so let me get this straight... if a company somewhere has done something to piss me off, I just have to make up a story about how they are spammers, post it with a phone number to slashdot, and revenge is mine?
I'm not saying that's what this poster did, but I would have liked some more proof first, probably more than can be given over the internet.
... (1) a closed source driver in flash accessed by open source code (eg your scsi card, or system bios), and (2) a closed source driver in a.so file accessed by an open source code (eg what NVidia and win/lin modems do)?
What if NVidia stuck an extra flash chip on their card, loaded the common part of the driver into there at manufacturing time, or via a flash update and had the 'open sourced' part of the driver access it? This would be no more or less GPL compliant than any 'normal' driver, as linux does this with the BIOS, and with ide and scsi cards all the time, by calling proprietry code via an open sourced interface.
It seems to me that the GPL is differentiating between the delivery method, which is just silly (imho). Until everything on a computer is free (as in speech) then compromises are going to have to be made.
If this sounds like a troll then sorry, but i don't mean for it to be.
1. change email accounts very regularly 2. keep the same email account and filter spam
#1 is a pain as you have to keep updating contacts to your new email address. (spammers seem to have no trouble finding it)
#2 also involves ongoing effort. Every new thing I do to stop spammers seems to be great for the first few weeks (no spam gets through), then one, then one or two. It still filters out 99% though.
Remember though, for every spammer you shoot, there are 5 more ready to step up to take their place!
I know a few people who are athiests to the point of being religous about it:)
I don't think belief is a matter of choice anyway. I certainly couldn't 'choose' to believe in a god. Either you believe in something or you don't.
I remember telling someone once I was an athiest, and their response was "But how do you know there is no God?". My response in turn was "I don't. I believe there is no god.". Given the current evidence and its sources, I think the existance of god or not is unknowable.
There's a funny scene in 'Road Trip' (think that's what it's called) where our heroes come across a bridge that has all but fallen to pieces. The brain amongst them decides that based on the angle of this and the weight of that they'd need to be doing such and such a speed to clear the river/ditch/whatever it was.
They take the runup, clear the ditch and land on the other side whereupon the car falls to bits, and explodes shortly after they get out.
Aside from the explosion, it looks a lot better than a bus jumping 10x the gap and landing in one piece.
All things being equal in terms of build quality, the thing most likely to fail is the thing with the most moving bits.
You say you've had more raid controller failures than disk failures. Did any of the raid controller failures require a restore from backup? A non-redundant-disk failure would have.
Add up the total time you were down due to raid controller failures and the total time you would have been down for disk failures if you didn't have raid. That's a better measure than instances of failure.
... if I can use a baseball bat to extract passwords from the users.
On the other hand, if your neighbor has a less secure network then yours automatically becomes more secure.
Remember this joke:
Two lawyers walking through the woods spotted a vicious-looking bear. The first lawyer immediately opened his briefcase, pulled out a pair of sneakers and started putting them on. The second lawyer looked at him and said, "You're crazy! You'll never be able to outrun that bear!"
"I don't have to," the first lawyer replied. "I only have to outrun you."
A friend bumped this switch to 110V from 240V. The pc didn't miss a beat until about 1/2 way through loading Windows 95 (back in the day:) and then popped. He replaced the burst capacitor and it was as good as new.
Just ask if they could please send it in a format which isn't likely to carry a virus, eg ascii, rtf, html, pdf.
re: HTML, if you allow your mail reader to do anything but render a HTML document that someone else has sent you, then you're an idiot:p)
But that being said, it is theoretically possible that anything requiring any amount of processing to render could potentially contain a buffer overflow exploit...
Assuming the amount of income they require is constant. The more that comes from fines (which I haven't yet ever received), the less comes from the tax I pay. So I'm quite happy for this to happen if it results in more fines, which I don't think is really explored in the article.
