How is it that so many geeks seem to feel threatened when people are reminded that theory is theory and not fact? Are you scared someone will poke holes in the theory you've been putting overtime in to assembling into Java/C++/MSNewRehashOfMSBASIC/... ?
Yeah, poisoning the well, I know. Ad hominem or however that's spelled, too. Since I'm on a roll,...
Theory, schmeory. 2000 people were offended that a theory is being used by textbook writers to impose a new religion on the kids. Seven were offended by the use of a sticker to bring a little balance into the discussion. The court sides with no balance in the discussion.
No looking beyond the science, kiddie-winks!
Facts is all they is!!!! Especially don't look behind the curtain of theory, because it requires being an expert to look behind the theory without going crazy!!!!!!!!
And yo ain't a expert less you claim theory is facts!!!!
Yeeesh.
Evolution is a principle. Applying evolution to the description of the creation of life is one of many theories, one which happens to make a lot of sense. Just like looking out the door and noticing that the world looks flat makes a lot of sense.
The world is round in the large because if it weren't it couldn't be, on average, flat in the small.
So, yes, the world is both flat and round. Up and down, too. But the part most of us deal with most immediately is _flat_. Just like evolution is all around us, and more immediate than however it was things were created.
Evolution operates. What is behind the evolution? Can science deal with that? and is it right for science to be required not to acknowledge that something might be behind evolution, if science is allowed not to try to say what it might be?
Or must science be required to enthrone Chance as God?
And is it right to attempt to limit science to the current fashionable set of theories? Anyone remember when the idea that a large celestial object could collide with the earth was considered blasphemy in much of the scientific community?
How much am I allowed to harass you in public? Can I really harass you so long as I don't do it with a baseball bat?
I put up with a lot of public harassment in the public school system when I was growing up, some of it from teachers. The lessons I learned through that about things like moral courage were invaluable, and I think those sorts of lessons are required for a person to become truly free.
I don't have the time to be thin skinned. Harass away.
But don't expect me to listen. Even were we standing in line, I know how to tune you out.
Actually, "being a jackass" is definitely illegal. It's called "disorderly conduct," and it refers to any attempt to disquiet or agitate an otherwise orderly assembly of people. It's been against the law for as long as we've had laws.
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No, being a jackass is not illegal.
Being a jackass with a baseball bat is illegal.
Being a jackass with (provable) intent to get someone physically hurt is illegal.
Being a jackass with the intent to cause someone to be deprived of their rightful dues can be illegal.
Unless you are going to tell me that a lawyer who apparently can't even comply with Constitutional requirement that the accused have to be faced by their accusers is due some sort of respect that you and I don't impose on each other, claiming these guys were disturbing the peace is definitely three steps over the line.
Unless the jokes included something that somebody interpreted as a threat of violence (and that doesn't include making a few lawyers get real jobs), the lawyer who made the complaint was dangerously close to rejecting his own commitments to the law. The officers who arrested them were dangerously close to dereliction of duty.
Unless other facts come out that indicate that there was real intent to incite riots or the like, I think that the judge that hears this should throw it out of court and maybe even threaten to charge the complainant with contempt of court. If those guys end up paying fines or going to jail, it's time for the residents there to impeach a judge and recall a few court officers.
If the robot is a worm, neither robots.txt nor the ROBOTS NOARCHIVE, NOINDEX, and NOFOLLOW header META tags aren't going to protect you.
Great for keeping your on-line resume out of the commonly used legitimate indexes. Wise in terms of reducing visibility. Statistically speaking, might give you a little more breathing room.
But no protection, of course.
(Every day, I check my logs to see if Microsoft's engine obeys those directives. So far, it does, about seven times a week, too.)
And i really don't care much for Borland's tools.
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Are you talking with any of the zigbee partners? I'll bet there are several companies among the crowd who'd love to have access to some of your dev work.
Whose UWB is going to hit that power target?
The lowest power UWB I'm aware of is Freescale's XS110, but I don't think it'll compete for the power.
I think what you'd be most likely to see is zigbee turning your DVD on and off, and UWB running the video to the screen, sound to the speakers, data feed from the network, etc. (Assuming the right UWB, of course.)
