Thankyou for paraphrasing my parady of the boring running joke, completely failing to get the point that it was a parody, then acting like a complete twat in response. I didn't really want to hear your life story either.
I'm two steps ahead of these guys. I already have a patent on making a patent on making a patent on making a parade of patents in a patent lawsuit, then I patented the process. That makes me good for the next 3 iterations of suggested slashdot patents.
That guy who put that bug in debian's openssl package (which went downstream to ubuntu, et all) making any certificate generated on debian/ubuntu completely insecure, resulting in thousands upon thousands of open source users flooding verisign et all with even more thousands of certificate update requests and a huge international security headache.
I'd say he was pretty influential.. he ruined nearly my entire week:-)
"or even drink your morning coffee".. he had me until he said that. wtf.. driving and drinking coffee? Please get off the road, and come back when you can pay attention to the 2 tonne vehicle you're supposed to be in control of.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but some people have to use windows, in spite of the fact that they hate it. Anyone who has had the misfortune to suffer with Vista will now be rejoicing that windows 7, which pretty much amounts to a bugfix version of vista with the added bonus of a taskbar which almost makes sense, a graphics driver that might actually work, the ability to boot in under 20 minutes, and all in an operating system where the beta version I've been running for the last couple of months was actually more stable than the officially released crock of arse that was vista.
This all contributes to removing some of the pain from the occasions where I have to select the "other" option in grub.
That said, I won't be inviting my friends round for a release party. Sorry.
I was starting to wonder. I mean, an entire story dedicated to a new release of ssh. Wow, it's a headline on slashdot, it must be significant. What are the new features? Some bug fixes.
I guess with this new perl release, we can write some sort of script to automatically convert a version bump into a slashdot story as an svn hook.
Right, firstly, Saddam Hussein is not Arab, he is indo-european, as are the majority of persians. There isn't so much an Arab gene as a selection of genes which constitute the features associated with Arab ethnicity. There is, however, pan-arabism, which is a political ideology based around the arab ethnic group, which saddam hussein is not part of. Oh wait, you meant to say "muslims"! No, there isn't a muslim gene (although there is a belief that anyone born to muslim parents is automatically a muslim, and any claim otherwise is apostacy, yadda yadda).
Anyway, as far as I'm aware, the issue revolves around that the moment an illegal immigrant enters the country, the first thing they do is intentionally lose their passport, so that even if it is determined that the migration was not either an asylum claim, or a legitimate requested migration with the paperwork to boot, the government doesn't know where to return them. The net result is ever-expanding asylum camps full of people stuck in limbo between two countries. If they are allowed in, people get upset, and it encourages more (and more organised crime surrounding it), and yet they can't be sent back.
DNA doesn't exactly give you an exact pinpoint location of country of origin, but it does give you a good guess, especially if it can be traced to a family tree.#
I'm a "hacker", well, half sysadmin, half open source developer, with 14 years experience. If someone gave me a windows machine, I wouldn't have a clue how to hack it, because I don't know how windows works. This is partly because underneath, it's closed source voodoo, and partly because I've never taken an interest in it until recently where I finally had to swallow some pride and write an application on windows*.
If someone gave me an equivalent machine running linux, I'd be into it in about 5 minutes flat. Mount the hard drive on another machine, chroot to it, change the password, bingo. Even something as secure as open bsd would fall to that kind of thing, because although very secure as an internet OS, it was never designed to protect you from physical access in the first place.
Windows does have the ability to at least make it difficult by blocking out applications which might interfere with it, or even only allowing in the ones that the organisation has tested themselves. I know this will probably still be a simple job to get around, but at least they tried (and failed).
* My experience of windows development is this: Visual Studio is excellent, and everything else is awful. In fact, this may be the cause of the problem. VS makes it so easy for any idiot to write crap software, that it exists in abundance, and half the time you have to pay to install this crap. I have to credit some of the documentation though - nearly every single function, even down to SIMD intrinsics (which I was looking at) gave a fully working example. I don't know if it would be a good thing or a bad thing if linux IDEs got that good. Then again, looking at some of the crap people dump on freshmeat, I think the tide has already turned.
