How do you do this? Go to the RSS feed page and select the category your article appeared in. Then do a search for the title and pull the link that declares it to be an RSS user. It's that simple!
I don't think this is morally wrong as you're going to their site and you're still getting advertisements. Slashdot is really just a hand selected RSS feed so we might as well use RSS credentials. It saves us the time of registering and it saves the site admins some wasted space & e-mail traffic due to shill registrations.
If you hate registering, here's the link to the NYTimes article. I know this is off topic, but let me just briefly plead with the Slashdot editors to use the RSS feed links when linking to newspapers. Please, for the love of god, I don't want to have to karma whore anymore! Go to the XML page and merely pick out your link! There's no trick to this.
Also note that prices seem to be dropping for the MovieBeam box. Quite a bit actually, the latter article states that you can get them for $49 now--$200 is the debut MSRP.
I've read a lot of luke-warm reviews on this thing and people say now that the system needs refinement. What I'm wondering is whether or not you can substitute a broadband (RJ-45) connection with the phone line connection. I don't have a land line at my home because four people in my family own cell phones. It just doesn't make sense to pay for long distance accross a land line. Is there an alternative to people like me for phoning home and notifying the company of my movie watchage?
Honestly, I guess I don't want Michael Eisner in my living room or a device that phones home to him.
So, this is one of those annoying super advertisement sites. I recommend just using the print version instead of having to flip through every freaking page. The print version also has less ads.
Phil Harrison went on to say that ordinary gods and goddesses would cower at the site of the first PS3 and that the plain jane religions that exist the world today will be unneeded once we have the PS3 to worship.
Sony has been playing around with the idea of allowing consumers one PS3 in exchange for that consumer's first born son (or the trimmed down version for first born daughter). Analysts stated that this strategy would be met with disgust in most parts of the world but may play well in third world countries and those suffering from over population.
When asked why he would no longer need a PC, Harrison merely gestured to the screen displaying the new console and said, "Look at it! Just.. just... look at it! No, wait stop, you are not worthy to cast your eyes upon it. Avert them! Everyone, stop looking at it, you're ruining its glory just by concieving it in your feeble puny mind!"
Sony has set up large preemptive trauma centers for players who will seek medical attention after attempting to "play" the PS3. Harrison explained that only players with "mad skillz" will be able to touch the PS3 and not walk away with their entire reality altered. Harrison also alluded to the idea that much of life after the PS3's release will be dedicated to playing the PS3 and trying to conceive of what life before the PS3 might have been like. Phil was skeptical any of their consumers would own any other consoles aside from the PS3 and stated that doctors were investigating ways to wean heroin addicts from the drug by giving them a PS3 as a substitute.
Some of the developers of the PS3 were admitted to mental institutions for possible instability. Many were sobbing and laughing at the same time screaming anything from "It is done!" to "It is... the alpha & the omega!"
Reporters noted that Phil looked quite thin and ill but when asked about his health, he became extremely defensive saying, "Why do you ask about the physical things? If you had god in your living room, would you pause your conversation with him to eat?!" he cried, "Why do you vex me with puzzles non-PS3 based?" He had shaved his head for reasons unknown. He then jumped off the stage and ran to his celebrity van outside--presumably to play an in-development version of the PS3.
So, is Sony going to do all their development on PS3s from now on if they don't need PCs?
I had heard once of a very cunning strategy around captchas. I'm not sure if this is true but there is a story of a p0rn site making large sums of cash by selling key sets to the images. Certain sites would not dynamically generate images but instead rely on sets of images with protected keys as a captcha.
In order to use the p0rn site he ran, you had to either pay money or spend time identifying captchas. He would then store them in a database and match it up with a checksum of the image. When he had completed a site's captcha key set, he would sell these lookup tables to anyone with money.
All they then had to do was write their program to do a checksum of the image (or the image itself if he had stored it) and then plug the word from the database into the page for verification.
With the introduction of splashers that spatter the statically stored images with lines or dots, the image is stored and a something like an edit distance is applied to it to find the closest match. Once that is accomplished, it references the keyword out of the database. You turn up the splasher and you risk the user not being able to figure out the word.
It seems that evil always finds a way. This is why captchas should always be dynamically generated on the fly from a very large dictionary! Check out Securimage for PHP.
This evening, my daughters asked me. "Why do the other kids laugh at us?"
I wanted to tell them the truth - it's because they wear old clothes and have cheap haircuts. I can't afford anything better for them right now.
"It's because they are idiots, kids", I told them. "Don't listen to them."
When the kids went to bed, my wife asked me, "Will we be able to keep the house, David?"
I just shook my head, and tried to hold back the tears. "I don't know, Jenny. I don't know."
