"Ready for us" (meaning, I suppoce, one to four desktop computers, probably fairly standard bought-from-Dell or something?) does not equal "more ready for the desktop [generic] than XP."
You missed the point. Ready for use means with Ubuntu 99% of the time you add hardware and it just works. With Windows it works 99% of the time after you get the driver install CD, put it in the computer, attempt to install the drivers, go to the manufacturer's web site download the latest drivers, install those, try and figure out why the AV and Anti-Spyware software has decided it doesn't like the new hardware...
Children are supposed to remain children for as long as possible, and fucking assholes like you should die in a fire for being hell bent on cutting that time short.
And the way people raise kids these days that extends well into adulthood. Being a child doesn't mean protecting them from any evidence that the world can be an cruel and unfair place. It's called growing up. It should start shortly after birth. Having innocent dreams shattered is part of that growing up process.
Why should something deadly be OK just because it helps people feel good?
So I'm guessing you think sex outside of procreation should be illegal also. The only function it serves is pleasure and it is deadly beyond compare with all the STD's these days. How many have died of AIDS?
Who the hell do you think you are that you should be the judge of what other people do for pleasure? You're a pompous ass is who you are. People like you seem to think the rest of the world should be as miserable and self loathing as yourself.
Erm, the tenets of programming usually involve the general concept of "Eliminate the unnecessary." Therefore, the parent is correct: if multi-threaded processing is unnecessary, avoid it.
Although unnecessary, threading usually simplifies a program rather than adding complexity. The only caveat is that you understand threading. In my experience I've used threading to greatly reduce the size and complexity of solutions that either were or could have been implemented without them.
The first step is to financially ruin and have real "pound me in the ass" prison terms for the executive staff that cut the IT departments budget to increase security.
The only problem is that the executive staff won't be the ones going to jail. I guarantee it won't be any executives. It'll be the poor overworked IT guy doing 6 different jobs and is on call 24/7/364 (he gets Christmas off) who ends up with all the blame. And then the executive staff will give themselves a raise for doing such a good job getting to the bottom of the security breach and taking such decisive actions in making sure it'll never happen again.
It's just a civil case, so they don't have to prove absolutely that she distributed to hundreds of people, but they have to make some effort at showing that there were more distributions than just the single unauthorized distribution that they authorized...
IANAL but I have been involved in civil court cases. Strangely in those cases you had to PROVE actually damages. That means documented evidence showing you lost the amount of money you are trying to recover due to the direct actions of the person you are trying to recover it from. The RIAA mob had special exemptions made into law so they don't have to provide these proofs in copyright infringement cases. Like everything else related to copyright these days why the hell do they get exemptions to the rules that everyone else has to follow? If it were you or me we would not only have to provide evidence showing each download we were trying to recover money for but also show evidence that each of those downloads resulted in a direct loss of revenue of the amount we were trying to collect. The RIAA has to show that there was a possibility that someone may have download the material and then gets to recover thousands of times the amount of any even remotely possible actual damages that may have resulted.
If there was as much money to be made in solar cells, I think we'd see some surprising improvements. Maybe it wouldn't match what's been done in semiconductors, but who can say?
Why on earth would you think there isn't as much money to be made? How much profit is made by energy companies each year? It's a hell of a lot more than the profits made in the semiconductor industry. If it were possible to manufacture practical solar technology it would be happening cause it would be taking a chunk of the enormous energy industry profits and whoever owned the process would make Billy boy look like a pauper. People seem to believe there is some magic fairy suppressing the creation of efficient solar technology. Unfortunately that's not the case. The technology just isn't there to make it practical and it's not moving very fast towards getting there no mater what Al Gore compares it to. The solar plants that are being created are using engineering advances in other areas to make it just almost practical to get cost effective energy from solar technology.
Also widespread use of solar energy requires major advances in another field that's been moving slow as molasses in technological advancement. Lack of energy storage technology has kept electric cars off the streets for the last 30 years. I remember major auto company initiatives to create electric cars in the 1970's.
