I tried the manpages for "here" in sections 1, 2, and 3 as suggested by the write-up, but my MANPATH seems to be sorely lacking:(
At first I thought "Maybe it's just because Linux isn't ready for the desktop, according to some" so I tried NetBSD/alpha, NetBSD/pmax, Ultrix, 4.3BSD, Solaris, but they didn't have it either.
My HPUX and Irix boxes are offline, but I promise to get around to them soon!
Oh yeah, I even tried "help here" on VMS, but no luck there, either.
If anybody does have copies of here(1), here(2), and here(3), please mail me Z/zip/gz/bz2's of roff/ascii/html/ps/pdf. Thanks!
But they probably "pre-allocate" a lot of zero-blocks, which often are not ever written to disk... it's like a sparse matrix.
At least, this is my experience with ed2k under linux... after copying about 200 ed2k URLs in, I had a directory whose files had a total size of dozens of gigabytes.
du -s showed the truth; the directory was only a few hundred megs (but growing fast).
If apple's contract told you to rob a bank, would you?
Some companies (especially ones with '$' in their name) are infamous for TOSs that severely overstep sane boundaries which may become legal boundaries (by precedent) if this winds up in court.
It's not a virus, it's a trojan horse. Maybe a nitpick, but the story goes, back in the day, there was this large horse which roamed freely around the city of Troy. It carried a.NFO which read, "Capable of turning your city into a full-fledged city-state!" Someone in Troy decided to open the horse, and sure enough, the entire town was reformatted.
True. But you could also read the screen via Tempest-like technology!
It seems that no matter what you do, we'll be screwed anyway. We might as well go to a trust-based system. How about everybody just changes all their passwords to 'secret'?
Nah. Think about it: pressing different spots of your screen is like pressing down a guitar string at different points. You will cause the screen to resonate with a multitude of frequencies with distinct audio "fingerprints" for different points on the screen, which can also be picked up by very sensitive equipment.
The solution to this, of course, is to condone infanticide, geriatricide, and imbecilicide, and forbid the intentional duplication of human genetic code by copyrighting it internationally.
Of course, there still remains one problem: in countries without DMCA-like laws, someone could still construct a machine that independently wanders around, gathering skin cell particles from dust, and duplicating human code from that. Fortunately, the U.S. of A. and most of Europe do not have to worry about anybody creating such circumvention devices, but a robotics lab could still relocate to a third-world country and pull it off.
BitTorrent is the often the only way to get Slackware ISOs nowadays... and it's perfectly legitimate.
When I used to use Sega Genesis emulators, it was mostly because I would compile things with gcc-68k and then see if I could talk to the Genesis video processor and get it to do what I want.
*shrug*
But then again, I usually drive <=55 in a 55 MPH zone. Most people around here don't.
Does that make me a "pussy"/"fag"/"asshole"/buzzword-of-the-week?
(Apologies to any females or homosexual men who read this post; I just needed to prove a point)
When this event was first given a trial run at nationals, there were these sorts of entries: - people with very very nicely built flutes and stringed instruments and such... these people knew precious little of the physics behind their instruments - me and my friend, with some crappy pvc-pipe creations that were played like brass instruments... and we built them to be (close to) on pitch, because we knew the equations like the backs of our hands
Guess who scored well? =) It is science olympiad, after all...
Everything in life is half-sarcastic... but also half-serious. *smirk*
You are correct, I was being sarcastic (or at least trying to be). However, I also wasn't... because some of those things can teach you things you just can't learn on TV. Part of the thing here is that the keenest observer can see things in any situation. The people who are most involved will have the most fulfilling life experiences... and if they happen to be intellectuals, they're going to strengthen their minds.
Of course I could just be full of crap. But, hey, crap sells! Just look at the HSN.
That's true. I think drugs, drunken violence, wild orgies, mosh pits, and occult study are *all* superior to watching television.
The smartest people will have the fullest and richest of the human experience. Go out and try a little of everything... and, while you're at it, if you find one or two fields that really strike your fancy, indulge yourself in as much knowledge as possible. Try to be slightly controversial, while you're at it... if you pull it off right, you'll be noticed and remembered:)
I know it doesn't answer your question, but part of the issue is that there's always someone out there who will work for cheaper than you will. There are 6.2 billion people around here... chances are, I'll be able to find a handful of people who will work for moldy bread crumbs.... but that doesn't make it ethical to have that kind of set-up.
It's not that.. it's just common courtesy is to not keyword-fix your site just to deceive people. There's nothing inherently wrong with animated GIFs, or Java applets, or keyword lists, or CSS, but they all have some abuse potential.
