Given the US track record on treatment of detainees, torture, imprisonment without trial and so on I am very suprised and disappointed that any government would willingly allow their citizens to be taken into custody in the US
Given the UK track record on imprisonment and torture of Irish citizens, I find your comments very hypocritical.
Flying carpets come out of Persian or Arab folklore, not Indian. I know you think they're all the same, but you're just displaying your typical Western ignorance, as are the moderators that modded you funny.
Didn't we land, and subsequently conquer, you Indians back in 1492? Sheesh, show some respect to your overlords.
The only time we were happy was when our shifts were ending at 7am
well no shit, you worked the night shift... try getting some skills above "box stacker" and maybe you can work a better job... otherwise welcome to the real world of working for a living, shut the fuck up
Though what the author describes is technically possible, outside of test environments luxury cars are almost never stolen by strangers... friends or family members with grudges maybe, but professional car thieves avoid these cars because of their almost zero resell/chop-up value.
Why should Wikipedia be penalized or criticized for telling the truth about a bad company that exploits its workers and the taxpayer at the same time?
Because successfully "telling the truth about a bad company" involves constructing an argument and backing it with (hopefully) good evidence... this constitutes original research and is a violation of wikipedia policiy.
The attackers are already reverse-engineering the patches. They have the time and resources to find out where the flaw lies. The guy that feels the pain is the system administrator who is in the dark and who can't do his own reverse-engineering.
That would be an insightful comment... in fantasy land. Most Windows system administrators are not programmers, and of those that are fewer still are technically skilled enough to reverse engineer a binary patch. Microsoft has a valid point when they say that publishing vulnerabilities mainly helps out 'bad guys' because the majority of their 'good guy' users don't have the skills to counterattack. It's not like the open-source world, where there's a large community of skilled programmers ready and willing to publish fixes... and, more importantly, outnumber skill-wise any malicious programmers.
This article has too many "could"s and nothing solid to convince me that either outcome is possible. It's sort of like the early days of beta/vhs. What I'd like to see is an objective study comparing the different formats.
Discouraging a programmer from identifying their contributions is in effect discouraging them from taking the utmost pride in their craft. Why does Apache remove incentives for people to do their best work?
Your source of pride should be the solid piece of code you've freely contributed to the community, not your name attachment to it. The latter feeling is vanity, not pride.
Peter Jackson had to cut huge chunks out of the trilogy to fit it into 10 hours or so of film. How much of the content could possibly be retained in a stage show that runs about a quarter as long, and made interesting and comprehensible to a general audience?
A lot more was cut from the book just to make the footage than footage was cut to make the film. Still, the film can be easily followed by those who've never read the books. The basic plot is "good guys get ring back from bad guys". That's 10 minutes top, anything else can be cut without taking away from the plot.
Genetic engineering does raise some ethical questions, but it's not like they're raising these mice to laugh at them.
Being raised intentionally crippled for scientific purposes or for someone else's amusement... does it matter to the mouse? No. So why should it matter to the humans doing the raising? I should have as much right to grow mutant gerbils for my sick pleasures as scientist does for his perverse "curing disease" fetishes.
Clicking on a wizard isn't the same thing as programming.
Yes it is. It's just not your definition of programming. An assembly programmer might not think much of your "computer programming" skills if all you use is a high-level language like Java, but programming is relative to the context of what you're programming. In a development environment rich in shortcuts and wizards, knowing how to use the right shortcuts/wizards properly to achieve some goal is just another form of programming.
$400 billion for the Iraq war. All of it pissed away and probably actually hurt our efforts on the war on terror.
Let's see how "insightful" you'll be 20 years from now, with a democratic Iraq flourishing for all its people and not just the few tyrants that its past was full of. Then let's see how other countries are doing. Most are currently run by a few, but even now we're starting to see Arabic people from all over that region becoming bolder in their demands for more freedoms. $400 billion is nothing when you consider the long term positive effects that this temporary chaos will eventually have on that region, and the world for that matter. Of course, when you're cheering for the wrong side, it's easier to imagine it all going wrong and being a "waste of money".
While a million sounds impressive, here's a game which puts the "1 million articles" into a more realistic perspective. From the main page, click on "random article" 10 times and analyze the content.
Note: This is not a jab at Wikipedia, which I love reading/contributing to, but rather a demonstration of how much work is still needed to flesh out its body of articles. A million articles/stubs is a fun benchmark to celebrate, but let's not let that slow down our contributions any... we still need everyone's help than can!
In Islam we learn to respect all religions can't you do the same?
One word... judaism.
Plus, let's not forget those buddhist(?) statues that were destroyed in Afghanistan under Allah's name.