My grandparents and ancesters have been dirt farmers as far back as I know. Now I'm a computer programmer. Why? Because of corporate farming in America.
Boo hoo.
Do I cry that my 5th generation industry was stolen out from under my feet? Do I cry that my grandparents and parents endured hardships? No. They rolled with the punches and my dad worked construction/trucking. Maybe you should look into another industry. You smell the times changing, so react (you are allowed to do that, you know). Here's your plan: Get into another business and do it fast. You can keep your house if you're smart. No one is going to be crying over your family drama on Slashdot. Don't be emotionally soft and don't feel sorry for yourself. Pick yourself up and move on. Sell the store or change your business. It was a fun 12 years but the trend is over.
I myself live in America and the only way I can find information on this political party is online. I wish that there were more official resources in English aside from their site. There seems to be one page with the content exactly the same as Christian Engström's post.
Is it possible that this party is popular via lack of information? I would like to see them explain their strategy & give very detailed specifics about what they would like to see changed and why. I think that if this was posted, it may cause them to lose some support but would definitely let Sweden & the rest of the world know a lot more about the Pirate Party. I like their desired end results but how to plan to achieve these goals?
I don't want to sound like an ass but in my opinion, having 200 servers of a controversial party raided and confiscated by the local government is one of the best things that could happen to said party. Especially since nothing incriminating was found on them. Do political parties now earn "street cred" like this? Certainly would strike a chord with the youth & idealists.
Asked for other reasoning behind the choice to take down a site, without knowing whether it is illegal or not, the officers explained that this is normal.
Hmmm, sounds like pretty unlawful search and seize action...
Dennis: Come and see the corruption inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed! King Arthur: *seizes the servers* Bloody file sharers! Dennis: Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about! Did you see him repressing me? You saw him, Didn't you?
Sure, the innovative will try to work around these types of limitations, but are we teaching our kids to be afraid of science?
No. At least, if you're afraid of terrorist witch hunts then it's your government telling you to be afraid of science, not the people.
The liabilities incurred might come from local law enforcement if they think you're setting up a meth lab or it might even be your neighbor's kid comes over and breaths in some fumes that his asthma doesn't handle so well.
A lot of the scenarios I'm thinking of involve the chemical and physical sciences. I don't think that being proficient in computer sciences will raise any government eyebrows unless you're doing something truly illegal. In the end, I think we're mostly seeing a decline in getting-your-hands-dirty simply due to the fact that it's a mess & Americans are pretty lazy. I personally work a lot and when I get home, I'm not in the mood to set up a particle accelerator. I think that the armchair sciences like computers, political, economic, statistics, mathematics, etc. will probably be the focus of new hobbiests.
From the Wired article:
The search was initiated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal agency best known for instigating recalls of faulty cribs and fire-prone space heaters.
Great, just one more federal agency for me to fear/hate. You just made the list, CPSC!
As for the USAToday article entitled U.S. could fall behind in global 'brain race', I think that's crap. I'll quote a few parts of it and add my commentary:
Last year, China graduated 500,000 engineers; India, 200,000; and North America, 70,000.
One word, "population." How about you translate those figures into engineers graduated per capita? China = 500,000:1,306,313,812. India = 200,000:1,080,264,388. United States = 70,000:295,734,134. That's roughly 1:2612 for China, 1:5401 for India and 1:4224 for the United States. Those numbers aren't bad at all, especially if you took other countries. Now, if you want to argue about the rigor of the courses, I'd say that varies from place to place.
The U.S. trade balance in high-technology goods fell from $33 billion in the black in 1990 to $24 billion in the red in 2004.
Although this looks bad economically, I don't see how this relates to the topic at hand. In no way can you measure a country's education and gifted students.
There was very little for me to agree with in this article.
I was under the impression that Sony chose blu-ray because of the amount of data it can pack into a disc. The games are subsequently written and read by blu-ray technology making them capable of storing much more data on a disc. It was my understanding that having games that play in insane resolution (1080p) requires not only high processing but also high storage.
So if they sell "blu-ray disabled" PS3s, how would it play the high quality games? If you have the drive be incapable of playing movie discs, then your cost per console unit production is the same. How on earth would they make blu-ray optional? Just have PS2-technology drives on lower priced ones? You would have to have games for each version... and possibly compiled differently to take advantage of the quality.
It just doesn't make sense, you would have a great technology on a console yet lack the ability to use it for the device's main purpose--playing fscking video games.
That is what the PS3 is for, right? Playing video games. I don't really care if it can play vinyl records, for Christ's sake, I just want a game console that works and works well. We all remember how well the original PS2s played DVDs, right? Let's hope the blu-ray discs actually work in the first gen PS3 consoles.