Most people who have been online for a while understand the dualism: the Internet is sort-of a dog-eat-dog place (just because of the anonymity and haphazardness), but at the same time, people generally try to help each other out, especially in social groups that cluster around certain things. When someone goes out of their way to be a nuisance, especially by using very specific keywords in ways that just disrupt the normal social and productivity flows... it isn't highly appreciated by everyone else.
And if I were sober, this post would be a little more down-to-earth...:-P
Filesharing seems to be popular for these things: - hit songs: illegal, but overplayed on the radio ANYWAY - movies: illegal, although for older films, they get played on TV (and thus taped and copied and recopied by millions) all the time - live recordings: quasi-illegal (most bands don't care, or encourage, as long as it's not to excess) - porn: quasi-illegal (many porn companies don't care, or encourage this; some say it's good for advertising) - pirated software: very illegal (this is probably the worst one... thought don't forget that some of the traffic is going to be products that come preinstalled on the vast majority of computers)
So, you're right, 90% of filesharing is probably illegal or quasi-illegal; however, most of it is not a serious threat. The big issues are things like software pirating, new movies, and maybe downloading entire albums.
I'm not going to say that some of the quasi-illegal territory or it-happens-anyway stuff is necessarily Good or Moral, but I don't believe it's as serious as RIAA/MPAA/BSA pretend it is.
Actually, OSS products are, for me, far, far superior to proprietary ones, because proprietary ones simply *cannot* meet my needs! Why? No software designer or engineer could possibly think of every possible customization. Chances are, I will want something the software isn't capable of doing. With proprietary apps, you're generally stuck. Even if you have source, you probably won't be provided with all the pieces required to make alterations and re-compile and re-link.
Not only that, but, I enjoy hacking code. I can go at my own pace, and the things I am doing are things that are useful to me. Some people say, "Time is money, and OSS isn't worth the time you waste despite the money you save," but that's not true for me, because time I spend working on developing my _own_ ideas, tweaking my _own_ system, is much better spent and much more fulfilling.
There is the whole "why reinvent the wheel, unless you can do it better?" argument, which would make OSS seem pointless, because OSS often lacks some of the features or wide userbase of similar proprietary packages. But, I don't really like using features I don't really understand; one of the things I have never quite understood about many other people's approach to computer use is how they just click things at random until they get what they want, rather than trying to understand how it's all put together so that they can always know how to get what they want. Therefore, if there's something missing from OSS that I want, or something I want to change to be better for me, chances are I know enough to do it myself. I can't justify spending hundreds or thousands of dollars to pay someone else to do something that I could have done myself.
Maybe I just have a big ego, but I place much higher value on time I spend re-doing what others have already done than on money I would have to spend. For me, it's really a question of: do I want to work hard, feel good about myself, and have something to be proud of? or, do I want to throw around money for no good reason, sit on my fat end-user ass and never write a lick of code, and have my computer system always feel like a hotel and never like my home?
Of course, I do understand if, to everyone else, it's a question of: should I waste time doing tedious work I see no point in doing given that others have already done it? or, should I swallow my pride and shell out a few dollars so that I can use a product developed by experts?
I think it all depends on the mentality of the person making a decision between proprietary and OSS, right now. In the future, if desktop OSS gets to the point where it's on par with proprietary, it may be more of a social clique issue (specialty products will always be good for proprietary markets; I understand that much!)... I think that's *really* what Linux advocates are hoping for: not that most graphic designers would flock to The GIMP, but that most casual PhotoShop users would be able to do their work just the same with a free (in both senses of the word) product.
I'm also curious about the ability to detect "drug and alcohol consumption." Is this done by checking iris/pupil characteristics?
And, drugs---you mean like antidepressants and anxiolytics, both of which are wont to induce mydriasis?
"I'm sorry, sir. Dilation says can't let you on the plane. You're either on speed, or you're on happy pills, and either way, we don't want you."
If there are other detectable characteristics in the iris area besides pupil dilatation, I'd love to know. Any ocular pharmacology researchers out there?
I know this is kinda OT, but, where did the term "aimbot" come from? Years back, I made this bot for AIM, called it AIMBot (the obvious), and got hundreds of people e-mailing, very confused about how to get CounterStrike to use aimbot.c.
Slashdot Mirror
Ah, OK. I had been wondering.
:(
I tried the manpages for "here" in sections 1, 2, and 3 as suggested by the write-up, but my MANPATH seems to be sorely lacking
At first I thought "Maybe it's just because Linux isn't ready for the desktop, according to some" so I tried NetBSD/alpha, NetBSD/pmax, Ultrix, 4.3BSD, Solaris, but they didn't have it either.
My HPUX and Irix boxes are offline, but I promise to get around to them soon!
