Either at the end of the Restaurant at the End of the Universe (in which we find out the Question to Life, the Universe, and Everything is "What do you get when you mulitply six by nine?") or at the end of Life the Universe and Everything, the universe went and reset itself, becoming more complex. Which is one of the reasons Earth decided to make a reappearance after it's cameo in the first book.
Does that make sense? Well, it doesn't have to. If a lamp can fall of a table, scurry to the corner, and meow, then my explanantion does *not* have to make sense. So there:).
Hmmm....okay I can buy that. All I know is that it was a *lot* longer than I thought it would be, seeing as it was on one tape. Were the episodes a half hour or a full hour long? The tape sort of melded them together to create a really long movie. You could still tell where the TV show went on commercial break, and there were plenty of recaps, but there was only one set of actual credits, IIRC.
Although, six episodes would bring the series in line with, say, the BlackAdder series of series.
I have seen the 12 part BBC TV series, which you can conveniently get in one really, really long tape. I thought for a low budget TV show it was froody. Nice and kitch filled.
However, the effects were kind of horrible if you compare it to, say, Star Wars. However, they were average compared to, say, Space 1999. Or the original Star Trek.
Although, a big screen five part trilogy would be kickin'....except Angelina Jolie would make a horrible Trillian and Pierce Brosnan is just not what I pictured for Arthur Dent. Jack Nicholson would be a good Zaphod though:).
I have files on my desk. I have a coffee cup on my desk. When I have lots of paper on my desk, I can't find the one I want, and when I have one piece of paper on my desk, it's not the one I want.
Therefore the desktop was a *really* bad idea...except for all the other ones. If there ever were any...come to think of it, there never was one, except for CLI (which I prefer to work in).
(Note: I was studying for my MCSE when I thought of this...actually, I think I had the thing...Ah well, I just did it for the coasters).
Well, if the Trade Federation had followed instructions and installed a Backup Droid Controller (BDC) then they would not have had so many problems when the Primary Droid Controller (PDC) went offline by way of a six year old with Proton Torpedoes.
I hear you groaning, and the Linux nuts coming for my head, so I better go *runs away*.
The last time I saw a question on this was the crypto one from about a week ago. It's good to see you've done your research. However, this just proves that the question is more important than the answer.
Your question read like you hadn't done any research yet. You should have stated the stance you were going to take. I know that the submit box is a hard place to do that, but a question that looks like it's got some valid research behind it is less likely to bring out the angry college professors.
Also, I'm not sure about your timing. It may be excellent for you, seeing as there's been two or three "Social implications of nanotech" articles here, but to me it seemed like a rehash - you could have gone to the articles, read them, and rephrased your question to talk about something we missed/didn't cover properly.
Well, it would get rewritten in two, but the geeks put a DDoS attack on the automatic voting system, and used that two minute windows as an excuse to hold the most memorable four minute filibuster in recent memory, which swayed congress for all of 30 seconds.
Although I must say that turning the law about on it's heels to actually protect the little middleman is quite admirable. It's sneaky evil, and I can respet that:).
There is one major rule to entrapment that makes the honeypot legal. In order to claim entrapment, the defendent has to prove the police/corporation/whatever made you commit a crime that you would not have normally done. In the classic example, if you fence some goods to a cop, there is no entrapment. But, if the cop bullied you into robbing a place and then fencing the goods to him, there is obvious entrapment.
Entrapment would only apply in this area if you did something like set up a cracking contest, and then charged the winner of the contest for cracking the system.
Good judgment. After all, to quote AJ from UserFriendly when he visited the world of Sluggy Freelance:
"I just mastered the keyboard mouse combo, do you expect me to get the arms and legs combo?!?"
Come on now, getting up and shooting somebody would mean having to like get up and stuff, and I just got my keyboard settings set up properly again (the Dvorak keyboard is great for typing, but man does it ever screw up the keyboard:) ).
