Not true. For 200+ years, Congress has just said that 99% of their rules are allowed because they affect interstate commerce in some vague, tertiary way, and they do have the constitutional authority to regulate interstate commerce. The problem is they have warped that beyond all belief. A cannabis club for terminal patients in California was raided even though they followed state law, raised their own cannabis in california, and sold it to nobody (all donated to the patients). The fed. gov't argued that the fact they grew it at all was sufficient to cause people in other states to want to buy it, hence 'interstate commerce' involving no commerce, and no interstate traffic. Yes, the lunatics are running the asylum.
Sheesh guys. They're saying that nobody has been injured YET by the ruling, so nobody YET has been affected. I would think that manufacturers could argue that they are currently effected because they probably have these units in production, but a consumer can only bring suit after the first time they're denied the ability to record a show, at which point they have been injured by the ruling. At that point though, they're still screwed, because they're stuck with a broadcast flag respecting unit, and the broadcasters would still be free to broadcast the broadcast flag. But they would have won the right to purchase a new unit without the broadcast flag respect built into it.
The risk I worry about isn't Chernobyl. It's waste products that have been stored in metal barrels for decades. This country has an abysmal record on safely disposing toxic waste products of all kinds, and there STILL is not a single site working site for permanent disposal of nuclear waste (which will change with Yucca mountain I know). Too bad many experts say that Yucca mountain is seismically unstable....
The problem with nuclear energy is a false economy. How much expense will running Yucca mountain for the next 10,000 years rack up? How much of its running expenses are currently subsidized by the federal government? That offsets any advantages nuclear fission has in my opinion.
Fusion obviously has none of those problems, and research into it is drastically underfunded. If the government funded a research program on 1/10 the scale of the Manhattan project into fusion I'm convinced it would become a viable power source and overshadow any of the other alternative energy sources being talked about.
It's standards compliant CSS and cross-platform ECMA-script. Your browser is doing what it's told to do. Are you going to strip out the ability for Mozilla and FireFox to handle onKeyPress events? Force a dialog box to pop up each time asking if you want to allow it? I have several times written pages that handled the return key press to only allow it to succeed if the form was valid. Same with other keys as well.
NOTHING is changed in your browser settings. It's like they have a green background and suddenly your screaming that they set all backgrounds to green - they didn't. I would be more upset about googles lack of a doctype tag than about their 'DRM' if I were you.
How are you going to copy/paste text from a jpeg? This has nothing to do with rights. Google serves up the text as jpegs, hence you (technologically) can't copy/paste. No DRM to see here. Simply the way all web browsers work. If you can find a web browser with integrated OCR functionality for highlighting the text in jpegs, please let me know.
The fact that they hide the 'good' jpeg behind the 'bad' jpeg makes no difference. The fact is all jpegs are terrible for text, and I for one do not accept that a company publishing text in jpeg form should be labelled as using DRM. They somewhat simulated DRM using established web technologies.
It took me thirty seconds of looking at the HTML source code of the page before I saw the tag for the image I wanted: http://print.google.com/print?id=GUKL8f735roC&pg=1 &img=1&q=charles+dickens&sig=lViNNyLehJXsLHaUNXGe6 n5vl18
I only looked at one sample page, but I think all of these links would be preceded by this HTML snippet: <style type=text/css>.theimg
So, all you need is an app to request the html for the page, parse out the snippet identifying theimg and request that file. You also then need to parse the link for next page: <a href="http://print.google.com/print?id=GUKL8f735ro C&lpg=1&prev=http://print.google.com/print%3Fq%3Dc harles%2Bdickens&pg=2&sig=ndW5I_dHrUMyHW2ztZqvV_mk zxY"><img align=middle alt="Next Page" border=0 width=19 height=19 src=/googleprint/rarr.gif></a> easily identified by the alt text of Next Page. Keep going until you have no more next page links. There's the whole book - as a series of freakin' jpgs with copyrighted material written vertically up the right side. Just make sure you don't search to find the book either, because then your search term is highlighted in yellow in the jpg.
I'm sure someone could write a Perl app using libwww in a couple hours to automate this. But what's the point? These are jpgs, you can't select the text no matter what. You'd have to feed it into an OCR program to regenerate the text with all the mistakes that could introduce.
"For all program aspects investigated, the performance variability due to different programmers (as described by the bad/good ratios) is on average about as large or even larger than the variability due to different languages."
Which is why it almost always makes more sense writing it in whatever you're most experienced with, because you know all the tricks and techniques. Writing it in the 'most appropriate' language opens you up to the problem that you aren't that good in that language, so then you write worse code and it ends up not performing any better anyway.