Steve Jobs met with the distressed shoppers after the incident explaining to them that a security guard had innocently used his Windows laptop to attempt to connect to the store's wireless network.
Jobs showed them diagrams detailing the "evil karma waves" that essentially attacked all the flowers and love that powered the magical glass elevator. He assured the agitated shoppers that there was no one to blame but Bill Gates for their inconvenience. It was proven repeatedly by a brain-washing commercial of two men standing next to each other. It is indicated that one is a PC running Windows and has to shut down during the conversation. The shoppers were encouraged to watch the video as many times as possible and to continue shopping afterward. Although humans don't run operating systems and this ad was farcical, it worked like a charm as it did with millions of Americans.
The shoppers were encouraged to think back to times when they might have been in a home or used in their own home that had a Windows network running wirelessly. Did they recall any of their family or loved ones falling ill during prolonged exposure to Windows wireless packets? They were also encouraged to share these experiences with one another and reinforce the idea that Windows is nothing but pure evil.
Well, I don't think that a short note covered much at all on why they removed it so I did some investigative work. Disclaimer: I use sendmail although I am by no means an expert at it. I'm ignoring pre-2k security issues as that is older than five years ago.
A security alert from March of 2003 in which Sendmail has been determined to contain a buffer overflow vulnerability.
A security alert from March of 2006 (this year) regarding a race condition that may allow remote code execution by an arbitrary user.
A plethera of similar or smaller security concerns can easily be found.
The most recent release of Sendmail involves things like fixing possible integer overflows & unsafe use of setjmp(3)/longjmp(3) or adding time outs.
As you can see with above security concerns, Sendmail has had significant historical problems but they have been active in rectifying these problems. If you have the time to patch often, Sendmail most probably will provide you with one of the safest mail transfer agents out there.
The largest concern seems to be the possibility of being compromised via a remote connection. If you're not using it, simply turn off the Sendmail Daemon. And I think that's why they removed it from NetBSD. Some idiot like myself might install NetBSD and leave that sucker listening on port 25. Now, there are no problems immediately because I'll have the latest version but I'm lazy and I don't patch NetBSD regularly so a few security alerts come out and then... well, you know the rest.
Funny thing is, I've never heard of anyone losing data or being hacked due to Sendmail. Perhaps it's because the last place I saw it used widely was college?
Among fans of the film, the question of whether Deckard is human or replicant has been an ongoing controversy since the film's release. Ridley Scott, after remaining coy on the subject for twenty years, stated in 2002 that Deckard is a replicant. Hampton Fancher and Harrison Ford, however, have stated that Deckard is human. The rough consensus among fans is that in the original version of the film Deckard is probably human, whereas in the Director's Cut he is a replicant. Specifically, the Director's Cut shows a dream of Deckard's that features a unicorn; Gaff leaves Deckard an origami unicorn at the end of the film. This suggests Gaff knew about the dream and implies that Deckard is, like Rachael, a replicant with implanted memories.
The Court found that Article 95 EC, read in conjunction with Article 25 of the directive, cannot justify Community competence to conclude the Agreement with the United States that is at issue.
I could not find anything entitled Article 95 EC, did they mean Directive 95/46/EC which is in regards to the protection of personal data?
Article 25 of the EU Directive can be found on a number of sites and states that non-member countries may be provided with member data in the case of need. It's quite vague (standard law-talkin' guys strategy) so I could see it being read either way--entirely open ended!
Remember everyone, this is legislation coming from a government that proclaims itself to be communist. According to the ideas set down long ago by Marx & Engels, there is no sense of private property--yet we're seeing laws protecting intellectual property. Doesn't make much sense. Then again, there isn't any idea of a market system in Communism yet China is rife and growing with rudimentary free markets and international business.
Could they at least change the name of their party? They're really giving way to a new form of Communism that only seems to select and use the parts that are useful to them given the time and place. Seriously, what part of the original idea of Communism is left without these two things? They are picking a very odd way to abolish social classes. Perhaps they should be called Neo-Communists or just flat out trend-Communists.
In an effort to curb the misuse of my technological terms by the industry, I am now trademarking Web 3.0, Web 4.0, Web 5.0, Web 6.0, Web 7.0, Web 8.0, Web 9.0, Web 1337.0, Web 69.0 and Web Pi.
Web 3.0-9.0 refer to the idea of websites being more and more progressively interactive with the user. The final, Web 9.0, requiring electrodes implanted in your brain so you actually walk between websites and are subject to the sounds & smells of the internet. It is not advised to use 9.0 if you don't have adequate protection against script kiddies.
Web 1337.0 refers to the idea that websites should be covered in flying toasters and dancing Jesuses and massive abuse of blinking marquee tags.
