Yeah, this is pretty much an unwinnable arms race. No matter how much deep packet inspection brute-force they want to employ - If they allow any protocols at all to run unrestricted, it'll be possible to tunnel data over it. Hell, give me an ICMP-only network and I'll encode data payloads into the TTL numbers.
Pakistan is gonna have to cut off its Internet backbones entirely if it's serious about shutting down encrypted communication.
"To me the web is like a giant MMO in which laws and ethics are completely divorced from the world in which my computer sits. I suck cocks."
Actually that basically sounds like the mafiAA's philosophy. In the world in which your computer sits, physical objects have manufacturing costs, and media's marginal production cost is zero. The entire point of intellectual property is that it's a fictionalized, artificial context where we're all supposed to agree to pretend that something abundant is actually scarce.
Cosigned. If I have to twiddle thumbs at another jinkety-ass homescript "countdown before I'll give you your download link" page I'm going to gore myself to death with a Jolt can.
This is a tricky topic. Are people better off in an abusive employment relationship than in none at all? The fact that anyone agrees to enter one seems to suggest "yes", but there are all sorts of ways an employer might have indirect control over the other factors in their workers' lives which contribute to the duress which compels them to work. It's fraught with moral hazards.:(
To me, the idea of employing single-person vehicles in such a busy, people-dense environment seems sort of like using TCP/IP encapsulation to send data between a CPU core and its L1 cache. Too much overhead.
Yes, that was a car concept expressed as a computer metaphor. In Soviet Russia, dot slashes YOU!
Maybe GameStop doesn't, but if anyone does I think they're courting legal trouble. GameStop doesn't make any specific claims about what's in the sold package, but if what they're advertising is "a boxed copy of DXHR" and it's common knowledge that such a box includes a coupon from the publisher, there's some bad faith going on.
If I've got a log file which is opened by one program in Append mode, and I rename/move it, what should happen? Should the program keep appending logs to the file in its new name/location until it closes and reopens the file, or should it start a new file with the original's name/path? Choose carefully - either answer will create unpredictable or incorrect behaviour in some programs depending on the details of the file and how it's being used.
then type a few lines of junk into the terminal afterwards. leave the Terminal window open.
Now go into your home directory and open the file you've created in your favourite text editor. Try making some changes to the file and then saving it.
Didn't work, did it? See, OSX has always had write locking semantics, and earlier MacOSes did too. What was actually going on, is you were just using apps which were sanely designed, which means they only open the file for reading and writing during 'Open' and 'Save' operations, and the rest of the time they leave the file untouched.
When you think you "have a file open", that's not really the case. You opened the file in order to copy it into RAM, and then closed it again once its contents were displayed in your application window. All subsequent changes to the document onscreen are being made to the document in RAM, not on the filesystem, up until you click "save" and commit it back to the filesystem.
Just like in Windows. And *nix. And OS/2. This is pretty much the standard behaviour of every multitasking operating system ever made.
Maybe the problem is that you're arguing subjective subject matter using objective language such as "The plain truth" and "The fact is."
I, personally, fit the stereotype. I'm into thin, young-looking blonde chicks with smooth skin and prominent secondary sex traits, and even I was compelled to call you out on this.
Slashdot Mirror
It exists. Obviously.
Yeah, this is pretty much an unwinnable arms race. No matter how much deep packet inspection brute-force they want to employ - If they allow any protocols at all to run unrestricted, it'll be possible to tunnel data over it. Hell, give me an ICMP-only network and I'll encode data payloads into the TTL numbers.
Pakistan is gonna have to cut off its Internet backbones entirely if it's serious about shutting down encrypted communication.
If you aren't doing anything bad, why couldn't the government know about it?
Now where have I heard that question before...
Lucky lawyers.
your opinion.
........... man.
"To me the web is like a giant MMO in which laws and ethics are completely divorced from the world in which my computer sits. I suck cocks."
Actually that basically sounds like the mafiAA's philosophy.
In the world in which your computer sits, physical objects have manufacturing costs, and media's marginal production cost is zero.
The entire point of intellectual property is that it's a fictionalized, artificial context where we're all supposed to agree to pretend that something abundant is actually scarce.
Cosigned. If I have to twiddle thumbs at another jinkety-ass homescript "countdown before I'll give you your download link" page I'm going to gore myself to death with a Jolt can.
Omg, you're absolutely right. I almost forgot about the days when a program just lived in a damn directory and kept everything it needed in there.
I would have to say that most people should be in some sort of walled garden.
I think the Ubuntu APT repository is a perfectly good garden for most people's (non-gaming) needs.
This is a tricky topic. Are people better off in an abusive employment relationship than in none at all? The fact that anyone agrees to enter one seems to suggest "yes", but there are all sorts of ways an employer might have indirect control over the other factors in their workers' lives which contribute to the duress which compels them to work. It's fraught with moral hazards. :(
BRB, buying up TouchPads enmasse.
Aha! Well caught!
Anyone who found the preceding joke funny, please rescind your lols and chortles immediately. The joke was factually inaccurate and has been recalled.
Pay Bo Diddley.
atic.ca is good too.
I'm only a GPL zergling, but that's kind of like saying that non-aggression pacts depend upon war to exist.
Actually, I live literally across the street from an NCIX outlet. Hardware purchases aren't too inconvenient for me.
I'm Canadian, you insensitive clawed!
To me, the idea of employing single-person vehicles in such a busy, people-dense environment seems sort of like using TCP/IP encapsulation to send data between a CPU core and its L1 cache. Too much overhead.
Yes, that was a car concept expressed as a computer metaphor. In Soviet Russia, dot slashes YOU!
Why on earth would people who live in NYC drive cars?
Good! Tax the irresponsible.
Maybe GameStop doesn't, but if anyone does I think they're courting legal trouble. GameStop doesn't make any specific claims about what's in the sold package, but if what they're advertising is "a boxed copy of DXHR" and it's common knowledge that such a box includes a coupon from the publisher, there's some bad faith going on.
If I've got a log file which is opened by one program in Append mode, and I rename/move it, what should happen? Should the program keep appending logs to the file in its new name/location until it closes and reopens the file, or should it start a new file with the original's name/path? Choose carefully - either answer will create unpredictable or incorrect behaviour in some programs depending on the details of the file and how it's being used.
Start a Terminal window.
Type in:
$ cat > ~/SomeTextFile.txt
then type a few lines of junk into the terminal afterwards. leave the Terminal window open.
Now go into your home directory and open the file you've created in your favourite text editor. Try making some changes to the file and then saving it.
Didn't work, did it? See, OSX has always had write locking semantics, and earlier MacOSes did too. What was actually going on, is you were just using apps which were sanely designed, which means they only open the file for reading and writing during 'Open' and 'Save' operations, and the rest of the time they leave the file untouched.
When you think you "have a file open", that's not really the case. You opened the file in order to copy it into RAM, and then closed it again once its contents were displayed in your application window. All subsequent changes to the document onscreen are being made to the document in RAM, not on the filesystem, up until you click "save" and commit it back to the filesystem.
Just like in Windows. And *nix. And OS/2. This is pretty much the standard behaviour of every multitasking operating system ever made.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653
Process Explorer can list file handles.
Maybe the problem is that you're arguing subjective subject matter using objective language such as "The plain truth" and "The fact is."
I, personally, fit the stereotype. I'm into thin, young-looking blonde chicks with smooth skin and prominent secondary sex traits, and even I was compelled to call you out on this.