The other thing is, the one or two speeding motorists who forces the lights red for the rest of us might not be looked on too kindly by everyone else in a hurry but doing the right thing. If they really piss someone off enough they might even get there panels kicked in, which, while not really the right thing to do, might just teach them a lesson or two.
There's a certain symmetry to the whole thing though. The punishment fits the crime. You try to get there fast by breaking the law and putting other's at risk, this makes sure that the faster you go, the slower you'll get there.
I can do that. Fires are appearing randomly, what are the possible causes: 1. fire bugs 2. higher than normal voltage 3. emp devices being tested nearby 4. act of God 1 (natural causes) 5. act of God 2 (God's pissed - it is Easter, afterall) 6. aliens
we can rule out #1 due to witnesses. Ditto for #2 as fires have been happening in unplugged equipment.
We can also rule out #3 as the slashdot crowd says that can't be it.
There is nothing in nature that we know of that would cause #4. God promised after Noah's flood he wouldn't do this sort of thing again so we can rule out #5.
In Australia, metricly (?) minded people would measure fuel usage in L/100km. A lower number is better, as opposed to mpg where a higher number is better.
There's probably a reason for that other than just to be difficult.
Openswan works fine with 2.6 ipsec, as did freeswan. With the 2.6 Kernel, openswan just does isakmp and then tells the kernel what to do. imho, openswan is more flexible than any of the other isakmp implementations i've seen available for linux.
For certain values of 'nice', one of the nice things about klips was that there was a virtual interface for the decrypted traffic. Stuff for encryption went out ipsecN, then the encrypted packet (proto 50/51) went out the real interface. Made firewalling and routing easier, or harder, depending on how you like to do things. But you could instantly say 'accept encrypted traffic on tcp/123' without having to muck around with firewall marks etc.
btw, you can get a 2.4 linux kernel with 2.6 ipsec backported, if you don't like klips. Debian does this.
I wonder how much the inconvenience cost him vs the number of additional sales he might get from this free advertising...
think about that for a second. How much would an advertising shop charge to guarantee even a 10th of the hits slashdot generated?
I don't know how it would stand up in a court of law anyway. If you put up a web site for people to look at, and something like slashdot says 'Hey everyone, come and have a look at this cool site!', on what basis would a legal or civil case be mounted against slashdot?
Here's a hypothetical situation i haven't seen an answer for... suppose I invent a new language, lets call it 'R', which is completely impossible to understand without documentation. Suppose I heavily encumber this language with patents, NDA's, etc so that nobody can use it except me (and anyone else who pays me lots of money:).
Now suppose I take some GPL code, and modify it. One of these modifications is to port it to 'R'. If I then release and sell the binary, and distribute the (now unreadable, undecipherable, and useless to anyone else) source code, am I still fulfilling my obligations under the GPL?
To take it a step further, suppose 'R' is an intermediate bytecode style language? I guess at that point you've really crossed the line though.
It's free, but you can pay for it and get extra features, like a bigger mailbox.
I'm jharper@hotmail.com (I'm not afraid of posting the address publicly, i think i'm on every mailing list I could be on anyway:). I run the account in 'whitelist' mode, so everything goes to the 'junk' folder. The only thing I get in my actual inbox is messages from hotmail telling me my mailbox is full:)
So if I used the account seriously, rather than just as an address I can hand out if I need to hand one out, i'd need the extra space to hold all the spam that built up overnight.
Click 'Start' Click 'All Programs' Click 'Accessories'... wait for command prompt to pop up... (we know you've never used it:) Click 'Command Prompt' type 'r' type 'd' type ' ' type '/' (under the question mark, next to rshift) type 's' type ' ' type '/' type '%' (on top of 5:) type 'w'
etc etc
(you know i'm joking. i'd settle for the command prompt as my default shell rather than the normal desktop!!!)
double click on 'My Computer' double click on 'C:' locate the 'winnt' folder hold down the shift key, and while doing that, right click on the 'winnt' folder and select 'delete'. answer 'Yes' or 'Yes to all' to any questions asked.