Oh yeah, I even tried "help here" on VMS, but no luck there, either.
If anybody does have copies of here(1), here(2), and here(3), please mail me Z/zip/gz/bz2's of roff/ascii/html/ps/pdf. Thanks!
But they probably "pre-allocate" a lot of zero-blocks, which often are not ever written to disk... it's like a sparse matrix.
At least, this is my experience with ed2k under linux... after copying about 200 ed2k URLs in, I had a directory whose files had a total size of dozens of gigabytes.
du -s showed the truth; the directory was only a few hundred megs (but growing fast).
Wow, is that true? That's fucking insane...
;)
Any senator who would support something without even knowing what it is does not deserve to be a senator.
Time to bomb congress, eh?
[just kidding... screw you CIA]
If apple's contract told you to rob a bank, would you?
Some companies (especially ones with '$' in their name) are infamous for TOSs that severely overstep sane boundaries which may become legal boundaries (by precedent) if this winds up in court.
It's not a virus, it's a trojan horse. .NFO which read, "Capable of turning your city into a full-fledged city-state!" Someone in Troy decided to open the horse, and sure enough, the entire town was reformatted.
Maybe a nitpick, but the story goes, back in the day, there was this large horse which roamed freely around the city of Troy. It carried a
True, but you can measure the harmonics. That's what the article was about... using a neural network to recognize the harmonics from the keyboard :)
True. But you could also read the screen via Tempest-like technology!
It seems that no matter what you do, we'll be screwed anyway. We might as well go to a trust-based system. How about everybody just changes all their passwords to 'secret'?
Nah. Think about it: pressing different spots of your screen is like pressing down a guitar string at different points. You will cause the screen to resonate with a multitude of frequencies with distinct audio "fingerprints" for different points on the screen, which can also be picked up by very sensitive equipment.
Sorry.
The solution to this, of course, is to condone infanticide, geriatricide, and imbecilicide, and forbid the intentional duplication of human genetic code by copyrighting it internationally.
Of course, there still remains one problem: in countries without DMCA-like laws, someone could still construct a machine that independently wanders around, gathering skin cell particles from dust, and duplicating human code from that. Fortunately, the U.S. of A. and most of Europe do not have to worry about anybody creating such circumvention devices, but a robotics lab could still relocate to a third-world country and pull it off.
BitTorrent is the often the only way to get Slackware ISOs nowadays... and it's perfectly legitimate.
When I used to use Sega Genesis emulators, it was mostly because I would compile things with gcc-68k and then see if I could talk to the Genesis video processor and get it to do what I want.
*shrug*
But then again, I usually drive <=55 in a 55 MPH zone. Most people around here don't.
Does that make me a "pussy"/"fag"/"asshole"/buzzword-of-the-week?
(Apologies to any females or homosexual men who read this post; I just needed to prove a point)
If the CPOD is so indestructible, why don't they just make the rest of the human out of the same stuff?
Bill Gates isn't a person.
Bill Gates are obviously how money gets out of the treasury's printing room. Duh.
Problem Solved!
When this event was first given a trial run at nationals, there were these sorts of entries:
- people with very very nicely built flutes and stringed instruments and such... these people knew precious little of the physics behind their instruments
- me and my friend, with some crappy pvc-pipe creations that were played like brass instruments... and we built them to be (close to) on pitch, because we knew the equations like the backs of our hands
Guess who scored well? =) It is science olympiad, after all...
Hahaha, I'm totally with you there :-P
Everything in life is half-sarcastic... but also half-serious. *smirk*
You are correct, I was being sarcastic (or at least trying to be). However, I also wasn't... because some of those things can teach you things you just can't learn on TV. Part of the thing here is that the keenest observer can see things in any situation. The people who are most involved will have the most fulfilling life experiences... and if they happen to be intellectuals, they're going to strengthen their minds.
Of course I could just be full of crap. But, hey, crap sells! Just look at the HSN.
So, on a side note, if a mother is taking antihistamines, does that fuck up the kid's brain?
(One common class of antihistamines are anticholinergics, which block acetylcholine activity.)
That's true. I think drugs, drunken violence, wild orgies, mosh pits, and occult study are *all* superior to watching television.
:)
The smartest people will have the fullest and richest of the human experience. Go out and try a little of everything... and, while you're at it, if you find one or two fields that really strike your fancy, indulge yourself in as much knowledge as possible. Try to be slightly controversial, while you're at it... if you pull it off right, you'll be noticed and remembered
I can...
Type up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right to get to the secret Slide Select menu, where you can jump to any slide in the game...errr...
