Actually I'm talking about Girish Ghandi, a pro British politician who worked hard to improve the treatment of circus fleas and died in obscurity. Mohandas K Gandhi was a fanatic who caused millions to die when premature independence lead to the violent war of partition.
zlib, used in PNG files "He goes on to note that the current implementation limits its dynamic blocks to about 8 KB (corresponding to 8MB of input data); together with a few bits of overhead, this implies an actual compression limit of about 1030.3:1.... By way of comparison, note that a version of run-length encoding optimized for this sort of unusual data file -- that is, by using 32-bit integers for the lengths rather than the more usual 8-bit bytes or 16-bit words -- could encode the test file in five bytes. That would be a compression factor of 10,000,000:1"
This file is probably quite close to the maximum compression ratio.
Actually, I reckon a JPG with a insane quantisation matrix that chucks away all the data should be able to have an enormous compression ratio, but I'm not sure what the entropy coding limit after the DCT is.
No, they are not. They are bullying people into coughing up cash. If they were choosing their battles so carefully, why do they target people without computers? Or old ladys that cannot operate computers? Or minors who cannot be legally accused of maliciously harming them finantially? Or dead people?
They have a list of IP addresses I guess. They don't find out the identity of the defendent until late in the process.
Back when I got involved in a lawsuit - I did some work for someone for an pre-agreed fee, and after they tried to 'renegotiate' - I seriously considered putting "without prejudice" in my signature forever. Most people don't understand it at all, but it means that you can't discuss a hypothetical settlement without making unilateral concessions. And I get the feeling that lawyers use it as a sort of magic phrase that it can't hurt to have.
In this case it could be to allow them to reopen the case later when they are better prepared, or just to make people think that they will do that when in fact they are giving up.
Drunk driving and assault are certainly immoral in my book. Not sure about the sidewalks, but it certainly seems antisocial.
But I drinking isn't intrinsically immoral. In fact, I've worked with people who are pretty close to alcoholism who don't do anything which harms anyone else.
Not really. Some people have even suggested that it's the only self consistent one.
Consider you could have a less liberal (in the 19th Century sense) morality, where people are protected from harming themselves. But there are lots of things that people want to do that harm themselves, that would then be prevented, since societies tend to limit people's freedom to do things that are considered immoral. Even worse, there are things that are only subjectively harmful to individuals or only arguably harmful to society (e.g. wasting time posting on slashdot, not excercising, gay marriage, not believing in God and so on) that could be prevented. You could think of this as the mistake the evangelical Christian wing of the Republican party makes.
Or you could have a more liberal version, where people are allowed to harm others. Someone memorably described this as "Liberals and cannibals - the liberals are free to be liberals, and the cannibals are free to be cannibals". That's unsustainable though, sooner or later ruthless people (the cannibals) will rise to the top of that society and change it into a less liberal one.
Morality would not apply if you were marooned alone on a desert island, then
No, in the sense that there are no other people my behaviour would be totally selfish and amoral. But since there are no other people, that's no problem. Not that I'd do anything to harm myself unnecessarily though, even if that wasn't immoral before or after I went to the island, it isn't rational in either case either.
Yeah, but that's no good. The idea is to replace a file that is being leeched with one which causes all manner of ruckus but is relatively compact. If the replacement file is 18MB, you wouldn't be able to afford the bandwidth costs. Most ISPs either disable the site or move it to a low power web server if it uses too much bandwidth too.
Jesus, are you stupid or do you just not read what you have linked to?
Consider Mr QuantumG downloads 1 movie a day for 360 days from The Pirate Bay. Each one would have cost an average of $20 bucks if bought in a store. So $7,200 in total.
(a) Criminal Infringement. - Any person who infringes a copyright willfully either -
From http://www.cpaglobal.com/ip-review-online/widgets/ news_story/more/1082 "Copyright infringers are liable for the copyright owners actual damages and any additional profits that the infringer has made. Infringers who knowingly traffic in counterfeit goods also risk criminal prosecution"
Wilful means that you know you're violating copyright as far as I can see.