IMHO, violent video games reduce the chances I would go and shoot someone. It's just logistically too different. sarcasm { Except for maybe stuff like Area 51 - you actually use a red plastic gun in that one. } Besides, after blowing up my coworkers with a rocket launcher in Quake, my stress levels are far below homicidal levels.
Mind you, this sounds more like a high school CS (now there is an oxymoron) report, as opposed to a master thesis. For high school, there is nothing better than a content filter. At 16 the last thing you want to do is summarize 300 pages of relevent information into a two page report.
At this point I should point out that I hate research, and like programming. If one guy manages to write something useful, and was a decent programmer, I should just take his stuff and use it without actually having to do any thinking. Not so with research.
And yet I seem to end up either rewriting modules I find, or rolling my own. I'm just full of contradictions today...:)
You're forgetting the old programming axiom: Never do anything twice.
If somebody's done the research, then I'll grab it from them. If somebody has already seperated the good stuff from the crap, then I can ignore the crap.
Granted, this case is over the top. It just smacks of "Okay, I got this project this morning, and I don't want to do any work." But I suspect that the real reason these actually get posted is not for the brat who wishes not to work, but for people like me who have a passing interest and now have a list of really good resources for crypto to read over the lunch hour.
One interesting side effect of not DingYOFM is that now that the links are posted on a public forum, should Plasmoid's teacher frequent/., there will be a *really* obvious record of where his plagiarized source of info is:). So if he gets caught, he gets what he deserves.
Even RedHat (no flame intended) is growing so steadily I begin to wonder...
<p>You try taking Windows, replace IE with Netscape, throw in a copy of Corel, and sell it as a different product. I dare you:).
<p>You could try it with DOS too, but chances are that M$ will just change Windows so it'll only work with their copy of DOS. Oh, wait, that already happened, never mind...
<p>Chances are RedHat won't change Linux so that RPMs will only work with Redhat; at least not without violating the GPL at some point - don't ask me how, but I'm sure that there would be a violation somewhere.
Yes, there's a lot of bad open source code out there. But there's a lot of bad closed source code out there masqueradgin as important operating systems with major market share. I'd say the ratio of bad open source programs to good open source programs is the same as the ratio of bad closed source programs to good closed source programs is the same as the ratio of bad movies to good movies.
A lot of people like the idea of Slash. Now they don't have to reinvent the wheel. That is a good thing. They can add things that always bugged them (like the option for a bigger Comment box to type in maybe:) ). This is also a good thing. They can help fix performance bugs if they thing Slash is too slow. This is also a good thing.
Yes, the implementation of Open Source programming is flawed. But it's a lot better than the closed source programming implementations I've seen. It's sort of like democracy: it doesn't work, but it's better than the other alternatives.
Did their admin even read the offending post? If he didn't, he (and therefore the company) didn't take the reasonable standard of care, and he's liable.
If he read the post, found it to be libel after consulting a lawyer on the issue, had the ability to remove it, and did not, he didn't take the reasonable standard of care, and is liable.
If he did not have the ability to remove it, did he contact somebody who did? If he didn't effectively pass the buck, he didn't take the reasonable standard of care, and is liable.
This is all assuming that the English law is worth a sack of dingo's kidneys. Which it isn't, but what am I, a lowly Canadian, gonna do about it?
Oh, the road map says it's time to announce the 667MHz Celeron II. Let's up the voltage on the 600.
Oh, the road map says it's time to announce the 733 MHz Celeron II. Let's up the voltage on the 600.
Oh, the road map says it's time to up the FSB on the Celeron line. Let's solder that bit back into the 600. Hey, look at all the money we saved by not designing new chips.
They can't do that with the Pentium line any more because AMD is nipping them in the speed race, so they can't leave the breathing room that they used to.
Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium Pro, Pentium II Xeon, Pentium III Xeon.