The parameters represent the following: -v = verbose -eject = eject CD after burn is complete dev=device_ID = your device ID, typically a number in the format X,X,X which you can find out by running cdrecord -scanbus speed=speed_of_drive = enter the write speed of your CD-RW drive (1, 2, 4, etc.) isoname.iso is actual name of the iso you want to burn
exit, then exit to close Konsole
I'm a windows guy myself so I don't know - is it normal to require the root password in order to burn a cd in linux?
"The small village of Canneto di Caronia in Sicily has become the front line in the war of annihilation between humanity and Terminator-style roboappliances."
If it gets modded down as redundant, I will have sucked up 11 moderator points...it only ended up at +4, but I saw it go back and forth several times, so I suspect it sucked up quite a few mods.
But I am only the messenger; it is all for the glory of Allah.
I've heard the rate at which people who commit identity theft get caught is around 1 in 7000.
So you have a much better than 99.9% chance to just do it to your heart's content and walk away with the money. That's pretty freakin' scary. A crime where you never have to see your victims, never have to face any consequences, and make tons of money. Can you imagine what would happen if a misguided Robin Hood decided to popularize the techniques and teach them to America's poor? Would the entire banking industry collapse at once? With a million people doing it simultaneously you would obviously overload the already overloaded investigative ability of the gov't and probably change the ration to 1 in 100,000 getting caught.
This is only available natively in IIS 6 on server 2003, and installing and getting it to work is more effort than clicking a checkbox. Perhaps you worked somewhere that bought a commercial ISAPI filter?
It didn't have row-level locking before? Okay, I can see that. But it didn't have FOREIGN KEYS??? And people used to bristle whenever someone suggested it wasn't a real database....
What if your network connection flakes out for a second? Then what? That's why there is such a thing as replication, for all the times when simple copying doesn't work for some reason - there needs to be extremely thorough error handling and methods for getting the data back in synch.
What's your beef with SQL Server? I worked with Sybase for years, and SQL Server is much better. As soon as the two of them split, every decision Sybase made was the wrong one. Replication and data transformation is dead simple in SQL Server. If it can handle a 300 gig database, it's more powerful than I'll ever need. It's easy to maintain with utilities like the SQL Profiler and the index tuning wizard. I'm not a DBA, and with SQL Server I don't need to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Microsoft shill, whatever....
You're reviewing a home theater pc. You don't hook it up to a home theater system. The home theater pc doesn't come with a tv out. Uh..... I don't get it. Who is this review supposed to help? And how is this intended as a home theater pc?
I find 'middle layer' getting very small in my apps now. The point of the middle layer is to allow for easy business rule changes but... I didn't want to hardcode in tax rates, so I move them to the database. I didn't want to hardcode in discount rates, coupons, promotion codes, etc. so I move all that to the database. Pretty soon my middle layer looks pretty skinny.
Each layer can be subdivided. I divide the database layer into 3 layers itself: tables, CRUD, complicated procs. It's all about code re-use and maintenance. You write the dumb CRUD procs to handle your basic inserts, updates, etc. You call them from the more complicated procs. The role of the complicated procs is to accept a big chunk of data and format it for the tables. Lets say your middle tier has a nice xml document representing the contents of a shopping cart. Fine, the business logic is done. It passes that to a stored proc. The proc takes care of putting the pieces where they belong. This way the middle tier com object doesn't need to be recompiled (and the web server stopped for re-registration) when a data field changes length. Now that stopping/stopping the site thing doesn't apply to.Net, but we're not on.Net.
I divide the front end code into three layers too. The topmost layer being DHTML and client side script (what do you see in your screen), next HTML (what is sent to the browser), next ASP or your other server-side scripting language (what generates the other two and interacts with the middle tier).
MS doesn't go far enough because they're lazy. The front end shouldn't know anything about the database, definitely. The middle tier shouldn't know anything about the database except for calling stored procs. That lets you completely divorce the best way to handle the data from the best way to handle middle tier logic - your data structure should be driven by normalization and performance of the data, not by modeling what the middle tier does since that leads to poor database structure. Also by allowing 1 call to the database from the middle tier to generate an arbitrary amount of SQL processing, you cut down on unneccesary traffic. Now, you CAN write out the text of a stored proc as one big string and execute it from the middle tier - but it won't stay like that because programmers will tend to move things to programming language processing and away from database variables and cursors just as a rule of thumb.
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Well their main screen has a big juicy javascript error. Not sure I'd file my return there.
Not true. For 200+ years, Congress has just said that 99% of their rules are allowed because they affect interstate commerce in some vague, tertiary way, and they do have the constitutional authority to regulate interstate commerce. The problem is they have warped that beyond all belief. A cannabis club for terminal patients in California was raided even though they followed state law, raised their own cannabis in california, and sold it to nobody (all donated to the patients). The fed. gov't argued that the fact they grew it at all was sufficient to cause people in other states to want to buy it, hence 'interstate commerce' involving no commerce, and no interstate traffic. Yes, the lunatics are running the asylum.