I'd describe the other Web x.0s but then Slashdot would be linked to those descriptions and I would be obligated to sue the OSTG.
This is an unfortunate but necessary move on my part to protect the idea of these terms. On what grounds do I register these trademarks? I have meme maps! And I'm not afraid to publish them!
Is the president going to play dress-up, get into an air force uniform, land on an air craft carrier near the Straight of Gibraltar and declare the Spanish American War finally over?
What I didn't see mentioned in this article was the fact that back in March, Microsoft joined a subdivision of INCITS (V1 Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface group within the International Committee for Information Technology Standards). Which is the group that kind of decides whether or not it should be widely adopted. Being ISO certified is one thing but it doesn't mean everyone's going to use it as a standard.
There was much speculation that Microsoft had joined INCITS with the intent to slowdown or stop the spreading use of ODF and insert their own standard. Sounded like another Microsoft power trip to me.
I predict that Microsoft will bitch and bitch about ODF and then release study after study suggesting some other patent laden format (probably Open XML) over ODF. This is just the first complaint against ODF--too slow. Perhaps next they'll complain that it's not documented well enough, some of their apps just can't support it, it gives their developers arthritis, it looks too ugly, etc.
I would have preferred the headline "DMCA Bites MPAA in A$$" but I suppose the current one will do.
Now, it's only a matter of time before we see the "MPAA Sues MPAA" headline. I'm certain there's money floating all over the place inside the MPAA and those law-talking guys are going to get to thinking that they better sue first for the rights to that money. You don't know the phrase "every man for himself" until you've visited an association of lawyers.
Anyone else praying for the MPAA to implode in on itself like flan left in a cupboard?
That's an interesting statement coming from someone who had to use a Turing machine to post it.
If you sat down and thought hard enough about your processor(s) as Turing machine(s), languages essentially boil down to a strip of information being interpreted by a window. The languages provide us short cuts to 'speak' to the processor and coax it to do our bidding.
What is different about a thread that does IO or graphics from a thread that simply does computations? Not much in the eyes of Turing, just different interpretations. I'm rather confused in how you think our GPUs and CPUs calculate the information that it sends to the devices on our machines via memory and hardware. In the end, it's essentially filling bits of information into hardware devices. This information is the result of these calculations that you claim no one cares about. Well, it's funny to say this, but I do care about those calculations and so should you!
I suggest you read up on Turing Completeness as it is not bullshit and is the very simple logical basis for which nearly all modern computing works.
That's not true at all. First of all, a lot of that memory is the program itself, which isn't going to change, and some of it is probably your OS counting shared library code, which also isn't going to change.
Are you implying that libraries are incapable of having bugs inside them? I find that particularly naïve in that a lot of the libraries I use are never introspected by myself. I assume they have the functionality of a tiny blurb written in English by the original author (who may or may not have been sane). But, perhaps you are willing to rely on other people's unit testing. If so, we continue to your next statement.
There are a lot of memory structures that you can safely say are going to look like such-and-such, greatly reducing your estimate of the number of possible states.
You're absolutely correct. However, this is one of the first and basic assumptions to testing. You see, you're already creating a test plan and dismissing the obvious wastes of time in testing your application. Congratulations, if you push this along further you can use unit testing to test each component of the system and be fairly certain that when they are put togethor, the system as a whole has no bugs.
Anyway, testing software doesn't mean taking every possible state into account. That would be ridiculous.
The point of my argument was that testing can be ridiculously complicated and to completely test something would take until the end of time.
Good programming should compartmentalize the program so that modules affect each other with minimal interaction and thus you really only have to do exhaustive state tests on very small modules.
We see eye to eye. I didn't feel like getting into testing--entire courses are taught on how to do adequate testing on modular code. I agree with you entirely but I think that the current levels of testing are a stab at eliminating the most obnoxious bugs. Have you ever tried testing bad code in a restrained amount of time? I have & and I can say that it is highly... undesirable.
Turing completeness is completely irrelevant and you're simply quoting CS 101 to give your comments an air of authority.
On the contrary, I thought it to be completely relevant in order to dismiss people complaining that one language is more error prone than another. Recognizing that this would only deviate us from the path of the real discussion, I made the assumption that all languages are essentially equal (the premise being that all interpreters and byte readers are simply Turing machines in the end).
There are experts in every language that are very capable of emulating almost anything--without many bugs... how much work and time goes into this is a variant, however.
You, apparently, did not agree with my assumption. That's fine. Just don't accuse me of throwing in irrelevant information in an attempt to sound like an authority on the matter who is important or intelligent. I know that I am neither and it is insulting to say that I would be so pretentious as to fake it or even desire it.
The world's six billion people can be divided into two groups: group one, who know why every good software company ships products with known bugs; and group two, who don't.
