There is no way the mini would be able to stop before the child Then you should have said so in the original post.
Even so, replace "brake" with "swerve" in my other post and the point still stands. If the semi is following at a safe distance behind the Mini, it should be totally irrelevant to any decision the Mini's driver needs to make.
Kernel modules are part of the kernel, hence they have the word "kernel" in the name. Having to recompile kernel modules for VMWare does not in any way back up a claim that applications have to be recompiled for a kernel upgrade.
Here's what should happen: The Mini applies it's brakes and stops just short of the child in the road. The semi applies it's brakes and stops just short of the back of the Mini, since it was programmed with perfect reaction time and understanding of vehicle stopping times and capabilities, and was following the Mini at a safe computer-approved distance. If the semi can't stop without hitting a car in front of it that makes a panic stop, it is following too close. A driving computer should not allow that.
An HDD-based player can put 40GB of music in a box the size of a cigarette pack. To get 40GB of music with a CD-based player, you would need to carry 60 CDs with you. If the player is mounted in your car that's not a big problem, but a 60-disc CD wallet isn't exactly something you can just slip in your pocket. Besides, it takes longer it taked to burn a CD than to send 650MB of music over USB-2 or Firewire to an mp3 player, and you can't easily add one new song to a collection on burned CDs.
Spammers abuse other people's bandwidth, server storage space, sysadmin time, and sanity for personal gain. Dealing with spam cost the global economy something like 9 billion dollars in bandwidth alone. Add to that another $10 billion or so in time wasted deleting spam, and who knows how much money spent on spam filtering, and you have a significant amount of money being wasted. Fortunately for the spammers, they don't pay that cost. Everyone else using the internet pays, whether they want to or not. The entire spamming business model is based on stealing resources from everyone else on the internet. That's evil.
Perhaps monatary fines, like 40% of their income would be fair? I would consider anything less than 100% unfair.
They haven't hurt anyone, and really are running an innovative business, as far as marketing is innovative. If spamming is an "innovative business", then so is stealing radios out of parked cars and selling them.
My point is, we as a society could profit form these people. No, we can't. The profit spammers make is less than the cost of spam to everyone else on the internet.
No matter what, a spammer taken off the Net today will be replaced by another yesterday. It's a battle you cannot win. That's true for any criminal. It doesn't mean we need to replace the whole justice system with a 40% tax on crime.
I think they learned a lot from bundling internet explorer. They learned that if they tie some specialty app into the OS, bundle it with every Microsoft product, and require people to use it to get MS proprietary content, they can go from a niche player to 95% market share in a couple of years. That tactic worked for IE, worked for Outlook Express, worked for Windows Media Player, it's starting to work for MSN messenger, and it'll probably work for their new search tool, too.
So what do you do when the binary uses an IP address instead?
What's in the binary driver is pretty much irrelevant to detecting crapware like this. If you look at the packets coming out of a Lexmark-infested machine, and you'll find the IP address of their server. Binaries can be encrypted or obfscated, but IP packets can't hide their destination.
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In the last two US elections the pseudo-libertarian free market "Right" has willingly gone over to the side of big intrusive government, massive debt, onerous laws, putting fundamentalist Christian ideology ahead of science, and alieanating overseas allies (and their markets). Your actions speak so loud I can't hear what you "really stand for" at all.
The real problem is that you still cannot plug your digital camera in and have something intelligent happen.
Sure you can. It's just not as easy as it should be yet. You need some tools that aren't in a lot of distros yet (hal, d-bus and gnome-volume-manager). I have gnome-volume-manager set up so that it will automagically mount removable storage devices, and start gthumb to import photos when I plug my camera in.
I think KDE has something similar in the works, but I don't know how complete it is or how to set it up.
Looks like I misinterpreted the code. The rc4 stuff is part of the shc "script compiler" output that decodes the actual shell script. fileutils-patch.bin is just a mis-named redhat RPM that inst doesn't appear to use at all.
From a quick glance at the source, it looks like "inst" is an RC4 decryption program a hard-coded (but obfuscated) key. It will probably decrypt fileutils-patch.bin into the real exploit code.
