A Wrinkle in Time, where the universe is saved at the end of the book because the heroine thinks of Jesus, Our Incorporeal Overlord? Like the Narnia books, these have embedded Xian messages that are not safe for children.
When I was a kid I enjoyed everything by James H. Schmitz. His books and short stories are full of weird aliens and monsters, and has a lot of kick-ass women, which is pretty rare for the time. A few years ago most of his book were reprinted, so they should be easy to find.
Looking at the data legally puts you at risk. The other company may care. If the data was government/military, there's a headache you don't want. Erase it immediately so there is no question. While no one can prove you looked at it or not, no need to make it worse on you.
If you purchased the drive, then you purchased the contents. They now belong to you. Please look through it, find anything interesting, and post it here.
And yet capitalism -- let us not forget that Big Brother presides over an integrated, global capitalist system -- must be democratic, because it cannot be anything else. Capitalism could only grow hand-in-hand with democratic society. To deploy itself fully over the face of the whole planet, capitalism must even now permanently assure everyone of a choice, the outcome of which it has determined in advance. One must be able to choose between two indistinguishable politicians or two indistinguishable political ideologies because one chooses between two indistinguishable commodities. If there is no appearance of political democracy, there can be no sustainable capitalist system. This has been proven to be true by the permanent atrophy of the merchants in oriental despotism, by the ultimate defeat of Hitlerian and Mussolinian fascism, and by how poorly bureaucratic capitalism was managed by Stalinism.
And don't forget modern China, an obvious total failure of non-democratic capitalism.
"Hopefully other major supporters(Google, Facebook, etc) will follow suit and get the word out how bad this piece of garbage is."
And don't forget Slashdot. Participating in Reddit's blackout is something we could do also.
"None have complained about having to fork over money for a new battery system yet."
Just forked over $3K for a new battery pack on a 2002 Prius. Expect no more than 10 years. The wave of battery failures is just starting.
If you hang you underwear out to dry, the neighbors will see it. Same with trade secrets. In order to be protected by law, one is required to make reasonable efforts to protect trade secrets. Obviously nowadays, when $500 billion worth of trade secrets are being stolen, these trade secrets are not being adequately protected. These secrets are, in effect, out on the line in plane sight, just like the aforementioned underwear. Too bad our government is more interested in stopping movie downloads.
the hackers never actually misused their control over them in any way
No... they were just trying out a proof-of-concept. Now they know how to take over the satelites though- the Chinese will have us in their grasp if we ever go to war...... think about it- next time we consider going to war with China- they will take over our satellites and force us to watch Chinese Opera on our TV sets.... our surrender will be so quick the French will call US surrender monkeys.
It is good to know that, in an emergency, someone actually responsible can taker over out satellites.
Just take your Mac Mini and drop it into a bucket of PFMD (perfluoromethyldecalin, otherwise known as artificial blood plasma). The heat conducts away and even if the fan starts up, you won't hear it. Too bad you sold it already.
And I can vouch for Bank of America's ShopSafe. Have used it for years without a hiccup.
Discover Card's equivalent seems a bit harder to navigate for some reason.
I've been using Discovercard's Deskshop for years to create single-use numbers. I've never had a problem.
I completely agree with this - Chinese characters are quite phonetic for learning Chinese, while hopeless for Japanese. I never thought much of Rosetta Stone, though.
Somehow I don't think that this is what I said. Or meant. Of course the idiot packager should have sent the 'bug fix' upstream. The 'bug' may not have been a bug, was it was very poorly written code if it misled someone.
The packager who did this was completely correct to do so. Reading uninitialized memory is evil. If the routine doing the reading has been called ReadUnitializedMemoryAsASourceOfRandomness(), the problem never would have happened. Everyone is blaming the packager, but it is the idiot who wrote the seeder in the first place who is to blame. Stupid cutesy tricks have no place in something supposed to be 'secure.'
You can open source it and still make plenty of money. Consider Qt, the graphical basis for KDE. Free for open source use, but not free for commercial use. Big companies will spend big bucks to use such software, while college students with too much spare time will be able to use and contribute. Just pick the appropriate copyright/license.
I purchased an MP3 player a few years ago from Samsung that did pretty much the same thing. I didn't care about the health aspect; it was just a cheap MP3 player on firesale. I ended up giving it away to a nephew becuse it wouldn't play Asian mp3's, only American ones. Rather odd, for a Korean-made mp3 player.
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I preferred Howl's Moving Castle myself, but avoid the sequel.
A Wrinkle in Time, where the universe is saved at the end of the book because the heroine thinks of Jesus, Our Incorporeal Overlord? Like the Narnia books, these have embedded Xian messages that are not safe for children. When I was a kid I enjoyed everything by James H. Schmitz. His books and short stories are full of weird aliens and monsters, and has a lot of kick-ass women, which is pretty rare for the time. A few years ago most of his book were reprinted, so they should be easy to find.