If you are in group two, than I post this for you.
Theoretically, there is no language that is more or less prone to bugs than any other language as understood in Turing Completeness. Without delving too much into this, it simply states that all languages emulate a Turing machine to some degree and therefore should be capable of everything a Turing machine is capable of (although I don't think this says anything about time/space efficiency). One language may be better supported than another or have more libraries but we are going to assume these issues to be irrelevent to our discussion on applications--let us look as all applications being written in the same low level language that your computer directly understands. I don't want to compare architectures either, let us assume they are equivalently prone to bugs and are basic Turing machines.
If we think about a binary executable program (machine language consisting of ones & zeros) then we must recognize that the program's memory space has many many states. Open up your favorite word editor. Type in a sentence you're thinking about. Highlight part of it and bold it. Highlight a different part and hit escape seven times. Do you think that this scenario was tested?
My point is that it is an impossible herculean task for the developers to test any application in every state. They can come close and smart software design can leave an easier job for the testers but it will never be completely tested.
I would define the term bug as "undesired behavior" and I suggest they be thought of in this manner. I will also make the statement that no piece of software can be garunteed to be free of undesired behavior due primarily to the above analysis of them being amazingly complex machines with a large state space. To take a stab at it mathematically, this browser (Firefox) is operating with a 48,604 Kb memory footprint (I have many tabs open). That's 49770496 bytes or 398163968 bits. Each bit can be on or off meaning that for the amount of memory my browser occupies now, there are 2^398163968 different possible states for any similar sized application running. Now, to add even more complexity, that state space adjusts according to what the application requires for memory.
As our applications become more bloated, the situation only worsens. That is why development phases are either getting longer or requiring larger teams from the beginning of the project (mythical man month noted). At what point does the testing phase end? Hopefully never. Hopefully your software that you acquire is supported until the end of time... but there are already too many projects out there left for dead.
If you're wondering how companies can ship software with bugs, you should be wondering how is it possible not to ship software with bugs. You should also understand that there are rigorous standards and practices implemented along the way to prevent the most devestating bugs from escaping. If the company making the software has a history of failing in extinguishing the most glaring of errors, simply stop purchasing their software or demand the support you need.
Slashdot Mirror
Here is a working link to the story. Please use the RSS feed from newspapers when submitting stories!
How do you do this? Go to the RSS feed page and select the category your article appeared in. Then do a search for the title and pull the link that declares it to be an RSS user. It's that simple!
I don't think this is morally wrong as you're going to their site and you're still getting advertisements. Slashdot is really just a hand selected RSS feed so we might as well use RSS credentials. It saves us the time of registering and it saves the site admins some wasted space & e-mail traffic due to shill registrations.
If you hate registering, here's the link to the NYTimes article. I know this is off topic, but let me just briefly plead with the Slashdot editors to use the RSS feed links when linking to newspapers. Please, for the love of god, I don't want to have to karma whore anymore! Go to the XML page and merely pick out your link! There's no trick to this.
Also note that prices seem to be dropping for the MovieBeam box. Quite a bit actually, the latter article states that you can get them for $49 now--$200 is the debut MSRP.
I've read a lot of luke-warm reviews on this thing and people say now that the system needs refinement. What I'm wondering is whether or not you can substitute a broadband (RJ-45) connection with the phone line connection. I don't have a land line at my home because four people in my family own cell phones. It just doesn't make sense to pay for long distance accross a land line. Is there an alternative to people like me for phoning home and notifying the company of my movie watchage?
Honestly, I guess I don't want Michael Eisner in my living room or a device that phones home to him.
So, this is one of those annoying super advertisement sites. I recommend just using the print version instead of having to flip through every freaking page. The print version also has less ads.
Phil Harrison went on to say that ordinary gods and goddesses would cower at the site of the first PS3 and that the plain jane religions that exist the world today will be unneeded once we have the PS3 to worship.
.. just ... look at it! No, wait stop, you are not worthy to cast your eyes upon it. Avert them! Everyone, stop looking at it, you're ruining its glory just by concieving it in your feeble puny mind!"
... the alpha & the omega!"
Sony has been playing around with the idea of allowing consumers one PS3 in exchange for that consumer's first born son (or the trimmed down version for first born daughter). Analysts stated that this strategy would be met with disgust in most parts of the world but may play well in third world countries and those suffering from over population.
When asked why he would no longer need a PC, Harrison merely gestured to the screen displaying the new console and said, "Look at it! Just
Sony has set up large preemptive trauma centers for players who will seek medical attention after attempting to "play" the PS3. Harrison explained that only players with "mad skillz" will be able to touch the PS3 and not walk away with their entire reality altered. Harrison also alluded to the idea that much of life after the PS3's release will be dedicated to playing the PS3 and trying to conceive of what life before the PS3 might have been like. Phil was skeptical any of their consumers would own any other consoles aside from the PS3 and stated that doctors were investigating ways to wean heroin addicts from the drug by giving them a PS3 as a substitute.
