I've heard stories about people being sewn up with spnges and the like still inside their bodies after a successful surgery... this could have some much more disastrous results.
That's Canada for you... doing something sensible for the individual at the loss of the organization and corporation. Just who do you people think you are anyway? Next thing you know you Canadians will be starting up community WiFi networks just to steal billions of dollars (canadian) each year from the coffers of your regional cable and telephone companies that provide poorly supported medium bandwidth access for thrice the warranted cost. heh.
I still refer to a number of textbooks that I bought while I was still in college - yes, they're quite a few years old, but physics and math don't change. Maybe I'm just lucky that I work in a field that's very closely related to what I studied in college, but I definitely value the textbooks that I use as references
Same here - though none of those textbooks that I refer to include those from general education, which comprised about 70% of my textbook expenditure - they were always the most expensive, and rotation of texts was higher. As a software engineer, the books I use most are O'Reilly references, and my Language Theory book rarely leaves the shelf unless I'm in a nostalgic mood for Finite Automata and Turing Machines.
Read the fucking Iliad.
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The movie Troy was a huge cinematic blunder ruining one of the greatest stories of all time.
Hence in the titles - "Inspired by the Iliad", and not "This is the Iliad".
Yes, they weren't true to the actual Iliad, but the movie wasn't supposed to be the actual Iliad. It was supposed to be a piece of entertainment centered around the names of Homerian heroes that would get people into theaters. I would agree with your anger if the movie made some claim at actually representing the Iliad, but fortunately it doesn't.
The anger you show about the misrepresentations of fiction such as The Iliad is shared by many avid readers of the X-Men series who are pissed off because Lady Deathstrike's inadequate role in X-Men 2 completely ignored her real role with Wolverine in the comics. And it still holds as much weight - the movies are fiction extended upon fiction.
As already mentioned, typesetting isn't an issue since we have electronic typesetting with LaTeX, roff, etc. The brand-new-off-the-shelf price is extreme because
a) the Ph.D. that wrote the sucker wants his big fat check for his doctorate status - he didn't earn three degrees and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to rake in a measley 22 grand a year
b) the publishing company wants their share of the big fat check because that's what they do
c) the campus bookstore and other textbook dealers know that kids have to buy the books in order to complete their classes. The demand therefore is garaunteed.
d) the bookstores also know there is an annual flood of used books that students must get rid of, and use that opportunity to replenish their supplies at a low cost.
Because of these factors, the new price on the book is large, since the new books have to compete for sales not only with other textbooks but also with the used copies in circulation, and the resale value of the books is low for the student, and high for the vendor. That's what's most alarming to students. When you spend $750 on ragged used books for 5 classes, you feel a little jipped when you sell them all back and the most you can get is $30. Then you go back to the bookstore for next semester, and see that each of those used books you sold are back on the shelf for $80 a pop.
Clearly, OpenBSD should re-evaluate its install process. The fact that OpenBSD installs so many exploitable executables like "ftpd", "telnet", "ping", "sed", "awk", "more", "grep", "ls", "mv", "sh", "getty" and "init" only details just how insecure the operating system really is by default. This kind of oversight should simply not be allowed. Yes, some old folks in the community may argue that some of these binaries that are piggy-backed on the operating system are "essential tools" for "interacting with the system", but those poor souls would be overlooking the seriously dangerous nature that allowing executable binaries to install on a live system presents.
Actually, I need to correct myself here... the paramter that was abused is slapped into a system call, and that call is therefore appended with a logical OR allowing the attacker to execute arbitrary processes on the system.
I need to RTFA more closely.
Fork bombs only work if you can log into the system in question. This is a bit lower priority than your usual vulnerabilities which allow outside attacks.
But if you RTFA, you'll notice how the cracker got in - through a parameter to nwstats.pl that wasn't checked for perl syntax. The cracker broke the line of execution into a logical OR, allowing him to execute arbitrary PERL expressions as the apache user. Including fork(). Including++ while() { fork(); }
But in this case the attacker simply wanted to gain access to the box to DDoS other sites and other frivolous activities.
I absolutely detest "real" violence. Every time they showed people in the comforts of their middle-class existance cheering as bombs went off in Iraq I felt sick to my stomache. I am not desensitized whatsoever.
I agree. In my case I would say that watching violence and playing violent video games has actually sensitized me to violence. I can't cheer for war in Iraq pretending that it's just a magical victory over a despot. I know that thousands of people are meeting horrible deaths and living in horror, which is something I cannot cheer for.