Just because something is overdiagnosed doesn't mean it's not a real thing.
There is a fairly specific piece of the brain that's associated with empathy and picking up on social cues etc. In someone with Aspergers, that part of the brain is all but inactive. If you have a look at a brain scan, it's lifeless. Someone with Aspergers learns to compensate for this malfunction by 'emulating' that part of the brain with the intellectual parts. It's slower, and doesn't work as well, but it gets you by for the most part. The quicker you figure out that all this isn't just going to come naturally and start compensating for it the better.
Someone with Aspergers has emotions, and lots of them. They are just (typically) very bad at controlling them, and even worse at reading them in other people.
That being said, it's not all black and white, and there may be a feedback loop involved - a child with a genetic/whatever deficiency in that part of the brain may withdraw socially and therefore never 'exercise' that part of the brain. If social interaction was forced/encouraged, maybe the brain would naturally 'catch up' to some extent. I don't think the original poster was saying "give up, you'll never be like other people", more like "you are going to have to work extra hard to survive in social situations as well as other people". The sooner you stop wondering why you don't 'fit in' and waiting for it to come naturally, the sooner you can get some help and start working at it.
Also, (most) nerds get on famously with other nerds. Just 'cos there are more 'normal' people than 'nerds', doesn't make the nerds wrong:)
As for CFS, get a clue. Some people who are 'under the weather' may say they have CFS, just like some people with a runny nose will say they have 'the flu', but that doesn't make influenza a 'pet disorder'.:p
The theory of the patent system is that I (as some giant corporation) can invest many years and millions of dollars in R&D and then protect the fruits of my labour for a reasonable period to get a return on my investment, without fear that the idea will be 'ripped off' by someone else. Whether it's a tangible 'invention' or not.
Without the patent system, where is the incentive for R&D from a profit perspective?
This is the dilema with medical research. On the one hand, what is the incentive for corporations to do medical research if they can't guarantee a roi? But on the other, their discovery could cure cancer/aids/halitosis/etc and (imho) should be made available for anyone to use.
Anyway, somewhere along the way the original reason for the patent system got lost though, and patents are being granted for all sorts of rubbish that people have come up with whilst in the shower.
I don't know that you'd have to destroy your credit/eft card once you transferred the information to it. You could keep the 'originals' at home or somewhere else safe.
If you did lose/have stolen your wallet, at least you'd know that they'd have to actually hack into the card rather than simply use the visa which would otherwise be in there. Of course, once a backdoor is found it would presumably be easy to automate.
While having the card hacked into is a risk, there are lots of other ways to get at the same information which it holds.
I think it's a cool idea, vaporware or not, but I think i'll wait for a few years after release before I get one:)
I think that for end users, the calculation would be done by the ISP. ISPs should accept email from their users without question anyway (with appropriate alarms to detect someone sending bulk email etc), and the ISP would then have to do another calculation when sending it to the destination anyway.
I think the biggest problem is the huge resource of worm infected computers just waiting for spammers to lauch a distributed spam run. The calculation becomes not-their-problem, it just makes it harder for legitimate email senders.
The other problem is the huge difference in computational power of servers out there. There isn't much need for fp and integer math performance in a mail server currently, just a reasonable amount of I/O throughput. The difference in processing time for todays P4 and yesterdays P2 would be quite noticable.
Actually something just occured to me. If suddenly you need a fast server to send mail, there will be a lot of hardware upgrades required, which will involve a lot of software upgrades too... but maybe i'm being cynical... the latest round of spam filtering software is reasonably computationally expensive anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
so let me get this straight... if a company somewhere has done something to piss me off, I just have to make up a story about how they are spammers, post it with a phone number to slashdot, and revenge is mine?
I'm not saying that's what this poster did, but I would have liked some more proof first, probably more than can be given over the internet.
