If you answer "False" to this (like I would), then you would also be weeded out as a liar.
That's what you get from pschyologists: question bias. If you answer "true", you're also a liar: you just admitted it.
Unless you're willing to explain every answer in a sentence, they're free to interpret it as they wish. (And if IIRC, they actually have rules against explaining. Also, you're disqualified because you think too much.)
I have often had to take orders from someone who did not know as much as I did
This question is pretty much biased against geeks, or anybody who loves knowledge and education. The police (and companys in general) want people who can take orders without question.
Why should my boss know more than I do? It's not what he's getting paid for. Know more about what? Can anyone beat a hardcore trekkie? If a cop pulls you over and wants to see a driving licence, does that qualify? What does 'often' mean? What does 'order' mean? What does knowledge mean in the age of Wikipedia?
Basically, they're free to interpret any answer any way they wish. Which also means you most likely get whatever crap the evaluator projects on you.
The problem seems to be that once elected, politicians are basically free to do as they wish for a whole term (typically 4-6 years) without any further accountability.
No. The problem is YOU GUYS KEEP VOTING ON THEM. By "them", I mean the two big parties.
"But this time I voted democrat" does not work, because you voted on a big party regardless. Everyone keeps doing that, so they stay in power.
Hungary is a beautiful example right now. Everyone hates the politicians, especially the leaders of the two big. Yet they still go and vote for them, because "the other one is worse". Care to guess what this leads to? That's right. In round 1 of the 2006 elections, they received 82.26% of all votes. (I don't count round 2 because of other factors, skewing the results even more toward the two big.)
So if you do care about free software on the desktop, it's reasonable that you should care about free software in your browser.
Except I'm not using the application, I'm using the website. And if I identify a proprietary app, what then? Block it, thereby depriving myself of functionality? Stop using the website? Flame someone who spent effort on it to make sure it's working? Btw if I even notice the app, that's a design and usability issue.
I couldn't care less about what part of the site falls under what licence. I'm interested in the content.
people> You know... the constitution and all that... that says that goverment is elected by the people,... govm't> Well, government *is* elected by the people.
This is the really depressing part. Wake up, sheeple.
Stupid programmers! Not able to develop software without the tools! In my day we wrote our own tools - in the snow, uphill, both ways! We didn't need no stink'n vendor to do it for us - and we liked it that way!
Yeah, and we've been crippled with them ever since. Also, their correctness and bug-freeness were the stuff of legends.
Microsoft Vaccine 2000 is configuring your immune system. This may take a few minutes. If your body stops responding for a long time and there is no brain activity please die. Setup will continue after you are reborn.
And on March 30 3:00 AM GMT +0:00: A variant of the Conficker worm, Conficker M, has been made to infect all Unix and Unix-like operating systems by forcing root. All users have beeen advised to switch to Multics.
If they can make a worm that recompiles itself for every Unix out there, I'll do my best to help them take over the world. Seriously.
You know what? I'd settle with a worm that runs on every Unix, whether it works or not.
/usr/local/* is for you stuff you've installed manually./usr/bin is a perfectly sensible place for a package manager to put executables it installs. The package manager shouldn't fuck with anything in/usr/local.
What they need to do is implement the Conficker algorithm themselves, every day figure out the 50,000 domains for today, and for the next 24 hour period.
Prevent new registrations for any of those 50,000.
Use a massively distributed botnet of their own to scan all 100,000 possible domains several times an hour, for payloads that Conficker would accept.
If any validatable payload were found on the site, pull those registrations immediately, submit those IP addresses to public 'conflicker' IP blacklists, and serve up those/32s in a BGP feed, for the Tier-1 providers to immediately and automatically null-route if they so desire.
That made my head hurt. What they really need to do is ban Windows, and all the countries where Windows isn't banned. Problem solved, and not just for conflicker.
Seriously, when are we going to do something about the worm/virus of the week? Care to guess what elaborate schemes we'll need to stop the next one? I mean, really. Scan 100k domains several times an hour?!
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the DMCA notice is contrary to existing copyright laws, and therefore it is as if it never existed. It has no force of law.
Notice how that doesn't mean you won't have to pay your lawyer if they take you to court.
It's all fun and games (no pun intended) until you've been playing for a couple of hours and used up the whole of your monthly bandwidth allowance.
Amen brother. Vodafone UK here, 3 Gb/mo for £20. Broadband is not an option because I move around a lot.
If you answer "False" to this (like I would), then you would also be weeded out as a liar.
That's what you get from pschyologists: question bias. If you answer "true", you're also a liar: you just admitted it.
Unless you're willing to explain every answer in a sentence, they're free to interpret it as they wish. (And if IIRC, they actually have rules against explaining. Also, you're disqualified because you think too much.)
I have often had to take orders from someone who did not know as much as I did
This question is pretty much biased against geeks, or anybody who loves knowledge and education. The police (and companys in general) want people who can take orders without question.
Why should my boss know more than I do? It's not what he's getting paid for. Know more about what? Can anyone beat a hardcore trekkie? If a cop pulls you over and wants to see a driving licence, does that qualify? What does 'often' mean? What does 'order' mean? What does knowledge mean in the age of Wikipedia?
Basically, they're free to interpret any answer any way they wish. Which also means you most likely get whatever crap the evaluator projects on you.
