Did he? If he used it correctly (in the sense of petitio principii) then I'm afraid I don't understand his post. Where did I present a premise which supposed a conclusion based on it? If I'd presented the answer to the question as a conclusion of a logical progression, you might be able to argue it was begging the question, but it would be pretty weak.
I can't be the only one out there who finds this extremely refreshing after taking a course in Java (and learning about font objects, GridBagLayouts, and other things so far removed from "real" programming that they might as well call it a Fine Arts course), can I?
You're not the only one, but when I look at the people around me, it seems you're one of a few. Most people (here, at least) study for tests and do homework as quickly as they can so they can get back to drinking beer, and words couldn't easily describe how much they don't care about things like that. They'd all be happy learning about GridBagLayouts, abstract classes, JavaBeans, and other assorted crap. I hope to God the rest of the world cares more about the inner workings of computers (or hell, anything intellectual), but my hopes are not high.
Then... you could presumably point out a vulnerability which they've neglected to patch? You CAN'T, you say? But it's SUCH a crappy OS, surely you have SOME specific problem you can find in it?
Seriously. I know slashdot groupthink is often correct since we tend to pay attention to things more than average people do, but it's not always right. Think critically about this one, without prejudice, and see what conclusion you come to.
I've found that there tends to be quite a bit of difference between disassembled code and written assembly. Assemblers provide lots of features like labels and subroutine names that aren't found in disassembled code. Not only that, but you usually only have to be able to read disassembled code, which is generally easier than writing it.
I like that example at the end, by the way. Very neatly sums up the good things about understanding low-level function.
You laugh, but there are microcontrollers programmed in BASIC now. Sounds nice on the surface, lets kids get into programming and home users more easily create electronic devices, right? Unfortunately, the intro to electrical engineering course at Duke University trains kids in their use. The future of electrical engineering in America is people who program microcontrollers in BASIC. Isn't that a nice thought?
Learning assembly programming is not terribly useful. Learning assembly language, however, is very useful. Reverse-engineering and debugging both make use of disassembly, and especially in vulnerability analysis, exploit writing, compiler writing, and similar fields, knowledge of assembly language is often critical. Assembly programming is only useful for optimizing short bits of functions, and it's my understanding that it doesn't help much or often.
Or, perhaps, Windows hasn't spent the last few years adding feature after feature with too little attention to security in an effort to push Linux-on-the-desktop? Just maybe.
Smart? Nobody said anything about smart. The study said "highly-educated". I can assure you there's a world of difference.
As for the heavy drinking, it's probably as simple as having money and time due to not working at McDonald's, with societal pressure helping out on the side.
She clearly is in the right, but Rydia is right. The judge will likely say "That was illegal. Bad, naughty large corporation! Give me your wrist... *slap* Now file a proper lawsuit about it."
I am in awe. I have to discontinue this discussion, as your stupidity is impressively vast (even if some of it is affected for the purpose of drawing flames) and I don't see an easy means of penetrating it. I'll end with some advice: go get a job, you useless sack of guts.
"Brought out by the trolls"? Damn, I've heard some retarded defenses in my time, but... damn. That's one of the worst excuses I've ever heard. Because you were responding to criticism, it doesn't mean you're arrogant and call people childish names? Let me know how that one works out. By the way, for an unemployed man who spends his time waiting for jobs to seek him, you use the word "productive" rather a lot.
Being homeless and unemployed doesn't exempt you from criticism. In your case, it is in fact the very reason you _should_ be harassed. I've read your posts, and I can say without reservation that you are what is wrong with the world. You're arrogant and confrontational, which wouldn't be a problem if you weren't so stupid and ignorant. Since you piss away your life at a library, maybe you should read a book or two occasionally instead of calling people childish names on slashdot. You might learn something, and become slightly less ignorant. Wouldn't that be nice?
Yes, HEAR THIS, MICROSOFT: If you continue to take your current path, you'll continue to have nobody use your operating system! You must change your ways if you ever want to have any customers at all!
Or they could get respectable jobs like: middle management, where they try to pass off their employees' work as their own. Or law, where they encourage weak people to sue blameless corporations for high fees. Or on a school board, where they try to decide which of the topics they know nothing about their kids should learn about next. Or as policemen, where they have power over anyone who annoys them. Or as soldiers, killing innocent people for the good of the country.
The world is unfair, and people are unfair. Pirates pirate because they're just like everyone else. They just do it more openly. Try not to feel so morally superior, it makes people dislike you.
That's DEFINITELY a Duke grad. He is, in fact, the epitome of all Duke grads, the Duke grad all Duke students would like to emulate most closely in their lives. Isn't it just the most wonderful educational institution in the world?
Why would you vote for a third party for _just_ president? Why wouldn't you vote third-party at the state and local elections too?
