That's sort of like claiming that you're better than Ty Cobb if your first at-bat of the season gets you to first. We don't have the track record to make that claim. We might be smart, but we've got an awful lot of squishiness to compensate for. It might be better for adaptability to be smart AND hardy like--say--sharks. Or hardy and insanely prolific, like cockroaches. THOSE guys have some adaptability cred.
As it turned out, we already had full access to the 'protected' files. Apparently, the program merely checks to see if the password has been entered correctly, and the stick's contents are unlocked on the basis of this. By simply altering the return value of the VerifyPassWord() routine, the - unencrypted - data is revealed.
> And to be able to say that the width of an element is n% of the width of another element,
> even when it is not nested within that elements, is also key
#left {
height: (#right.height) + 50;
}
#right {
height: (#left.height) + 50;
}
Yeah, good times!
> terrible dialogue, patchy acting and an utterly unoriginal storyline.
Lucas spent a lot of time with Joseph Campbell intentionally cooking up an utterly unoriginal storyline. He'd probably prefer the word "timeless," though. The terrible dialog makes the whole Star Wars thing unravel for me.
> The United Nations found that there is more Methane produced from livestock, which raises global temperature greater than CO2 by a factor of > approx. 20, than any human caused CO2 combined
You don't consider the cultivation of livestock a human activity? Seriously?
...is when a hero leaps out of a plane in an effort to catch something that's been thrown out of the plane several seconds earlier. And he catches up with it.
> the guy who did this WAS NOT a cop, and has none of the legal protections that they do.
That's the problem with vigilantism, isn't it? His "evidence" is supposedly immune to privacy concerns because he's not a law enforcement officer, but at the same time he's exposing himself to other charges because he's not a law enforcement officer.
My view is that his evidence is much weaker because of how it was collected. He's not trained to interpret evidence; he's not trained to handle and document it correctly; and he's potentially viewing lots of non-criminal activities of a sensitive nature.
And then he asks us not to worry as long as we're not engaging in child predation. It's a deceitful argument for the erosion of civil liberties that people fall for again and again: "Trust me with the absolute power, for I would never abuse it. I'm only after the wrongdoers." We get national security policies from elected officials with this form of sophistry. Now we're supposed to accept it from some kid, whose mental stability is certainly worth questioning, who just appointed himself?
Child abuse is one of the worst things that a human can do to another human. Even as I believe that, I can't see this sort of activity as worth the results. Yeah, he caught one. But what if his targets had also been the subjects of legitimate law enforcement work? What if the authorities were putting together a massive sting, and he brought down an entire operation, or compromised its legal standing? This sort of thing is going to spectacularly backfire as often as it succeeds.
The rovers were probably outfitted with "good enough" software for their expected life span of three months. The rovers' durability up there is just astonishing, and I find it pretty impressive that they can still teach it new tricks a few years later from way up here on earth.
Far from dead, of course. If you mean "dead as a web development language," then sure, almost. But it was never so great at that anyway.
I used to write web apps of moderate size in Perl. I don't any more, but I still use Perl almost every day as a part of my system administration duties. It's a great tool for little scripts that get data from a text file or a database, do something with it, and spit it back into a text file or database. As a language for extracting data and generating reports, it's quite practical.
> Maybe it's me, but wouldn't it be easier to not put a tv in his room? Far easier to control content
> that way than by hoping the v-chip works as it's supposed to.
That's not my point. First of all, he watches the TV in his room less than an hour a day. He could totally live without it. Second, the V-Chip works exactly like it's supposed to work. During daytime hours, almost EVERYTHING is blocked except programs for little kids and the Food Network. I have very little fear that, when he's playing in his room, he'll see something violent.
My point is that I enjoy 24, and the season premier and a recent two-hour episode started at 8:00pm, when my oldest kid is awake and normally with us.
I understand the "Just don't let your kids watch violent TV" argument. I'm wholeheartedly behind that approach. But TV is currently a minefield, and just resolving not to not let kids watch violent TV isn't enough. I like the watershed approach. There's no first amendment concern here; it's pretty well established by the court that there are times and places where you can't say certain things.
I'd like it if they kept it PG until 9:00pm, then after that they can go balls-to-the-wall if they want. That would serve the TiVo and non-TiVo populations, I think.
Parents are the most important part of regulating children's viewing. Not just the content, but the amount of TV should be regulated by parents. My young son has a TV in his room, and I have the V-Chip set to block pretty much everything but TV-Y and TV-G programming without violence.
But every so often, 24 comes on at 8:00. Now, I love 24. And I, as an adult, choose to watch it. But I don't want my little kids seeing it. And the oldest of them is still awake at 8:00pm. I don't begrudge the violence in 24, or the right of the producers to create programming with that level of violence. But does it have to be on at 8:00?