Looking at the data legally puts you at risk. The other company may care. If the data was government/military, there's a headache you don't want. Erase it immediately so there is no question. While no one can prove you looked at it or not, no need to make it worse on you.
If you purchased the drive, then you purchased the contents. They now belong to you. Please look through it, find anything interesting, and post it here.
And yet capitalism -- let us not forget that Big Brother presides over an integrated, global capitalist system -- must be democratic, because it cannot be anything else. Capitalism could only grow hand-in-hand with democratic society. To deploy itself fully over the face of the whole planet, capitalism must even now permanently assure everyone of a choice, the outcome of which it has determined in advance. One must be able to choose between two indistinguishable politicians or two indistinguishable political ideologies because one chooses between two indistinguishable commodities. If there is no appearance of political democracy, there can be no sustainable capitalist system. This has been proven to be true by the permanent atrophy of the merchants in oriental despotism, by the ultimate defeat of Hitlerian and Mussolinian fascism, and by how poorly bureaucratic capitalism was managed by Stalinism.
And don't forget modern China, an obvious total failure of non-democratic capitalism.
"Hopefully other major supporters(Google, Facebook, etc) will follow suit and get the word out how bad this piece of garbage is." And don't forget Slashdot. Participating in Reddit's blackout is something we could do also.
"None have complained about having to fork over money for a new battery system yet." Just forked over $3K for a new battery pack on a 2002 Prius. Expect no more than 10 years. The wave of battery failures is just starting.
A local after-school program my kid was in used StageCastCreator. It is $50 for each license.
If you hang you underwear out to dry, the neighbors will see it. Same with trade secrets. In order to be protected by law, one is required to make reasonable efforts to protect trade secrets. Obviously nowadays, when $500 billion worth of trade secrets are being stolen, these trade secrets are not being adequately protected. These secrets are, in effect, out on the line in plane sight, just like the aforementioned underwear. Too bad our government is more interested in stopping movie downloads.
the hackers never actually misused their control over them in any way
No... they were just trying out a proof-of-concept. Now they know how to take over the satelites though- the Chinese will have us in their grasp if we ever go to war... ... think about it- next time we consider going to war with China- they will take over our satellites and force us to watch Chinese Opera on our TV sets. ... our surrender will be so quick the French will call US surrender monkeys.
It is good to know that, in an emergency, someone actually responsible can taker over out satellites.
Just take your Mac Mini and drop it into a bucket of PFMD (perfluoromethyldecalin, otherwise known as artificial blood plasma). The heat conducts away and even if the fan starts up, you won't hear it. Too bad you sold it already.
Now I can play those Mac games! Debian so rocks! Or is that not what they meant?
If you don't think the judge was correct in rubberstamping the seizures, then make your opinion known at http://www.therobingroom.com/Judge.aspx?ID=1491
We've been using a PicoScope (from the UK) at recently and it seems to work okay. Operates through the USB port.
And I can vouch for Bank of America's ShopSafe. Have used it for years without a hiccup. Discover Card's equivalent seems a bit harder to navigate for some reason.
I've been using Discovercard's Deskshop for years to create single-use numbers. I've never had a problem.
I completely agree with this - Chinese characters are quite phonetic for learning Chinese, while hopeless for Japanese. I never thought much of Rosetta Stone, though.
Or be a woman and take take both; whichever suits you.
Scanning for vast swaths of human skin tones probably isn't a bad method, actually.
Somehow I don't think that this is what I said. Or meant. Of course the idiot packager should have sent the 'bug fix' upstream. The 'bug' may not have been a bug, was it was very poorly written code if it misled someone.
The packager who did this was completely correct to do so. Reading uninitialized memory is evil. If the routine doing the reading has been called ReadUnitializedMemoryAsASourceOfRandomness(), the problem never would have happened. Everyone is blaming the packager, but it is the idiot who wrote the seeder in the first place who is to blame. Stupid cutesy tricks have no place in something supposed to be 'secure.'
I really miss my favorite keyword, "oldnews."
Real men use Blackbox. I use KDE. My favorite is XFCE. Go figure.
Why? I can write crap and you can clean it up. This is Division of Labor, which is the basis of our civilization.
You can open source it and still make plenty of money. Consider Qt, the graphical basis for KDE. Free for open source use, but not free for commercial use. Big companies will spend big bucks to use such software, while college students with too much spare time will be able to use and contribute. Just pick the appropriate copyright/license.
Why would I want to physically access my botnet?
I purchased an MP3 player a few years ago from Samsung that did pretty much the same thing. I didn't care about the health aspect; it was just a cheap MP3 player on firesale. I ended up giving it away to a nephew becuse it wouldn't play Asian mp3's, only American ones. Rather odd, for a Korean-made mp3 player.