Some of the developers of the PS3 were admitted to mental institutions for possible instability. Many were sobbing and laughing at the same time screaming anything from "It is done!" to "It is
Reporters noted that Phil looked quite thin and ill but when asked about his health, he became extremely defensive saying, "Why do you ask about the physical things? If you had god in your living room, would you pause your conversation with him to eat?!" he cried, "Why do you vex me with puzzles non-PS3 based?" He had shaved his head for reasons unknown. He then jumped off the stage and ran to his celebrity van outside--presumably to play an in-development version of the PS3.
So, is Sony going to do all their development on PS3s from now on if they don't need PCs?
I had heard once of a very cunning strategy around captchas. I'm not sure if this is true but there is a story of a p0rn site making large sums of cash by selling key sets to the images. Certain sites would not dynamically generate images but instead rely on sets of images with protected keys as a captcha.
In order to use the p0rn site he ran, you had to either pay money or spend time identifying captchas. He would then store them in a database and match it up with a checksum of the image. When he had completed a site's captcha key set, he would sell these lookup tables to anyone with money.
All they then had to do was write their program to do a checksum of the image (or the image itself if he had stored it) and then plug the word from the database into the page for verification.
With the introduction of splashers that spatter the statically stored images with lines or dots, the image is stored and a something like an edit distance is applied to it to find the closest match. Once that is accomplished, it references the keyword out of the database. You turn up the splasher and you risk the user not being able to figure out the word.
It seems that evil always finds a way. This is why captchas should always be dynamically generated on the fly from a very large dictionary! Check out Securimage for PHP.
Sorry, I must be new here.
Boo hoo.
Do I cry that my 5th generation industry was stolen out from under my feet? Do I cry that my grandparents and parents endured hardships? No. They rolled with the punches and my dad worked construction/trucking. Maybe you should look into another industry. You smell the times changing, so react (you are allowed to do that, you know). Here's your plan: Get into another business and do it fast. You can keep your house if you're smart. No one is going to be crying over your family drama on Slashdot. Don't be emotionally soft and don't feel sorry for yourself. Pick yourself up and move on. Sell the store or change your business. It was a fun 12 years but the trend is over.
I myself live in America and the only way I can find information on this political party is online. I wish that there were more official resources in English aside from their site. There seems to be one page with the content exactly the same as Christian Engström's post.
Is it possible that this party is popular via lack of information? I would like to see them explain their strategy & give very detailed specifics about what they would like to see changed and why. I think that if this was posted, it may cause them to lose some support but would definitely let Sweden & the rest of the world know a lot more about the Pirate Party. I like their desired end results but how to plan to achieve these goals?
I don't want to sound like an ass but in my opinion, having 200 servers of a controversial party raided and confiscated by the local government is one of the best things that could happen to said party. Especially since nothing incriminating was found on them. Do political parties now earn "street cred" like this? Certainly would strike a chord with the youth & idealists. Hmmm, sounds like pretty unlawful search and seize action
Dennis: Come and see the corruption inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
King Arthur: *seizes the servers* Bloody file sharers!
Dennis: Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about! Did you see him repressing me? You saw him, Didn't you?
The liabilities incurred might come from local law enforcement if they think you're setting up a meth lab or it might even be your neighbor's kid comes over and breaths in some fumes that his asthma doesn't handle so well.
A lot of the scenarios I'm thinking of involve the chemical and physical sciences. I don't think that being proficient in computer sciences will raise any government eyebrows unless you're doing something truly illegal. In the end, I think we're mostly seeing a decline in getting-your-hands-dirty simply due to the fact that it's a mess & Americans are pretty lazy. I personally work a lot and when I get home, I'm not in the mood to set up a particle accelerator. I think that the armchair sciences like computers, political, economic, statistics, mathematics, etc. will probably be the focus of new hobbiests.
From the Wired article: Great, just one more federal agency for me to fear/hate. You just made the list, CPSC!
As for the USAToday article entitled U.S. could fall behind in global 'brain race', I think that's crap. I'll quote a few parts of it and add my commentary: One word, "population." How about you translate those figures into engineers graduated per capita? China = 500,000:1,306,313,812. India = 200,000:1,080,264,388. United States = 70,000:295,734,134. That's roughly 1:2612 for China, 1:5401 for India and 1:4224 for the United States. Those numbers aren't bad at all, especially if you took other countries. Now, if you want to argue about the rigor of the courses, I'd say that varies from place to place. Although this looks bad economically, I don't see how this relates to the topic at hand. In no way can you measure a country's education and gifted students.
