A mere three hours! Imagine had it been just 30 seconds! Or two weeks after!
Does it matter? No deal means no antitrust case. The numbers are just noise. Once recognized, they just get in the way, and dissuade me from bothering with the rest of the article.
Thanks, Mr. Blogger, for trying to make this exciting. Better luck next time.
While I agree that mass transit in California generally sucks,the examples you're giving cover rather large distances. Berkeley to Windsor? About 100 kilometers, and not exactly a high demand destination.
I think the problem is significantly rooted in the desire to live, work, and play so far apart. And it gets taken so far that people who are unfamiliar with the geography think that the distances are small because they hear the locations bandied about.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but fork() and exec() do different things. I don't see how one could be used as a general purpose replacement for the other. Do you mean fork followed by exec instead of system()?
This pretty much matches my experience. Throw in a headlamp, and I'll keep working on necessary details, but sunrise and sunset define my day when I'm away from the grid.
Then again, it probably has something to do with actually having to do a little physical labor to get through the daylight. Getting pizza delivery without a street address is challenging!
It does seem that we're dealing with an 18th century timeframe for a 21st century conflict.
Not to suggest that I have an answer. Hours on either side of the coin can translate to hundreds (or thousands * reproductions) of extralegal viewings, which might translate to measurable harm.
A program that sets out to do something, and fails to do it is in my mind broken. If it sets out to do something impossible, it is still broken. I am not considering the source of the problem here, only that one exists.
What I think is silly is to throw alot of effort into creating a solution, in my opinion a non-critical solution, based on a broken tool. Maybe it's that I am lazy, but I dont like to spend my time fixing problems that were apparent from the beginning. Better to a) include the problems in the initial solution, or b) find a solution that allows for problems to be solved within reasonable extension
Thats just silly. Talking about the age of an OS...UNIX is over 30, and so what? How about picking on version numbers? HPUX is on 11!
The bits dont rot if your storage medium has the right stuff.
I won't even get into this murmuring of 8 bit nonsense, and the rest to go with it.
The issue with loadlin, IIRC, is that it's expecting to be running in 16bit realmode. If you have lots of other things loaded, you chance that an interrupt it triggers will be caught by something other than the intended software (the BIOS). Change the processor operating mode, and it's even less likely to operate correctly.
1: Adult libarary card - Doesnt exist in this particular system. Had I not lost mine so many times, I could still have the one I got when I was 6 or so. So eliminate simple flash the card solutions.
2: Owning a library card is NOT a requirement to use the library. It is only necessary to remove resources from the building.
3: The wheel-chair bound have another trial: being noticed from behind a high desk:}
On the serious side, even finding a librarian with a full set of working limbs can be a PITA.
and: Would you ask how many blind people I see trying to understand elevator buttons without brail before fixing the problem? The ADA is about pre-empting hinderances.
4: Expecting broken software (I have yet to see filter software work on anything beyond a list of banned domains. Further, random things like media sources being banned out of spit is just a little to common. Its like finding the 'A' encyclopedia missing because it has 'ass' in it. I hear working software exists, but...) to come to a partial cooperation, to shut itself off for mature users, and then turn back on again seems a bit silly to me.
The last time I visited the main library in my home town, they had a solution like this. The way it worked was there were something like 6 'kiddy pool' machines, and 1 Olympic sized with the lanes and 10 meter board, etc.
Of course, to make it possible for librarians to make sure underaged individuals didnt use the full strength machine, it was located right next to the help desk. No seating was provided as the monitor was positioned high enough for a desk attendant to see it without much of a strain. If the machine was down, try again later. Wheel chair restricted? We're sorry. Forgot your drivers license/no DL/ the old spinster behind the desk thinks everyone under 60 is a youngin'? Too bad.
The result: Everyone used the kiddy pool. Effective 'voluntary' censoring.
Or they could say We don't need 10 days. We'll tell you now: The NSA built it
And who was your contact with the NSA? He said he couldn't give us his name.
So then on to the NSA congressional oversight committee: What's in the box?