(1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or
Ok, you avoid this one, no financial gain. But note the 'or' at the end
(2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000
Busted! You pirated more than $1,000.
And it's wilful infringement, since you know that your violating copyright, so you're liable for criminal prosectution, raised damages and so on.
Let's compare and contrast. In the US the police attend public meetings of various protest groups to work out which will protest peacefully and which will protest violently. Peaceful protests are left alone, violent ones get arrested after they commit some crime.
In Iraq, anyone who says anything against the government even in private is tortured using medieval methods and then executed.
In one case, the police are trying to weed out people trying to start a riot whilst implicitly accepting that non violent protest is a right. In the other, the police are trying to kill or intimidate any opposition into silence. Even MI6 in the UK did far more questionable things against pro communist groups in the Cold War, like burgling their apartments and tapping their phones without a warrant, which was probably illegal even in 1980's UK.
If you don't believe me, why don't you try moving to some totalitarian hellhole, complaining about the government and see if you can get away with it the way you do living (I hope for your sake) in a civilised democracy.
This operation looks like an attempt to find out which protestors were going to try to start a riot. A riot is not protected speech. Though I can see this is troubling to you, you sound exactly like the sort of fanatic who confuses the two, assuming you don't confine your protesting to the internet.
How is a party that "keeps tabs" and jails potential protesters any better than the Bathists or Iranian Revolutionary Guard?
Why don't you read up what the Baathists got up to with peaceful opponents of their regime and find out for yourself?
Have you ever been to China? It's a nasty atomised society where people go off on ugly nationalist rants at the drop of hat. It's much worse than Taiwan. And remember with the GDP figure they are a starting from extreme poverty caused by the government, and the figures probably bear no resemblance to reality.
It's very noticable in Europe. The UK and France seem much more disorganised (and statist) than the Scandinavians or Dutch.
Arguably in the Chinese parts of Asia it's true too. Mainline China has a vast population and seems like a hellhole, but Taiwan is small and civilised. Singapore isn't a bad place, even if it's no Taiwan in terms of freedom.
follow the money is an excellent principle but it really does not apply to the case at hand.
These people were spying abroad, no point in tracing the money. Throwing the book at them would be a better alternative, surely there are records of who went where and when.
Most DLL calls get linked at load time rather than runtime - the exe files has an import table full of function pointers - _imp_FunctionName, and the loader maps the DLL into process memory and fills in the addresses there. Since the API providing DLLs are used everywhere and are thus already in memory, this is a fairly cheap operation.
You can linux elf style call time dynamic linking, either manually by LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress, or using the linker's delay load functionality.
What do you mean by 'going through the dymanic linker'? No offense, but that sounds like technobabble. Calls into a DLL just need an extra level of indirection - they are a CALL [func] rather than a CALL func, but there's no 'dynamic linker' involved.
But from the page I quoted http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683614. aspx "This function is implemented as an inline function using a compiler intrinsic where possible. For more information, see the section on Compiler Intrinsics in the Visual Studio documentation."
So even the normal call [func] rather than call func overhead you'd get from a DLL call doesn't apply in this case, it's ends up being as good as you could do with inline assembly.
Why were there no power suits in the movie? Because of budget.
I don't know about the budget, but I thought the contrast between the humans' superiority complex before the attack on Klendathu, and the disorganised chaos when they actually landed reminded me of the German attack on the USSR, or for that matter the aftermath of the American invasion of Iraq. It's about how overconfident, militaristic societies squander the lives of their soldiers fighting wars that they didn't need to start against enemies they fatally underestimated. I think seeing the mobile infantry kick ass bloodlessly in power suits would totally undermine the point he was trying to make.
He was quotes as saying that he wanted to get inside the heads of the young Germans who invaded his homeland.