Sheesh guys. They're saying that nobody has been injured YET by the ruling, so nobody YET has been affected. I would think that manufacturers could argue that they are currently effected because they probably have these units in production, but a consumer can only bring suit after the first time they're denied the ability to record a show, at which point they have been injured by the ruling. At that point though, they're still screwed, because they're stuck with a broadcast flag respecting unit, and the broadcasters would still be free to broadcast the broadcast flag. But they would have won the right to purchase a new unit without the broadcast flag respect built into it.
Dumbass
The risk I worry about isn't Chernobyl. It's waste products that have been stored in metal barrels for decades. This country has an abysmal record on safely disposing toxic waste products of all kinds, and there STILL is not a single site working site for permanent disposal of nuclear waste (which will change with Yucca mountain I know). Too bad many experts say that Yucca mountain is seismically unstable....
The problem with nuclear energy is a false economy. How much expense will running Yucca mountain for the next 10,000 years rack up? How much of its running expenses are currently subsidized by the federal government? That offsets any advantages nuclear fission has in my opinion.
Fusion obviously has none of those problems, and research into it is drastically underfunded. If the government funded a research program on 1/10 the scale of the Manhattan project into fusion I'm convinced it would become a viable power source and overshadow any of the other alternative energy sources being talked about.
It's standards compliant CSS and cross-platform ECMA-script. Your browser is doing what it's told to do. Are you going to strip out the ability for Mozilla and FireFox to handle onKeyPress events? Force a dialog box to pop up each time asking if you want to allow it? I have several times written pages that handled the return key press to only allow it to succeed if the form was valid. Same with other keys as well.
NOTHING is changed in your browser settings. It's like they have a green background and suddenly your screaming that they set all backgrounds to green - they didn't. I would be more upset about googles lack of a doctype tag than about their 'DRM' if I were you.
How are you going to copy/paste text from a jpeg? This has nothing to do with rights. Google serves up the text as jpegs, hence you (technologically) can't copy/paste. No DRM to see here. Simply the way all web browsers work. If you can find a web browser with integrated OCR functionality for highlighting the text in jpegs, please let me know.
The fact that they hide the 'good' jpeg behind the 'bad' jpeg makes no difference. The fact is all jpegs are terrible for text, and I for one do not accept that a company publishing text in jpeg form should be labelled as using DRM. They somewhat simulated DRM using established web technologies.
It took me thirty seconds of looking at the HTML source code of the page before I saw the tag for the image I wanted: http://print.google.com/print?id=GUKL8f735roC&pg=1 &img=1&q=charles+dickens&sig=lViNNyLehJXsLHaUNXGe6 n5vl18
o C&lpg=1&prev=http://print.google.com/print%3Fq%3Dc harles%2Bdickens&pg=2&sig=ndW5I_dHrUMyHW2ztZqvV_mk zxY"><img align=middle alt="Next Page" border=0 width=19 height=19 src=/googleprint/rarr.gif></a> easily identified by the alt text of Next Page. Keep going until you have no more next page links. There's the whole book - as a series of freakin' jpgs with copyrighted material written vertically up the right side. Just make sure you don't search to find the book either, because then your search term is highlighted in yellow in the jpg.
I only looked at one sample page, but I think all of these links would be preceded by this HTML snippet:
<style type=text/css>.theimg
So, all you need is an app to request the html for the page, parse out the snippet identifying theimg and request that file. You also then need to parse the link for next page: <a href="http://print.google.com/print?id=GUKL8f735r
I'm sure someone could write a Perl app using libwww in a couple hours to automate this. But what's the point? These are jpgs, you can't select the text no matter what. You'd have to feed it into an OCR program to regenerate the text with all the mistakes that could introduce.
Uh - libtertarians?
Fsck of non-spelur
"For all program aspects investigated, the performance variability due to different programmers (as described by the bad/good ratios) is on average about as large or even larger than the variability due to different languages."
Which is why it almost always makes more sense writing it in whatever you're most experienced with, because you know all the tricks and techniques. Writing it in the 'most appropriate' language opens you up to the problem that you aren't that good in that language, so then you write worse code and it ends up not performing any better anyway.
From their site:
/usr/local, then you would type: cd /usr/local
How do I burn an iso image under Ignalum Linux?
Run Konsole
su (then enter the root password)
Change the directory to the location of the iso file. For example, if the iso file is in
cdrecord -v -eject dev=device_ID speed=speed_of_drive isoname.iso
The parameters represent the following:
-v = verbose
-eject = eject CD after burn is complete
dev=device_ID = your device ID, typically a number in the format X,X,X which
you can find out by running cdrecord -scanbus
speed=speed_of_drive = enter the write speed of your CD-RW drive (1, 2, 4, etc.)
isoname.iso is actual name of the iso you want to burn
exit, then exit to close Konsole
I'm a windows guy myself so I don't know - is it normal to require the root password in order to burn a cd in linux?