Of course, it also bugs me that they casually use mild profanities on the TV Guide Channel at ALL hours. I mean, I'm trying to see what's on TV while my kids are in the room and they've got programming in the top half of the screen that says "damn," "ass," and "bitch." What's with that? Why do I need to mute the damn bitch-ass TV Guide Channel? That's another thread.
It should be news. It's better than complete apathy like it was throughout the 90s. This isn't commercial airline travel; with respect to space exploration, we're not even to 1492 yet.
My parents have a time-share in Orlando during the first week of February. On our way to the time-share from the airport, on January 31, 2003, my parents told me and my siblings, "We have a surprise for you guys. We bought you tickets to Kennedy Space Center to see Columbia land tomorrow."
Columbia was due at about 9:16am, and the tour bus dropped us off at about 8:55am. There was a crowd of maybe 200 people outside the main entrance of the space center looking up at the sky and listening to mission control's updates on a speaker mounted outside. 9:16 came and went, and the PA system went silent. At about 9:25 my dad called my cell phone and told me that they had lost communication with Columbia.
At this point, we didn't know if they were going to close the space center to the public, so we redeemed our passes to get into the place. Kennedy staff members were crying, but they continued to be helpful. We made our way to the Shuttle Pavilion, where there was a feed from mission control indicating that there had been a "contingency," and that people who found parts of the orbiter should keep their distance due to potential hazardous materials.
As the day went on, people flowed to the Space Center. At 1:00 or 1:30 there was a ceremony at the astronauts' memorial, and the flag was lowered to half mast.
The tours of the facility were closed, but the displays, including the magnificent Rocket Garden, were available.
It was an unreal day, one I'll never forget. I could have learned a lot more about what happened at home on CNN, but I'm glad I was there.
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> Why not start debunking the FUD to prove how spurious their claims are? Is it because this would be too much work?
Um... yeah. The burden of proof isn't on the Linux community here. Addressing even one patent before knowing the claims is a waste of resources.
You can click the "Get the Ebay Toolbar" link on that page, or just go here: http://myfriendlyfox.com/extensions/ebay-toolbar/
Sheesh, some people just don't understand music.
> Humans? We're the best adapters of them all.
That's sort of like claiming that you're better than Ty Cobb if your first at-bat of the season gets you to first. We don't have the track record to make that claim. We might be smart, but we've got an awful lot of squishiness to compensate for. It might be better for adaptability to be smart AND hardy like--say--sharks. Or hardy and insanely prolific, like cockroaches. THOSE guys have some adaptability cred.
> I mean, what else other than boredom would prompt someone to write 523 webcam drivers?
I thought that was a million webcam drivers. I seem to remember it being a million.
(1) Rape is a crime.
(2) The activity described isn't "rape," virtual or otherwise. It's closer to "spam."
In Soviet Russia, the DCMA hexes YOU!
I... I looked at the code... My eyes.... they burn! My face... it's melting!
> one can argue that this was not entirely the fault of Slashdot editors. Maybe the real number was 532?
Can't we just agree on a million?
Damn, a million webcams. That's pretty good work.
From TFA:
As it turned out, we already had full access to the 'protected' files. Apparently, the program merely checks to see if the password has been entered correctly, and the stick's contents are unlocked on the basis of this. By simply altering the return value of the VerifyPassWord() routine, the - unencrypted - data is revealed.
> And to be able to say that the width of an element is n% of the width of another element, > even when it is not nested within that elements, is also key #left { height: (#right.height) + 50; } #right { height: (#left.height) + 50; } Yeah, good times!
> terrible dialogue, patchy acting and an utterly unoriginal storyline.
Lucas spent a lot of time with Joseph Campbell intentionally cooking up an utterly unoriginal storyline. He'd probably prefer the word "timeless," though. The terrible dialog makes the whole Star Wars thing unravel for me.
...plastic surgery...
> The United Nations found that there is more Methane produced from livestock, which raises global temperature greater than CO2 by a factor of
> approx. 20, than any human caused CO2 combined
You don't consider the cultivation of livestock a human activity? Seriously?
> > > Coming from Sagittarius A*, the gamma radiation will obviously have little difficulty finding a path to earth.
> > Would someone please explain why parent is modded funny?
> A* is a path finding algorithm. It is used in many games, such as Starcraft.
Ah, I see now. It's still not very funny.
...is when a hero leaps out of a plane in an effort to catch something that's been thrown out of the plane several seconds earlier. And he catches up with it.
> the guy who did this WAS NOT a cop, and has none of the legal protections that they do.
That's the problem with vigilantism, isn't it? His "evidence" is supposedly immune to privacy concerns because he's not a law enforcement officer, but at the same time he's exposing himself to other charges because he's not a law enforcement officer.
My view is that his evidence is much weaker because of how it was collected. He's not trained to interpret evidence; he's not trained to handle and document it correctly; and he's potentially viewing lots of non-criminal activities of a sensitive nature.