In fact huge chunks of Starship Troopers are eerily prescient of the War on Terror, like when the (anti)hero shouts down the journalist who points out that the war was originally started when humans encroached on bug territory and 'some have suggested a live and let live policy maybe be better'. The idea that war inevitably leads to fascism is an interesting, albeit disturbing one, given that pacifist societies like pre WWII Holland are vulnerable to invasion by fascists too.Maybe it's just pre emptive wars which are cancerous to the societies that start them.
I'm not saying I agree with Verhoeven's politics - I'm actually a lot closer to Heinlein - but saying the movie is idea free, as most Heinlein fans claim, is completely unfair. It pokes fun at the book, and that's what they dislike.
* You want to differentiate yourself from the sea of application programmers
Really, as assembler recedes into the past, the amount of programmers who can do it seems to be declining much faster than the amount of jobs. I'm hoping it will be like Cobol, or some other ancient language. Once it got to the 1990's, the few people that still did that could charge a fortune. Of course, you can't just do assembler, but my advice in embedded jobs is dive down to the low level stuff where there's less competition. Hopefully, when the trawlers of outsourcing and downsizing come along, you'll be able to watch from below, and eat any scraps that fall your way.
Slashdot Mirror
Now there's a war I can get behind.
Livejournal + Myspace = Internet Axis of Emo.
Actually I'm talking about Girish Ghandi, a pro British politician who worked hard to improve the treatment of circus fleas and died in obscurity. Mohandas K Gandhi was a fanatic who caused millions to die when premature independence lead to the violent war of partition.
Yeah, I think I'm talking about enforceable morality, i.e. laws here.
Of course, getting so drunk that you neglect your kids is reprehensible, I'm just not convinced it should be illegal.
I was skeptical, but it turns out you're right
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http://www.zlib.net/zlib_tech.html
zlib, used in PNG files
"He goes on to note that the current implementation limits its dynamic blocks to about 8 KB (corresponding to 8MB of input data); together with a few bits of overhead, this implies an actual compression limit of about 1030.3:1.
By way of comparison, note that a version of run-length encoding optimized for this sort of unusual data file -- that is, by using 32-bit integers for the lengths rather than the more usual 8-bit bytes or 16-bit words -- could encode the test file in five bytes. That would be a compression factor of 10,000,000:1"
This file is probably quite close to the maximum compression ratio.
Mind you RLE in BMP files uses 8 bit lengths
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms532328
Actually, I reckon a JPG with a insane quantisation matrix that chucks away all the data should be able to have an enormous compression ratio, but I'm not sure what the entropy coding limit after the DCT is.
No, they are not. They are bullying people into coughing up cash. If they were choosing their battles so carefully, why do they target people without computers? Or old ladys that cannot operate computers? Or minors who cannot be legally accused of maliciously harming them finantially? Or dead people?
They have a list of IP addresses I guess. They don't find out the identity of the defendent until late in the process.
Back when I got involved in a lawsuit - I did some work for someone for an pre-agreed fee, and after they tried to 'renegotiate' - I seriously considered putting "without prejudice" in my signature forever. Most people don't understand it at all, but it means that you can't discuss a hypothetical settlement without making unilateral concessions. And I get the feeling that lawyers use it as a sort of magic phrase that it can't hurt to have.
In this case it could be to allow them to reopen the case later when they are better prepared, or just to make people think that they will do that when in fact they are giving up.
"Without Prejudice"
Drunk driving and assault are certainly immoral in my book. Not sure about the sidewalks, but it certainly seems antisocial.
But I drinking isn't intrinsically immoral. In fact, I've worked with people who are pretty close to alcoholism who don't do anything which harms anyone else.
Odd definition of morality you have there.
Not really. Some people have even suggested that it's the only self consistent one.