How the hell did this get modded insightful. This is blatantly false. At best running and maintaining the cables is a natural monopoly if you want to avoid multiple cables running everywhere. What goes over the cables is currently a government granted monopoly and is destroying competition in the ISP industry. The government is letting certain companies control what's set over the fiber (or radio for that matter) being deployed and that's the threat to net neutrality. The maintainers of the copper running to houses were required to sell packet service over the copper to anyone and I had a dozen or more ISPs to choose from. That requirement was removed for fiber and I have one that sucks monkey balls. My ISDN ISP I could call and talk to someone who actually knew what the hell an ARP request or ICMP packet was. My current ISP's support people don't understand what a netmask is for. My old ISP I could send DNS records for reverse lookups. My current ISP's support people have no clue what DNS is other than a little box you tell people to put a certain number in. I kid you not. I actually had them tell me to change my DNS server when I couldn't ping an IP address. What's happening with US fiber deployment is socialism. With actual competition in ISP choice net neutrality wouldn't be an issue because if an ISP started screwing with it you could switch to an ISP that wasn't.
I'm canadian, and every time something controversial is proposed, the american media jumps all over it and says 'Canada is going to [insert crazy idea here]'.
The way laws are passed here makes it very difficult for something controversial to pass, unless it is a human rights case. AND, even in the event that the federal government does pass a law, each province can ignore it by using the 'not-withstanding clause'.
Yeah, because we all know the Canadians would never pass a stupid law at the behest of certain industry lobby groups or one that eliminated your ability to criticize certain groups because they might be offended by your criticism. And even if such stupid laws were passed they would be ignored by the provinces.
There is no way such incompetence exists, unless they were hiring 18 year old MCSE's just out of high school with no real world IT experience to configure the fucking system.
You have got to be fucking kidding me. Either you've never worked in the IT industry or you're one of the incompetents. This level of incompetence is practically the norm in IT. The level of stupidity demonstrated in this field, especially by management, never ceases to amaze me. Hell man, just the stuff that makes headlines demonstrates this. How much did the FBI spend on a new case system that was then scraped as useless? That's just one quick example. Microsoft Window's prevalence is the most blatant example.
I didn't follow the case, but another post here says they found books about criminal investigation in the hosed-out car. Wouldn't that suggest pre-meditation?
From GP:
10. The police found two books on murder in Reiser's car. He had purchased them with cash shortly after Nina disappeared.
Are you kidding me?! In a firefight, you "focus" your attention on as much as you can take in at once. All the intelligence in the world doesn't matter if you can't see the people shooting at you from 30, 50, 100 meters away.
You see, your fighting the last war. With proper intelligence you'll know exactly where the people are before they start shooting at you. Lots of tools are being developed to supply detailed tactical information on the battlefield. The problem is that information has to go directly to the grunts to be useful. It's extremely time critical. If it takes more than minutes, in some cases seconds, to get to them it's less than useless. You're trying to tell me that being able to glance at a convenient monitor that not only shows you the relative locations of the rest of your squad and platoon but also shows the signatures of unknowns and where they are would be useless to the grunt? What it does is practically guarantee you win that firefight before the first shot is fired.
As a side note, I've never had intelligence tell me anything I didn't already know about the "critical point".
You're talking about traditional military intelligence here. It's tactically useless. At best it can help at the operational level. What I'm talking about is information being feed from a host of sensors practically realtime to the grunts humping it on the ground. That's never been possible before. That's what they're trying to do with these systems. If you think that would be useless to the grunt on the ground I really hope you're retired.
Lack of data is survivable. Lack of attention isn't.
This is just plain wrong. The proper data tells you where to focus your attention. Without that data you have to spread your attention over a much larger set of inputs thus taking it off of the critical point. Being able to always focus your attention on the exact right point is by far the most survivable. This holds true for the reduced mobility the extra equipment causes. Good intelligence more than makes up for being a little bit slower because all your movements are focused on being in the correct location rather than being focused on finding the correct spot.
And, although I was never in actual combat, I spent 4 years in the Infantry plus I'm very well read in both military history and military theory. The critical factor in combat at any level is the schwerpunkt or hinge point. Good intelligence allows you to define this point much more definitively allowing you to focus your attention on the critical point and at the same time reduces the need to react thus reducing mobility requirements.