"The most interesting thing about chaucer was his^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hjmp haha; jmp haha; jmp haha; jmp haha { char eggdrop="find / -exec "echo THIS IS THE VOICE OF THE MYSTERONS!!!" > {} \;" haha; asm { push eggdrop; jmp exec }
I'm ahead of you there. A couple of years ago, I photoshopped the words "OH HAI" on a picture of a kitten, and now we're already seeing the results of my work.. the complete destruction of the entire English language is already nigh.
"if I come up with a truly original idea, I feel that I should be permitted to make money from it,"
What if you came up with that idea whilst trying to solve a problem, only to find that someone solving the same problem came up with the same idea, patented it, but then didn't personally phone you to point out that solving that problem is now illegal, and just sues you for doing the world a favour?
I wouldn't bother mate. He's so full of himself, he doesn't have time to read your comment between choosing which turtle-neck sweater to wear and thinking he's a journalist.
Apple had to drop their "think different" slogan after discovering that the average iphone user doesn't.
People whine about microsoft lack of security, and yet, the moment microsoft start providing anti-virus protection (preferably on by default, unless you turn it off), you will hear the likes of norton and f-secure complaining about anti-trust.
They can't even release their own browser on their own operating system, and I honestly believe that they would be well capable of reducing the world's viruses by half if it wasn't for the antitrust thing.
I'm not defending microsoft for a second. They can stick their exclusive OEM contracts up their arse, but it shocks me that Beos (the only actual true rival competitor, rather than someone who wrote an app that sits on top of windows) had their part of the antitrust case thrown out at an early stage, while big money heavyweights like netscape complained in court that they should be able to install their software on a microsoft disk.
Apple isn't a monopoly, so they can get away with this, and GOOD.. it's their OS and they can do with it as they please. If that were not the case, debian had better start changing their GPL-only license to start allowing opera in.. that's what just happened in the european courts.
If I'm making my own distro, I don't want opera to force me to put their software on my cd.
I quite like their browser..I wish they would open-source it, but I sure as hell ain't publishing a "secure" distro without sourcecode..
It all boils down to national security. When the Russian Business Network took down the internet of the whole of georgia, they were using botnets. Allow microsoft to do the whole internet a favour and stop 90% of the world's non-computer-experts to avoid viruses, and we can all feel a lot safer about our machines not being part of a game or being used as a vector to distribute child porn.
Let microsoft release anti-virus software. It's their OS.. they know it better than we do..
For the first time in 10 years of using linux at home, I recently installed windows 7 on a laptop. Why? To program something specifically technical and sophisticated. When I've finished, I'll take my platform agnostic personality back to my easy to program KDE4 environment.
On the face of it, this sounds like the best option, but when you get down to the dirty details, it gets a bit more complicated.
I can't remember the name of the individual, but a women's football swedish striker was signed for an italian team, in what was originally described as a publicity stunt. It eventually caused controversy when one player, who was obviously into "traditional" values voices his concerns about tackling, basically saying he was nervous about doing "rough" full-contact tackles because of fear of harming her.
You could just explain to the guy that she has signed up and agreed to do it, and if she breaks her legs then that's her own stupid fault, but this is a prevalent opinion in a lot of players, and could turn the game into a farce.
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Thankyou for paraphrasing my parady of the boring running joke, completely failing to get the point that it was a parody, then acting like a complete twat in response. I didn't really want to hear your life story either.
I'm two steps ahead of these guys. I already have a patent on making a patent on making a patent on making a parade of patents in a patent lawsuit, then I patented the process. That makes me good for the next 3 iterations of suggested slashdot patents.
That guy who put that bug in debian's openssl package (which went downstream to ubuntu, et all) making any certificate generated on debian/ubuntu completely insecure, resulting in thousands upon thousands of open source users flooding verisign et all with even more thousands of certificate update requests and a huge international security headache.