By the way, the lesser of two evils isn't actually lesser, people just think it will be. There's really no major differences between members of the two main parties. Third parties aren't letting the "worst" of two evils win, they're letting one of two imperceptibly different evils win.
They'd have to have a 2/3 majority in both houses, to be safe against presidential veto. Do you have any idea how difficult it would be to get > 67 senators and > 290 representatives in office, by having them act exactly like Republicrats in every aspect of their lives for the many, many years it would take for each of them to gain experience in local and state level politics (which would have to take the exact same amount of time for 2/3 of them if they tried for every seat)? That's just insanely far-fetched.
Also, some people don't want to spend a decade of their lives passing and/or enforcing laws that go directly against their moral code, simply to gain a chance at a future grab at legitimate power, with which they might hope to do a little good in the world and maybe offset a decade of increasing taxes or whatever.
Oh, and the third party would also have to get a majority in three-fourths of the state legislatures, at the same time they got their 2/3 majority in both houses of Congress. That's important too.
In short, I really hope you didn't think your cunning plan all the way through, because if you did and still came to that conclusion, you're batshit insane.
You're a dumbass. A complete dumbass. If you want a third-party candidate to enter office, vote for a sodding third-party candidate. Don't vote for the lesser of two evils, you're just agreeing to submit to that level of evil.
That's very true, I was at a middle-class Catholic school. But I knew people from the public schools, not inner-city but not Cow Town USA either, and they were exactly the same. I think a few of the people at the public schools carried knives, that's it. The whole city was shocked when some dumb jock was shot in a parking lot at 2 AM by one of his schoolmates, because that sort of thing just doesn't happen much anymore.
No it fucking isn't, you pussy! Violence stopped Hitler, brought Greece a thousand years of dominance, kept thousands of generations of kids from misbehaving, and, to give a very relevant example, saved the White House or the Capitol on 9/11. With people like you preaching crap like that, do you wonder why everyone hates America, why America doesn't vote Democrat, and why schools are banning dodgeball?
True. But, like i mentioned elsewhere, cockpits have gotten stronget since 9/11. That would protect a hijacker who gained access, and would also mean anyone who got access would have a lot more at their disposal than a box cutter.
Also, Americans are even bigger pussies now than they were then. Remember how the president managed to scare a significant portion of the nation into supporting war with Iraq without even needing fake evidence of WMDs? Remember how he subsequently managed to scare them into reelecting him, without even needing to fake another terrorist attack? Remember how the DHS managed to confiscate every liquid and gel from every airline passenger, without any protest from the American public, even when their lie was pointed out to them? Those collective actions all require a truly amazing ability for individuals to submit to someone in a position of power.
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Did he? If he used it correctly (in the sense of petitio principii) then I'm afraid I don't understand his post. Where did I present a premise which supposed a conclusion based on it? If I'd presented the answer to the question as a conclusion of a logical progression, you might be able to argue it was begging the question, but it would be pretty weak.
Then... you could presumably point out a vulnerability which they've neglected to patch? You CAN'T, you say? But it's SUCH a crappy OS, surely you have SOME specific problem you can find in it?
Seriously. I know slashdot groupthink is often correct since we tend to pay attention to things more than average people do, but it's not always right. Think critically about this one, without prejudice, and see what conclusion you come to.
I've found that there tends to be quite a bit of difference between disassembled code and written assembly. Assemblers provide lots of features like labels and subroutine names that aren't found in disassembled code. Not only that, but you usually only have to be able to read disassembled code, which is generally easier than writing it.
I like that example at the end, by the way. Very neatly sums up the good things about understanding low-level function.
You laugh, but there are microcontrollers programmed in BASIC now. Sounds nice on the surface, lets kids get into programming and home users more easily create electronic devices, right? Unfortunately, the intro to electrical engineering course at Duke University trains kids in their use. The future of electrical engineering in America is people who program microcontrollers in BASIC. Isn't that a nice thought?
Learning assembly programming is not terribly useful. Learning assembly language, however, is very useful. Reverse-engineering and debugging both make use of disassembly, and especially in vulnerability analysis, exploit writing, compiler writing, and similar fields, knowledge of assembly language is often critical. Assembly programming is only useful for optimizing short bits of functions, and it's my understanding that it doesn't help much or often.
Or, perhaps, Windows hasn't spent the last few years adding feature after feature with too little attention to security in an effort to push Linux-on-the-desktop? Just maybe.
Wow... 90% homework? Wow, dude... that sucks. I must have gotten lucky then, I didn't have any classes nearly that bad. I take back my snarky comment.
You couldn't pass high school without paying attention?? Boy, you just sound about as gifted as all hell.
There's really no way to tell what is and isn't a catch-22. I don't even have to show you Catch 22.
Smart? Nobody said anything about smart. The study said "highly-educated". I can assure you there's a world of difference.