There was very little for me to agree with in this article.
I don't think this article is relevant.
... and possibly compiled differently to take advantage of the quality.
I was under the impression that Sony chose blu-ray because of the amount of data it can pack into a disc. The games are subsequently written and read by blu-ray technology making them capable of storing much more data on a disc. It was my understanding that having games that play in insane resolution (1080p) requires not only high processing but also high storage.
So if they sell "blu-ray disabled" PS3s, how would it play the high quality games? If you have the drive be incapable of playing movie discs, then your cost per console unit production is the same. How on earth would they make blu-ray optional? Just have PS2-technology drives on lower priced ones? You would have to have games for each version
It just doesn't make sense, you would have a great technology on a console yet lack the ability to use it for the device's main purpose--playing fscking video games.
That is what the PS3 is for, right? Playing video games. I don't really care if it can play vinyl records, for Christ's sake, I just want a game console that works and works well. We all remember how well the original PS2s played DVDs, right? Let's hope the blu-ray discs actually work in the first gen PS3 consoles.
Steve Jobs met with the distressed shoppers after the incident explaining to them that a security guard had innocently used his Windows laptop to attempt to connect to the store's wireless network.
Jobs showed them diagrams detailing the "evil karma waves" that essentially attacked all the flowers and love that powered the magical glass elevator. He assured the agitated shoppers that there was no one to blame but Bill Gates for their inconvenience. It was proven repeatedly by a brain-washing commercial of two men standing next to each other. It is indicated that one is a PC running Windows and has to shut down during the conversation. The shoppers were encouraged to watch the video as many times as possible and to continue shopping afterward. Although humans don't run operating systems and this ad was farcical, it worked like a charm as it did with millions of Americans.
The shoppers were encouraged to think back to times when they might have been in a home or used in their own home that had a Windows network running wirelessly. Did they recall any of their family or loved ones falling ill during prolonged exposure to Windows wireless packets? They were also encouraged to share these experiences with one another and reinforce the idea that Windows is nothing but pure evil.
From the first link, the aims of the Pirate Party seem to be:
As you can see with above security concerns, Sendmail has had significant historical problems but they have been active in rectifying these problems. If you have the time to patch often, Sendmail most probably will provide you with one of the safest mail transfer agents out there.
The largest concern seems to be the possibility of being compromised via a remote connection. If you're not using it, simply turn off the Sendmail Daemon. And I think that's why they removed it from NetBSD. Some idiot like myself might install NetBSD and leave that sucker listening on port 25. Now, there are no problems immediately because I'll have the latest version but I'm lazy and I don't patch NetBSD regularly so a few security alerts come out and then
Funny thing is, I've never heard of anyone losing data or being hacked due to Sendmail. Perhaps it's because the last place I saw it used widely was college?
Watch how it's supposed to be done:
*SPOILER ALERT!*
From the Wikipedia Entry: I hope that the characters still get guns in this version! And that Harrison Ford is allowed to shoot it at the point in the duel when he originally did!
Article 25 of the EU Directive can be found on a number of sites and states that non-member countries may be provided with member data in the case of need. It's quite vague (standard law-talkin' guys strategy) so I could see it being read either way--entirely open ended!
Remember everyone, this is legislation coming from a government that proclaims itself to be communist. According to the ideas set down long ago by Marx & Engels, there is no sense of private property--yet we're seeing laws protecting intellectual property. Doesn't make much sense. Then again, there isn't any idea of a market system in Communism yet China is rife and growing with rudimentary free markets and international business.
Why do we see the leader of the Communist Party arguing for strengthening stronger IP rights?
Could they at least change the name of their party? They're really giving way to a new form of Communism that only seems to select and use the parts that are useful to them given the time and place. Seriously, what part of the original idea of Communism is left without these two things? They are picking a very odd way to abolish social classes. Perhaps they should be called Neo-Communists or just flat out trend-Communists.
In an effort to curb the misuse of my technological terms by the industry, I am now trademarking Web 3.0, Web 4.0, Web 5.0, Web 6.0, Web 7.0, Web 8.0, Web 9.0, Web 1337.0, Web 69.0 and Web Pi.
Web 3.0-9.0 refer to the idea of websites being more and more progressively interactive with the user. The final, Web 9.0, requiring electrodes implanted in your brain so you actually walk between websites and are subject to the sounds & smells of the internet. It is not advised to use 9.0 if you don't have adequate protection against script kiddies.
Web 1337.0 refers to the idea that websites should be covered in flying toasters and dancing Jesuses and massive abuse of blinking marquee tags.
I'd describe the other Web x.0s but then Slashdot would be linked to those descriptions and I would be obligated to sue the OSTG.