... the name "pac-man" has to be qualified with "1980's video game sensation".
sigh.
... (1) a closed source driver in flash accessed by open source code (eg your scsi card, or system bios), and (2) a closed source driver in a .so file accessed by an open source code (eg what NVidia and win/lin modems do)?
What if NVidia stuck an extra flash chip on their card, loaded the common part of the driver into there at manufacturing time, or via a flash update and had the 'open sourced' part of the driver access it? This would be no more or less GPL compliant than any 'normal' driver, as linux does this with the BIOS, and with ide and scsi cards all the time, by calling proprietry code via an open sourced interface.
It seems to me that the GPL is differentiating between the delivery method, which is just silly (imho). Until everything on a computer is free (as in speech) then compromises are going to have to be made.
If this sounds like a troll then sorry, but i don't mean for it to be.
1. change email accounts very regularly
2. keep the same email account and filter spam
#1 is a pain as you have to keep updating contacts to your new email address. (spammers seem to have no trouble finding it)
#2 also involves ongoing effort. Every new thing I do to stop spammers seems to be great for the first few weeks (no spam gets through), then one, then one or two. It still filters out 99% though.
Remember though, for every spammer you shoot, there are 5 more ready to step up to take their place!
I know a few people who are athiests to the point of being religous about it :)
I don't think belief is a matter of choice anyway. I certainly couldn't 'choose' to believe in a god. Either you believe in something or you don't.
I remember telling someone once I was an athiest, and their response was "But how do you know there is no God?". My response in turn was "I don't. I believe there is no god.". Given the current evidence and its sources, I think the existance of god or not is unknowable.
There's a funny scene in 'Road Trip' (think that's what it's called) where our heroes come across a bridge that has all but fallen to pieces. The brain amongst them decides that based on the angle of this and the weight of that they'd need to be doing such and such a speed to clear the river/ditch/whatever it was.
They take the runup, clear the ditch and land on the other side whereupon the car falls to bits, and explodes shortly after they get out.
Aside from the explosion, it looks a lot better than a bus jumping 10x the gap and landing in one piece.
All things being equal in terms of build quality, the thing most likely to fail is the thing with the most moving bits.
You say you've had more raid controller failures than disk failures. Did any of the raid controller failures require a restore from backup? A non-redundant-disk failure would have.
Add up the total time you were down due to raid controller failures and the total time you would have been down for disk failures if you didn't have raid. That's a better measure than instances of failure.
... if I can use a baseball bat to extract passwords from the users.
On the other hand, if your neighbor has a less secure network then yours automatically becomes more secure.
Remember this joke:
Two lawyers walking through the woods spotted a vicious-looking bear. The first lawyer immediately opened his briefcase, pulled out a pair of sneakers and started putting them on. The second lawyer looked at him and said, "You're crazy! You'll never be able to outrun that bear!"
"I don't have to," the first lawyer replied. "I only have to outrun you."
A friend bumped this switch to 110V from 240V. The pc didn't miss a beat until about 1/2 way through loading Windows 95 (back in the day :) and then popped. He replaced the burst capacitor and it was as good as new.
Okay so you eat some and get back to us on how it went. If we don't hear from you we'll assume it went badly.
Just ask if they could please send it in a format which isn't likely to carry a virus, eg ascii, rtf, html, pdf.
:p)
re: HTML, if you allow your mail reader to do anything but render a HTML document that someone else has sent you, then you're an idiot
But that being said, it is theoretically possible that anything requiring any amount of processing to render could potentially contain a buffer overflow exploit...
Assuming the amount of income they require is constant. The more that comes from fines (which I haven't yet ever received), the less comes from the tax I pay. So I'm quite happy for this to happen if it results in more fines, which I don't think is really explored in the article.
The other thing is, the one or two speeding motorists who forces the lights red for the rest of us might not be looked on too kindly by everyone else in a hurry but doing the right thing. If they really piss someone off enough they might even get there panels kicked in, which, while not really the right thing to do, might just teach them a lesson or two.