And then he asks us not to worry as long as we're not engaging in child predation. It's a deceitful argument for the erosion of civil liberties that people fall for again and again: "Trust me with the absolute power, for I would never abuse it. I'm only after the wrongdoers." We get national security policies from elected officials with this form of sophistry. Now we're supposed to accept it from some kid, whose mental stability is certainly worth questioning, who just appointed himself?
Child abuse is one of the worst things that a human can do to another human. Even as I believe that, I can't see this sort of activity as worth the results. Yeah, he caught one. But what if his targets had also been the subjects of legitimate law enforcement work? What if the authorities were putting together a massive sting, and he brought down an entire operation, or compromised its legal standing? This sort of thing is going to spectacularly backfire as often as it succeeds.
The rovers were probably outfitted with "good enough" software for their expected life span of three months. The rovers' durability up there is just astonishing, and I find it pretty impressive that they can still teach it new tricks a few years later from way up here on earth.
Dude, welcome to the English-speaking world.
/ grammar/learnit/learnitv163.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish
Cheers.
Far from dead, of course. If you mean "dead as a web development language," then sure, almost. But it was never so great at that anyway.
I used to write web apps of moderate size in Perl. I don't any more, but I still use Perl almost every day as a part of my system administration duties. It's a great tool for little scripts that get data from a text file or a database, do something with it, and spit it back into a text file or database. As a language for extracting data and generating reports, it's quite practical.
> Maybe it's me, but wouldn't it be easier to not put a tv in his room? Far easier to control content > that way than by hoping the v-chip works as it's supposed to. That's not my point. First of all, he watches the TV in his room less than an hour a day. He could totally live without it. Second, the V-Chip works exactly like it's supposed to work. During daytime hours, almost EVERYTHING is blocked except programs for little kids and the Food Network. I have very little fear that, when he's playing in his room, he'll see something violent. My point is that I enjoy 24, and the season premier and a recent two-hour episode started at 8:00pm, when my oldest kid is awake and normally with us. I understand the "Just don't let your kids watch violent TV" argument. I'm wholeheartedly behind that approach. But TV is currently a minefield, and just resolving not to not let kids watch violent TV isn't enough. I like the watershed approach. There's no first amendment concern here; it's pretty well established by the court that there are times and places where you can't say certain things. I'd like it if they kept it PG until 9:00pm, then after that they can go balls-to-the-wall if they want. That would serve the TiVo and non-TiVo populations, I think.
Parents are the most important part of regulating children's viewing. Not just the content, but the amount of TV should be regulated by parents. My young son has a TV in his room, and I have the V-Chip set to block pretty much everything but TV-Y and TV-G programming without violence. But every so often, 24 comes on at 8:00. Now, I love 24. And I, as an adult, choose to watch it. But I don't want my little kids seeing it. And the oldest of them is still awake at 8:00pm. I don't begrudge the violence in 24, or the right of the producers to create programming with that level of violence. But does it have to be on at 8:00? Of course, it also bugs me that they casually use mild profanities on the TV Guide Channel at ALL hours. I mean, I'm trying to see what's on TV while my kids are in the room and they've got programming in the top half of the screen that says "damn," "ass," and "bitch." What's with that? Why do I need to mute the damn bitch-ass TV Guide Channel? That's another thread.
How else are they going to power their space-age clocks?
It should be news. It's better than complete apathy like it was throughout the 90s. This isn't commercial airline travel; with respect to space exploration, we're not even to 1492 yet.
My parents have a time-share in Orlando during the first week of February. On our way to the time-share from the airport, on January 31, 2003, my parents told me and my siblings, "We have a surprise for you guys. We bought you tickets to Kennedy Space Center to see Columbia land tomorrow."
Columbia was due at about 9:16am, and the tour bus dropped us off at about 8:55am. There was a crowd of maybe 200 people outside the main entrance of the space center looking up at the sky and listening to mission control's updates on a speaker mounted outside. 9:16 came and went, and the PA system went silent. At about 9:25 my dad called my cell phone and told me that they had lost communication with Columbia.
At this point, we didn't know if they were going to close the space center to the public, so we redeemed our passes to get into the place. Kennedy staff members were crying, but they continued to be helpful. We made our way to the Shuttle Pavilion, where there was a feed from mission control indicating that there had been a "contingency," and that people who found parts of the orbiter should keep their distance due to potential hazardous materials.
As the day went on, people flowed to the Space Center. At 1:00 or 1:30 there was a ceremony at the astronauts' memorial, and the flag was lowered to half mast.
The tours of the facility were closed, but the displays, including the magnificent Rocket Garden, were available.
It was an unreal day, one I'll never forget. I could have learned a lot more about what happened at home on CNN, but I'm glad I was there.