DONATE HARDWARE!!!!!!!!
Time would help, too.
(As someone pointed out, you could look a little harder at what's available, but no reason to miss a chance to plug for more hardware and more hands.)
Depending on which public you mean, this will actually work out to "within a few days of disclosure to the cracker public" and "before disclosure to the public in general, including to the company that makes the stuff".
Come to think of it, there are already examples. And I'm with the guy who says it's time to start working on a class-action suit against Microsoft for helping us push ourselves into this position.
As someone pointed out, way, way, down, it's not sufficient to just shut down all open MSIE windows. You have to open the task control dialogue (or whatever that thingy is called) and kill the ones that have gone faceless as well.
MSIE inherits an attitude of "Let's all share everything!" from MSWxxx (who got it from the old Macintosh's the-system-is-the-app approach, which was practically essential in those days of expensive GUI hardware).
Unfortunately, most other browsers imitate that to some extent, presumably because it has been hard to give the user an understandable widgit to tell the system to cut a group of sessions off from the rest of the tree, and hard to give the user feedback as to which windows are with which sessions.
Just another case of Microsoft misunderstanding the technology they expropriated and setting that wonderfully promiscuous example.
and don't go to your bank's site without shutting your browser down first. Every window.
If you're accessing an account with a lot of money, reboot the computer first.
Common sense.
(And one of the reasons I hate Microsoft -- they keep pushing everybody to behave like this sort of thing can't happen. It ain't ready for prime time yet.)
Is this a fault with the browsers, or the scripting language?
User error.
Shoot, Secunia's making a big deal about this, and I guess maybe people need to be reminded from time to time, but it's like Secunia says --
Don't go to your bank with a hitchhiker. Shut your stupid browser down before you get out your passwords, account numbers, etc. Close every browser window. Then open a fresh, blank window and proceed.
(Which is one reason there should be no default page setting for a browser.)
Expecting your browser to sandbox every browser window separately is a little like expecting Superman to escort you through the projects every time you go for a walk over lunch. Browsers and OSses on desktops have not even begun to approach the paradigms necessary for that kind of protection, and it's questionable whether the average user could remember whatever protocol could be invented anyway.
Just shut your browser completely down before you go to a secured site.
We have some medical image backups on this stuff where I work, from about 3-8 years ago. Close to half of them are corrupted and unreadable.
What brand? Where do you keep them?
I have some Teijin MOs I picked up really cheap, and they're still okay after about seven years. The Macintosh Performas (68k) I wrote them with have both gone flaky due to the humidity tobacco smoke where i worked for a year and a half, and being stored on the floor, but the drive (Olympus) and the MOs are still good.
I should note I do not keep the MOs in the same place I keep the old boxes.
A co-worker told me that here in Japan, MOs are considered somewhat more stable than CDs.
I suppose I should search the Japanese web.
Okay, Imation claims life of 30+ years on at least one of their MO lines:
http://www.imation.co.jp/products/pc_media/mo/in de x.html
When it becomes obvious that your OS is the reason
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When it becomes obvious that your OS is the reason spam is so bad,...
find a bad guy or two to take the attention off yourself.
That's all. Nothing to see here. Move on.
When Microsoft announces they've actually discovered their attempts to keep on top of the industry and the market are _exactly_ the source of the bugs in their OS,
When they decide 95% of the desktop market was good enough and decide to retire from competing and simply try to make what they've already sold function somewhere close to spec (Can't be done, but they could sure get closer.),
When Bill admits publicly that his vision of technical nirvana doesn't even fit the average geek, much less the average consumer,
Then we can give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt.
Only then.
Until then, them going after the bad guys is just the biggest bad guy trying to shore up his position.
But what would the open window do with any other file/folder? That is the question here.
Exactly.
Which is why a trashcan that changes to an eject button is about the only GUI element you want to put on the desktop (or, in this case, the dock) for ejecting a disk.
Although, I suppose a file/folder that gets dropped on the unmount proxy object could turn into a boomerang and fly back where it was. A visual no-op.
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Thank God indeed.
