Well... try doing that in Russia several years or in Poland about 15 years ago. The "mouth-to-mouth" way works only when talking to your _proven_ close friends. There is simply no way of having a _network_ working and being "secured against wiretapping" or "free as in freedom".
Makes sense. The whole "women and children" distinction used to make sense when you used swords and spears -- as having smaller upper body strength meant a lot. But nowadays, being physically weaker doesn't play a big role when firearms are concerned. Men still do have an advantage where it comes to running in a full set of soldier's equipment, but there really isn't any difference between a man, a woman and a child toting a gun.
About the first, the fuckheads from the "Lunar Embassy" or similar scammers?
According to them, they got "two former US presidents" among their clients, so, it's possible the ranks of the stupid includes a judge, and that's all you need to create a precedent in some countries...
Not really. What they get, is a tool that tells them "is my work good enough to pass an automated check", and that's a pretty big help. If you go that far, you'll pass automated checks (duh) and increase your chance to pass real wetware experts.
The difference is similar to that between writing a program on a sheet of paper and having a compiler go through it (while submitting the thing to friendly experts is an equivalent of trying to run the program yourself, and trying to sell the work an equivalent of releasing the program).
The judge basically threw the old law into a trashcan.
We may consider the judge being confused by new technology, so let's restrict ourselves to just means that were available when the wiretapping law was enacted. The very point of that law was making it unlawful to tap phone conversations. So, let's attach a tape recorded to the victims phone -- with a long enough tape, it can work nearly as well as the classical way (the disadvantages being the increased size of your device and having to physically pick up the tape). I thought that recording things this way is covered by the wiretap law -- but obviously the judge concurs.
Even worse: let's take a tape loop and two heads: one recording and one playing one, put within an inch of each other. This way, you can have the intercepted communication sent to you completely bypassing the whole law using a simple technical quirk.
With today's technology, it's next to impossible to build any bigger factory on orbit, while the moon lacks just the atmosphere. In the future, we will also be able to mine for resources on the moon, relieving us of the necessity to haul everything from Earth...
Alright you primitive screwheads listen up. This is my BOOMSTICK! It's a twelve gauge double barrel Remington, S-Mart's top of the line. You'll find this in the sporting goods department. Thats right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids Michigan. It retails for about 109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel and a hair trigger. Thats right, shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that!?
For this exact reason Debian uses an super-uber-ultra-extremely-paranoid rules about what updates are allowed and what now. Installing apt-cron and meddling with its config will do what you want, however, I would think twice before making everything fully automatic -- restarting mysql and the likes can cause trouble.
I know that Australia is not Poland and is at least a bit civilized, but if our judges often do 10-15 years for some simple criminal cases (well, that's usually when there is a politician involved), 13 months here is not that much.
Their lawyers are right here: the legal activity is a service. And they do have a big, paying customer.
Even more, this service is their primary purpose these days.
You cannot really ignore the old wisdom. The old papers Bartle did many years ago are still perfectly true, while new games repeat the same errors over and over.
On T2T (towers.angband.com 9999) we had a senior coder who, after a power struggle, opened his own MUD. In an attempt to make "what the players want" he took our "help fsi" (Frequently Shot Ideas) and implemented basically every feature we chosen to dismiss. And guess what, is his MUD still up and running?
Flashy graphics does a lot to attract new players, but in the long run, it doesn't really pay off. These days, new games put over 99% of their development effort into the eyecandy -- and this means that oldies have an edge precisely for this reason: the same amount of work is splitted between playability and the looks in a better ratio.
"Doesn't make it any harder"? Wrong. There is quite a hell of difference between being able to read the unlinked but otherwise unharmed data and having to gut the disk to put it into some specialistic tool.
When I've read an article about BSP as an early high-school kid, I invented what this patent does without any outside help, using just school-level math (a math profile class, but still). And I'm not anywhere even close to a genius.
What they have patented is just the basic perspective and rotation.
We're talking about two different types of clocks:
a timing source needed to preempt a long-running task
the heart-beat that dictates when the CPU is going to do the next instruction.
These two are completely different things. The former can have a pretty low resolution as well -- but is needed for other tasks as well. Any non-degenerate processor will need some kind of timing source, but there is no reason why it would be connected to the number of instructions executed.
In a multitasking operating system, there are three reasons that can trigger a preemption:
a hardware interrupt Some outside even has happened. A new bit/byte came in from a serial source, an IO tranfer ended, etc, etc.
resource needed The process requires some resource that is either held by another process or will require an IO.
the time-slice has expired A timer interrupt is needed for this, but nothing bad will happen if the resolution is many orders of magnitude bigger than the CPU core clock would be. You don't preempt processes every a handful of CPU cycles, do you?
The problem with Gnome and KDE is that they're not really usable with a CPU that's below 4Ghz. WMaker is fast, lean and effective.
On the other hand, most modern window managers do support virtual desktops, so this is nothing unique to WindowMaker. Yes, this does include both Gnome and KDE; and also Enlightenment, Blackbox and next to anything... except for fvwm and the MS Windows equivalent of a window manager.
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Well... try doing that in Russia several years or in Poland about 15 years ago. The "mouth-to-mouth" way works only when talking to your _proven_ close friends. There is simply no way of having a _network_ working and being "secured against wiretapping" or "free as in freedom".