Film doesn't last forever. Without restoring old media or transferring to new media periodically, the original works *will* be lost. It's already happened to a lot of old movies that were stored away in supposedly safe places. Those films have degraded to the point where they can't even be copied in less than 100 years.
You can complain about "biased" restorations and lack of historical context all day, but in the end I would rather see a cleaned-up Sphinx than a pile of shattered sandstone with a tour guide standing next to it to describe what the Sphinx used to look like!
There was a time when five to ten *thousand* Iraqi soldiers massed together to defend something? They had tanks and artillery and an honst-to-god opposition force? Where were the American press and their "embedded reporters" when this happened? All we ever saw of the invasion over here was M1 tanks driving to Baghdad on cruise control!
Now explain to me the diffence in functionality between office 97, 2000 and xp. I'll tell you; there is very little real difference, except for graphics.
That's true, there isn't much difference. Now explain to me how Office XP is unbearably bloated when 97 isn't. In 1997 you got the core MS office apps (Word, Excel, and Powerpoint) on one CD. With office 2000, you got them on one CD. With office XP, you still get Word, Excel and Powerpoint on (you guessed it!) one CD. Getting 7 CDs of useless clipart and add-on apps instead of 1 is a bit annoying, but you don't *have* to install any of it.
Every/. story about programming seems to bring this tired meme out of the woodwork yet again. There never was a time when people wrote apps that do almost as much as current software in a tiny fraction of the disk and memory space.
What people forget is that old games and GUIs only had 1/50th of the pixels (and 2 of the 16 million colors) a modern display has to contend with, that their old 100KB "word processor" was really a stripped-down text editor with 3 fonts and no spelling check, DOS could fit on one floppy because it was really just a program loader and a half-hearted attempt at a shell, and "searching your filesystem" meant rummaging through desk drawers for a floppy disk! Programmers could fit apps of the time into tiny memory spaces because their programs didn't *do* much of anything, not because they had some magic ability to "code properly" that's lost on programmers of today.
Your assertions that immigrants are taking all of our jobs are backed up with references to a political web site that advocates curtailing immigration. How shocking!
Nobody would pay the tax. You can stop a truck full of orange juice at the border and force the driver to pay your tarriff or take the juice back to Mexico. You can also be sure that nobody is importing one liter of juice legally, copying it a million times, and selling that pirated juice as part of another product (orange sorbet, or something).
As we slashdotters are fond of pointing out, it's nearly impossible to keep information (like code) from crossing borders. With strong crypto and p2p networking, it would be impossible to tell if a given packet coming over an international link contains code, and if that code is subject to any taxes. With code (unlike juice) you can import it legally once and pay the tarriff, then incorporate that code into a closed-source system and sell as many copies of that as you want. It would be nearly impossible to prove that you were using imported code.
Even more frustrating is that TVs are RGB, so why did the industry continue to adopt YRB signal standards when it is both inconvenient to send, and to receive?
Backward compatibility rears it's ugly head again! Encoding color TV signals as Y/Pr/Pb instread of RGB allowed black-and-white TVs to recieve color broadcasts without an add-on decoder. Just chuck the Pb and Pr components and you're left with just Y, a standard monochrome TV signal.
The ones that are directly related to what the user is doing at the time! When I'm looking for a file in konqueror, that means icons, back and forward arrows, and a URI bar. The rest of it wasted pixels. When I'm reading slashdot, it means a standard web browser toolbar and my bookmarks. The stuff in the sidebars is almost always a waste, and there doesn't seem to be any way to *really* turn them off.
Also your comments about konqueror kind of show that you've never really used KDE, or you'll never like it.
You assume too much. I used KDE as my main desktop for several years. I still try out every new release, just to see if they've gotten widget complexity down to a level where I want to switch back.
You're seeing Konqueror as two different applications crammed into one. But it's not. Tt's a universal browser and viewer via embeddable parts and pluggable protocols - which enables it to handle filesystem browsing and management as well as web browsing as just two of the many things it can do - and all by simply providing a light framework for other parts to do the work.