As for the heavy drinking, it's probably as simple as having money and time due to not working at McDonald's, with societal pressure helping out on the side.
She clearly is in the right, but Rydia is right. The judge will likely say "That was illegal. Bad, naughty large corporation! Give me your wrist... *slap* Now file a proper lawsuit about it."
(And then the oral sex!)
I am in awe. I have to discontinue this discussion, as your stupidity is impressively vast (even if some of it is affected for the purpose of drawing flames) and I don't see an easy means of penetrating it. I'll end with some advice: go get a job, you useless sack of guts.
"Brought out by the trolls"? Damn, I've heard some retarded defenses in my time, but... damn. That's one of the worst excuses I've ever heard. Because you were responding to criticism, it doesn't mean you're arrogant and call people childish names? Let me know how that one works out. By the way, for an unemployed man who spends his time waiting for jobs to seek him, you use the word "productive" rather a lot.
Being homeless and unemployed doesn't exempt you from criticism. In your case, it is in fact the very reason you _should_ be harassed. I've read your posts, and I can say without reservation that you are what is wrong with the world. You're arrogant and confrontational, which wouldn't be a problem if you weren't so stupid and ignorant. Since you piss away your life at a library, maybe you should read a book or two occasionally instead of calling people childish names on slashdot. You might learn something, and become slightly less ignorant. Wouldn't that be nice?
Yes, HEAR THIS, MICROSOFT: If you continue to take your current path, you'll continue to have nobody use your operating system! You must change your ways if you ever want to have any customers at all!
Or they could get respectable jobs like: middle management, where they try to pass off their employees' work as their own. Or law, where they encourage weak people to sue blameless corporations for high fees. Or on a school board, where they try to decide which of the topics they know nothing about their kids should learn about next. Or as policemen, where they have power over anyone who annoys them. Or as soldiers, killing innocent people for the good of the country.
The world is unfair, and people are unfair. Pirates pirate because they're just like everyone else. They just do it more openly. Try not to feel so morally superior, it makes people dislike you.
Just think of how much of your oxygen this guy's wasted in his life, and the waste of bandwidth will seem paltry in comparison. Problem solved!
That's DEFINITELY a Duke grad. He is, in fact, the epitome of all Duke grads, the Duke grad all Duke students would like to emulate most closely in their lives. Isn't it just the most wonderful educational institution in the world?
Why would you vote for a third party for _just_ president? Why wouldn't you vote third-party at the state and local elections too?
By the way, the lesser of two evils isn't actually lesser, people just think it will be. There's really no major differences between members of the two main parties. Third parties aren't letting the "worst" of two evils win, they're letting one of two imperceptibly different evils win.
They'd have to have a 2/3 majority in both houses, to be safe against presidential veto. Do you have any idea how difficult it would be to get > 67 senators and > 290 representatives in office, by having them act exactly like Republicrats in every aspect of their lives for the many, many years it would take for each of them to gain experience in local and state level politics (which would have to take the exact same amount of time for 2/3 of them if they tried for every seat)? That's just insanely far-fetched.
Also, some people don't want to spend a decade of their lives passing and/or enforcing laws that go directly against their moral code, simply to gain a chance at a future grab at legitimate power, with which they might hope to do a little good in the world and maybe offset a decade of increasing taxes or whatever.
Oh, and the third party would also have to get a majority in three-fourths of the state legislatures, at the same time they got their 2/3 majority in both houses of Congress. That's important too.
In short, I really hope you didn't think your cunning plan all the way through, because if you did and still came to that conclusion, you're batshit insane.
You're a dumbass. A complete dumbass. If you want a third-party candidate to enter office, vote for a sodding third-party candidate. Don't vote for the lesser of two evils, you're just agreeing to submit to that level of evil.
That's very true, I was at a middle-class Catholic school. But I knew people from the public schools, not inner-city but not Cow Town USA either, and they were exactly the same. I think a few of the people at the public schools carried knives, that's it. The whole city was shocked when some dumb jock was shot in a parking lot at 2 AM by one of his schoolmates, because that sort of thing just doesn't happen much anymore.
True. But, like i mentioned elsewhere, cockpits have gotten stronget since 9/11. That would protect a hijacker who gained access, and would also mean anyone who got access would have a lot more at their disposal than a box cutter.
Also, Americans are even bigger pussies now than they were then. Remember how the president managed to scare a significant portion of the nation into supporting war with Iraq without even needing fake evidence of WMDs? Remember how he subsequently managed to scare them into reelecting him, without even needing to fake another terrorist attack? Remember how the DHS managed to confiscate every liquid and gel from every airline passenger, without any protest from the American public, even when their lie was pointed out to them? Those collective actions all require a truly amazing ability for individuals to submit to someone in a position of power.