I'm still a little surprised they didn't go with Pentium Value for the Celeron. I mean, they paid the hundred bucks for the trademark, and they'll be damned if they can't squeeze every last cent out of it.
(Well, what can I say? I feel like I have far too much Karma for my own good.)
Tastes great or less filling?
Come on, we've all battled with this question, and I'd like Miguel's take on it. Personally, I just can't decide; the arguments for both sides are very compelling at 4AM after eating nothing but Twinkies and coffee while getting that last bit of coding done.
(And yes, at 4AM I eat my coffee - you'd think I'd make another pot, but I was supposed to be in bed three hours ago so why bother.)
98 machines can talk to 98 machines and 95 machines. But try getting a 9x machine to talk to an NT machine. It's a pain! With a Server set up as the PDC of a domain, it's understandable, but if I get a "Can't access \\MyMachine\IPC$" error when trying to connect to an NT workstation that's on the WORKGROUP, I figure SMB is broken somehow.
Samba was a pain for me to configure the first time too. But then I figured out the magic trick (it was simple, and I wrote it down, but I forgot what it is, so it's a good thing I wrote it down), and now everything is happy. It's no more of a pain than your average NT workstation in a sea of 9x machines. And it works oh so much better.
(Sorry if this repeats -/. timed out on me, and I don't think the last one posted).
What right does some suit at EMI have to decide what music I like? What right does a suit at OAV have to decide that I should watch dubbed anime instead of subtitled anime? What right does anybody have to decide any of my personal preferences but me?
If I could play in the rules I would. Tower Records in Toronto used to carry JPop, but when I went to buy some, they didn't have any. The next time I'm in Toronto I will try again. But until then, I am quite happy breaking the law. Better that then deleting my Japanese MP3s and losing part of the definition of *who* *I* *am*.
This is about FREE as in FREEDOM, not FREE as in BEER.
Besides, taking your (implied) logic to the extreme, if learning about the Holocaust was made a capital crime, and I taught about the attempted genocide of the Jews, should I be killed, or am I within my rights? This is a slippery slope we're on here, and neither of us can claim the moral high ground.
Jon does have a tendency to say the same thing over and over. This time he got feedback on his previous argument and used it as an excuse to make his point again.
Maybe downloading the new Filter album is unjustified. But what if I only want one of the songs? I'd pay US$1 for it, like the article proposes, but I don't have that option, and I'm not paying CAN$20 for the CD, so I'm just going to download the song for free.
Better yet, what if I want an import CD? Like Hikaru Utada's debut album (it is *really* good by the way). I have the MP3s, and I love the songs, but I can't buy the album. I can't find it anywhere around here. I can't buy it online either, as I have no credit card, and until I get my Quatrix TShirt I'm not not gonna trust a money order. Does that mean I should delete the songs? Hell no.
JPop is not popular culture up here in the Canada. But I dig it anyway, and that's because of MP3s. That is the kind of freely distributed culture Jon is talking about. It's the right to make your own choices in music (or anything else, for that matter) without big companies dictating what I want to hear.
I agree that ACLs are better than Unix permissions. But I still *hate* share permissions. It adds a layer of complexity that is truly...dumb. I know several admins (okay, MCSEs) that set share permissions, leave the NTFS permissions as Everyone/Full Control, and keep the server room unlocked. Can you say Stupid? I knew you could.
This is why, IMHO, Samba should not set up ACL emulation; let the OS/FS do that.
I was going to flame you, and tell you that share persmissions are, always have, and always will be, a bad idea.
But then I realized that is just my personal opinion. I've always thought that as long as you have your permissions set properly in the first place, you don't need to restrict them again.
Never mind the fact that you aren't really talking about NT share permissions - you just want to implement them, and pretend you are implementing real ACLs.
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Either at the end of the Restaurant at the End of the Universe (in which we find out the Question to Life, the Universe, and Everything is "What do you get when you mulitply six by nine?") or at the end of Life the Universe and Everything, the universe went and reset itself, becoming more complex. Which is one of the reasons Earth decided to make a reappearance after it's cameo in the first book.