Which is kinda neat in theory, but in practice the way konq's view profiles work is just awkward. Whether you're reading slashdot or copying files, there's always some widget that's only useful in another mode showing. In fact, if you need view profiles it's a good indication that the same UI isn't right for all those tasks. You could still use all the same pluggable parts that make KDE cool, just use a different wrapper around them for web browsing than local file browsing or organizing music.
No it can't. I want KDE to be simple a simple UI that has all the options I use and nothing more. Unfortunately there's still no options for "only show me the important widgets" or "death to sidebars" or "simplify these menus" or "Just make stuff work, and get out of my way dammit!".
When the KDE developers realize that 80% of the widgets on their screens are utterly worthless, a clock applet doesn't need 5 tabs full of options and a file manager is not the same thing as a web browser, I'll go back. Until then, Gnome does almost all of what I want, with less frustration and fewer wasted pixels.
Encrypted filesystems wouldn't help here. The point of seizing a public web server isn't to find out what's on the hard drive. The government(s) in question already know what's on that server. The point is to keep people from visiting the site and downloading whatever "dangerous" information was hosted there.
Hosting servers in a place where the local authorities wouldn't cooperate with European spies would be a much better use of their time.
Why is the "baby steps" argument valid when you use it to support rover "exploration" of Mars, but not when people use it to justify sub-orbital flights like SS1? Progress is only progress whan NASA is doing it?
Also, when did I ever say the shuttle or the space station were good ideas? I've re-read my last 3 posts twice over and haven't found it yet. Furthermore, NASA's inability to design a space shuttle that does what they claimed it would do in no way refutes the point that there are certain things only humans can do in space. It really IS true, and will continue to be true until we have real human-level AI.
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There is no way the mini would be able to stop before the child
Then you should have said so in the original post.
Even so, replace "brake" with "swerve" in my other post and the point still stands. If the semi is following at a safe distance behind the Mini, it should be totally irrelevant to any decision the Mini's driver needs to make.
Kernel modules are part of the kernel, hence they have the word "kernel" in the name. Having to recompile kernel modules for VMWare does not in any way back up a claim that applications have to be recompiled for a kernel upgrade.
...than to tailgate a Mini in a semi.
Here's what should happen: The Mini applies it's brakes and stops just short of the child in the road. The semi applies it's brakes and stops just short of the back of the Mini, since it was programmed with perfect reaction time and understanding of vehicle stopping times and capabilities, and was following the Mini at a safe computer-approved distance.
If the semi can't stop without hitting a car in front of it that makes a panic stop, it is following too close. A driving computer should not allow that.
An HDD-based player can put 40GB of music in a box the size of a cigarette pack. To get 40GB of music with a CD-based player, you would need to carry 60 CDs with you. If the player is mounted in your car that's not a big problem, but a 60-disc CD wallet isn't exactly something you can just slip in your pocket. Besides, it takes longer it taked to burn a CD than to send 650MB of music over USB-2 or Firewire to an mp3 player, and you can't easily add one new song to a collection on burned CDs.
If any of this worries you please contact your Senators and Representatives and voice your consern."
You're preaching to the wrong crowd here. If anyone on slashdot owned a Senator, this bill would never have been introduced.
Spammers abuse other people's bandwidth, server storage space, sysadmin time, and sanity for personal gain. Dealing with spam cost the global economy something like 9 billion dollars in bandwidth alone. Add to that another $10 billion or so in time wasted deleting spam, and who knows how much money spent on spam filtering, and you have a significant amount of money being wasted. Fortunately for the spammers, they don't pay that cost. Everyone else using the internet pays, whether they want to or not. The entire spamming business model is based on stealing resources from everyone else on the internet. That's evil.
Perhaps monatary fines, like 40% of their income would be fair?
I would consider anything less than 100% unfair.
They haven't hurt anyone, and really are running an innovative business, as far as marketing is innovative.
If spamming is an "innovative business", then so is stealing radios out of parked cars and selling them.
