I guess that we all need to decide. Do we want to run an OS that supports all sorts of peripherals, has libraries for applications developed in many languages and has many additions that are useful for a particular set of users? Or do we want an architecturally neat, clean, and lean OS. If we want the former we go with Linux or Windows. If you want the latter then Minix 3 is pretty neat.
If you worked at the Fed, you would know that none of the things you mentioned are handled by the Fed.
I think he means fully educated dropout. Been to college, knows it all, can't hack a real job but will try to impress people on/. by saying he works for the Fed.
I'm not so sure about the "MOVE CORRESPONDING", I think that this can be better addressed wit inheritance. The one thing that COBOL does better than any mainstream modern language is record handling and formatting. I know that expert programmers can do the same thing with "C" printf statements and Java SimpleXXXFormat classes but in COBOL it was fairly easy and could be handled by trainee programmers with a low error rate.
oh, for fsk sake. have you people lost your damn minds?
"lets get our children used to electronic monitoring early"
Long term this is a real concern. If this took off in 40 years time people might not feel safe unless they are tracked electronically, or at least associate being tracked with being safe. It would be quite easy for a government to address their concerns...
Closing the basement shades will do wonders on the privacy front.
Translated into/. language: Either operate exclusively through a watertight alias (use a proxy, don't share photos of you groping the office slapper at the Christmas party, don't engage in identifying talk), or just assume that everything you say and do on social networks will be cc'ed to your boss(es), appended to your CVs for the next 50 years and plastered all over your cubicle walls.
Of course this could be an advantage if you are looking for a career change to the porno industry. Or maybe a jopb with Fatwire (web CMS).
Of course I know the British court system was around first. I was just under the impression that the 'innocent until proven guilty' thing was inspired from across the pond, but it does not seem that that is the case.
In UK law "innocent until proven guilty" applies to criminal law. Libel is a civil action.
My guess is that it addresses a specific concern on the space station. Someone has determined that there is a single point of failure that could leave unsafe residual amounts of treatment chemicals in the water. So this is a breakthrough but only for people with a very specific problem.
Not so! As I've pointed out several times, if your claim defames me, it doesn't matter (in an English court) that it's true because the truth isn't, and never has been an absolute defense there.
It is not true.
English law allows actions for libel to be brought in the High Court for any published statements which are alleged to defame a named or identifiable individual or individuals in a manner which causes them loss in their trade or profession, or causes a reasonable person to think worse of him, her or them. Allowable defenses are justification (the truth of the statement), fair comment (whether the statement was a view that a reasonable person could have held), and privilege (whether the statements were made in Parliament or in court, or whether they were fair reports of allegations in the public interest). An offer of amends is a barrier to litigation. A defamatory statement is presumed to be false unless the defendant can prove its truth. Furthermore, to collect compensatory damages, a public official or public figure must prove actual malice (knowing falsity or reckless disregard for the truth). A private individual must only prove negligence (not using due care) to collect compensatory damages. In order to collect punitive damages, all individuals must prove actual malice.
Now as I'm English I could sue you for saying that;-)
Remember the Cold War, when the Soviets were 10-foot-tall super soldiers who could read your mind and fart atomic infernos out of their asses? Everything was thought to be a commie conspiracy.
Is this happening again, but now we are instead fearing the Chinese?
Well at least they haven't got weapons of mass destruct... oh wait
Now they know that we weigh them it wouldn't be that hard to cut the equivalent weight. There are plenty of internal struts that can be drilled, etc to make up for a lightweight hardware device.
I don't even use a MAC, I just don't understand how you can exploit known addresses if the only writaeble addresses you see are private to your process. Of course you are going to explain the "big gaping security hole" to me.
Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 have ASLR enabled by default, although only for those executables and dynamic link libraries specifically linked to be ASLR-enabled.[citation needed] This did not include Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista prior to Service Pack 1; ASLR and DEP are both disabled for application compatibility purposes. Newer versions, including Internet Explorer 8, enable these protections. A registry setting is available to forcibly enable or disable ASLR for all executables and libraries. The locations of the heap, stack, Process Environment Block, and Thread Environment Block are also randomized. A security whitepaper from Symantec noted that ASLR in 32-bit Windows Vista may not be as robust as expected, and Microsoft has acknowledged a weakness in its implementation.
It appears that only OpenBDD and some hardened Linuxes (not mainstream distributions) have a complete implementation.
Surely this is only of any use to a hacker if they manage to run in "ring zero" anyway. Otherwise wouldn't normal page protection stop them. Am I missing something?
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Is there anyone these days who ISN'T releasing a mobile OS?
Well, I'm eagerly awaiting an announcement from HURD....
Why stop there. What about hair-colour and makeup. Come to think of it what about clothes.
He doesn't mind that, its the airbrushing out of her penis that bothers him.
I guess that we all need to decide. Do we want to run an OS that supports all sorts of peripherals, has libraries for applications developed in many languages and has many additions that are useful for a particular set of users? Or do we want an architecturally neat, clean, and lean OS. If we want the former we go with Linux or Windows. If you want the latter then Minix 3 is pretty neat.