Answer: We can't tell you. It would compromise National Security(tm)
We could get all this done in time for dinner!
However, calling a poster's relation to a post a copyright is going a bit far. Doing so brings into question the legality of quoting for a reply. Do you have to name the person you are quoting? I know Ive quoted several people in a reply, nested at times. Naming each of them every time sucks. Can you say who may quote you, and who may not? Something along these lines has the potential to turn an already unruly community into a virtually unuseable resource.
Sure, you can follow the refference headers, if your news server hasnt already dumped the articles. Sounds like more of a hassle than most people will bother with.
I think the real issue is Deja not changing the from header. Yes, it sucks. So does NNTP psot forgery, or SMTP forgery, etc. I dont think taking the matter to court is the solution.
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This is something I just dont get. You have this big expensive machine to run your simulations, crunch your data, and then you want it to draw pretty little graphics too?
I always thought it would be better to leave creating a nice user interface up to the workstations, and strip the cross-network traffic down to just the facts. Of course, dont tell this to the boss if you're looking to run Quake on the server...
The X windows must die article brought this to mind yet again. The author claimed X11 was ok for slow network links. Nonsense! I firmly hold that people who say things like that have never tried to use an X11 app (the Gimp is great for this demo) over a 28.8Kbps PPP connection.
All too easy. If only it were. In order to decide that something is a request, attack, whatever, you would need to log and analyze it. Maybe a better way to look at the situation is by defining layers of logging. Of course, you could always stick to a set of rules, ie: a SYN followed by the next X packets on tcp port 80 is an HTTP request, and should be logged. I think this would fail unacceptably for attack logging though, as a frequent attribute of an attack is playing outside the traditional rules. This also leaves you to play perpetual catch-up with new protocols.
Of course, in order to determine that your email didn't contain reference to a plot to kill a helicopter full of British agents, as well as how pretty SLC is this time of year they have to scan it. For some reason I don't feel much better when the cops offer to rehang the door after kicking it in. The possibility of your neighbor painting his door to look like yours, and that fooling the black helicopters doesn't help either.
I don't believe the inseperable claim for a moment. Rather, it looks like a warning to any overexcited speculators. Maybe it's a sneaky way of announcing a code freeze?
A possibility I wouldn't rule out for a while is that this is a case of employees not speaking for the employer.
DEC/Compaq has been using SCSI for their VMS clusters for a while. I think they might have also started using it for their UNIX clusters. For some reason, however, they only use it for the data portion of the communication. The control portion has to go over another medium.
An issue to consider is host adaptor ID. Most of the SCSI hosts I come across don't make it obvious how one would change the ID. If you have 8 hosts, all responding to SCSI ID 7, you are going to have problems. Another is termination. Unless you use a hub (yes, SCSI hubs to exist), you have to set up the network as a bus, with only the end hosts terminated.
The very idea of bounty hunters gives me a chill. Take the police, probably not in the mood to be nice, and take away the role of public servent. It's a license to take out aggressions.
As for the ISPs...if your ISP says "ok, you can spam", wouldnt they have to then get permission from their upstream? On and on, bandwidth provider approval requirements set up an impossible goal. That added to the fact that I don't like being told what I can and can not do with my bandwidth. Better to set limits on usage than to dictate what the end purpose is.
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He had an article in NewsWeek a few months ago. It pretty well followed the 'this will change everything' model the mass press uses about anything technical. It really was a disapointment. Lumanaries that proclaim paradigm shifting changes don't seem to have enough left over to make anything happen.
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I love how they drop "alleged" after the second sentence. This journalism is so yellow, I'm having trouble reading the page.
And what a model of efficiency and effectiveness. The police discovered the man of the house was (several years) dead after paying him a visit. Laugh.
The only feeling I'm left with is that I can't trust the reporter, or (if the reporter is otherwise deemed credible) the police forces cited.
A mere three hours! Imagine had it been just 30 seconds! Or two weeks after!
Does it matter? No deal means no antitrust case. The numbers are just noise. Once recognized, they just get in the way, and dissuade me from bothering with the rest of the article.