:).
Does that make sense? Well, it doesn't have to. If a lamp can fall of a table, scurry to the corner, and meow, then my explanantion does *not* have to make sense. So there
Hmmm....okay I can buy that. All I know is that it was a *lot* longer than I thought it would be, seeing as it was on one tape. Were the episodes a half hour or a full hour long? The tape sort of melded them together to create a really long movie. You could still tell where the TV show went on commercial break, and there were plenty of recaps, but there was only one set of actual credits, IIRC.
Although, six episodes would bring the series in line with, say, the BlackAdder series of series.
I have seen the 12 part BBC TV series, which you can conveniently get in one really, really long tape. I thought for a low budget TV show it was froody. Nice and kitch filled.
:).
However, the effects were kind of horrible if you compare it to, say, Star Wars. However, they were average compared to, say, Space 1999. Or the original Star Trek.
Although, a big screen five part trilogy would be kickin'....except Angelina Jolie would make a horrible Trillian and Pierce Brosnan is just not what I pictured for Arthur Dent. Jack Nicholson would be a good Zaphod though
I have files on my desk. I have a coffee cup on my desk. When I have lots of paper on my desk, I can't find the one I want, and when I have one piece of paper on my desk, it's not the one I want.
:)
Therefore the desktop was a *really* bad idea...except for all the other ones. If there ever were any...come to think of it, there never was one, except for CLI (which I prefer to work in).
So what's my point again?
(Note: I was studying for my MCSE when I thought of this...actually, I think I had the thing...Ah well, I just did it for the coasters).
Well, if the Trade Federation had followed instructions and installed a Backup Droid Controller (BDC) then they would not have had so many problems when the Primary Droid Controller (PDC) went offline by way of a six year old with Proton Torpedoes.
I hear you groaning, and the Linux nuts coming for my head, so I better go *runs away*.
The last time I saw a question on this was the crypto one from about a week ago. It's good to see you've done your research. However, this just proves that the question is more important than the answer.
Your question read like you hadn't done any research yet. You should have stated the stance you were going to take. I know that the submit box is a hard place to do that, but a question that looks like it's got some valid research behind it is less likely to bring out the angry college professors.
Also, I'm not sure about your timing. It may be excellent for you, seeing as there's been two or three "Social implications of nanotech" articles here, but to me it seemed like a rehash - you could have gone to the articles, read them, and rephrased your question to talk about something we missed/didn't cover properly.
You are about to get flamed.
By college professors.
Telling you to do your own fscking resarch.
Meanwhile, I will follow the occasional link listed in this article, and hopefully learn something new.
That is all.
The law would get rewritten in eight minutes, eh?
:).
Well, it would get rewritten in two, but the geeks put a DDoS attack on the automatic voting system, and used that two minute windows as an excuse to hold the most memorable four minute filibuster in recent memory, which swayed congress for all of 30 seconds.
Although I must say that turning the law about on it's heels to actually protect the little middleman is quite admirable. It's sneaky evil, and I can respet that
There is one major rule to entrapment that makes the honeypot legal. In order to claim entrapment, the defendent has to prove the police/corporation/whatever made you commit a crime that you would not have normally done. In the classic example, if you fence some goods to a cop, there is no entrapment. But, if the cop bullied you into robbing a place and then fencing the goods to him, there is obvious entrapment.
Entrapment would only apply in this area if you did something like set up a cracking contest, and then charged the winner of the contest for cracking the system.
Good judgment. After all, to quote AJ from UserFriendly when he visited the world of Sluggy Freelance:
:) ).
"I just mastered the keyboard mouse combo, do you expect me to get the arms and legs combo?!?"