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How is it that so many geeks seem to feel threatened when people are reminded that theory is theory and not fact? Are you scared someone will poke holes in the theory you've been putting overtime in to assembling into Java/C++/MSNewRehashOfMSBASIC/... ?
Yeah, poisoning the well, I know. Ad hominem or however that's spelled, too. Since I'm on a roll,
Theory, schmeory. 2000 people were offended that a theory is being used by textbook writers to impose a new religion on the kids. Seven were offended by the use of a sticker to bring a little balance into the discussion. The court sides with no balance in the discussion.
No looking beyond the science, kiddie-winks!
Facts is all they is!!!! Especially don't look behind the curtain of theory, because it requires being an expert to look behind the theory without going crazy!!!!!!!!
And yo ain't a expert less you claim theory is facts!!!!
Yeeesh.
Evolution is a principle. Applying evolution to the description of the creation of life is one of many theories, one which happens to make a lot of sense. Just like looking out the door and noticing that the world looks flat makes a lot of sense.
The world is round in the large because if it weren't it couldn't be, on average, flat in the small.
So, yes, the world is both flat and round. Up and down, too. But the part most of us deal with most immediately is _flat_. Just like evolution is all around us, and more immediate than however it was things were created.
Evolution operates. What is behind the evolution? Can science deal with that? and is it right for science to be required not to acknowledge that something might be behind evolution, if science is allowed not to try to say what it might be?
Or must science be required to enthrone Chance as God?
And is it right to attempt to limit science to the current fashionable set of theories? Anyone remember when the idea that a large celestial object could collide with the earth was considered blasphemy in much of the scientific community?
Anyone with a clue here at all?
I put up with a lot of public harassment in the public school system when I was growing up, some of it from teachers. The lessons I learned through that about things like moral courage were invaluable, and I think those sorts of lessons are required for a person to become truly free.
I don't have the time to be thin skinned. Harass away.
But don't expect me to listen. Even were we standing in line, I know how to tune you out.
{head-implodes/}
No, being a jackass is not illegal.
Unless you are going to tell me that a lawyer who apparently can't even comply with Constitutional requirement that the accused have to be faced by their accusers is due some sort of respect that you and I don't impose on each other, claiming these guys were disturbing the peace is definitely three steps over the line.
Unless the jokes included something that somebody interpreted as a threat of violence (and that doesn't include making a few lawyers get real jobs), the lawyer who made the complaint was dangerously close to rejecting his own commitments to the law. The officers who arrested them were dangerously close to dereliction of duty.
Unless other facts come out that indicate that there was real intent to incite riots or the like, I think that the judge that hears this should throw it out of court and maybe even threaten to charge the complainant with contempt of court. If those guys end up paying fines or going to jail, it's time for the residents there to impeach a judge and recall a few court officers.
fighting Americans and putting themselves back under tyranny.
If the robot is a worm, neither robots.txt nor the ROBOTS NOARCHIVE, NOINDEX, and NOFOLLOW header META tags aren't going to protect you.
Great for keeping your on-line resume out of the commonly used legitimate indexes. Wise in terms of reducing visibility. Statistically speaking, might give you a little more breathing room.
But no protection, of course.
(Every day, I check my logs to see if Microsoft's engine obeys those directives. So far, it does, about seven times a week, too.)
So there.
Thinking of FORTH CPUs of yore.
And some old IBM CPUs, too, come to think of it -- writeable microcode, was it?
Looks like a cool IEEE 802.15.4 module.
Are you talking with any of the zigbee partners? I'll bet there are several companies among the crowd who'd love to have access to some of your dev work.
front page.
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I didn't see anything about "jiggubii" in there. (Or musen, or seigyo,
Whose UWB is going to hit that power target? The lowest power UWB I'm aware of is Freescale's XS110, but I don't think it'll compete for the power. I think what you'd be most likely to see is zigbee turning your DVD on and off, and UWB running the video to the screen, sound to the speakers, data feed from the network, etc. (Assuming the right UWB, of course.)
Not reading the friendly article?
Insider information that contradicts the article (and the standards)?
eXtremely oblique Sarcasm?
DONATE HARDWARE!!!!!!!! Time would help, too. (As someone pointed out, you could look a little harder at what's available, but no reason to miss a chance to plug for more hardware and more hands.)
