Define "antivirus" software. No. Really. Give a technical definition, so simple and explicit that a computer could use it. And then tell me it isn't either a) too restrictive, or b) open for abuse.
No. Inconsistently mixing tabs and spaces is a syntax error. The program simply won't run, and it will inform you as to why (much like how your C compiler will propably let you know when you've used a lower case l rather than an upper case I, even though they look the same in your font).
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However, the company has a strict policy of no LGPL or GPL software. Nothing more restrictive than BSD or Apache when it comes to using free software.
Thank you. That made me smile. When I hear about extremely stupid people making extremely stupid decisions that result in extreme costs for themselves, my day becomes a little bit brighter:-)
I talk to IT folks that work at small companies, and I just don't understand why anybody would work in a small company.
I work for a small company because when my CEO behaves like a complete fucktard, I can actually walk straight into his office and tell him that... he's behaving like a complete fucktard. I used to work for a company with 120k employees. I could not do that, and it was frustrating as hell.
There are loads of other benefits/freedoms in similar vein.
How many grandmas do you know or think you might know or imagine, who want to search a binary file?
Every single one.
The number of people working with pure text files are very few (although, incidentally, they generally seem to be the ones least frustrated by working with their computers).
Every now and then I run into a post that manages to express my own thoughts in a way much better than I would have been able to do myself. Yours was such a post. I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking exactly the things you just posted...
I'm dunno much of a Babylon-5, I must admit. That particular scene happened to be in one of the few episodes I ever watched. But I can't find a single source backing your "Picabo" claim up, although various more or less reputable ones (imdb, wikipeda and more) list the peekaboo (alt. spelling peek-a-boo) version.
Care to supply a link?
Your other points are, of course, perfectly valid, and you give a good explanation about why (all) those "passwords" are nonsense.
Sheridan: This is Captain John J. Sheridan. Serial number XO7Y39-Alpha. Security code: obsidian. Ivanova: This is Commander Susan Ivanova. Serial number Z48M27-Epsilon. Security code: griffin. Michael Garibaldi: This is Chief Warrant Officer Michael Garibaldi. Serial number V17L98. Security code: peekaboo. . . . Ivanova: Peekaboo? Garibaldi: Would you have guessed it?
If EFF is blocked for you, I'd seriously suggest finding another employer. I hear there's positions in China that allow much more liberal access to information.
However, just looking at the URL makes it obvious that the link is in fact not about the relatively recent WoWglider debacle, but the much older BNETD controversy.
Slash direction isn't a big deal, mainly a matter of taste and compatibility. CRLF is a waste of space (although small).
The drive letters are, however, very limiting. One of the great thing about the unix style organisation of drives is that you, as a user, don't have to care about which drive you're storing stuff on. And when some part of your disk file system starts consuming more space than expected, you can simply mount a new drive at that path, and not have to change a thing, configuration and software wise.
If you're going to post proof to support your point, I'd suggest posting stuff that actually... supports your point.
With the exception of the comics, every case of censorship mentioned on that page is on material of a "sexual" nature. Not a political one. It's even pointed out, explicitly, that articles extremely critical to the Iranian regime were left intact, while pictures of scantly clad women were blotted out.
I hardly see this type of censorship as one that works as a political tool to beguile the masses.
In all honesty, I see the same type of censorship everytime a Hip Hop song appears on MTV...
I'm using a similar device, seeded (I assume) by my combined Credit/ATM card (issued by my bank) for online banking. I got the device this year "free of charge". Before this, I used scratch cards with one time codes, and I believe that mine was the last major bank in the country to switch from that system.
Many people have commented on how stupid this behavior is, and a few seem to have RTFA and realised that the group is a joke. The girl in the article claims that she supports a law against texting while driving, something she has my respect for.
However, her reason for supporting the law is "I [...] would feel pretty horrible if something happened because of me breaking a law."
What The Fuck?
Have people so completely lost fate in their own ability to deduce what's right and wrong that they need laws to tell them what is OK and not. Would you not feel bad if something happened because you were just careless, as opposed to breaking the law?
Laws are there to make your life easier. They are not a fucking replacement for good judgement.
(I ran indent-rigidly, which another poster suggested).
There's your mistake. Try py-shift-region-right next time (as it happens to be named in the python mode I'm using at least).
Lots of time wasted explaining that it is impossible for an editor to handle something it definitely can. I'd be very, very surpried if vim can't as well.
