Did anyone find the claim of two factors of authorization to be a bit odd? I mean, if holding the server in your hand constitutes a genuine "what you have" factor, how is that any different from having physical access to the hardware in ANY situation? My hard drive in my desktop machine is protected by "what you have" authentication, woo hoo.
Multi-Factor Authentication. BlackDog uses two strong authentication factors - "what you have" - the BlackDog device, and "who you are" - your biometric signature.
I gotta say, for an editor to accept a story with a direct HTTP link to a 20MB mpeg video, it says volumes about how little regard for the technology and the inspiration that makes the Internet great. Slash could be a good net citizen and help avoid melting servers, but no, it's a game to these editors to inflict their worst.
It seems that McMORPGs never try to do anything outside the ordinary. They are averse to any kind of risk in game design: "if a spreadsheet can't calculate what to do next, we don't want it in our game." And heaven forbid going outside the elves and swords mythology.
My MUDs did some pretty cool things with realtime data-mining too, and my company planned for a lot more complicated storytelling systems before the bubble burst. I still dabble in my own time on stuff like that, but I don't have the resources to make it run on my own.
I am quite convinced we won't see anything novel out of the Sonys and Microsofts and even the Blizzards. Hack, slash, spawn, deliver, craft. That's it, that's all there is to the McMORPG.
My CDs play well on my $29 stereo, and in my car. FM radio, where it isn't ClearChannel, sounds just fine.... Why must you have 55" plasma, Dolby 11.1 surround, with Foomatic DSP and Orgasmatron effects? Christ, step outside and go for a walk...
My 8tracks play well on my $290 stereo in my car. AM radio, where it isn't rural religious propaganda, sounds just fine.... Why must you have 25" color TV, stereophonic, with VHF and UHF bands? Christ, step outside and go for a walk...
My LPs play well on my $2900 hi-fi. The wireless, where it isn't soap company serials, sounds just fine.... Why must you have a television set, with live comedies once a week? Christ, step outside and go for a walk...
My chamber orchestra plays well on a $29000 salary, right in my parlour...
Since when is "inaccurate" or "overblown" nonsense? That's what science is: study something, make a theory, and just about dare someone else to prove it wrong, because that's what makes for a better theory.
Except for carrying out all that extra self-heating crap with you. You do pack out your garbage, right?
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Hey, dork, nice way to not get the joke. The thing is, you didn't even correct the other mentioned error, where the post had a comma instead of a semicolon.
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Oh, and for anyone else out there who still wants to type code into slashdot for some obscure reason, just use the <ecode> tags and you don't have to fuck around with <---> notation at all.
Now that's what I call "digital" storage!
The article says that they're currently only working with fingernail trimmings. They have yet to work on fingernails which are "attached to a finger," raising issues due to natural movements.
Go to the local Wendy's of Tokyo ("Wenudisu"?) to find an extra couple megabits in your ramen. No, it's not an official promotion, either.
It's a sad day when a software developer needs to keep their private writings as squeaky clean as a federal candidate. You're inviting lawsuits by cracking jokes, you're in danger of losing your job for mentioning something six years ago, you're seen as corrupt on the say-so of some usenet posting.
And yet, look at the pasts of our political leaders. Look at the pasts of our corporate masters. Look at the reprehensible things which are all shrugged off as "well, those times were different."
Do the users know they're getting this adware junk on their machines? If the adware was installed without the user's informed consent, then this is the problem. What the adware is actually doing on the computer is less of a problem. Who knows, maybe some users WANT competitive comparisons to pop up. Think of what a Froogle Toolbar widget would be like.
If I don't care recall the latin, id est, I mentally read "i.e." as "in essence." It's like a special case of "e.g.," except there is really only one possible example to give.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to read that "OS" as something the author didn't intend. OS = Operating System, OSS = Open Source Software. SCO purports to sell an operating system already, so including an OS in their product seems a bit redundant.