I know it doesn't answer your question, but part of the issue is that there's always someone out there who will work for cheaper than you will. There are 6.2 billion people around here... chances are, I'll be able to find a handful of people who will work for moldy bread crumbs.... but that doesn't make it ethical to have that kind of set-up.
It's not that.. it's just common courtesy is to not keyword-fix your site just to deceive people. There's nothing inherently wrong with animated GIFs, or Java applets, or keyword lists, or CSS, but they all have some abuse potential.
:-P
Most people who have been online for a while understand the dualism: the Internet is sort-of a dog-eat-dog place (just because of the anonymity and haphazardness), but at the same time, people generally try to help each other out, especially in social groups that cluster around certain things. When someone goes out of their way to be a nuisance, especially by using very specific keywords in ways that just disrupt the normal social and productivity flows... it isn't highly appreciated by everyone else.
And if I were sober, this post would be a little more down-to-earth...
Filesharing seems to be popular for these things:
- hit songs: illegal, but overplayed on the radio ANYWAY
- movies: illegal, although for older films, they get played on TV (and thus taped and copied and recopied by millions) all the time
- live recordings: quasi-illegal (most bands don't care, or encourage, as long as it's not to excess)
- porn: quasi-illegal (many porn companies don't care, or encourage this; some say it's good for advertising)
- pirated software: very illegal (this is probably the worst one... thought don't forget that some of the traffic is going to be products that come preinstalled on the vast majority of computers)
So, you're right, 90% of filesharing is probably illegal or quasi-illegal; however, most of it is not a serious threat. The big issues are things like software pirating, new movies, and maybe downloading entire albums.
I'm not going to say that some of the quasi-illegal territory or it-happens-anyway stuff is necessarily Good or Moral, but I don't believe it's as serious as RIAA/MPAA/BSA pretend it is.
Actually, OSS products are, for me, far, far superior to proprietary ones, because proprietary ones simply *cannot* meet my needs! Why? No software designer or engineer could possibly think of every possible customization. Chances are, I will want something the software isn't capable of doing. With proprietary apps, you're generally stuck. Even if you have source, you probably won't be provided with all the pieces required to make alterations and re-compile and re-link.
Not only that, but, I enjoy hacking code. I can go at my own pace, and the things I am doing are things that are useful to me. Some people say, "Time is money, and OSS isn't worth the time you waste despite the money you save," but that's not true for me, because time I spend working on developing my _own_ ideas, tweaking my _own_ system, is much better spent and much more fulfilling.
There is the whole "why reinvent the wheel, unless you can do it better?" argument, which would make OSS seem pointless, because OSS often lacks some of the features or wide userbase of similar proprietary packages. But, I don't really like using features I don't really understand; one of the things I have never quite understood about many other people's approach to computer use is how they just click things at random until they get what they want, rather than trying to understand how it's all put together so that they can always know how to get what they want. Therefore, if there's something missing from OSS that I want, or something I want to change to be better for me, chances are I know enough to do it myself. I can't justify spending hundreds or thousands of dollars to pay someone else to do something that I could have done myself.
Maybe I just have a big ego, but I place much higher value on time I spend re-doing what others have already done than on money I would have to spend. For me, it's really a question of: do I want to work hard, feel good about myself, and have something to be proud of? or, do I want to throw around money for no good reason, sit on my fat end-user ass and never write a lick of code, and have my computer system always feel like a hotel and never like my home?
Of course, I do understand if, to everyone else, it's a question of: should I waste time doing tedious work I see no point in doing given that others have already done it? or, should I swallow my pride and shell out a few dollars so that I can use a product developed by experts?
I think it all depends on the mentality of the person making a decision between proprietary and OSS, right now. In the future, if desktop OSS gets to the point where it's on par with proprietary, it may be more of a social clique issue (specialty products will always be good for proprietary markets; I understand that much!)... I think that's *really* what Linux advocates are hoping for: not that most graphic designers would flock to The GIMP, but that most casual PhotoShop users would be able to do their work just the same with a free (in both senses of the word) product.
I'm also curious about the ability to detect "drug and alcohol consumption." Is this done by checking iris/pupil characteristics?
And, drugs---you mean like antidepressants and anxiolytics, both of which are wont to induce mydriasis?
"I'm sorry, sir. Dilation says can't let you on the plane. You're either on speed, or you're on happy pills, and either way, we don't want you."
If there are other detectable characteristics in the iris area besides pupil dilatation, I'd love to know. Any ocular pharmacology researchers out there?
I know this is kinda OT, but, where did the term "aimbot" come from? Years back, I made this bot for AIM, called it AIMBot (the obvious), and got hundreds of people e-mailing, very confused about how to get CounterStrike to use aimbot.c.
*sigh*