Muslims can bullshit the rest of the world all they want about how their religion is peaceful, but actions speak louder than words. Currently, all of the world's major conflicts involve muslim combatants on at least one. Even in Iraq, right now, the rising conflict is between muslims of slightly different islamic variations!! Have you seen Africa lately? It's one muslim-driven bloodbath after the other.
You'd think the (alleged) peaceful muslims out there would stand up to be heard and march for peace or something.... but no, what are muslims marching and screaming bloody murder over? A MEANINGLESS CARTOON. What the hell is wrong with you people...
1)As an Arab in today's world, how do you deal with those in the Western world who further the stereotype of "Arabs As Radicals"?
It's Westeners who are furthering the radicals stereotype?!
Maybe you should take off you rose colored glasses and look at the thousands of people that have been violently protesting cartoons to the point where lives have been lost and building burned... or the countless suicide bombings in that region that are cheered and looked at proudly by a large percentage of the population... or the large violent protests that erupt when a mosque is blown up. The examples can go on and on...
These are not just small isolated occurances blown up by the Western media. It's not a stereotype when the almost daily events clearly show that a large part of the Muslim world is pretty radical in philosophy and actions.
Perhaps this is off topic, as I have no suggestions for software features, but coincidentally, I'm currently engaged in a very spirited dialogue here on slashdot that addresses the treatment of novices or beginners who may not have enough experience to ask for what they really want in an online community
If you're going to recommend that we read a dialogue then at least link to its root instead of your ending leaf.
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My 15-year-old daughter has been running Mandrake since she was ten. How hard can it be? ;-)
wow! she must have a great personality!
It seems that American's are, indeed, no longer anything like their forefathers that they speak so highly of.
I would hope not. Our forefathers owned slaves and wore tights.
A group of 29 undergraduate students hardly seems enough to be able to generalize the results to the entire female gender.
Having lived in a household with 5 women, I can honestly say that 29 is about 24 too many unecessary samples.
For 100 million pixels, the graphics of those planes look pretty crap.
For 500 sq ft area (600 with floor), they'd need at least 300 million pixels to look realistic.
You could pay $39 from BN, or $26.37 at Amazon.
Or get it in PDF format from your favorite torrent site for $0.
Given the US track record on treatment of detainees, torture, imprisonment without trial and so on I am very suprised and disappointed that any government would willingly allow their citizens to be taken into custody in the US
Given the UK track record on imprisonment and torture of Irish citizens, I find your comments very hypocritical.
Flying carpets come out of Persian or Arab folklore, not Indian. I know you think they're all the same, but you're just displaying your typical Western ignorance, as are the moderators that modded you funny.
Didn't we land, and subsequently conquer, you Indians back in 1492? Sheesh, show some respect to your overlords.
The only time we were happy was when our shifts were ending at 7am
well no shit, you worked the night shift... try getting some skills above "box stacker" and maybe you can work a better job... otherwise welcome to the real world of working for a living, shut the fuck up
They also included Indigo Magic, the FIRST full GUI HTML editor, again, free with the OS
That's a pretty stupid statement considering the OS was anything but free nor was the IM code open-source.
SGI machines were great, but they were pricey and eventually lost out to cheaper/open-source alternatives.
I didn't see Slashdot, DIGG, Fark, etc. listed - why not?!? ;-)
and let's not forget... no one sums up news about humans better than goatse.cx
I call shens on this article.
Though what the author describes is technically possible, outside of test environments luxury cars are almost never stolen by strangers... friends or family members with grudges maybe, but professional car thieves avoid these cars because of their almost zero resell/chop-up value.
Why should Wikipedia be penalized or criticized for telling the truth about a bad company that exploits its workers and the taxpayer at the same time?
Because successfully "telling the truth about a bad company" involves constructing an argument and backing it with (hopefully) good evidence... this constitutes original research and is a violation of wikipedia policiy.
The attackers are already reverse-engineering the patches. They have the time and resources to find out where the flaw lies. The guy that feels the pain is the system administrator who is in the dark and who can't do his own reverse-engineering.
That would be an insightful comment... in fantasy land. Most Windows system administrators are not programmers, and of those that are fewer still are technically skilled enough to reverse engineer a binary patch. Microsoft has a valid point when they say that publishing vulnerabilities mainly helps out 'bad guys' because the majority of their 'good guy' users don't have the skills to counterattack. It's not like the open-source world, where there's a large community of skilled programmers ready and willing to publish fixes... and, more importantly, outnumber skill-wise any malicious programmers.
This article has too many "could"s and nothing solid to convince me that either outcome is possible. It's sort of like the early days of beta/vhs. What I'd like to see is an objective study comparing the different formats.
Discouraging a programmer from identifying their contributions is in effect discouraging them from taking the utmost pride in their craft. Why does Apache remove incentives for people to do their best work?