Consider you could have a less liberal (in the 19th Century sense) morality, where people are protected from harming themselves. But there are lots of things that people want to do that harm themselves, that would then be prevented, since societies tend to limit people's freedom to do things that are considered immoral. Even worse, there are things that are only subjectively harmful to individuals or only arguably harmful to society (e.g. wasting time posting on slashdot, not excercising, gay marriage, not believing in God and so on) that could be prevented. You could think of this as the mistake the evangelical Christian wing of the Republican party makes.
Or you could have a more liberal version, where people are allowed to harm others. Someone memorably described this as "Liberals and cannibals - the liberals are free to be liberals, and the cannibals are free to be cannibals". That's unsustainable though, sooner or later ruthless people (the cannibals) will rise to the top of that society and change it into a less liberal one.
Anyhow, it's interesting that it is ubiquitous
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethic_of_reciprocity
Morality would not apply if you were marooned alone on a desert island, then
No, in the sense that there are no other people my behaviour would be totally selfish and amoral. But since there are no other people, that's no problem. Not that I'd do anything to harm myself unnecessarily though, even if that wasn't immoral before or after I went to the island, it isn't rational in either case either.
Yeah, but that's no good. The idea is to replace a file that is being leeched with one which causes all manner of ruckus but is relatively compact. If the replacement file is 18MB, you wouldn't be able to afford the bandwidth costs. Most ISPs either disable the site or move it to a low power web server if it uses too much bandwidth too.
Jesus, are you stupid or do you just not read what you have linked to?
/ news_story/more/1082
Consider Mr QuantumG downloads 1 movie a day for 360 days from The Pirate Bay. Each one would have cost an average of $20 bucks if bought in a store. So $7,200 in total.
(a) Criminal Infringement. - Any person who infringes a copyright willfully either -
From
http://www.cpaglobal.com/ip-review-online/widgets
"Copyright infringers are liable for the copyright owners actual damages and any additional profits that the infringer has made. Infringers who knowingly traffic in counterfeit goods also risk criminal prosecution"
Wilful means that you know you're violating copyright as far as I can see.
(1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or
Ok, you avoid this one, no financial gain. But note the 'or' at the end
(2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000
Busted! You pirated more than $1,000.
And it's wilful infringement, since you know that your violating copyright, so you're liable for criminal prosectution, raised damages and so on.
I heard that in some states you're allowed to blow away burglars with your sixgun.
What about Ghandi, or George Washington?
Drink isn't immoral though. If I get drunk a lot, I'm only harming myself, not other people.
Immoral things have to harm other people. But even then there are things which are immoral which should not be illegal, like adultery.
Hey arsehole! You need to learn not to click links when there's a warning in the same post!
This page seems to be able to freeze Opera 9.10 and Firefox 1.5.0.9 on XP SP2.
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http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/PN
It's contains a 379KB 10000 x 10000 x 32bit PNG file, so it will end up being 400,000,000 bytes when it decompresses into a bitmap.
IE 6.0 seems to handle it quite well, guess all those Windows Updates have paid off.
No, it isn't.
Let's compare and contrast. In the US the police attend public meetings of various protest groups to work out which will protest peacefully and which will protest violently. Peaceful protests are left alone, violent ones get arrested after they commit some crime.
In Iraq, anyone who says anything against the government even in private is tortured using medieval methods and then executed.
In one case, the police are trying to weed out people trying to start a riot whilst implicitly accepting that non violent protest is a right. In the other, the police are trying to kill or intimidate any opposition into silence. Even MI6 in the UK did far more questionable things against pro communist groups in the Cold War, like burgling their apartments and tapping their phones without a warrant, which was probably illegal even in 1980's UK.
If you don't believe me, why don't you try moving to some totalitarian hellhole, complaining about the government and see if you can get away with it the way you do living (I hope for your sake) in a civilised democracy.
This operation looks like an attempt to find out which protestors were going to try to start a riot. A riot is not protected speech. Though I can see this is troubling to you, you sound exactly like the sort of fanatic who confuses the two, assuming you don't confine your protesting to the internet.