The press rightly continues to use the word 'piracy' for illicit copying and distribution of original materials. Some think it's a new phenomenon, and hard to square with the traditional image of the Jolly Roger and swashbuckling robbers-at-sea. The use of the word 'piracy' as signifying an unauthorized copy of a manuscript is hundreds of years old, long before modern Copyright doctrine was developed. From http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.report.html:
There was very little trust in the print medium when it was first developed--it was seen as unstable and subject to piracy and fraudulent copying. Authenticity was hard to guarantee: indeed, the term "piracy" was first used by John Fell, Bishop of Oxford, to describe certain pernicious practices of early printers and booksellers. A "pirate" was someone who participated in the "unauthorized reprinting of a title recognized to belong to someone else." "Stationers" eventually emerged as the trusted practitioners who were placed in charge of various aspects of publishing--practices we would now recognize as printing, publishing, editing, and bookselling. Stationers worked out the conventional practices of making books, and thus made printing a viable economic enterprise with the elaborate complexity of producing a book eventually invisible to all but the practitioners in the trade.
That's Dr. John Fell (1625-86), who was given the title of Bishop of Oxford in 1675.
If you learn how to do something at the command-line level, you also learn how to automate doing things at the command-line level. A simple program is just a list of commands to be performed. Few things that are GUI-driven support any notion of automation. You become a slave to the mouse wasting time shoving around widgets, instead of the computer being a slave to perform your bidding.
Depending on your views, they may be meticulous or overbearing or merely concerned about licenses, but I don't think Debian is particularly bookish or academic about them.
One would think with all the discussions on this site that people would know the difference between the four types of "intellectual property" protected by the legal system: Copyright, Patent, Trademark, Secret.
Know why Macs could read PC disks but not vice versa? Easy. Apple's HFS filesystem was patented or a trade secret.
If Microsoft wrote their own HFS driver, copyright wouldn't be an issue. If Microsoft couldn't figure out the HFS without illegal corporate espionage, then it's a trade secret. If Microsoft could figure out how it worked, and could write their own, then the only legal protection remaining is a viable patent in force.
Of course, that still leaves the possibility that maybe Microsoft was just apathetic on the issue, or consciously decided to snub the Apple crowd by not bothering with the HFS at all.
Reminds me of a page I wrote a few years ago, for newcomers to Linux. I included an explanation of "file type determined by contents" versus "file type determined by extension."
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I gotta say, for an editor to accept a story with a direct HTTP link to a 20MB mpeg video, it says volumes about how little regard for the technology and the inspiration that makes the Internet great. Slash could be a good net citizen and help avoid melting servers, but no, it's a game to these editors to inflict their worst.
My MUDs did some pretty cool things with realtime data-mining too, and my company planned for a lot more complicated storytelling systems before the bubble burst. I still dabble in my own time on stuff like that, but I don't have the resources to make it run on my own.
I am quite convinced we won't see anything novel out of the Sonys and Microsofts and even the Blizzards. Hack, slash, spawn, deliver, craft. That's it, that's all there is to the McMORPG.
Denny's restaurant menus already have the Point 'n Grunt interface all locked up.
My 8tracks play well on my $290 stereo in my car. AM radio, where it isn't rural religious propaganda, sounds just fine. ... Why must you have 25" color TV, stereophonic, with VHF and UHF bands? Christ, step outside and go for a walk ...
My LPs play well on my $2900 hi-fi. The wireless, where it isn't soap company serials, sounds just fine. ... Why must you have a television set, with live comedies once a week? Christ, step outside and go for a walk ...
My chamber orchestra plays well on a $29000 salary, right in my parlour...
Since when is "inaccurate" or "overblown" nonsense? That's what science is: study something, make a theory, and just about dare someone else to prove it wrong, because that's what makes for a better theory.
Except for carrying out all that extra self-heating crap with you. You do pack out your garbage, right?