That being said, would it not be wise to consider that a child that grows up without seeing the effects of violence has no idea what the repercussions of violence are? A kid that is exposed to violence knows what it is and knows what happens as a result, and while some turn off their morality and kill they all realize what violence does. If a person is not exposed at all to the results of violence - injury, pain, death, anything - then the moral weight of the decision to act violently is probably not very different from that of acting nonviolently, making it easier for this person to hurt, maim, kill, whatever. At least the kids playing video games and watching violent movies can learn that violence results in pain, injury, and death. what they do with that knowledge is a matter of what they learn from their overall environment, and their natural tendency toward aggression.
Perhaps it's because you don't expose yourseld to hours and hours of violence and not become desensitized or enticed to it. As one of the many hundreds of thousands of tv-watchers, movie-goers, and violent-game-players that is still grossed out by surgery on the medical channel and hasn't so much as had a fist fit in the schoolyard, I can asure you that it's very possible. I'd honestly be more worried about what military training (hint: actually literally teaching people to kill without remorse or guilt) does to the human psyche than fantasy video games.
Man, I must really be an underachiever. I've played the GTA series since like 1994 and I've yet to steal a car, run over a pedestrian, or shoot a single police officer. And I've had a 9 year head start on this kid with my 'training'! I'm so ashamed of myself.... really, I am.
"Even with the relatively large number of bulletins we released this week, we compare favorably," he said. "Year-to-date for 2005, Microsoft has fixed 15 vulnerabilities affecting Windows Server 2003. In the same time period, for just this year, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 users have had to patch 34 vulnerabilities and SuSE Enterprise Linux 9 users have had to patch over 78 vulnerabilities."
He's taken this as a sign that Windows is more secure. I don't see that it does.. because really he is saying that MS doesn't fix as many vulnerabilities that do exist. I say, Red Hat and SuSE are on top of bugfixes for 2005, and MS is way behind.
" The gap between harvests has become an annual occurrence in North Korea's four years of slow-motion famine. In the lean weeks to come, government mills will churn out a staple of the crisis -- edible roots, grasses, sea weed, corn stalks and the like often mixed with cereals and enzymes and cooked into noodles or buns. The substitutes are "basically a stomach filler" with little nutrition and eating them causes digestive problems especially for children and the elderly, Morton said.
Floods, drought and other natural disasters ruined North Korea's collective agriculture already crippled by mismanagement and the loss of crucial Soviet bloc trading partners. Without food and imported fuel, North Korea's centrally planned economy has largely broken down. Morton said the worst food shortages were believed to be occurring in the cold, land-scarce, heavily urbanized northeast."
-CNN, April 27 1999 source
But, instead of lifting the economic sanctions on North Korea that prohibited them from being able to purchase that Wide Selection of Cheap Food Available to Everyone, we told them to starve.
Just how much trust can a lifetime dictator have for a political power so unstable that it shifts from one political idiom to another every four or eight years as presidents, senators, congressmen, and cabinets appear, shuffle around, and disappear? Almost every election year the climate in washington is put on a totally new spin, and the rest of the world has to re-learn how to figure the new administration out. If you put things in that context, the US can certainly seem a bit volatile and unpredictable. Certainly the fact that we are the only nation in the history of the world to have used nuclear weapons in anger - twice, and on civilians - does not help our appeal to others to disarm either.
1) In english, well is an adverb, good is an adjective. If u aint gonna right good than nobody gonna tihnk u no nohting
2) MP support was officially added in 1.6.1 or 1.6.2 and was available in CVS prior to those releases
3) U1's are sparc64, not sparc, so it's no brainteaser that the sparc port doesn't support them.
4) U1's are supported by sparc64 - If you can read
I don't think any BSD, OS X aside, has ever been steered in the same direction as Linux insofar as "desktop-readiness" is concerned. In truth, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD can all make wonderful workstations with all the bells and whistles X has to offer - however, a fundamental difference between the Linux camp and BSD camp is that the Linux definition of "desktop ready" entails a general dumbing down of the install, more closely binding the sytem functionality to windowed operation, and providing that "plug and play" feel to the user. While these are great things for an OS to be able to acheive, they simply aren't near as important or relevant to the BSDs as the problems that they are already out to solve, and I honestly don't think you will ever see any of them go there. Most BSD hackers are more interested in making the net stack faster and more reliable, finding new ways of improving smp performance, and tightening security. And to be quite honest, I myself am very happy to use a system which has developers that "keep the faith alive" and focus on computing science rather than computing hype. It's insulting to imply that the BSDs are generally inferior because they aren't Linux and you don't want to learn to use them.