Your source of pride should be the solid piece of code you've freely contributed to the community, not your name attachment to it. The latter feeling is vanity, not pride.
Peter Jackson had to cut huge chunks out of the trilogy to fit it into 10 hours or so of film. How much of the content could possibly be retained in a stage show that runs about a quarter as long, and made interesting and comprehensible to a general audience?
A lot more was cut from the book just to make the footage than footage was cut to make the film. Still, the film can be easily followed by those who've never read the books. The basic plot is "good guys get ring back from bad guys". That's 10 minutes top, anything else can be cut without taking away from the plot.
Genetic engineering does raise some ethical questions, but it's not like they're raising these mice to laugh at them.
Being raised intentionally crippled for scientific purposes or for someone else's amusement... does it matter to the mouse? No. So why should it matter to the humans doing the raising? I should have as much right to grow mutant gerbils for my sick pleasures as scientist does for his perverse "curing disease" fetishes.
Clicking on a wizard isn't the same thing as programming.
Yes it is. It's just not your definition of programming. An assembly programmer might not think much of your "computer programming" skills if all you use is a high-level language like Java, but programming is relative to the context of what you're programming. In a development environment rich in shortcuts and wizards, knowing how to use the right shortcuts/wizards properly to achieve some goal is just another form of programming.
$400 billion for the Iraq war. All of it pissed away and probably actually hurt our efforts on the war on terror.
Let's see how "insightful" you'll be 20 years from now, with a democratic Iraq flourishing for all its people and not just the few tyrants that its past was full of. Then let's see how other countries are doing. Most are currently run by a few, but even now we're starting to see Arabic people from all over that region becoming bolder in their demands for more freedoms. $400 billion is nothing when you consider the long term positive effects that this temporary chaos will eventually have on that region, and the world for that matter. Of course, when you're cheering for the wrong side, it's easier to imagine it all going wrong and being a "waste of money".
While a million sounds impressive, here's a game which puts the "1 million articles" into a more realistic perspective. From the main page, click on "random article" 10 times and analyze the content.
D enmark (~1 paragraph)a du (list of name links)l _El_Hakh (1 small paragraph)r d_of_Education (1 paragraph)n g_history (decent sized article)_ Earl_of_Chichester (1 paragraph plus table)
For example, my results...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Franklin (~1 paragraph + links)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederika_Amalia_of_
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_The_Hague (1 paragraph + 1 sentence)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governors_of_Tamil_N
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja%E2%80%99afar_Abdu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones (decent sized article)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte_Babel (1+ paragraph)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Boa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derbyshire_lead_mini
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pelham%2C_2nd
Note: This is not a jab at Wikipedia, which I love reading/contributing to, but rather a demonstration of how much work is still needed to flesh out its body of articles. A million articles/stubs is a fun benchmark to celebrate, but let's not let that slow down our contributions any... we still need everyone's help than can!
Why attack bittorrent for supposedly encouraging piracy when it has decidedly legitimate user as well
Well duh, "computer piracy" sells more ads than "useful technology with legitimate uses".
In Islam we learn to respect all religions can't you do the same?
One word... judaism.
Plus, let's not forget those buddhist(?) statues that were destroyed in Afghanistan under Allah's name.
Muslims can bullshit the rest of the world all they want about how their religion is peaceful, but actions speak louder than words. Currently, all of the world's major conflicts involve muslim combatants on at least one. Even in Iraq, right now, the rising conflict is between muslims of slightly different islamic variations!! Have you seen Africa lately? It's one muslim-driven bloodbath after the other.
You'd think the (alleged) peaceful muslims out there would stand up to be heard and march for peace or something.... but no, what are muslims marching and screaming bloody murder over? A MEANINGLESS CARTOON. What the hell is wrong with you people...
1)As an Arab in today's world, how do you deal with those in the Western world who further the stereotype of "Arabs As Radicals"?
It's Westeners who are furthering the radicals stereotype?!
Maybe you should take off you rose colored glasses and look at the thousands of people that have been violently protesting cartoons to the point where lives have been lost and building burned... or the countless suicide bombings in that region that are cheered and looked at proudly by a large percentage of the population... or the large violent protests that erupt when a mosque is blown up. The examples can go on and on...
These are not just small isolated occurances blown up by the Western media. It's not a stereotype when the almost daily events clearly show that a large part of the Muslim world is pretty radical in philosophy and actions.
who's drinking coffee 15 feet in the air?
Perhaps this is off topic, as I have no suggestions for software features, but coincidentally, I'm currently engaged in a very spirited dialogue here on slashdot that addresses the treatment of novices or beginners who may not have enough experience to ask for what they really want in an online community
If you're going to recommend that we read a dialogue then at least link to its root instead of your ending leaf.