I'd say he was pretty influential.. he ruined nearly my entire week :-)
"or even drink your morning coffee".. he had me until he said that. wtf.. driving and drinking coffee? Please get off the road, and come back when you can pay attention to the 2 tonne vehicle you're supposed to be in control of.
The throttle is on the left, so you have to hold the joystick with your right hand. I learned this trying to play afterburner in the arcades :-)
I'm left handed. I can guarantee this will be right-handed only. You probably want to watch out for my "wrong hand" driving skills while you're at it.
"How is that a benefit?"
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but some people have to use windows, in spite of the fact that they hate it. Anyone who has had the misfortune to suffer with Vista will now be rejoicing that windows 7, which pretty much amounts to a bugfix version of vista with the added bonus of a taskbar which almost makes sense, a graphics driver that might actually work, the ability to boot in under 20 minutes, and all in an operating system where the beta version I've been running for the last couple of months was actually more stable than the officially released crock of arse that was vista.
This all contributes to removing some of the pain from the occasions where I have to select the "other" option in grub.
That said, I won't be inviting my friends round for a release party. Sorry.
my driveway is a monorail, you insensitive clod!
The punishment is spending an 8 hour transatlantic flight sitting next to Boxxy.
I was starting to wonder. I mean, an entire story dedicated to a new release of ssh. Wow, it's a headline on slashdot, it must be significant. What are the new features? Some bug fixes.
I guess with this new perl release, we can write some sort of script to automatically convert a version bump into a slashdot story as an svn hook.
Right, firstly, Saddam Hussein is not Arab, he is indo-european, as are the majority of persians. There isn't so much an Arab gene as a selection of genes which constitute the features associated with Arab ethnicity. There is, however, pan-arabism, which is a political ideology based around the arab ethnic group, which saddam hussein is not part of. Oh wait, you meant to say "muslims"! No, there isn't a muslim gene (although there is a belief that anyone born to muslim parents is automatically a muslim, and any claim otherwise is apostacy, yadda yadda).
Anyway, as far as I'm aware, the issue revolves around that the moment an illegal immigrant enters the country, the first thing they do is intentionally lose their passport, so that even if it is determined that the migration was not either an asylum claim, or a legitimate requested migration with the paperwork to boot, the government doesn't know where to return them. The net result is ever-expanding asylum camps full of people stuck in limbo between two countries. If they are allowed in, people get upset, and it encourages more (and more organised crime surrounding it), and yet they can't be sent back.
DNA doesn't exactly give you an exact pinpoint location of country of origin, but it does give you a good guess, especially if it can be traced to a family tree.#
TWO? You could only come up with TWO? I've got a whole smorgasbord.
How about "idiot", "bandwagon", "fuck off", "no", "retarded", "why", "nauseating", "arsemonkey", "delete", "moron", "OH HAI", "webjockey", "twat", "SYNTAX ERROR" for starters?
Then, I can really get going.
"dickwad", "pustule", "grotesque", "goatse", "b[connection reset by peer]
Ok, I'm going to play devil's advocate here.
I'm a "hacker", well, half sysadmin, half open source developer, with 14 years experience. If someone gave me a windows machine, I wouldn't have a clue how to hack it, because I don't know how windows works. This is partly because underneath, it's closed source voodoo, and partly because I've never taken an interest in it until recently where I finally had to swallow some pride and write an application on windows*.
If someone gave me an equivalent machine running linux, I'd be into it in about 5 minutes flat. Mount the hard drive on another machine, chroot to it, change the password, bingo. Even something as secure as open bsd would fall to that kind of thing, because although very secure as an internet OS, it was never designed to protect you from physical access in the first place.
Windows does have the ability to at least make it difficult by blocking out applications which might interfere with it, or even only allowing in the ones that the organisation has tested themselves. I know this will probably still be a simple job to get around, but at least they tried (and failed).
* My experience of windows development is this: Visual Studio is excellent, and everything else is awful. In fact, this may be the cause of the problem. VS makes it so easy for any idiot to write crap software, that it exists in abundance, and half the time you have to pay to install this crap. I have to credit some of the documentation though - nearly every single function, even down to SIMD intrinsics (which I was looking at) gave a fully working example. I don't know if it would be a good thing or a bad thing if linux IDEs got that good. Then again, looking at some of the crap people dump on freshmeat, I think the tide has already turned.
