt will) patch it.
The point of the source being available isn't that you personally need to look through every line of code that your system executes, but rather that it is made available to anyone to analyze for security, efficiency, correctness, etc. instead of being locked up in a vault somewhere.
In other words, our children and grandchildren should pay for technological advances that make our lives easier.
Spending money on science and research can create value, just as the money spent on creating the internet in the 70s and 80s is allowing for a vast increase in wealth creation (amazon, ebay, google, slashdot) scientific advances in medicine, communications and nearly every other scientific field.
This is not borrowing from the future, this is an investment in the future, which will likely will pay for itself in the amount of value it will create and improvements in quality of life.
Yes, let's continue taking criminals, claiming they're not just that, and sending them for 'councelling' instead of prison. On tax dollars, of course. Certainly, the 'going easy on criminals' aspect of current society has been going far better than the alternative lately.
I don't know what "going easy on criminals aspect" you are talking about, I have yet to see ANY attempts at real rehabilitation for criminals.
The difference between paying for clinics and rehabilitation and paying for prisons and guards is that at the end, clinics attempt to help you with whatever issues caused you to break the law so you can return to society. Prisons just build more cells because they know you will be coming back in a few years. Some people can't be helped, but believe it or not, most people would rather have a productive life and obey the law than rot in a cell.
I believe that when the GP said "gunning down" someone that he was referring to brutal violence/murder, but not necessarily with a firearm. Violence is violence, it sounds like you are reading an anti-gun argument into his statement when I'm not sure that there is one.
GP was arguing that most people will never kill in cold blood, with any weapon, which is what makes it fantasy material.
I'd say its pretty likely that your nephew has seen a human penis before. If you find a naked human to be more offensive than extreme violence then yeah, I'd say that is pretty screwed up.
It's not my kid, and maybe I would feel different if it were, but I would say take him, educate him and speak to him like an adult. Remember, you must be the change that you want to see in the world.
Honestly, I think its great that they are able to show that and be mature about it. We need to get over ourselves and embrace the fact that we are human.
This is a joke right? If not the sponsors of this bill/resolution/whatever should be removed from office for wasting taxpayer dollars and overstepping their authority.
This is not a political issue, it is a science issue. Pluto is still out there, and will continue orbiting happily along despite what we choose to call it.
People don't do anything because it requires them stepping out of their comfort zone, which, sadly, is terrifying enough for many to simply complain and exhibit a self-inflicted learned helplessness.
For me, rock climbing was the activity that helped me expand my comfort zone. After you've been forced to push yourself onward in the face of fear and taken several long falls (and boy do they feel looooong when you are plummeting through the air) you tend to realize that maybe taking a risk in your social life or your career isn't such a scary thing after all.
Build up a small portfolio by contributing to an open-source project, or start your own, or code that cool project that you have been thinking about in your head from time to time. Do whatever you have to do to start writing some actual working code.
Don't undervalue your QA experience either. QA experience means that you know how to test and debug, which is a rather large percentage of development. If you don't meet the requirements exactly, apply anyway, or look for jobs that mix QA and development, but make it clear that you want to move into a development role as soon as you are ready.
Good luck!
Can't remember where I saw this so I'll paraphrase: Among highly intelligent people almost everyone is atheist. Not a single member of Congress is atheist. They are either liars or not highly intelligent.
1. Opening Licks Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil Danzig - Mother Cheap Trick - Surrender Wolfmother - Woman Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
2. Amp-Warmers Kiss - Strutter Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box Police - Message in a Bottle Van Halen - You Really Got Me Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son
3. String-Snappers Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench Alice in Chains - Them Bones Iggy Pop and the Stooges - Search and Destroy Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys Black Sabbath - War Pigs
4. Thrash and Burn Warrant - Cherry Pie Butthole Surfers - Who Was in My Room Last Night Mathew Sweet - Girlfriend Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knockin' Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
5. Return of the Shred Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of Primus - John the Fisherman Sword - Freya Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation Aerosmith - Last Child
6. Relentless Riffs Heart - Crazy on You Stone Temple Pilots - Tripping on a Hole in a Paper Heart Stray Cats - Rock This Town Allman Brothers - Jessica Jane's Addiction - Stop
7. Furious Fretwork Anthrax - Madhouse Living End - Carry Me Home Lamb of God - Laid to Rest Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout Rush - YYZ
8. Face-Melters Avenged Sevenfold - Beast and the Harlot Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized Dick Dale - Misirlou Megadeth - Hangar 18 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Wow, you just summed up all of this frustration I have with this country in one great post. I've thought about what you said for a while but I was never any good at writing it out. Unfortunately, its also pretty depressing, because I really don't know what we can do about it, they seem to have all of their bases covered =(
Only a pocket-protector-toting dork would complain about a beautiful woman hosting a video game show, of all things.