This is an unfortunate but necessary move on my part to protect the idea of these terms. On what grounds do I register these trademarks? I have meme maps! And I'm not afraid to publish them!
Is the president going to play dress-up, get into an air force uniform, land on an air craft carrier near the Straight of Gibraltar and declare the Spanish American War finally over?
What I didn't see mentioned in this article was the fact that back in March, Microsoft joined a subdivision of INCITS (V1 Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface group within the International Committee for Information Technology Standards). Which is the group that kind of decides whether or not it should be widely adopted. Being ISO certified is one thing but it doesn't mean everyone's going to use it as a standard.
There was much speculation that Microsoft had joined INCITS with the intent to slowdown or stop the spreading use of ODF and insert their own standard. Sounded like another Microsoft power trip to me.
I predict that Microsoft will bitch and bitch about ODF and then release study after study suggesting some other patent laden format (probably Open XML) over ODF. This is just the first complaint against ODF--too slow. Perhaps next they'll complain that it's not documented well enough, some of their apps just can't support it, it gives their developers arthritis, it looks too ugly, etc.
I would have preferred the headline "DMCA Bites MPAA in A$$" but I suppose the current one will do.
Now, it's only a matter of time before we see the "MPAA Sues MPAA" headline. I'm certain there's money floating all over the place inside the MPAA and those law-talking guys are going to get to thinking that they better sue first for the rights to that money. You don't know the phrase "every man for himself" until you've visited an association of lawyers.
Anyone else praying for the MPAA to implode in on itself like flan left in a cupboard?
If you sat down and thought hard enough about your processor(s) as Turing machine(s), languages essentially boil down to a strip of information being interpreted by a window. The languages provide us short cuts to 'speak' to the processor and coax it to do our bidding.
What is different about a thread that does IO or graphics from a thread that simply does computations? Not much in the eyes of Turing, just different interpretations. I'm rather confused in how you think our GPUs and CPUs calculate the information that it sends to the devices on our machines via memory and hardware. In the end, it's essentially filling bits of information into hardware devices. This information is the result of these calculations that you claim no one cares about. Well, it's funny to say this, but I do care about those calculations and so should you!
I suggest you read up on Turing Completeness as it is not bullshit and is the very simple logical basis for which nearly all modern computing works.
There are experts in every language that are very capable of emulating almost anything--without many bugs
You, apparently, did not agree with my assumption. That's fine. Just don't accuse me of throwing in irrelevant information in an attempt to sound like an authority on the matter who is important or intelligent. I know that I am neither and it is insulting to say that I would be so pretentious as to fake it or even desire it.
Theoretically, there is no language that is more or less prone to bugs than any other language as understood in Turing Completeness. Without delving too much into this, it simply states that all languages emulate a Turing machine to some degree and therefore should be capable of everything a Turing machine is capable of (although I don't think this says anything about time/space efficiency). One language may be better supported than another or have more libraries but we are going to assume these issues to be irrelevent to our discussion on applications--let us look as all applications being written in the same low level language that your computer directly understands. I don't want to compare architectures either, let us assume they are equivalently prone to bugs and are basic Turing machines.
If we think about a binary executable program (machine language consisting of ones & zeros) then we must recognize that the program's memory space has many many states. Open up your favorite word editor. Type in a sentence you're thinking about. Highlight part of it and bold it. Highlight a different part and hit escape seven times. Do you think that this scenario was tested?
My point is that it is an impossible herculean task for the developers to test any application in every state. They can come close and smart software design can leave an easier job for the testers but it will never be completely tested.
I would define the term bug as "undesired behavior" and I suggest they be thought of in this manner. I will also make the statement that no piece of software can be garunteed to be free of undesired behavior due primarily to the above analysis of them being amazingly complex machines with a large state space. To take a stab at it mathematically, this browser (Firefox) is operating with a 48,604 Kb memory footprint (I have many tabs open). That's 49770496 bytes or 398163968 bits. Each bit can be on or off meaning that for the amount of memory my browser occupies now, there are 2^398163968 different possible states for any similar sized application running. Now, to add even more complexity, that state space adjusts according to what the application requires for memory.
As our applications become more bloated, the situation only worsens. That is why development phases are either getting longer or requiring larger teams from the beginning of the project (mythical man month noted). At what point does the testing phase end? Hopefully never. Hopefully your software that you acquire is supported until the end of time
If you're wondering how companies can ship software with bugs, you should be wondering how is it possible not to ship software with bugs. You should also understand that there are rigorous standards and practices implemented along the way to prevent the most devestating bugs from escaping. If the company making the software has a history of failing in extinguishing the most glaring of errors, simply stop purchasing their software or demand the support you need.