Perfect example: the hot water in the dorms was brown (not tinted -- BROWN) for years.
Try water from swamp puddles with purification tablets because the bastard First Sargent forgot about bringing you water for a week.
I lived in an air conditioned tent for 4 months. I lived in a closet, where I had the ability arranged my furniture only
Try 45 days in the swamps sleeping with the snakes and bugs and at best a couple chances to 'shower' by filling a canvas bag with cold water and dumping it on you to rinse. I had skin molds several times until I learned not to where underwear.
I ate garbage served by the laziest,
Try the literally green eggs and green greased soaked soggy bacon from hot A's containers that you craved when you could get them because you where to the point that starvation looked like a viable alternative to eating more C-rats or MREs.
Oh and I wasn't even in combat. This was purely peace time training. I won't even start on the 35 days at the NTC in the desert where we averaged 2 hours of sleep a night.
(again, the only game with odds not in favor of the casino, but you have to know how to play to get your money)
You obviously don't understand the odds. As someone else pointed out blackjack has a definite if somewhat small percentage in the house favor. IIRC it's anywhere from 3% to 5% depending on the house rules. The best bet is actually craps. You need a table with a low minimum and a high odds bet ratio on line bets. The odds bet on line bets is the only bet in Vegas that pays out at exactly the odds of winning. The house has an advantage on the initial line bet but that can be minimized by betting the minimum initially and then putting out the maximum odds bet after you have a number. Circus Circus had tables with 10 to 1 odds bets at one time and I've seen 20 to 1 once at one of the smaller casinos but for the most part they're 2 or 3 to 1.
Something incriminating ends up online, and you have two options.
1) Ignore it, and hope that no one notices it.
2) Try to get it removed, guaranteeing that everyone in the world will hear about it.
3) Step up and address it head on and accept the consequences. But that would take a moral code, some ethics and a conscience so we know no lawyer is going to advise that route let alone a shyster banker take it.
They were basically "disconnecting" the file transfer.
No. They were literally forging TCP packets.
This is analogous to a telephone operator listening to your phone conversation & cutting you off if she doesn't like what you're talking about.
A better analogy would be intercepting both sides of the call and having a fake voice that sounds just like the person you were talking to say they were through talking to you, goodbye.
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If you read the judges' order you won't find the words "in Austin" there.
If you read the federal judges' order you won't find the words "in Austin" there.
"Ready for us" (meaning, I suppoce, one to four desktop computers, probably fairly standard bought-from-Dell or something?) does not equal "more ready for the desktop [generic] than XP."
You missed the point. Ready for use means with Ubuntu 99% of the time you add hardware and it just works. With Windows it works 99% of the time after you get the driver install CD, put it in the computer, attempt to install the drivers, go to the manufacturer's web site download the latest drivers, install those, try and figure out why the AV and Anti-Spyware software has decided it doesn't like the new hardware...
I could go on but you get the point.
That's very generous but I'm having a hard time blaming that one on you ...
I'm guessing you haven't had the joy of supporting users much. It was the first thing I thought of.
Where's it from?
Everyone who's ever been in the position of having to rely on a Butter Bar with a map and a compass. (speaking from experience)
Children are supposed to remain children for as long as possible, and fucking assholes like you should die in a fire for being hell bent on cutting that time short.
And the way people raise kids these days that extends well into adulthood. Being a child doesn't mean protecting them from any evidence that the world can be an cruel and unfair place. It's called growing up. It should start shortly after birth. Having innocent dreams shattered is part of that growing up process.
Why should something deadly be OK just because it helps people feel good?
So I'm guessing you think sex outside of procreation should be illegal also. The only function it serves is pleasure and it is deadly beyond compare with all the STD's these days. How many have died of AIDS?
Who the hell do you think you are that you should be the judge of what other people do for pleasure? You're a pompous ass is who you are. People like you seem to think the rest of the world should be as miserable and self loathing as yourself.
I am betting that they can live without you.
Yeah, they don't need your money (Electronic Arts posts larger loss, cuts jobs ). Wait...what was that?
Erm, the tenets of programming usually involve the general concept of "Eliminate the unnecessary." Therefore, the parent is correct: if multi-threaded processing is unnecessary, avoid it.