Poster is probably one of those nitwits still masturbating over his level 98 FFVII character...
Lets see, if I want someone to tell me something interesting about video games, I wonder who would be the better one to ask - the blonde bimbo who can tell me how out of style my shoes are and what Brad and Angelina's schedule next week is, or the pasty nerd who has been playing video games since before he could walk who knows what the hell he is talking about and can make an argument and support it with real experience. When I'm watching a show that I want to learn things from, I want to know that the presenter is personally knowledgeable and excited about the material. If I wanted to see beautiful women read from a script pretend to be care about what they are saying I'll go watch porn.
It sounds like ReactOS is supposed to be a Windows replacement. If you are already running Linux solo then I don't think you are in their target audience.
I think we need some sort of blacklist where we keep track of these politicians, and come election time, vote these n00bs out of office. What do you think?
I think it might be easier to just keep track of the few who aren't puppets of some lobbyist:(
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I've had the full source code for "ldd" on my linux box for the past thirteen years... What good has that done in this case?
The good that it has done is that the author of this article DID have access to the source, analyzed it, found a vulnerability and now you, me or anyone else can (and no doubt will) patch it. The point of the source being available isn't that you personally need to look through every line of code that your system executes, but rather that it is made available to anyone to analyze for security, efficiency, correctness, etc. instead of being locked up in a vault somewhere.
In other words, our children and grandchildren should pay for technological advances that make our lives easier.
Spending money on science and research can create value, just as the money spent on creating the internet in the 70s and 80s is allowing for a vast increase in wealth creation (amazon, ebay, google, slashdot) scientific advances in medicine, communications and nearly every other scientific field.
This is not borrowing from the future, this is an investment in the future, which will likely will pay for itself in the amount of value it will create and improvements in quality of life.
There was also something about performing "an illegal operation"
Yes, let's continue taking criminals, claiming they're not just that, and sending them for 'councelling' instead of prison. On tax dollars, of course. Certainly, the 'going easy on criminals' aspect of current society has been going far better than the alternative lately.
I don't know what "going easy on criminals aspect" you are talking about, I have yet to see ANY attempts at real rehabilitation for criminals.
The difference between paying for clinics and rehabilitation and paying for prisons and guards is that at the end, clinics attempt to help you with whatever issues caused you to break the law so you can return to society. Prisons just build more cells because they know you will be coming back in a few years. Some people can't be helped, but believe it or not, most people would rather have a productive life and obey the law than rot in a cell.
I believe that when the GP said "gunning down" someone that he was referring to brutal violence/murder, but not necessarily with a firearm. Violence is violence, it sounds like you are reading an anti-gun argument into his statement when I'm not sure that there is one.
GP was arguing that most people will never kill in cold blood, with any weapon, which is what makes it fantasy material.
I'd say its pretty likely that your nephew has seen a human penis before. If you find a naked human to be more offensive than extreme violence then yeah, I'd say that is pretty screwed up.
It's not my kid, and maybe I would feel different if it were, but I would say take him, educate him and speak to him like an adult. Remember, you must be the change that you want to see in the world.
Honestly, I think its great that they are able to show that and be mature about it. We need to get over ourselves and embrace the fact that we are human.
People still watch TV live? I thought DVRs were considered mandatory to prevent brain-rot from advertising.
I have no idea when most of the shows that I follow are aired, as I check in the with DVR every couple of days and catch up on anything interesting.
This is a joke right? If not the sponsors of this bill/resolution/whatever should be removed from office for wasting taxpayer dollars and overstepping their authority. This is not a political issue, it is a science issue. Pluto is still out there, and will continue orbiting happily along despite what we choose to call it.