Come on now, getting up and shooting somebody would mean having to like get up and stuff, and I just got my keyboard settings set up properly again (the Dvorak keyboard is great for typing, but man does it ever screw up the keyboard
IMHO, violent video games reduce the chances I would go and shoot someone. It's just logistically too different. sarcasm { Except for maybe stuff like Area 51 - you actually use a red plastic gun in that one. } Besides, after blowing up my coworkers with a rocket launcher in Quake, my stress levels are far below homicidal levels.
Mind you, this sounds more like a high school CS (now there is an oxymoron) report, as opposed to a master thesis. For high school, there is nothing better than a content filter. At 16 the last thing you want to do is summarize 300 pages of relevent information into a two page report.
:)
At this point I should point out that I hate research, and like programming. If one guy manages to write something useful, and was a decent programmer, I should just take his stuff and use it without actually having to do any thinking. Not so with research.
And yet I seem to end up either rewriting modules I find, or rolling my own. I'm just full of contradictions today...
You're forgetting the old programming axiom: Never do anything twice.
/., there will be a *really* obvious record of where his plagiarized source of info is :). So if he gets caught, he gets what he deserves.
If somebody's done the research, then I'll grab it from them. If somebody has already seperated the good stuff from the crap, then I can ignore the crap.
Granted, this case is over the top. It just smacks of "Okay, I got this project this morning, and I don't want to do any work." But I suspect that the real reason these actually get posted is not for the brat who wishes not to work, but for people like me who have a passing interest and now have a list of really good resources for crypto to read over the lunch hour.
One interesting side effect of not DingYOFM is that now that the links are posted on a public forum, should Plasmoid's teacher frequent
Even RedHat (no flame intended) is growing so steadily I begin to wonder...
:).
<p>You try taking Windows, replace IE with Netscape, throw in a copy of Corel, and sell it as a different product. I dare you
<p>You could try it with DOS too, but chances are that M$ will just change Windows so it'll only work with their copy of DOS. Oh, wait, that already happened, never mind...
<p>Chances are RedHat won't change Linux so that RPMs will only work with Redhat; at least not without violating the GPL at some point - don't ask me how, but I'm sure that there would be a violation somewhere.
Sorry, couldn't help it. Feel free to moderate this to off topic.
*poing*
Yes, there's a lot of bad open source code out there. But there's a lot of bad closed source code out there masqueradgin as important operating systems with major market share. I'd say the ratio of bad open source programs to good open source programs is the same as the ratio of bad closed source programs to good closed source programs is the same as the ratio of bad movies to good movies.
:) ). This is also a good thing. They can help fix performance bugs if they thing Slash is too slow. This is also a good thing.
A lot of people like the idea of Slash. Now they don't have to reinvent the wheel. That is a good thing. They can add things that always bugged them (like the option for a bigger Comment box to type in maybe
Yes, the implementation of Open Source programming is flawed. But it's a lot better than the closed source programming implementations I've seen. It's sort of like democracy: it doesn't work, but it's better than the other alternatives.
Did their admin even read the offending post? If he didn't, he (and therefore the company) didn't take the reasonable standard of care, and he's liable.
If he read the post, found it to be libel after consulting a lawyer on the issue, had the ability to remove it, and did not, he didn't take the reasonable standard of care, and is liable.
If he did not have the ability to remove it, did he contact somebody who did? If he didn't effectively pass the buck, he didn't take the reasonable standard of care, and is liable.
This is all assuming that the English law is worth a sack of dingo's kidneys. Which it isn't, but what am I, a lowly Canadian, gonna do about it?
Oh, the road map says it's time to announce the 667MHz Celeron II. Let's up the voltage on the 600.
Oh, the road map says it's time to announce the 733 MHz Celeron II. Let's up the voltage on the 600.
Oh, the road map says it's time to up the FSB on the Celeron line. Let's solder that bit back into the 600. Hey, look at all the money we saved by not designing new chips.
They can't do that with the Pentium line any more because AMD is nipping them in the speed race, so they can't leave the breathing room that they used to.
Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium Pro, Pentium II Xeon, Pentium III Xeon.
I'm still a little surprised they didn't go with Pentium Value for the Celeron. I mean, they paid the hundred bucks for the trademark, and they'll be damned if they can't squeeze every last cent out of it.
(Well, what can I say? I feel like I have far too much Karma for my own good.)
Tastes great or less filling?
Come on, we've all battled with this question, and I'd like Miguel's take on it. Personally, I just can't decide; the arguments for both sides are very compelling at 4AM after eating nothing but Twinkies and coffee while getting that last bit of coding done.
(And yes, at 4AM I eat my coffee - you'd think I'd make another pot, but I was supposed to be in bed three hours ago so why bother.)
You had severad buttons to choose from. Here is a sample:
Channel
Power
Play
I did it. It was easy. And if your TV has PiP, you can check to see if it's over every once in a while.
98 machines can talk to 98 machines and 95 machines. But try getting a 9x machine to talk to an NT machine. It's a pain! With a Server set up as the PDC of a domain, it's understandable, but if I get a "Can't access \\MyMachine\IPC$" error when trying to connect to an NT workstation that's on the WORKGROUP, I figure SMB is broken somehow.
Samba was a pain for me to configure the first time too. But then I figured out the magic trick (it was simple, and I wrote it down, but I forgot what it is, so it's a good thing I wrote it down), and now everything is happy. It's no more of a pain than your average NT workstation in a sea of 9x machines. And it works oh so much better.
(Sorry if this repeats - /. timed out on me, and I don't think the last one posted).
What right does some suit at EMI have to decide what music I like? What right does a suit at OAV have to decide that I should watch dubbed anime instead of subtitled anime? What right does anybody have to decide any of my personal preferences but me?
If I could play in the rules I would. Tower Records in Toronto used to carry JPop, but when I went to buy some, they didn't have any. The next time I'm in Toronto I will try again. But until then, I am quite happy breaking the law. Better that then deleting my Japanese MP3s and losing part of the definition of *who* *I* *am*.
This is about FREE as in FREEDOM, not FREE as in BEER.
Besides, taking your (implied) logic to the extreme, if learning about the Holocaust was made a capital crime, and I taught about the attempted genocide of the Jews, should I be killed, or am I within my rights? This is a slippery slope we're on here, and neither of us can claim the moral high ground.
Maybe downloading the new Filter album is unjustified. But what if I only want one of the songs? I'd pay US$1 for it, like the article proposes, but I don't have that option, and I'm not paying CAN$20 for the CD, so I'm just going to download the song for free.
Better yet, what if I want an import CD? Like Hikaru Utada's debut album (it is *really* good by the way). I have the MP3s, and I love the songs, but I can't buy the album. I can't find it anywhere around here. I can't buy it online either, as I have no credit card, and until I get my Quatrix TShirt I'm not not gonna trust a money order. Does that mean I should delete the songs? Hell no.
JPop is not popular culture up here in the Canada. But I dig it anyway, and that's because of MP3s. That is the kind of freely distributed culture Jon is talking about. It's the right to make your own choices in music (or anything else, for that matter) without big companies dictating what I want to hear.
I agree that ACLs are better than Unix permissions. But I still *hate* share permissions. It adds a layer of complexity that is truly...dumb. I know several admins (okay, MCSEs) that set share permissions, leave the NTFS permissions as Everyone/Full Control, and keep the server room unlocked. Can you say Stupid? I knew you could.
This is why, IMHO, Samba should not set up ACL emulation; let the OS/FS do that.
I was going to flame you, and tell you that share persmissions are, always have, and always will be, a bad idea.
But then I realized that is just my personal opinion. I've always thought that as long as you have your permissions set properly in the first place, you don't need to restrict them again.
Never mind the fact that you aren't really talking about NT share permissions - you just want to implement them, and pretend you are implementing real ACLs.
It's still a bad idea.