How is a party that "keeps tabs" and jails potential protesters any better than the Bathists or Iranian Revolutionary Guard?
Why don't you read up what the Baathists got up to with peaceful opponents of their regime and find out for yourself?
Have you ever been to China? It's a nasty atomised society where people go off on ugly nationalist rants at the drop of hat. It's much worse than Taiwan. And remember with the GDP figure they are a starting from extreme poverty caused by the government, and the figures probably bear no resemblance to reality.
It's very noticable in Europe. The UK and France seem much more disorganised (and statist) than the Scandinavians or Dutch.
Arguably in the Chinese parts of Asia it's true too. Mainline China has a vast population and seems like a hellhole, but Taiwan is small and civilised. Singapore isn't a bad place, even if it's no Taiwan in terms of freedom.
follow the money is an excellent principle but it really does not apply to the case at hand.
These people were spying abroad, no point in tracing the money. Throwing the book at them would be a better alternative, surely there are records of who went where and when.
Yeah, throw the money at 'em. Wait what?
Most DLL calls get linked at load time rather than runtime - the exe files has an import table full of function pointers - _imp_FunctionName, and the loader maps the DLL into process memory and fills in the addresses there. Since the API providing DLLs are used everywhere and are thus already in memory, this is a fairly cheap operation.
You can linux elf style call time dynamic linking, either manually by LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress, or using the linker's delay load functionality.
What do you mean by 'going through the dymanic linker'? No offense, but that sounds like technobabble. Calls into a DLL just need an extra level of indirection - they are a CALL [func] rather than a CALL func, but there's no 'dynamic linker' involved.
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But from the page I quoted
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683614
"This function is implemented as an inline function using a compiler intrinsic where possible. For more information, see the section on Compiler Intrinsics in the Visual Studio documentation."
And it turns out the compiler does indeed knows how to turn this into a LOCK INC instruction
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2ddez55b
So even the normal call [func] rather than call func overhead you'd get from a DLL call doesn't apply in this case, it's ends up being as good as you could do with inline assembly.
Why were there no power suits in the movie? Because of budget.
I don't know about the budget, but I thought the contrast between the humans' superiority complex before the attack on Klendathu, and the disorganised chaos when they actually landed reminded me of the German attack on the USSR, or for that matter the aftermath of the American invasion of Iraq. It's about how overconfident, militaristic societies squander the lives of their soldiers fighting wars that they didn't need to start against enemies they fatally underestimated. I think seeing the mobile infantry kick ass bloodlessly in power suits would totally undermine the point he was trying to make.
He was quotes as saying that he wanted to get inside the heads of the young Germans who invaded his homeland.
In fact huge chunks of Starship Troopers are eerily prescient of the War on Terror, like when the (anti)hero shouts down the journalist who points out that the war was originally started when humans encroached on bug territory and 'some have suggested a live and let live policy maybe be better'. The idea that war inevitably leads to fascism is an interesting, albeit disturbing one, given that pacifist societies like pre WWII Holland are vulnerable to invasion by fascists too.Maybe it's just pre emptive wars which are cancerous to the societies that start them.
I'm not saying I agree with Verhoeven's politics - I'm actually a lot closer to Heinlein - but saying the movie is idea free, as most Heinlein fans claim, is completely unfair. It pokes fun at the book, and that's what they dislike.
If you use Win32, you can use InterlockedIncrement( &counter );
* You want to differentiate yourself from the sea of application programmers
Really, as assembler recedes into the past, the amount of programmers who can do it seems to be declining much faster than the amount of jobs. I'm hoping it will be like Cobol, or some other ancient language. Once it got to the 1990's, the few people that still did that could charge a fortune. Of course, you can't just do assembler, but my advice in embedded jobs is dive down to the low level stuff where there's less competition. Hopefully, when the trawlers of outsourcing and downsizing come along, you'll be able to watch from below, and eat any scraps that fall your way.