Thanks, Mr. Blogger, for trying to make this exciting. Better luck next time.
While I agree that mass transit in California generally sucks,the examples you're giving cover rather large distances. Berkeley to Windsor? About 100 kilometers, and not exactly a high demand destination.
I think the problem is significantly rooted in the desire to live, work, and play so far apart. And it gets taken so far that people who are unfamiliar with the geography think that the distances are small because they hear the locations bandied about.
This only answers the first charge, but:
http://www.bakfiets.nl/
Maybe I'm missing something here, but fork() and exec() do different things. I don't see how one could be used as a general purpose replacement for the other. Do you mean fork followed by exec instead of system()?
This pretty much matches my experience. Throw in a headlamp, and I'll keep working on necessary details, but sunrise and sunset define my day when I'm away from the grid.
Then again, it probably has something to do with actually having to do a little physical labor to get through the daylight. Getting pizza delivery without a street address is challenging!
I dunno. The author pulls a fair bit of weight, and offers the disclaimer "(Disclosure: The author is a one-time phone phreak.)"
It does seem that we're dealing with an 18th century timeframe for a 21st century conflict.
Not to suggest that I have an answer. Hours on either side of the coin can translate to hundreds (or thousands * reproductions) of extralegal viewings, which might translate to measurable harm.
Sorry, but what language is this written in?
I recognize a number of English words, but parsing halts at that point.
Right, quick question. What region? And from where, would be equally appropriate.
Agreed. This is English speakers subordinating
the rest of the world.
Thankfully there were no strange suggestions for France.
A program that sets out to do something, and fails to do it is in my mind broken. If it sets out to do something impossible, it is still broken. I am not considering the source of the problem here, only that one exists.
What I think is silly is to throw alot of effort into creating a solution, in my opinion a non-critical solution, based on a broken tool. Maybe it's that I am lazy, but I dont like to spend my time fixing problems that were apparent from the beginning. Better to a) include the problems in the initial solution, or b) find a solution that allows for problems to be solved within reasonable extension
Thats just silly. Talking about the age of an OS...UNIX is over 30, and so what? How about picking on version numbers? HPUX is on 11!
The bits dont rot if your storage medium has the right stuff.
I won't even get into this murmuring of 8 bit nonsense, and the rest to go with it.
The issue with loadlin, IIRC, is that it's expecting to be running in 16bit realmode. If you have lots of other things loaded, you chance that an interrupt it triggers will be caught by something other than the intended software (the BIOS). Change the processor operating mode, and it's even less likely to operate correctly.
1: Adult libarary card - Doesnt exist in this particular system. Had I not lost mine so many times, I could still have the one I got when I was 6 or so. So eliminate simple flash the card solutions.
:}
2: Owning a library card is NOT a requirement to use the library. It is only necessary to remove resources from the building.
3: The wheel-chair bound have another trial: being noticed from behind a high desk
On the serious side, even finding a librarian with a full set of working limbs can be a PITA.
and: Would you ask how many blind people I see trying to understand elevator buttons without brail before fixing the problem? The ADA is about pre-empting hinderances.
4: Expecting broken software (I have yet to see filter software work on anything beyond a list of banned domains. Further, random things like media sources being banned out of spit is just a little to common. Its like finding the 'A' encyclopedia missing because it has 'ass' in it. I hear working software exists, but...) to come to a partial cooperation, to shut itself off for mature users, and then turn back on again seems a bit silly to me.
The last time I visited the main library in my home town, they had a solution like this. The way it worked was there were something like 6 'kiddy pool' machines, and 1 Olympic sized with the lanes and 10 meter board, etc.
Of course, to make it possible for librarians to make sure underaged individuals didnt use the full strength machine, it was located right next to the help desk. No seating was provided as the monitor was positioned high enough for a desk attendant to see it without much of a strain. If the machine was down, try again later. Wheel chair restricted? We're sorry. Forgot your drivers license/no DL/ the old spinster behind the desk thinks everyone under 60 is a youngin'? Too bad.