There's a certain symmetry to the whole thing though. The punishment fits the crime. You try to get there fast by breaking the law and putting other's at risk, this makes sure that the faster you go, the slower you'll get there.
I can do that.
:p
Fires are appearing randomly, what are the possible causes:
1. fire bugs
2. higher than normal voltage
3. emp devices being tested nearby
4. act of God 1 (natural causes)
5. act of God 2 (God's pissed - it is Easter, afterall)
6. aliens
we can rule out #1 due to witnesses. Ditto for #2 as fires have been happening in unplugged equipment.
We can also rule out #3 as the slashdot crowd says that can't be it.
There is nothing in nature that we know of that would cause #4. God promised after Noah's flood he wouldn't do this sort of thing again so we can rule out #5.
That just leaves #6.
In Australia, metricly (?) minded people would measure fuel usage in L/100km. A lower number is better, as opposed to mpg where a higher number is better.
There's probably a reason for that other than just to be difficult.
Openswan works fine with 2.6 ipsec, as did freeswan. With the 2.6 Kernel, openswan just does isakmp and then tells the kernel what to do. imho, openswan is more flexible than any of the other isakmp implementations i've seen available for linux.
For certain values of 'nice', one of the nice things about klips was that there was a virtual interface for the decrypted traffic. Stuff for encryption went out ipsecN, then the encrypted packet (proto 50/51) went out the real interface. Made firewalling and routing easier, or harder, depending on how you like to do things. But you could instantly say 'accept encrypted traffic on tcp/123' without having to muck around with firewall marks etc.
btw, you can get a 2.4 linux kernel with 2.6 ipsec backported, if you don't like klips. Debian does this.
I wonder how much the inconvenience cost him vs the number of additional sales he might get from this free advertising...
:p
think about that for a second. How much would an advertising shop charge to guarantee even a 10th of the hits slashdot generated?
I don't know how it would stand up in a court of law anyway. If you put up a web site for people to look at, and something like slashdot says 'Hey everyone, come and have a look at this cool site!', on what basis would a legal or civil case be mounted against slashdot?
btw, I still find it funny
Here's a hypothetical situation i haven't seen an answer for... suppose I invent a new language, lets call it 'R', which is completely impossible to understand without documentation. Suppose I heavily encumber this language with patents, NDA's, etc so that nobody can use it except me (and anyone else who pays me lots of money :).
Now suppose I take some GPL code, and modify it. One of these modifications is to port it to 'R'. If I then release and sell the binary, and distribute the (now unreadable, undecipherable, and useless to anyone else) source code, am I still fulfilling my obligations under the GPL?
To take it a step further, suppose 'R' is an intermediate bytecode style language? I guess at that point you've really crossed the line though.
It's free, but you can pay for it and get extra features, like a bigger mailbox.
:). I run the account in 'whitelist' mode, so everything goes to the 'junk' folder. The only thing I get in my actual inbox is messages from hotmail telling me my mailbox is full :)
I'm jharper@hotmail.com (I'm not afraid of posting the address publicly, i think i'm on every mailing list I could be on anyway
So if I used the account seriously, rather than just as an address I can hand out if I need to hand one out, i'd need the extra space to hold all the spam that built up overnight.
You're oversimplifying it:
... wait for command prompt to pop up... (we know you've never used it :) :)
Click 'Start'
Click 'All Programs'
Click 'Accessories'
Click 'Command Prompt'
type 'r'
type 'd'
type ' '
type '/' (under the question mark, next to rshift)
type 's'
type ' '
type '/'
type '%' (on top of 5
type 'w'
etc
etc
(you know i'm joking. i'd settle for the command prompt as my default shell rather than the normal desktop!!!)
Just curious, but what would be the equivalent joke on slashdot.org.ru?
In Capitalist Australia, you fork scripts!