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I've heard stories about people being sewn up with spnges and the like still inside their bodies after a successful surgery... this could have some much more disastrous results.
Like, worse than MANSQUITO.
That's Canada for you... doing something sensible for the individual at the loss of the organization and corporation. Just who do you people think you are anyway? Next thing you know you Canadians will be starting up community WiFi networks just to steal billions of dollars (canadian) each year from the coffers of your regional cable and telephone companies that provide poorly supported medium bandwidth access for thrice the warranted cost. heh.
Hence in the titles - "Inspired by the Iliad", and not "This is the Iliad".
Yes, they weren't true to the actual Iliad, but the movie wasn't supposed to be the actual Iliad. It was supposed to be a piece of entertainment centered around the names of Homerian heroes that would get people into theaters. I would agree with your anger if the movie made some claim at actually representing the Iliad, but fortunately it doesn't.
The anger you show about the misrepresentations of fiction such as The Iliad is shared by many avid readers of the X-Men series who are pissed off because Lady Deathstrike's inadequate role in X-Men 2 completely ignored her real role with Wolverine in the comics. And it still holds as much weight - the movies are fiction extended upon fiction.
Ah, my oversight.
send(s, *b, sizeof(b)*sizeof(unsigned char), SIO_APOLOGY);
No, you are off the topic of the article.
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As already mentioned, typesetting isn't an issue since we have electronic typesetting with LaTeX, roff, etc. The brand-new-off-the-shelf price is extreme because
a) the Ph.D. that wrote the sucker wants his big fat check for his doctorate status - he didn't earn three degrees and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to rake in a measley 22 grand a year
b) the publishing company wants their share of the big fat check because that's what they do
c) the campus bookstore and other textbook dealers know that kids have to buy the books in order to complete their classes. The demand therefore is garaunteed.
d) the bookstores also know there is an annual flood of used books that students must get rid of, and use that opportunity to replenish their supplies at a low cost.
Because of these factors, the new price on the book is large, since the new books have to compete for sales not only with other textbooks but also with the used copies in circulation, and the resale value of the books is low for the student, and high for the vendor. That's what's most alarming to students. When you spend $750 on ragged used books for 5 classes, you feel a little jipped when you sell them all back and the most you can get is $30. Then you go back to the bookstore for next semester, and see that each of those used books you sold are back on the shelf for $80 a pop.
... Realizing you actually read 5 of its 542 pages ...
Priceless!
sed 's/[Ee]ducational\ [Ii]nstitution/peer-to-peer\ network/g; s/China/America/g; s/Chinese\ Ministry\ of\ Education/RIAA/g; s/BBS/administrator/g; s/Nanjing/Louisiana\ State/g'
... and suddenly this is a very familiar story...
Clearly, OpenBSD should re-evaluate its install process. The fact that OpenBSD installs so many exploitable executables like "ftpd", "telnet", "ping", "sed", "awk", "more", "grep", "ls", "mv", "sh", "getty" and "init" only details just how insecure the operating system really is by default. This kind of oversight should simply not be allowed. Yes, some old folks in the community may argue that some of these binaries that are piggy-backed on the operating system are "essential tools" for "interacting with the system", but those poor souls would be overlooking the seriously dangerous nature that allowing executable binaries to install on a live system presents.
And just to correct myself one more time,
s/logical\ or/UNIX pipe/g
Actually, I need to correct myself here... the paramter that was abused is slapped into a system call, and that call is therefore appended with a logical OR allowing the attacker to execute arbitrary processes on the system. I need to RTFA more closely.
But if you RTFA, you'll notice how the cracker got in - through a parameter to nwstats.pl that wasn't checked for perl syntax. The cracker broke the line of execution into a logical OR, allowing him to execute arbitrary PERL expressions as the apache user. Including fork(). Including++ while() { fork(); }
But in this case the attacker simply wanted to gain access to the box to DDoS other sites and other frivolous activities.
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I agree. In my case I would say that watching violence and playing violent video games has actually sensitized me to violence. I can't cheer for war in Iraq pretending that it's just a magical victory over a despot. I know that thousands of people are meeting horrible deaths and living in horror, which is something I cannot cheer for.
That being said, would it not be wise to consider that a child that grows up without seeing the effects of violence has no idea what the repercussions of violence are? A kid that is exposed to violence knows what it is and knows what happens as a result, and while some turn off their morality and kill they all realize what violence does. If a person is not exposed at all to the results of violence - injury, pain, death, anything - then the moral weight of the decision to act violently is probably not very different from that of acting nonviolently, making it easier for this person to hurt, maim, kill, whatever. At least the kids playing video games and watching violent movies can learn that violence results in pain, injury, and death. what they do with that knowledge is a matter of what they learn from their overall environment, and their natural tendency toward aggression.