Right, next you're going to tell me that the people at Pizza Hut: Italian Bistro are not masters of authentic Italian cuisine...
The wikipedia article incorrectly refers to it as "flint knapping"...
Why are you posting your correction here instead of just fixing wikipedia?
Only on /. would the GP's post be considered a challenge...
You know that you are in for trouble. Because every toddler has a favorite band, and that band is COLDPLAY.
You know how I know your toddler is gay?
People don't do anything because it requires them stepping out of their comfort zone, which, sadly, is terrifying enough for many to simply complain and exhibit a self-inflicted learned helplessness.
For me, rock climbing was the activity that helped me expand my comfort zone. After you've been forced to push yourself onward in the face of fear and taken several long falls (and boy do they feel looooong when you are plummeting through the air) you tend to realize that maybe taking a risk in your social life or your career isn't such a scary thing after all.
Don't undervalue your QA experience either. QA experience means that you know how to test and debug, which is a rather large percentage of development. If you don't meet the requirements exactly, apply anyway, or look for jobs that mix QA and development, but make it clear that you want to move into a development role as soon as you are ready. Good luck!
Step 1: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Step 2: Set firefox to open PDFs outside of the browser(it's somewhere in the options, I don't remember)
You will never have to deal with Adobe's POS application again. =)
Why did it take them 6 months to release the images?
Ummm... how bout I just can't wait to play the freaking game?
Can't remember where I saw this so I'll paraphrase: Among highly intelligent people almost everyone is atheist. Not a single member of Congress is atheist. They are either liars or not highly intelligent.
What, no "All of the above" option?
1. Opening Licks
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Danzig - Mother
Cheap Trick - Surrender
Wolfmother - Woman
Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
2. Amp-Warmers
Kiss - Strutter
Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box
Police - Message in a Bottle
Van Halen - You Really Got Me
Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son
3. String-Snappers
Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
Alice in Chains - Them Bones
Iggy Pop and the Stooges - Search and Destroy
Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
4. Thrash and Burn
Warrant - Cherry Pie
Butthole Surfers - Who Was in My Room Last Night
Mathew Sweet - Girlfriend
Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knockin'
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
5. Return of the Shred
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of
Primus - John the Fisherman
Sword - Freya
Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
Aerosmith - Last Child
6. Relentless Riffs
Heart - Crazy on You
Stone Temple Pilots - Tripping on a Hole in a Paper Heart
Stray Cats - Rock This Town
Allman Brothers - Jessica
Jane's Addiction - Stop
7. Furious Fretwork
Anthrax - Madhouse
Living End - Carry Me Home
Lamb of God - Laid to Rest
Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout
Rush - YYZ
8. Face-Melters
Avenged Sevenfold - Beast and the Harlot
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
Dick Dale - Misirlou
Megadeth - Hangar 18
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Wow, you just summed up all of this frustration I have with this country in one great post. I've thought about what you said for a while but I was never any good at writing it out. Unfortunately, its also pretty depressing, because I really don't know what we can do about it, they seem to have all of their bases covered =(
Only a pocket-protector-toting dork would complain about a beautiful woman hosting a video game show, of all things. Poster is probably one of those nitwits still masturbating over his level 98 FFVII character...
Lets see, if I want someone to tell me something interesting about video games, I wonder who would be the better one to ask - the blonde bimbo who can tell me how out of style my shoes are and what Brad and Angelina's schedule next week is, or the pasty nerd who has been playing video games since before he could walk who knows what the hell he is talking about and can make an argument and support it with real experience. When I'm watching a show that I want to learn things from, I want to know that the presenter is personally knowledgeable and excited about the material. If I wanted to see beautiful women read from a script pretend to be care about what they are saying I'll go watch porn.
It sounds like ReactOS is supposed to be a Windows replacement. If you are already running Linux solo then I don't think you are in their target audience.
Thank God! I was 1/3 of the way down the page and still no Wii jokes. You were beginning to worry me slashdot!
I think we need some sort of blacklist where we keep track of these politicians, and come election time, vote these n00bs out of office. What do you think?
:(
I think it might be easier to just keep track of the few who aren't puppets of some lobbyist