Makes sense. The whole "women and children" distinction used to make sense when you used swords and spears -- as having smaller upper body strength meant a lot. But nowadays, being physically weaker doesn't play a big role when firearms are concerned.
Men still do have an advantage where it comes to running in a full set of soldier's equipment, but there really isn't any difference between a man, a woman and a child toting a gun.
According to them, they got "two former US presidents" among their clients, so, it's possible the ranks of the stupid includes a judge, and that's all you need to create a precedent in some countries...
Not really. What they get, is a tool that tells them "is my work good enough to pass an automated check", and that's a pretty big help. If you go that far, you'll pass automated checks (duh) and increase your chance to pass real wetware experts.
The difference is similar to that between writing a program on a sheet of paper and having a compiler go through it (while submitting the thing to friendly experts is an equivalent of trying to run the program yourself, and trying to sell the work an equivalent of releasing the program).
We may consider the judge being confused by new technology, so let's restrict ourselves to just means that were available when the wiretapping law was enacted. The very point of that law was making it unlawful to tap phone conversations. So, let's attach a tape recorded to the victims phone -- with a long enough tape, it can work nearly as well as the classical way (the disadvantages being the increased size of your device and having to physically pick up the tape). I thought that recording things this way is covered by the wiretap law -- but obviously the judge concurs.
Even worse: let's take a tape loop and two heads: one recording and one playing one, put within an inch of each other. This way, you can have the intercepted communication sent to you completely bypassing the whole law using a simple technical quirk.
Eh? Try ls -l /boot/ ...
You would have to statically compile in quite a lot of drivers to get to 3MB.
Been reading the "Dune", I see...
With today's technology, it's next to impossible to build any bigger factory on orbit, while the moon lacks just the atmosphere. In the future, we will also be able to mine for resources on the moon, relieving us of the necessity to haul everything from Earth...
Alright you primitive screwheads listen up. This is my BOOMSTICK!
It's a twelve gauge double barrel Remington, S-Mart's top of the line.
You'll find this in the sporting goods department. Thats right, this
sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids Michigan. It retails for about
109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel and a hair trigger.
Thats right, shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that!?
For this exact reason Debian uses an super-uber-ultra-extremely-paranoid rules about what updates are allowed and what now.
Installing apt-cron and meddling with its config will do what you want, however, I would think twice before making everything fully automatic -- restarting mysql and the likes can cause trouble.
Insecure, overrated, money-hungry, useless, piece of crap and without any redeeming qualities? Sure.
I haven't heard of her contracting any sickness, though... but perhaps that's just because I don't read any celebrity gossips.
... or ignore quality and just put it as the default (and only) search engine for a certain well-known OS...
Common sense? Are we talking about "homo sapiens"?
The trial might have taken quite a while...
I know that Australia is not Poland and is at least a bit civilized, but if our judges often do 10-15 years for some simple criminal cases (well, that's usually when there is a politician involved), 13 months here is not that much.
Yeah... but who says having superior products over your competition means anything in the software world?
It looks like an interesting job opportunity for Quake bot authors...
Their lawyers are right here: the legal activity is a service. And they do have a big, paying customer.
Even more, this service is their primary purpose these days.
On T2T (towers.angband.com 9999) we had a senior coder who, after a power struggle, opened his own MUD. In an attempt to make "what the players want" he took our "help fsi" (Frequently Shot Ideas) and implemented basically every feature we chosen to dismiss. And guess what, is his MUD still up and running?
Flashy graphics does a lot to attract new players, but in the long run, it doesn't really pay off. These days, new games put over 99% of their development effort into the eyecandy -- and this means that oldies have an edge precisely for this reason: the same amount of work is splitted between playability and the looks in a better ratio.
"Doesn't make it any harder"? Wrong. There is quite a hell of difference between being able to read the unlinked but otherwise unharmed data and having to gut the disk to put it into some specialistic tool.
Bash is supposed to have access to the usual set of commands. If for some reason you need to have 'ls' built-in, just try 'sash'.
It's too primitive to even bother looking at, but it's at least a proof I'm not talking out of my ass :p
Don't be ridiculous.
When I've read an article about BSP as an early high-school kid, I invented what this patent does without any outside help, using just school-level math (a math profile class, but still). And I'm not anywhere even close to a genius.
What they have patented is just the basic perspective and rotation.
We're talking about two different types of clocks:
- a timing source needed to preempt a long-running task
- the heart-beat that dictates when the CPU is going to do the next instruction.
These two are completely different things. The former can have a pretty low resolution as well -- but is needed for other tasks as well. Any non-degenerate processor will need some kind of timing source, but there is no reason why it would be connected to the number of instructions executed.In a multitasking operating system, there are three reasons that can trigger a preemption:
Some outside even has happened. A new bit/byte came in from a serial source, an IO tranfer ended, etc, etc.
The process requires some resource that is either held by another process or will require an IO.
A timer interrupt is needed for this, but nothing bad will happen if the resolution is many orders of magnitude bigger than the CPU core clock would be. You don't preempt processes every a handful of CPU cycles, do you?
The problem with Gnome and KDE is that they're not really usable with a CPU that's below 4Ghz. WMaker is fast, lean and effective.
On the other hand, most modern window managers do support virtual desktops, so this is nothing unique to WindowMaker. Yes, this does include both Gnome and KDE; and also Enlightenment, Blackbox and next to anything... except for fvwm and the MS Windows equivalent of a window manager.