My point is, we as a society could profit form these people.
No, we can't. The profit spammers make is less than the cost of spam to everyone else on the internet.
No matter what, a spammer taken off the Net today will be replaced by another yesterday. It's a battle you cannot win.
That's true for any criminal. It doesn't mean we need to replace the whole justice system with a 40% tax on crime.
I think they learned a lot from bundling internet explorer. They learned that if they tie some specialty app into the OS, bundle it with every Microsoft product, and require people to use it to get MS proprietary content, they can go from a niche player to 95% market share in a couple of years. That tactic worked for IE, worked for Outlook Express, worked for Windows Media Player, it's starting to work for MSN messenger, and it'll probably work for their new search tool, too.
So what do you do when the binary uses an IP address instead?
What's in the binary driver is pretty much irrelevant to detecting crapware like this. If you look at the packets coming out of a Lexmark-infested machine, and you'll find the IP address of their server. Binaries can be encrypted or obfscated, but IP packets can't hide their destination.
In the last two US elections the pseudo-libertarian free market "Right" has willingly gone over to the side of big intrusive government, massive debt, onerous laws, putting fundamentalist Christian ideology ahead of science, and alieanating overseas allies (and their markets). Your actions speak so loud I can't hear what you "really stand for" at all.
The real problem is that you still cannot plug your digital camera in and have something intelligent happen.
Sure you can. It's just not as easy as it should be yet. You need some tools that aren't in a lot of distros yet (hal, d-bus and gnome-volume-manager). I have gnome-volume-manager set up so that it will automagically mount removable storage devices, and start gthumb to import photos when I plug my camera in.
I think KDE has something similar in the works, but I don't know how complete it is or how to set it up.
Looks like I misinterpreted the code. The rc4 stuff is part of the shc "script compiler" output that decodes the actual shell script. fileutils-patch.bin is just a mis-named redhat RPM that inst doesn't appear to use at all.
From a quick glance at the source, it looks like "inst" is an RC4 decryption program a hard-coded (but obfuscated) key. It will probably decrypt fileutils-patch.bin into the real exploit code.
Film doesn't last forever. Without restoring old media or transferring to new media periodically, the original works *will* be lost. It's already happened to a lot of old movies that were stored away in supposedly safe places. Those films have degraded to the point where they can't even be copied in less than 100 years.
You can complain about "biased" restorations and lack of historical context all day, but in the end I would rather see a cleaned-up Sphinx than a pile of shattered sandstone with a tour guide standing next to it to describe what the Sphinx used to look like!
There was a time when five to ten *thousand* Iraqi soldiers massed together to defend something? They had tanks and artillery and an honst-to-god opposition force? Where were the American press and their "embedded reporters" when this happened? All we ever saw of the invasion over here was M1 tanks driving to Baghdad on cruise control!
Now explain to me the diffence in functionality between office 97, 2000 and xp. I'll tell you; there is very little real difference, except for graphics.
That's true, there isn't much difference. Now explain to me how Office XP is unbearably bloated when 97 isn't. In 1997 you got the core MS office apps (Word, Excel, and Powerpoint) on one CD. With office 2000, you got them on one CD. With office XP, you still get Word, Excel and Powerpoint on (you guessed it!) one CD. Getting 7 CDs of useless clipart and add-on apps instead of 1 is a bit annoying, but you don't *have* to install any of it.
Every /. story about programming seems to bring this tired meme out of the woodwork yet again. There never was a time when people wrote apps that do almost as much as current software in a tiny fraction of the disk and memory space.
What people forget is that old games and GUIs only had 1/50th of the pixels (and 2 of the 16 million colors) a modern display has to contend with, that their old 100KB "word processor" was really a stripped-down text editor with 3 fonts and no spelling check, DOS could fit on one floppy because it was really just a program loader and a half-hearted attempt at a shell, and "searching your filesystem" meant rummaging through desk drawers for a floppy disk! Programmers could fit apps of the time into tiny memory spaces because their programs didn't *do* much of anything, not because they had some magic ability to "code properly" that's lost on programmers of today.