It's sort of ironic that a number of people don't see the irony in a dead operating system that isn't dead, and in a dead language that isn't dead.
Depending on which public you mean, this will actually work out to "within a few days of disclosure to the cracker public" and "before disclosure to the public in general, including to the company that makes the stuff".
Come to think of it, there are already examples. And I'm with the guy who says it's time to start working on a class-action suit against Microsoft for helping us push ourselves into this position.
As someone pointed out, way, way, down, it's not sufficient to just shut down all open MSIE windows. You have to open the task control dialogue (or whatever that thingy is called) and kill the ones that have gone faceless as well.
MSIE inherits an attitude of "Let's all share everything!" from MSWxxx (who got it from the old Macintosh's the-system-is-the-app approach, which was practically essential in those days of expensive GUI hardware).
Unfortunately, most other browsers imitate that to some extent, presumably because it has been hard to give the user an understandable widgit to tell the system to cut a group of sessions off from the rest of the tree, and hard to give the user feedback as to which windows are with which sessions.
Just another case of Microsoft misunderstanding the technology they expropriated and setting that wonderfully promiscuous example.
LOL! I suppose I should change my /. password now, just in case Secunia's proof of concept had a more-than-friendly bit of code in it.
and don't go to your bank's site without shutting your browser down first. Every window.
If you're accessing an account with a lot of money, reboot the computer first.
Common sense.
(And one of the reasons I hate Microsoft -- they keep pushing everybody to behave like this sort of thing can't happen. It ain't ready for prime time yet.)
User error.
Shoot, Secunia's making a big deal about this, and I guess maybe people need to be reminded from time to time, but it's like Secunia says --
Don't go to your bank with a hitchhiker. Shut your stupid browser down before you get out your passwords, account numbers, etc. Close every browser window. Then open a fresh, blank window and proceed.
(Which is one reason there should be no default page setting for a browser.)
Expecting your browser to sandbox every browser window separately is a little like expecting Superman to escort you through the projects every time you go for a walk over lunch. Browsers and OSses on desktops have not even begun to approach the paradigms necessary for that kind of protection, and it's questionable whether the average user could remember whatever protocol could be invented anyway.
Just shut your browser completely down before you go to a secured site.
What brand? Where do you keep them?
I have some Teijin MOs I picked up really cheap, and they're still okay after about seven years. The Macintosh Performas (68k) I wrote them with have both gone flaky due to the humidity tobacco smoke where i worked for a year and a half, and being stored on the floor, but the drive (Olympus) and the MOs are still good.
I should note I do not keep the MOs in the same place I keep the old boxes.
A co-worker told me that here in Japan, MOs are considered somewhat more stable than CDs.
n de x.html
I suppose I should search the Japanese web.
Okay, Imation claims life of 30+ years on at least one of their MO lines:
http://www.imation.co.jp/products/pc_media/mo/i
When it becomes obvious that your OS is the reason spam is so bad, ...
find a bad guy or two to take the attention off yourself.
That's all. Nothing to see here. Move on.
When Microsoft announces they've actually discovered their attempts to keep on top of the industry and the market are _exactly_ the source of the bugs in their OS,
When they decide 95% of the desktop market was good enough and decide to retire from competing and simply try to make what they've already sold function somewhere close to spec (Can't be done, but they could sure get closer.),
When Bill admits publicly that his vision of technical nirvana doesn't even fit the average geek, much less the average consumer,
Then we can give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt.
Only then.
Until then, them going after the bad guys is just the biggest bad guy trying to shore up his position.
Exactly.
Which is why a trashcan that changes to an eject button is about the only GUI element you want to put on the desktop (or, in this case, the dock) for ejecting a disk.
Although, I suppose a file/folder that gets dropped on the unmount proxy object could turn into a boomerang and fly back where it was. A visual no-op.
While it may seem weird having Linux running in a padded cell, it means their dev team and their customers can get more work done.
And it provides another real alternative to Microsieve, meaning fewer reasons for government organizations and businesses to give in to Leviathan.
And their engineers will get used to using Linux tools.
As in horror movies?
And it's the battle of the trolls!