Although unnecessary, threading usually simplifies a program rather than adding complexity. The only caveat is that you understand threading. In my experience I've used threading to greatly reduce the size and complexity of solutions that either were or could have been implemented without them.
Unix was never open source until Open Solaris
BSD isn't Unix?
The first step is to financially ruin and have real "pound me in the ass" prison terms for the executive staff that cut the IT departments budget to increase security.
The only problem is that the executive staff won't be the ones going to jail. I guarantee it won't be any executives. It'll be the poor overworked IT guy doing 6 different jobs and is on call 24/7/364 (he gets Christmas off) who ends up with all the blame. And then the executive staff will give themselves a raise for doing such a good job getting to the bottom of the security breach and taking such decisive actions in making sure it'll never happen again.
It's just a civil case, so they don't have to prove absolutely that she distributed to hundreds of people, but they have to make some effort at showing that there were more distributions than just the single unauthorized distribution that they authorized...
IANAL but I have been involved in civil court cases. Strangely in those cases you had to PROVE actually damages. That means documented evidence showing you lost the amount of money you are trying to recover due to the direct actions of the person you are trying to recover it from. The RIAA mob had special exemptions made into law so they don't have to provide these proofs in copyright infringement cases. Like everything else related to copyright these days why the hell do they get exemptions to the rules that everyone else has to follow? If it were you or me we would not only have to provide evidence showing each download we were trying to recover money for but also show evidence that each of those downloads resulted in a direct loss of revenue of the amount we were trying to collect. The RIAA has to show that there was a possibility that someone may have download the material and then gets to recover thousands of times the amount of any even remotely possible actual damages that may have resulted.
If there was as much money to be made in solar cells, I think we'd see some surprising improvements. Maybe it wouldn't match what's been done in semiconductors, but who can say?
Why on earth would you think there isn't as much money to be made? How much profit is made by energy companies each year? It's a hell of a lot more than the profits made in the semiconductor industry. If it were possible to manufacture practical solar technology it would be happening cause it would be taking a chunk of the enormous energy industry profits and whoever owned the process would make Billy boy look like a pauper. People seem to believe there is some magic fairy suppressing the creation of efficient solar technology. Unfortunately that's not the case. The technology just isn't there to make it practical and it's not moving very fast towards getting there no mater what Al Gore compares it to. The solar plants that are being created are using engineering advances in other areas to make it just almost practical to get cost effective energy from solar technology.
Also widespread use of solar energy requires major advances in another field that's been moving slow as molasses in technological advancement. Lack of energy storage technology has kept electric cars off the streets for the last 30 years. I remember major auto company initiatives to create electric cars in the 1970's.
How the hell did this get modded insightful. This is blatantly false. At best running and maintaining the cables is a natural monopoly if you want to avoid multiple cables running everywhere. What goes over the cables is currently a government granted monopoly and is destroying competition in the ISP industry. The government is letting certain companies control what's set over the fiber (or radio for that matter) being deployed and that's the threat to net neutrality. The maintainers of the copper running to houses were required to sell packet service over the copper to anyone and I had a dozen or more ISPs to choose from. That requirement was removed for fiber and I have one that sucks monkey balls. My ISDN ISP I could call and talk to someone who actually knew what the hell an ARP request or ICMP packet was. My current ISP's support people don't understand what a netmask is for. My old ISP I could send DNS records for reverse lookups. My current ISP's support people have no clue what DNS is other than a little box you tell people to put a certain number in. I kid you not. I actually had them tell me to change my DNS server when I couldn't ping an IP address. What's happening with US fiber deployment is socialism. With actual competition in ISP choice net neutrality wouldn't be an issue because if an ISP started screwing with it you could switch to an ISP that wasn't.
Yeah, because we all know the Canadians would never pass a stupid law at the behest of certain industry lobby groups or one that eliminated your ability to criticize certain groups because they might be offended by your criticism. And even if such stupid laws were passed they would be ignored by the provinces.