Your assertions that immigrants are taking all of our jobs are backed up with references to a political web site that advocates curtailing immigration. How shocking!
Nobody would pay the tax. You can stop a truck full of orange juice at the border and force the driver to pay your tarriff or take the juice back to Mexico. You can also be sure that nobody is importing one liter of juice legally, copying it a million times, and selling that pirated juice as part of another product (orange sorbet, or something).
As we slashdotters are fond of pointing out, it's nearly impossible to keep information (like code) from crossing borders. With strong crypto and p2p networking, it would be impossible to tell if a given packet coming over an international link contains code, and if that code is subject to any taxes. With code (unlike juice) you can import it legally once and pay the tarriff, then incorporate that code into a closed-source system and sell as many copies of that as you want. It would be nearly impossible to prove that you were using imported code.
Even more frustrating is that TVs are RGB, so why did the industry continue to adopt YRB signal standards when it is both inconvenient to send, and to receive?
Backward compatibility rears it's ugly head again! Encoding color TV signals as Y/Pr/Pb instread of RGB allowed black-and-white TVs to recieve color broadcasts without an add-on decoder. Just chuck the Pb and Pr components and you're left with just Y, a standard monochrome TV signal.
define "important widgets"
The ones that are directly related to what the user is doing at the time! When I'm looking for a file in konqueror, that means icons, back and forward arrows, and a URI bar. The rest of it wasted pixels. When I'm reading slashdot, it means a standard web browser toolbar and my bookmarks. The stuff in the sidebars is almost always a waste, and there doesn't seem to be any way to *really* turn them off.
Also your comments about konqueror kind of show that you've never really used KDE, or you'll never like it.
You assume too much. I used KDE as my main desktop for several years. I still try out every new release, just to see if they've gotten widget complexity down to a level where I want to switch back.
You're seeing Konqueror as two different applications crammed into one. But it's not. Tt's a universal browser and viewer via embeddable parts and pluggable protocols - which enables it to handle filesystem browsing and management as well as web browsing as just two of the many things it can do - and all by simply providing a light framework for other parts to do the work.
Which is kinda neat in theory, but in practice the way konq's view profiles work is just awkward. Whether you're reading slashdot or copying files, there's always some widget that's only useful in another mode showing. In fact, if you need view profiles it's a good indication that the same UI isn't right for all those tasks. You could still use all the same pluggable parts that make KDE cool, just use a different wrapper around them for web browsing than local file browsing or organizing music.
Sorry, I misread AFS as AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). Too many TLAs!
KDE can be anything you want it to be.
No it can't. I want KDE to be simple a simple UI that has all the options I use and nothing more. Unfortunately there's still no options for "only show me the important widgets" or "death to sidebars" or "simplify these menus" or "Just make stuff work, and get out of my way dammit!".
When the KDE developers realize that 80% of the widgets on their screens are utterly worthless, a clock applet doesn't need 5 tabs full of options and a file manager is not the same thing as a web browser, I'll go back. Until then, Gnome does almost all of what I want, with less frustration and fewer wasted pixels.
"Last 10 desktop users drop Slackware"
So long, slack. You'll be missed.
Encrypted filesystems wouldn't help here. The point of seizing a public web server isn't to find out what's on the hard drive. The government(s) in question already know what's on that server. The point is to keep people from visiting the site and downloading whatever "dangerous" information was hosted there.
Hosting servers in a place where the local authorities wouldn't cooperate with European spies would be a much better use of their time.
Why is the "baby steps" argument valid when you use it to support rover "exploration" of Mars, but not when people use it to justify sub-orbital flights like SS1? Progress is only progress whan NASA is doing it?
Also, when did I ever say the shuttle or the space station were good ideas? I've re-read my last 3 posts twice over and haven't found it yet. Furthermore, NASA's inability to design a space shuttle that does what they claimed it would do in no way refutes the point that there are certain things only humans can do in space. It really IS true, and will continue to be true until we have real human-level AI.