"The small village of Canneto di Caronia in Sicily has become the front line in the war of annihilation between humanity and Terminator-style roboappliances."
I believe you mean circumvent
circumnavigate means "To proceed completely around" as in to circumnavigate the globe.
Dude, I cannot BELIEVE how off-topic you dragged this conversation. PAGES and pages about gay marriage. +5 Troll for you.
-5 Idiot for anyone who moderated a single post in this thread as other than offtopic.
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I ripped off this comment:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10771&cid=4
Then posted it AC:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=88284&c
Then called *myself* as AC:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=88284&c
If it gets modded down as redundant, I will have sucked up 11 moderator
points...it only ended up at +4, but I saw it go back and forth several times, so I suspect it sucked up quite a few mods.
But I am only the messenger; it is all for the glory of Allah.
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I've heard the rate at which people who commit identity theft get caught is around 1 in 7000.
So you have a much better than 99.9% chance to just do it to your heart's content and walk away with the money. That's pretty freakin' scary. A crime where you never have to see your victims, never have to face any consequences, and make tons of money. Can you imagine what would happen if a misguided Robin Hood decided to popularize the techniques and teach them to America's poor? Would the entire banking industry collapse at once? With a million people doing it simultaneously you would obviously overload the already overloaded investigative ability of the gov't and probably change the ration to 1 in 100,000 getting caught.
This is only available natively in IIS 6 on server 2003, and installing and getting it to work is more effort than clicking a checkbox. Perhaps you worked somewhere that bought a commercial ISAPI filter?
It didn't have row-level locking before? Okay, I can see that. But it didn't have FOREIGN KEYS??? And people used to bristle whenever someone suggested it wasn't a real database....
What if your network connection flakes out for a second? Then what? That's why there is such a thing as replication, for all the times when simple copying doesn't work for some reason - there needs to be extremely thorough error handling and methods for getting the data back in synch.
What's your beef with SQL Server? I worked with Sybase for years, and SQL Server is much better. As soon as the two of them split, every decision Sybase made was the wrong one. Replication and data transformation is dead simple in SQL Server. If it can handle a 300 gig database, it's more powerful than I'll ever need. It's easy to maintain with utilities like the SQL Profiler and the index tuning wizard. I'm not a DBA, and with SQL Server I don't need to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Microsoft shill, whatever....
You're reviewing a home theater pc. You don't hook it up to a home theater system. The home theater pc doesn't come with a tv out. Uh..... I don't get it. Who is this review supposed to help? And how is this intended as a home theater pc?
I find 'middle layer' getting very small in my apps now. The point of the middle layer is to allow for easy business rule changes but... I didn't want to hardcode in tax rates, so I move them to the database. I didn't want to hardcode in discount rates, coupons, promotion codes, etc. so I move all that to the database. Pretty soon my middle layer looks pretty skinny.
Each layer can be subdivided. I divide the database layer into 3 layers itself: tables, CRUD, complicated procs. It's all about code re-use and maintenance. You write the dumb CRUD procs to handle your basic inserts, updates, etc. You call them from the more complicated procs. The role of the complicated procs is to accept a big chunk of data and format it for the tables. Lets say your middle tier has a nice xml document representing the contents of a shopping cart. Fine, the business logic is done. It passes that to a stored proc. The proc takes care of putting the pieces where they belong. This way the middle tier com object doesn't need to be recompiled (and the web server stopped for re-registration) when a data field changes length. Now that stopping/stopping the site thing doesn't apply to .Net, but we're not on .Net.
I divide the front end code into three layers too. The topmost layer being DHTML and client side script (what do you see in your screen), next HTML (what is sent to the browser), next ASP or your other server-side scripting language (what generates the other two and interacts with the middle tier).
MS doesn't go far enough because they're lazy. The front end shouldn't know anything about the database, definitely. The middle tier shouldn't know anything about the database except for calling stored procs. That lets you completely divorce the best way to handle the data from the best way to handle middle tier logic - your data structure should be driven by normalization and performance of the data, not by modeling what the middle tier does since that leads to poor database structure. Also by allowing 1 call to the database from the middle tier to generate an arbitrary amount of SQL processing, you cut down on unneccesary traffic. Now, you CAN write out the text of a stored proc as one big string and execute it from the middle tier - but it won't stay like that because programmers will tend to move things to programming language processing and away from database variables and cursors just as a rule of thumb.
by using the system stored proc sp_executesql
Uh....firewall off your database from anything but the web server(s). There should be no connections between your sql server and the internet.