Er, the Daily Show is a news show, like Fox News is a news show. Except you can actually buy the Daily Show's coverage of the 2004 election on DVD.
Marketing a security product for your own operating system is like correcting your own spelling test.
I might just have to go make up some more bumper stickers or something.
Now that's what I call "digital" storage! The article says that they're currently only working with fingernail trimmings. They have yet to work on fingernails which are "attached to a finger," raising issues due to natural movements. Go to the local Wendy's of Tokyo ("Wenudisu"?) to find an extra couple megabits in your ramen. No, it's not an official promotion, either.
And yet, look at the pasts of our political leaders. Look at the pasts of our corporate masters. Look at the reprehensible things which are all shrugged off as "well, those times were different."
Do the users know they're getting this adware junk on their machines? If the adware was installed without the user's informed consent, then this is the problem. What the adware is actually doing on the computer is less of a problem. Who knows, maybe some users WANT competitive comparisons to pop up. Think of what a Froogle Toolbar widget would be like.
If I don't care recall the latin, id est, I mentally read "i.e." as "in essence." It's like a special case of "e.g.," except there is really only one possible example to give.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to read that "OS" as something the author didn't intend. OS = Operating System, OSS = Open Source Software. SCO purports to sell an operating system already, so including an OS in their product seems a bit redundant.
The press rightly continues to use the word 'piracy' for illicit copying and distribution of original materials. Some think it's a new phenomenon, and hard to square with the traditional image of the Jolly Roger and swashbuckling robbers-at-sea. The use of the word 'piracy' as signifying an unauthorized copy of a manuscript is hundreds of years old, long before modern Copyright doctrine was developed. From http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.report.html: There was very little trust in the print medium when it was first developed--it was seen as unstable and subject to piracy and fraudulent copying. Authenticity was hard to guarantee: indeed, the term "piracy" was first used by John Fell, Bishop of Oxford, to describe certain pernicious practices of early printers and booksellers. A "pirate" was someone who participated in the "unauthorized reprinting of a title recognized to belong to someone else." "Stationers" eventually emerged as the trusted practitioners who were placed in charge of various aspects of publishing--practices we would now recognize as printing, publishing, editing, and bookselling. Stationers worked out the conventional practices of making books, and thus made printing a viable economic enterprise with the elaborate complexity of producing a book eventually invisible to all but the practitioners in the trade. That's Dr. John Fell (1625-86), who was given the title of Bishop of Oxford in 1675.
How about, "the Senators grinned and said, 'you won!' but will slip it into the next Iraq bill when fewer people are snooping around."
I'll keep my client running today. Will you? http://play.aelitis.com/torrents/NeoOfficeJ-1.1.dm g.torrent
If you learn how to do something at the command-line level, you also learn how to automate doing things at the command-line level. A simple program is just a list of commands to be performed. Few things that are GUI-driven support any notion of automation. You become a slave to the mouse wasting time shoving around widgets, instead of the computer being a slave to perform your bidding.
Yeah, I hate it when engineers manage the business people.
Depending on your views, they may be meticulous or overbearing or merely concerned about licenses, but I don't think Debian is particularly bookish or academic about them.
*sigh*
One would think with all the discussions on this site that people would know the difference between the four types of "intellectual property" protected by the legal system: Copyright, Patent, Trademark, Secret. Know why Macs could read PC disks but not vice versa? Easy. Apple's HFS filesystem was patented or a trade secret.
If Microsoft wrote their own HFS driver, copyright wouldn't be an issue. If Microsoft couldn't figure out the HFS without illegal corporate espionage, then it's a trade secret. If Microsoft could figure out how it worked, and could write their own, then the only legal protection remaining is a viable patent in force.
Of course, that still leaves the possibility that maybe Microsoft was just apathetic on the issue, or consciously decided to snub the Apple crowd by not bothering with the HFS at all.
http://halley.cc/ed/linux/newcomer/filename.html includes a simple graphic to accompany the text.