But I'm pretty sure of one thing: It doesn't mean charging people fractions of a cent to read a news story, no matter how sophisticated the process.'
Well I'm pretty sure that this is exactly what micropayments are for.
i can just imagine some retard reading your comment and then taking a piece of sandpaper to his dick thinking "it might work"
I just did, you insensitive clod. Now where's the antiseptic cream...
If you worked at the Fed, you would know that none of the things you mentioned are handled by the Fed.
I think he means fully educated dropout. Been to college, knows it all, can't hack a real job but will try to impress people on /. by saying he works for the Fed.
I'm not so sure about the "MOVE CORRESPONDING", I think that this can be better addressed wit inheritance. The one thing that COBOL does better than any mainstream modern language is record handling and formatting. I know that expert programmers can do the same thing with "C" printf statements and Java SimpleXXXFormat classes but in COBOL it was fairly easy and could be handled by trainee programmers with a low error rate.
oh, for fsk sake. have you people lost your damn minds? "lets get our children used to electronic monitoring early"
Long term this is a real concern. If this took off in 40 years time people might not feel safe unless they are tracked electronically, or at least associate being tracked with being safe. It would be quite easy for a government to address their concerns...
Hey mom, dad. Uncle Jack isn't so creepy after all. He's given me this lovely watch for my birthday....
Will scalable distributed storage systems like Hadoop and Google File System take over from RAID?
'sharing data among many connected computers so that all users see the same digital environment'
Well there goes digital TV then....
Translated into /. language: Either operate exclusively through a watertight alias (use a proxy, don't share photos of you groping the office slapper at the Christmas party, don't engage in identifying talk), or just assume that everything you say and do on social networks will be cc'ed to your boss(es), appended to your CVs for the next 50 years and plastered all over your cubicle walls.
Of course this could be an advantage if you are looking for a career change to the porno industry. Or maybe a jopb with Fatwire (web CMS).
Of course I know the British court system was around first. I was just under the impression that the 'innocent until proven guilty' thing was inspired from across the pond, but it does not seem that that is the case.
In UK law "innocent until proven guilty" applies to criminal law. Libel is a civil action.
My guess is that it addresses a specific concern on the space station. Someone has determined that there is a single point of failure that could leave unsafe residual amounts of treatment chemicals in the water. So this is a breakthrough but only for people with a very specific problem.
Not so! As I've pointed out several times, if your claim defames me, it doesn't matter (in an English court) that it's true because the truth isn't, and never has been an absolute defense there. It is not true.
One counter-reference
Truth (justification) is a complete defence in defamation
Or from Wikipedia:
English law allows actions for libel to be brought in the High Court for any published statements which are alleged to defame a named or identifiable individual or individuals in a manner which causes them loss in their trade or profession, or causes a reasonable person to think worse of him, her or them. Allowable defenses are justification (the truth of the statement), fair comment (whether the statement was a view that a reasonable person could have held), and privilege (whether the statements were made in Parliament or in court, or whether they were fair reports of allegations in the public interest). An offer of amends is a barrier to litigation. A defamatory statement is presumed to be false unless the defendant can prove its truth. Furthermore, to collect compensatory damages, a public official or public figure must prove actual malice (knowing falsity or reckless disregard for the truth). A private individual must only prove negligence (not using due care) to collect compensatory damages. In order to collect punitive damages, all individuals must prove actual malice.
Now as I'm English I could sue you for saying that ;-)
Remember the Cold War, when the Soviets were 10-foot-tall super soldiers who could read your mind and fart atomic infernos out of their asses? Everything was thought to be a commie conspiracy. Is this happening again, but now we are instead fearing the Chinese?
Well at least they haven't got weapons of mass destruct ... oh wait
... all they have to do is to contact several of the thousands of Chinese nationals ...
History shows that approaching US Nationals with enough money can also have the desired affect.
If you two keep arguing about 1s and 0s my monitor will fall through the desk. Type some spaces quick.
Now they know that we weigh them it wouldn't be that hard to cut the equivalent weight. There are plenty of internal struts that can be drilled, etc to make up for a lightweight hardware device.
I don't even use a MAC, I just don't understand how you can exploit known addresses if the only writaeble addresses you see are private to your process. Of course you are going to explain the "big gaping security hole" to me.
Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 have ASLR enabled by default, although only for those executables and dynamic link libraries specifically linked to be ASLR-enabled.[citation needed] This did not include Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista prior to Service Pack 1; ASLR and DEP are both disabled for application compatibility purposes. Newer versions, including Internet Explorer 8, enable these protections. A registry setting is available to forcibly enable or disable ASLR for all executables and libraries. The locations of the heap, stack, Process Environment Block, and Thread Environment Block are also randomized. A security whitepaper from Symantec noted that ASLR in 32-bit Windows Vista may not be as robust as expected, and Microsoft has acknowledged a weakness in its implementation.
It appears that only OpenBDD and some hardened Linuxes (not mainstream distributions) have a complete implementation.
Yes, apple fanboys have to worry more about a different sort of virus.
Surely this is only of any use to a hacker if they manage to run in "ring zero" anyway. Otherwise wouldn't normal page protection stop them. Am I missing something?
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