The result: Everyone used the kiddy pool. Effective 'voluntary' censoring.
Or they could say We don't need 10 days. We'll tell you now: The NSA built it
And who was your contact with the NSA?
He said he couldn't give us his name.
So then on to the NSA congressional oversight committee: What's in the box?
Answer: We can't tell you. It would compromise National Security(tm)
We could get all this done in time for dinner!
I don't like this either.
However, calling a poster's relation to a post a copyright is going a bit far. Doing so brings into question the legality of quoting for a reply. Do you have to name the person you are quoting? I know Ive quoted several people in a reply, nested at times. Naming each of them every time sucks.
Can you say who may quote you, and who may not? Something along these lines has the potential to turn an already unruly community into a virtually unuseable resource.
Sure, you can follow the refference headers, if your news server hasnt already dumped the articles. Sounds like more of a hassle than most people will bother with.
I think the real issue is Deja not changing the from header. Yes, it sucks. So does NNTP psot forgery, or SMTP forgery, etc. I dont think taking the matter to court is the solution.
This is something I just dont get.
You have this big expensive machine to run your simulations, crunch your data, and then you want it to draw pretty little graphics too?
I always thought it would be better to leave creating a nice user interface up to the workstations, and strip the cross-network traffic down to just the facts. Of course, dont tell this to the boss if you're looking to run Quake on the server...
The X windows must die article brought this to mind yet again. The author claimed X11 was ok for slow network links. Nonsense! I firmly hold that people who say things like that have never tried to use an X11 app (the Gimp is great for this demo) over a 28.8Kbps PPP connection.
All too easy.
If only it were. In order to decide that something is a request, attack, whatever, you would need to log and analyze it.
Maybe a better way to look at the situation is by defining layers of logging.
Of course, you could always stick to a set of rules, ie: a SYN followed by the next X packets on tcp port 80 is an HTTP request, and should be logged.
I think this would fail unacceptably for attack logging though, as a frequent attribute of an attack is playing outside the traditional rules.
This also leaves you to play perpetual catch-up with new protocols.
Yup, only criminals need fear The Law.
Of course, in order to determine that your email didn't contain reference to a plot to kill a helicopter full of British agents, as well as how pretty SLC is this time of year they have to scan it.
For some reason I don't feel much better when the cops offer to rehang the door after kicking it in.
The possibility of your neighbor painting his door to look like yours, and that fooling the black helicopters doesn't help either.
Ooh! Look, your sarcasm is showing.
I don't believe the inseperable claim for a moment. Rather, it looks like a warning to any overexcited speculators. Maybe it's a sneaky way of announcing a code freeze?
A possibility I wouldn't rule out for a while is that this is a case of employees not speaking for the employer.
DEC/Compaq has been using SCSI for their VMS clusters for a while. I think they might have also started using it for their UNIX clusters. For some reason, however, they only use it for the data portion of the communication. The control portion has to go over another medium.
An issue to consider is host adaptor ID. Most of the SCSI hosts I come across don't make it obvious how one would change the ID. If you have 8 hosts, all responding to SCSI ID 7, you are going to have problems.
Another is termination. Unless you use a hub (yes, SCSI hubs to exist), you have to set up the network as a bus, with only the end hosts terminated.
The burning (bush?) question: Will he respect God in name dispute matters?
The very idea of bounty hunters gives me a chill.
Take the police, probably not in the mood to be nice, and take away the role of public servent. It's a license to take out aggressions.
As for the ISPs...if your ISP says "ok, you can spam", wouldnt they have to then get permission from their upstream? On and on, bandwidth provider approval requirements set up an impossible goal. That added to the fact that I don't like being told what I can and can not do with my bandwidth. Better to set limits on usage than to dictate what the end purpose is.
He had an article in NewsWeek a few months ago. It pretty well followed the 'this will change everything' model the mass press uses about anything technical. It really was a disapointment. Lumanaries that proclaim paradigm shifting changes don't seem to have enough left over to make anything happen.