The problem seems to be that once elected, politicians are basically free to do as they wish for a whole term (typically 4-6 years) without any further accountability.
No. The problem is YOU GUYS KEEP VOTING ON THEM. By "them", I mean the two big parties.
"But this time I voted democrat" does not work, because you voted on a big party regardless. Everyone keeps doing that, so they stay in power.
Hungary is a beautiful example right now. Everyone hates the politicians, especially the leaders of the two big. Yet they still go and vote for them, because "the other one is worse". Care to guess what this leads to? That's right. In round 1 of the 2006 elections, they received 82.26% of all votes. (I don't count round 2 because of other factors, skewing the results even more toward the two big.)
So if you do care about free software on the desktop, it's reasonable that you should care about free software in your browser.
Except I'm not using the application, I'm using the website. And if I identify a proprietary app, what then? Block it, thereby depriving myself of functionality? Stop using the website? Flame someone who spent effort on it to make sure it's working? Btw if I even notice the app, that's a design and usability issue.
I couldn't care less about what part of the site falls under what licence. I'm interested in the content.
people> You know... the constitution and all that... that says that goverment is elected by the people, ...
govm't> Well, government *is* elected by the people.
This is the really depressing part. Wake up, sheeple.
I think the point is that once this happens that you cannot fix it by reflashing the BIOS.
Would something like OpenBIOS help?
Well, I don't give a shit about either. What's your take on OpenBIOS?
What were the editors thinking of when they wrote "perform unveil"?
Perhaps they just executed a landing procedure. Flown recently? The amount of official sounding meaningless BS they come up with is mind boggling.
Happy news for most of the nerds on this site who sigh and collectively whisper "Finally!"
Don't know about you, but I like to be the one doing the screwing.
Ad hominem. Can't reason an argument so attack the man and not the message.
Still offtopic, so GTFO.
Wow. That's the first time I've seen a /. comment that completely filled my screen. Thank you.
Also tl;dr.
Your post advocates a
You know what, fill it out yourself.
Stupid programmers! Not able to develop software without the tools! In my day we wrote our own tools - in the snow, uphill, both ways! We didn't need no stink'n vendor to do it for us - and we liked it that way!
Yeah, and we've been crippled with them ever since. Also, their correctness and bug-freeness were the stuff of legends.
P.S. I did get the joke, thank you.
Microsoft Vaccine 2000 is configuring your immune system. This may take a few minutes. If your body stops responding for a long time and there is no brain activity please die. Setup will continue after you are reborn.
I find the idea of having my physiology constantly monitored by a computer about as attractive as living in a big plastic bubble.
I have an immune system designed for just that purpose. Oh, and it actually does something when it finds something.
So we'll have much faster BitTorrent downloads? Oh wait..
Tor and freenet should work better too.
And on March 30 3:00 AM GMT +0:00: A variant of the Conficker worm, Conficker M, has been made to infect all Unix and Unix-like operating systems by forcing root. All users have beeen advised to switch to Multics.
If they can make a worm that recompiles itself for every Unix out there, I'll do my best to help them take over the world. Seriously.
You know what? I'd settle with a worm that runs on every Unix, whether it works or not.
Second, even if they did, how in the world do you conclude that would be "less distressing"?? One does not follow from the other.
Well, duh. If they have advanced AI, they probably have internet as well. Which means we can view alien porn while we're being wiped out.
The difference between USD and monopoly money is just a matter of confidence.
Yeah, at least monopoly money is not dependent on China.
/usr/local/* is for you stuff you've installed manually. /usr/bin is a perfectly sensible place for a package manager to put executables it installs. The package manager shouldn't fuck with anything in /usr/local.
I still think GoboLinux is on the right track.
Do portable progs on your fav linux distro do the same? That is, they write their configuration files to /bin or /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin or whatever.
Apples and oranges. The last ten years of Fav Linux Distro didn't let that either, so it's not surprising. XP, on the other hand...
Also, Linux is nowhere near standardized with directories:
jurily@jurily ~ $ echo $PATH /usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.3:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin:/opt/vmware/player/bin
Just randomly, can you guess where, say, alsamixer is?
Now that the PR problem might be more costly than their share of the fraud, they take action.
Again, all I can say is: ban Windows. Then let's see how well they do.
Yes, really. I'm getting sick of the worm-of-the-week crap.
What they need to do is implement the Conficker algorithm themselves, every day figure out the 50,000 domains for today, and for the next 24 hour period.
Prevent new registrations for any of those 50,000.
Use a massively distributed botnet of their own to scan all 100,000 possible domains several times an hour, for payloads that Conficker would accept.
If any validatable payload were found on the site, pull those registrations immediately, submit those IP addresses to public 'conflicker' IP blacklists, and serve up those /32s in a BGP feed, for the Tier-1 providers to immediately and automatically null-route if they so desire.
That made my head hurt. What they really need to do is ban Windows, and all the countries where Windows isn't banned. Problem solved, and not just for conflicker.
Seriously, when are we going to do something about the worm/virus of the week? Care to guess what elaborate schemes we'll need to stop the next one? I mean, really. Scan 100k domains several times an hour?!
that the head of Microsoft would apparently put no value on software.
Tell me. What does OSX have that Linux or Windows on a PC doesn't?
Software can be more easily replaced than the whole box.