Hmmm... not very funny. Maybe that's why Russia doesn't have a slashdot site.
double click on 'My Computer'
double click on 'C:'
locate the 'winnt' folder
hold down the shift key, and while doing that, right click on the 'winnt' folder and select 'delete'.
answer 'Yes' or 'Yes to all' to any questions asked.
see. much easier than a command line.
Just because something is overdiagnosed doesn't mean it's not a real thing.
:)
:p
There is a fairly specific piece of the brain that's associated with empathy and picking up on social cues etc. In someone with Aspergers, that part of the brain is all but inactive. If you have a look at a brain scan, it's lifeless. Someone with Aspergers learns to compensate for this malfunction by 'emulating' that part of the brain with the intellectual parts. It's slower, and doesn't work as well, but it gets you by for the most part. The quicker you figure out that all this isn't just going to come naturally and start compensating for it the better.
Someone with Aspergers has emotions, and lots of them. They are just (typically) very bad at controlling them, and even worse at reading them in other people.
That being said, it's not all black and white, and there may be a feedback loop involved - a child with a genetic/whatever deficiency in that part of the brain may withdraw socially and therefore never 'exercise' that part of the brain. If social interaction was forced/encouraged, maybe the brain would naturally 'catch up' to some extent. I don't think the original poster was saying "give up, you'll never be like other people", more like "you are going to have to work extra hard to survive in social situations as well as other people". The sooner you stop wondering why you don't 'fit in' and waiting for it to come naturally, the sooner you can get some help and start working at it.
Also, (most) nerds get on famously with other nerds. Just 'cos there are more 'normal' people than 'nerds', doesn't make the nerds wrong
As for CFS, get a clue. Some people who are 'under the weather' may say they have CFS, just like some people with a runny nose will say they have 'the flu', but that doesn't make influenza a 'pet disorder'.
The theory of the patent system is that I (as some giant corporation) can invest many years and millions of dollars in R&D and then protect the fruits of my labour for a reasonable period to get a return on my investment, without fear that the idea will be 'ripped off' by someone else. Whether it's a tangible 'invention' or not.
Without the patent system, where is the incentive for R&D from a profit perspective?
This is the dilema with medical research. On the one hand, what is the incentive for corporations to do medical research if they can't guarantee a roi? But on the other, their discovery could cure cancer/aids/halitosis/etc and (imho) should be made available for anyone to use.
Anyway, somewhere along the way the original reason for the patent system got lost though, and patents are being granted for all sorts of rubbish that people have come up with whilst in the shower.
I don't know that you'd have to destroy your credit/eft card once you transferred the information to it. You could keep the 'originals' at home or somewhere else safe.
:)
If you did lose/have stolen your wallet, at least you'd know that they'd have to actually hack into the card rather than simply use the visa which would otherwise be in there. Of course, once a backdoor is found it would presumably be easy to automate.
While having the card hacked into is a risk, there are lots of other ways to get at the same information which it holds.
I think it's a cool idea, vaporware or not, but I think i'll wait for a few years after release before I get one
I think that for end users, the calculation would be done by the ISP. ISPs should accept email from their users without question anyway (with appropriate alarms to detect someone sending bulk email etc), and the ISP would then have to do another calculation when sending it to the destination anyway.
I think the biggest problem is the huge resource of worm infected computers just waiting for spammers to lauch a distributed spam run. The calculation becomes not-their-problem, it just makes it harder for legitimate email senders.
The other problem is the huge difference in computational power of servers out there. There isn't much need for fp and integer math performance in a mail server currently, just a reasonable amount of I/O throughput. The difference in processing time for todays P4 and yesterdays P2 would be quite noticable.
Actually something just occured to me. If suddenly you need a fast server to send mail, there will be a lot of hardware upgrades required, which will involve a lot of software upgrades too... but maybe i'm being cynical... the latest round of spam filtering software is reasonably computationally expensive anyway.