You have got to be fucking kidding me. Either you've never worked in the IT industry or you're one of the incompetents. This level of incompetence is practically the norm in IT. The level of stupidity demonstrated in this field, especially by management, never ceases to amaze me. Hell man, just the stuff that makes headlines demonstrates this. How much did the FBI spend on a new case system that was then scraped as useless? That's just one quick example. Microsoft Window's prevalence is the most blatant example.
From GP:
10. The police found two books on murder in Reiser's car. He had purchased them with cash shortly after Nina disappeared.He bought the books after she disappeared
You see, your fighting the last war. With proper intelligence you'll know exactly where the people are before they start shooting at you. Lots of tools are being developed to supply detailed tactical information on the battlefield. The problem is that information has to go directly to the grunts to be useful. It's extremely time critical. If it takes more than minutes, in some cases seconds, to get to them it's less than useless. You're trying to tell me that being able to glance at a convenient monitor that not only shows you the relative locations of the rest of your squad and platoon but also shows the signatures of unknowns and where they are would be useless to the grunt? What it does is practically guarantee you win that firefight before the first shot is fired.
As a side note, I've never had intelligence tell me anything I didn't already know about the "critical point".You're talking about traditional military intelligence here. It's tactically useless. At best it can help at the operational level. What I'm talking about is information being feed from a host of sensors practically realtime to the grunts humping it on the ground. That's never been possible before. That's what they're trying to do with these systems. If you think that would be useless to the grunt on the ground I really hope you're retired.
This is just plain wrong. The proper data tells you where to focus your attention. Without that data you have to spread your attention over a much larger set of inputs thus taking it off of the critical point. Being able to always focus your attention on the exact right point is by far the most survivable. This holds true for the reduced mobility the extra equipment causes. Good intelligence more than makes up for being a little bit slower because all your movements are focused on being in the correct location rather than being focused on finding the correct spot.
And, although I was never in actual combat, I spent 4 years in the Infantry plus I'm very well read in both military history and military theory. The critical factor in combat at any level is the schwerpunkt or hinge point. Good intelligence allows you to define this point much more definitively allowing you to focus your attention on the critical point and at the same time reduces the need to react thus reducing mobility requirements.
I call bullshit. Name one category of software that would not have been developed without patents and name a few specific products.
You got that right. They're all fucking REMFs.
Try water from swamp puddles with purification tablets because the bastard First Sargent forgot about bringing you water for a week.
I lived in an air conditioned tent for 4 months. I lived in a closet, where I had the ability arranged my furniture onlyTry 45 days in the swamps sleeping with the snakes and bugs and at best a couple chances to 'shower' by filling a canvas bag with cold water and dumping it on you to rinse. I had skin molds several times until I learned not to where underwear.
I ate garbage served by the laziest,Try the literally green eggs and green greased soaked soggy bacon from hot A's containers that you craved when you could get them because you where to the point that starvation looked like a viable alternative to eating more C-rats or MREs.
Oh and I wasn't even in combat. This was purely peace time training. I won't even start on the 35 days at the NTC in the desert where we averaged 2 hours of sleep a night.
While several of us grunts slept on and took care of their FAC track, the bastards. Hmmm... they did bring us beer back though.
You obviously don't understand the odds. As someone else pointed out blackjack has a definite if somewhat small percentage in the house favor. IIRC it's anywhere from 3% to 5% depending on the house rules. The best bet is actually craps. You need a table with a low minimum and a high odds bet ratio on line bets. The odds bet on line bets is the only bet in Vegas that pays out at exactly the odds of winning. The house has an advantage on the initial line bet but that can be minimized by betting the minimum initially and then putting out the maximum odds bet after you have a number. Circus Circus had tables with 10 to 1 odds bets at one time and I've seen 20 to 1 once at one of the smaller casinos but for the most part they're 2 or 3 to 1.
3) Step up and address it head on and accept the consequences. But that would take a moral code, some ethics and a conscience so we know no lawyer is going to advise that route let alone a shyster banker take it.
No. They were literally forging TCP packets.
This is analogous to a telephone operator listening to your phone conversation & cutting you off if she doesn't like what you're talking about.A better analogy would be intercepting both sides of the call and having a fake voice that sounds just like the person you were talking to say they were through talking to you, goodbye.