And yes, I do understand what you mean when you say that the syntax does not give enough information to the editor. Your point is, however, false! You see, you do not need to reindent the entire file. You only need to adjust the just pasted section. And you know that the section is internally consistent with its own indentation level, and you know that all the surrounding code is consistent with itself (otherwise the code would, by definition, already be broken - as broken as java code with curly brackets in the wrong places (something which no editor could fix either, mind you)). So all you have to do is adjust the just pasted section of code the correct amount of times either left or right. Something i just let you know how to do in Emacs.
What editor are you using? It seems to be lacking a bit, feature wise.
In C: - You cut the block. - You paste it - You mark the entire if-block - You ask the editor to reindent it
In Python: - You cut the block - You paste it - You mark the pasted section (unless your editor has a feature to paste & mark, in which this step is unnecessary) - You indent/redent the marked block to wanted level.
It's the same amount of equally complicated maneuvers. Unless you have an editor with the feature I spoke of, in which case it is one less in Python.
Seriously, the white space thing annoyed me as well... for roughly two days. Six years of professional Python programming later, I cringe every time I run into code written in a language that wastes half its characters on redundant information (aka visual noise).
Yet Slashdot blames the companies for adding DRM and openly admit they will pirate the game. This just further justifies their actions.
Not really. Some people actually copy the game explicitly to avoid the DRM (as it has been removed from the copy by some helpful third party already). Not arguing against the rest of your rant, but that particular statement isn't true.
I'd never heard of the term before, and found it an interesting idea to read about in addition to our views on land ownership and trespassing. In other words, some might take it as a valuable addition of information.
Thank you for understanding my point. This was the exact intention of my post.
I'm not arguing against you, but this long discussion about trespassing made me want to post about Allemansrätten (Swedish, lit. transl: everyman's right). It is pretty much legal to enter private property as long as you stay out of gardens and the absolute vicinity of houses (just a clarification, as English is not my native language; when I say "property" here I speak about land, not houses). Essentially the law (which is a part of the Swedish constitution) exists in order to ensure that people will always have access to the country's forests, fields and lakes.
In short, barring special circumstances or special permits, it is illegal for the owner to drive anybody off their property.
I'm certainly not saying you're wrong - I just thought that people may want to know that alternative views on the concept of private property exists, and just picked one of the first posts in the discussion about it to reply to. Oh, and Sweden is not the only country that has this practice. The law exists in other Nordic countries, and to a lesser extent some other European countries.
And that pretty much ends my interest in this discussion. If you decide to treat two fundamentally different concepts as one and the same, there is little chance that your conclusions will make sense.
I wish you a good day, and hope you'll never find reason to flee from where you happen to be located.
You are confusing refugees with immigrants. Or, possibly, you are ignoring the distinction. You are arguing abolishing a system that caters for the former by proposing rules that only the later can follow.
The current asylum system in some European countries (I happen to live in one of the ones you seem to take great pleasure in bashing, so I know a bit about that one at least) is not sane. However, it still solves problems that abolishing it won't.
You have got to be kidding? I have never even heard of someone getting fired over a bug, and I run into a lot more problematic ones monthly. Are you seriously suggesting that people are getting fired over things like this? Care to drop a couple of links on us to back that theory up?
As a sibling poster mentioned, most vendors of proprietary software would probably shut up about a thing like this, and let the next "upgrade" silently fix the problem (leaving weak keys intact).
Knowing full well that I haven't got a clue, my guess would still be microcode embedded in some special purpose device - i.e. not a general purpose computer.
I don't remember when digital watches started appearing, but I suppose there's a bit of code in there? Various industrial machines from waaay back that are still in use ought to be good candidates as well.
Kudos to Consul for a remarkably interesting Ask Slashdot. The best one I've seen in a long while:)
Free software is only a better deal if it works just as well as the commercial alternative.
This is not true. The business I work for wouldn't dream of using proprietary software for anything business critical, as it leaves us too vulnerable. Yes, that means that we sometimes need to pick something that doesnt work "just as well", but we know that if we suddenly run into problems with the software, we can fix or work around them.
This security is worth quite a huge gap in quality for us - to the point that we (apart from the odd windows box for non techies) pretty much only use one proprietary component. And we've made sure it's an easilly replacable one (in case it some days starts causing us a headache) solving a non critical problem.