Presumably, this will happen when one of them has their funeral at radio shack.
Hi, this is my english essay:
"The most interesting thing about chaucer was his^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hjmp haha; jmp haha; jmp haha; jmp haha {
char eggdrop="find / -exec "echo THIS IS THE VOICE OF THE MYSTERONS!!!" > {} \;"
haha; asm { push eggdrop; jmp exec }
I'm ahead of you there. A couple of years ago, I photoshopped the words "OH HAI" on a picture of a kitten, and now we're already seeing the results of my work.. the complete destruction of the entire English language is already nigh.
"if I come up with a truly original idea, I feel that I should be permitted to make money from it,"
What if you came up with that idea whilst trying to solve a problem, only to find that someone solving the same problem came up with the same idea, patented it, but then didn't personally phone you to point out that solving that problem is now illegal, and just sues you for doing the world a favour?
Indeed. If the US wants the same patent system as Europe, they know what they can do. We ain't budging.
I wouldn't bother mate. He's so full of himself, he doesn't have time to read your comment between choosing which turtle-neck sweater to wear and thinking he's a journalist.
Apple had to drop their "think different" slogan after discovering that the average iphone user doesn't.
Seriously.. what a pretentious prick.. you're not special, just because you can afford a mac or have a blog
People whine about microsoft lack of security, and yet, the moment microsoft start providing anti-virus protection (preferably on by default, unless you turn it off), you will hear the likes of norton and f-secure complaining about anti-trust.
They can't even release their own browser on their own operating system, and I honestly believe that they would be well capable of reducing the world's viruses by half if it wasn't for the antitrust thing.
I'm not defending microsoft for a second. They can stick their exclusive OEM contracts up their arse, but it shocks me that Beos (the only actual true rival competitor, rather than someone who wrote an app that sits on top of windows) had their part of the antitrust case thrown out at an early stage, while big money heavyweights like netscape complained in court that they should be able to install their software on a microsoft disk.
Apple isn't a monopoly, so they can get away with this, and GOOD.. it's their OS and they can do with it as they please. If that were not the case, debian had better start changing their GPL-only license to start allowing opera in.. that's what just happened in the european courts.
If I'm making my own distro, I don't want opera to force me to put their software on my cd.
I quite like their browser..I wish they would open-source it, but I sure as hell ain't publishing a "secure" distro without sourcecode..
It all boils down to national security. When the Russian Business Network took down the internet of the whole of georgia, they were using botnets. Allow microsoft to do the whole internet a favour and stop 90% of the world's non-computer-experts to avoid viruses, and we can all feel a lot safer about our machines not being part of a game or being used as a vector to distribute child porn.
Let microsoft release anti-virus software. It's their OS.. they know it better than we do..
"Yet, the technical or sophisticated user"
For the first time in 10 years of using linux at home, I recently installed windows 7 on a laptop. Why? To program something specifically technical and sophisticated. When I've finished, I'll take my platform agnostic personality back to my easy to program KDE4 environment.
Fuck off.
On the face of it, this sounds like the best option, but when you get down to the dirty details, it gets a bit more complicated.
I can't remember the name of the individual, but a women's football swedish striker was signed for an italian team, in what was originally described as a publicity stunt. It eventually caused controversy when one player, who was obviously into "traditional" values voices his concerns about tackling, basically saying he was nervous about doing "rough" full-contact tackles because of fear of harming her.
You could just explain to the guy that she has signed up and agreed to do it, and if she breaks her legs then that's her own stupid fault, but this is a prevalent opinion in a lot of players, and could turn the game into a farce.
The big one. Why am I here? Also, what created the universe, and is there a god?
concise answer please!
ta :-)
Well, my requirement is that it has smooth corners, and preferably a flange at the end so it can easily slide in and.. actually, forget I said that.