Perhaps it's because you don't expose yourseld to hours and hours of violence and not become desensitized or enticed to it. As one of the many hundreds of thousands of tv-watchers, movie-goers, and violent-game-players that is still grossed out by surgery on the medical channel and hasn't so much as had a fist fit in the schoolyard, I can asure you that it's very possible. I'd honestly be more worried about what military training (hint: actually literally teaching people to kill without remorse or guilt) does to the human psyche than fantasy video games.
And you're literally a "fact simulator" teaching readers to believe unidentified information with no sources or references.
Sun consumers bought pizzaboxes once upon a time....
Man, I must really be an underachiever. I've played the GTA series since like 1994 and I've yet to steal a car, run over a pedestrian, or shoot a single police officer. And I've had a 9 year head start on this kid with my 'training'! I'm so ashamed of myself .... really, I am.
"Even with the relatively large number of bulletins we released this week, we compare favorably," he said. "Year-to-date for 2005, Microsoft has fixed 15 vulnerabilities affecting Windows Server 2003. In the same time period, for just this year, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 users have had to patch 34 vulnerabilities and SuSE Enterprise Linux 9 users have had to patch over 78 vulnerabilities." He's taken this as a sign that Windows is more secure. I don't see that it does.. because really he is saying that MS doesn't fix as many vulnerabilities that do exist. I say, Red Hat and SuSE are on top of bugfixes for 2005, and MS is way behind.
" The gap between harvests has become an annual occurrence in North Korea's four years of slow-motion famine. In the lean weeks to come, government mills will churn out a staple of the crisis -- edible roots, grasses, sea weed, corn stalks and the like often mixed with cereals and enzymes and cooked into noodles or buns. The substitutes are "basically a stomach filler" with little nutrition and eating them causes digestive problems especially for children and the elderly, Morton said.
Floods, drought and other natural disasters ruined North Korea's collective agriculture already crippled by mismanagement and the loss of crucial Soviet bloc trading partners. Without food and imported fuel, North Korea's centrally planned economy has largely broken down. Morton said the worst food shortages were believed to be occurring in the cold, land-scarce, heavily urbanized northeast."
-CNN, April 27 1999
source
But, instead of lifting the economic sanctions on North Korea that prohibited them from being able to purchase that Wide Selection of Cheap Food Available to Everyone, we told them to starve.
If you really think about it....
Just how much trust can a lifetime dictator have for a political power so unstable that it shifts from one political idiom to another every four or eight years as presidents, senators, congressmen, and cabinets appear, shuffle around, and disappear? Almost every election year the climate in washington is put on a totally new spin, and the rest of the world has to re-learn how to figure the new administration out. If you put things in that context, the US can certainly seem a bit volatile and unpredictable. Certainly the fact that we are the only nation in the history of the world to have used nuclear weapons in anger - twice, and on civilians - does not help our appeal to others to disarm either.
1) In english, well is an adverb, good is an adjective. If u aint gonna right good than nobody gonna tihnk u no nohting
2) MP support was officially added in 1.6.1 or 1.6.2 and was available in CVS prior to those releases
3) U1's are sparc64, not sparc, so it's no brainteaser that the sparc port doesn't support them.
4) U1's are supported by sparc64 - If you can read
Do you really expect to be able to build a single base OS that 6000 millions of people will like
I'd be careful with your footing here. You know that once upon a time a certain company that need not be named did just what you described..
I don't think any BSD, OS X aside, has ever been steered in the same direction as Linux insofar as "desktop-readiness" is concerned. In truth, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD can all make wonderful workstations with all the bells and whistles X has to offer - however, a fundamental difference between the Linux camp and BSD camp is that the Linux definition of "desktop ready" entails a general dumbing down of the install, more closely binding the sytem functionality to windowed operation, and providing that "plug and play" feel to the user. While these are great things for an OS to be able to acheive, they simply aren't near as important or relevant to the BSDs as the problems that they are already out to solve, and I honestly don't think you will ever see any of them go there. Most BSD hackers are more interested in making the net stack faster and more reliable, finding new ways of improving smp performance, and tightening security. And to be quite honest, I myself am very happy to use a system which has developers that "keep the faith alive" and focus on computing science rather than computing hype. It's insulting to imply that the BSDs are generally inferior because they aren't Linux and you don't want to learn to use them.