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Define "antivirus" software. No. Really. Give a technical definition, so simple and explicit that a computer could use it. And then tell me it isn't either a) too restrictive, or b) open for abuse.
No. Inconsistently mixing tabs and spaces is a syntax error. The program simply won't run, and it will inform you as to why (much like how your C compiler will propably let you know when you've used a lower case l rather than an upper case I, even though they look the same in your font).
Thank you. That made me smile. :-)
When I hear about extremely stupid people making extremely stupid decisions that result in extreme costs for themselves, my day becomes a little bit brighter
I work for a small company because when my CEO behaves like a complete fucktard, I can actually walk straight into his office and tell him that... he's behaving like a complete fucktard.
I used to work for a company with 120k employees. I could not do that, and it was frustrating as hell.
There are loads of other benefits/freedoms in similar vein.
Every single one.
The number of people working with pure text files are very few (although, incidentally, they generally seem to be the ones least frustrated by working with their computers).
Next question.
Every now and then I run into a post that manages to express my own thoughts in a way much better than I would have been able to do myself. Yours was such a post. I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking exactly the things you just posted...
I'm dunno much of a Babylon-5, I must admit. That particular scene happened to be in one of the few episodes I ever watched. But I can't find a single source backing your "Picabo" claim up, although various more or less reputable ones (imdb, wikipeda and more) list the peekaboo (alt. spelling peek-a-boo) version.
Care to supply a link?
Your other points are, of course, perfectly valid, and you give a good explanation about why (all) those "passwords" are nonsense.
Sheridan: This is Captain John J. Sheridan. Serial number XO7Y39-Alpha. Security code: obsidian.
Ivanova: This is Commander Susan Ivanova. Serial number Z48M27-Epsilon. Security code: griffin.
Michael Garibaldi: This is Chief Warrant Officer Michael Garibaldi. Serial number V17L98. Security code: peekaboo.
. . .
Ivanova: Peekaboo?
Garibaldi: Would you have guessed it?
(linky)
If EFF is blocked for you, I'd seriously suggest finding another employer. I hear there's positions in China that allow much more liberal access to information.
However, just looking at the URL makes it obvious that the link is in fact not about the relatively recent WoWglider debacle, but the much older BNETD controversy.
Meh. Just when I run out of mod points an AC, of all people, come and give a concise description of the situation.
All I can do is echo the classic Mod, parent up. I'm sorry about that...
Slash direction isn't a big deal, mainly a matter of taste and compatibility. CRLF is a waste of space (although small).
The drive letters are, however, very limiting. One of the great thing about the unix style organisation of drives is that you, as a user, don't have to care about which drive you're storing stuff on. And when some part of your disk file system starts consuming more space than expected, you can simply mount a new drive at that path, and not have to change a thing, configuration and software wise.
If you're going to post proof to support your point, I'd suggest posting stuff that actually... supports your point.
With the exception of the comics, every case of censorship mentioned on that page is on material of a "sexual" nature. Not a political one. It's even pointed out, explicitly, that articles extremely critical to the Iranian regime were left intact, while pictures of scantly clad women were blotted out.
I hardly see this type of censorship as one that works as a political tool to beguile the masses.
In all honesty, I see the same type of censorship everytime a Hip Hop song appears on MTV...
I'm using a similar device, seeded (I assume) by my combined Credit/ATM card (issued by my bank) for online banking. I got the device this year "free of charge". Before this, I used scratch cards with one time codes, and I believe that mine was the last major bank in the country to switch from that system.
I live in Sweden.
Many people have commented on how stupid this behavior is, and a few seem to have RTFA and realised that the group is a joke. The girl in the article claims that she supports a law against texting while driving, something she has my respect for.
However, her reason for supporting the law is "I [...] would feel pretty horrible if something happened because of me breaking a law."
What The Fuck?
Have people so completely lost fate in their own ability to deduce what's right and wrong that they need laws to tell them what is OK and not. Would you not feel bad if something happened because you were just careless, as opposed to breaking the law?
Laws are there to make your life easier. They are not a fucking replacement for good judgement.
You didn't even run through my example, did you?
Yes I did.
(I ran indent-rigidly, which another poster suggested).
There's your mistake. Try py-shift-region-right next time (as it happens to be named in the python mode I'm using at least).
Lots of time wasted explaining that it is impossible for an editor to handle something it definitely can. I'd be very, very surpried if vim can't as well.
And yes, I do understand what you mean when you say that the syntax does not give enough information to the editor. Your point is, however, false! You see, you do not need to reindent the entire file. You only need to adjust the just pasted section. And you know that the section is internally consistent with its own indentation level, and you know that all the surrounding code is consistent with itself (otherwise the code would, by definition, already be broken - as broken as java code with curly brackets in the wrong places (something which no editor could fix either, mind you)). So all you have to do is adjust the just pasted section of code the correct amount of times either left or right. Something i just let you know how to do in Emacs.
What editor are you using? It seems to be lacking a bit, feature wise.
In C:
- You cut the block.
- You paste it
- You mark the entire if-block
- You ask the editor to reindent it
In Python:
- You cut the block
- You paste it
- You mark the pasted section (unless your editor has a feature to paste & mark, in which this step is unnecessary)
- You indent/redent the marked block to wanted level.
It's the same amount of equally complicated maneuvers. Unless you have an editor with the feature I spoke of, in which case it is one less in Python.
Seriously, the white space thing annoyed me as well... for roughly two days. Six years of professional Python programming later, I cringe every time I run into code written in a language that wastes half its characters on redundant information (aka visual noise).
Yet Slashdot blames the companies for adding DRM and openly admit they will pirate the game. This just further justifies their actions.
Not really. Some people actually copy the game explicitly to avoid the DRM (as it has been removed from the copy by some helpful third party already).
Not arguing against the rest of your rant, but that particular statement isn't true.
I'd never heard of the term before, and found it an interesting idea to read about in addition to our views on land ownership and trespassing. In other words, some might take it as a valuable addition of information.
Thank you for understanding my point. This was the exact intention of my post.
I'm not arguing against you, but this long discussion about trespassing made me want to post about Allemansrätten (Swedish, lit. transl: everyman's right). It is pretty much legal to enter private property as long as you stay out of gardens and the absolute vicinity of houses (just a clarification, as English is not my native language; when I say "property" here I speak about land, not houses). Essentially the law (which is a part of the Swedish constitution) exists in order to ensure that people will always have access to the country's forests, fields and lakes.
In short, barring special circumstances or special permits, it is illegal for the owner to drive anybody off their property.
I'm certainly not saying you're wrong - I just thought that people may want to know that alternative views on the concept of private property exists, and just picked one of the first posts in the discussion about it to reply to.
Oh, and Sweden is not the only country that has this practice. The law exists in other Nordic countries, and to a lesser extent some other European countries.
I am ignoring the distinction.
And that pretty much ends my interest in this discussion.
If you decide to treat two fundamentally different concepts as one and the same, there is little chance that your conclusions will make sense.
I wish you a good day, and hope you'll never find reason to flee from where you happen to be located.
You are confusing refugees with immigrants. Or, possibly, you are ignoring the distinction.
You are arguing abolishing a system that caters for the former by proposing rules that only the later can follow.
The current asylum system in some European countries (I happen to live in one of the ones you seem to take great pleasure in bashing, so I know a bit about that one at least) is not sane. However, it still solves problems that abolishing it won't.
You have got to be kidding?
I have never even heard of someone getting fired over a bug, and I run into a lot more problematic ones monthly. Are you seriously suggesting that people are getting fired over things like this? Care to drop a couple of links on us to back that theory up?
As a sibling poster mentioned, most vendors of proprietary software would probably shut up about a thing like this, and let the next "upgrade" silently fix the problem (leaving weak keys intact).
Thanks to you (and sibling posters) for pointing out my false assumtions about digital watches :)
I stand corrected.
Knowing full well that I haven't got a clue, my guess would still be microcode embedded in some special purpose device - i.e. not a general purpose computer.
:)
I don't remember when digital watches started appearing, but I suppose there's a bit of code in there? Various industrial machines from waaay back that are still in use ought to be good candidates as well.
Kudos to Consul for a remarkably interesting Ask Slashdot. The best one I've seen in a long while
Free software is only a better deal if it works just as well as the commercial alternative.
This is not true. The business I work for wouldn't dream of using proprietary software for anything business critical, as it leaves us too vulnerable. Yes, that means that we sometimes need to pick something that doesnt work "just as well", but we know that if we suddenly run into problems with the software, we can fix or work around them.
This security is worth quite a huge gap in quality for us - to the point that we (apart from the odd windows box for non techies) pretty much only use one proprietary component. And we've made sure it's an easilly replacable one (in case it some days starts causing us a headache) solving a non critical problem.