PDFs are only searchable if the document contains text. Half the time PDFs contain text-as-image, which is about as useful to a search engine as a captcha image. Google doesn't run OCR on PDFs, AFAIK. Although, come to think of it, that sounds like something they'd get sued by a random company for doing for "violating copyright proprietary information".
Humans have had to handle what happens when your second and minute counters overflow for centuries. Teaching a machine to do it can't possibly be that hard. How about you simply write your code to handle resetting the clock's counter back to zero as necessary? You know, like we already do every 12 hours? (Or 24 for military time.)
As long as you don't overflow, you're not confused about what the clock timer means. Rarely does a precision counter like this really need to know when it started or how long it's been running except in the short term. In this case, from the time the target is detected to the time the interceptor is detonated. You might be able to initialize and start the precision clock as late as when the target is detected. Or perhaps use the sign bit to signify a rollover or something. You can't tell me this isn't a problem that's already been solved hundreds of times in dozens of acceptable ways.
It can do a lot more than affect the C: drive. It can affect the Z: drive. C: is mounted to ~/.wine/drive_c, but Z: is mounted to/. That is, system root. And I believe it has the same permissions that your user account has.
And lest ye believe that Linux's permissions will prevent damage to your system, think about what permissions needed to run 'rm -rf ~'. Programs are replaceable, data is not.
In that case you have to execute cmd.exe as an Admin. Enter "cmd" into the search box on the Start menu, then hold + and press , and you'll get your UAC prompt. If you need to do this a lot, you can create a shortcut to cmd and then modify the shortcut to run as an administrator by default. Again, it's like su, not sudo.
I do wish there were an "elevate.exe" native to Windows that would work like sudo, though. There are a number of widgets online that do this (including some on Microsoft's TechNet but since they're not built-in they're not particularly common.
So why can't Apple do what the rest of the world does when it needs to use code from another application... use libraries. You don't need Quicktime's plugins or media player. Just the libraries should be sufficient.
And I'd like to know why it took someone 3 hours to get Windows working. I can backup, do a clean install, and apply patches and install software in three hours.
This guy's anecdote is not about the ease of use for Linux or inferiority of Windows. It's about how much more he knows about Linux than Windows. His Linux upgrade went fine, but he messed up the Windows upgrade. He complains lost a disc he needed for Windows and had to download one which was 200 MB. Nevermind the fact that it's his fault he lost the CD, he also would have had to download the Linux ISO.
In my Linux experience, for every system that worked fine out of the box, I've dealt with one that needed drivers not in the distro, configuration the installer did not perform but should have, and on more than one occasion getting a system that would not boot because of kernel or bootloader issues ("noapic nolapic" anyone?). I've had problems installing Windows, too, but I've done that so many times I basically don't even need to think anymore and it still comes out right or I'm familiar with how to fix all the common and uncommon problems which arise. HDD not detecting? No SATA drivers. I have a USB floppy or I can use nLite. I'm to the point now that I know that if I'm going to install XP that I should look for the driver disk before I even begin.
This isn't the fault of Windows or Linux. You just need more experience.
I just want to thank the submitter/editor for providing the link to Wikipedia for those of us who don't know what's meant by the Long Tail. As it happens, I do know what the "long tail" is, but one of the more tiring aspects of SlashDot is the number of narrow articles that hit the front page that wholly lack any sort of description.
I'm pretty sure most people who want to "save the planet" are actually motivated by a need to make sure the Earth continues to be habitable by human beings. The Earth isn't going anywhere for a few billion years even if we cause catastrophic nuclear winter or global warming. Humanity is a lot more fragile.
In that sense, they're just as "selfish" as Norman Borlaug. Then again, nobody else has been credited with saving one billion lives that I know of, so anybody who remotely suggests he's selfish is being a condescending asshole.
The sample size is perfectly fine. In fact, it's excessively large. If we assume the population of computers in the world to be 1 billion (it's far, far less than that, I'd wager), then you only need a sample of about 16,000 total computers to arrive at statistics with a 99% confidence level and a 1% margin of error. You guys really need to play with stats numbers before you start shouting that the sample size is too small.
Now, you also have to accept the obvious premise that the participants in the database are not significantly biased (that is, that the selection criteria are properly formed so that the sample represents the total population). I know nothing of their sampling methods, so I can't really comment on that.
The Wrights didn't start out building toy birds, true. They first tried to use the data from some Russian or European who had modeled wings after birds. They found that the lift his data predicted was so far off from what they observed in their gliders that they could no longer assume that the data hadn't just been made up. Then they went and built a small scale wind tunnel and designed small model wings which could be reformed and shaped and angled easily and a scale which could be used to measure lift from the wing model. So, no, they didn't start out building toy birds. They effectively ended up doing that when they discovered how little data there was on the subject of a wing. They took a step back to toy bird models.
So, the argument is that the new system is bad because it may have errors or bad data?
Were card catalogs immune to this? It's a database. It's only as good as what you put into it. A bad database is not useful. It just means someone needs to do it better. Honestly, if anything this seems like an argument that the database shouldn't be proprietary. It should be open to everyone so that someone can always make a better version of the metadata with the same base data.
"It's a piece of shit" shouldn't be the same argument as "nobody should even try it". The Wright brothers didn't exactly start out with a 747 or an F-35.
So it's on every backup tape. So what? Your code is on every backup tape, too, and that's a lot more valuable reason to physically secure your tapes.
If you don't trust your sysadmin, fire them. If they're malicious, they'll just change your password and do whatever they want, or create a new account and do whatever they want. Or just modify the data directly. As a sysadmin I don't want your password because I don't want the responsibility of caring for it, but don't think that the fact that I don't know it means I don't have access to everything you may ever possibly need or want. "LOL I'M ROOT" springs to mind. Your password doesn't protect you from your sysadmin. Neither does a modern encrypted file system (most EFS systems have master keys).
The permissions on the folder are 700. They are not world or group accessible. Heck, root would still need to chmod, chown, or su to access them. Even if your home directory is shared out, nobody has access to this folder and it's contents except you. This situation is exactly what 700 permissions are designed for.
I do not agree that the assumption that the home directory is an insecure location is true. If it is true, then all your systems are already insecure and there's nothing you can do to secure the system until you correct that. More to the point, it's not Subversion's fault nor Subversion's job to secure your home directory. That's the OS's job.
Are you afraid someone will steal your laptop and access the password? Well, then they have access to all your data, too, which should be just as much of a concern so you ought to be encrypting the disk.
Are you afraid someone will access your system when you're not there? Logout or lock the system.
Do you not trust the admins? Why are they admins at all then? Data is more valuable than passwords, and they'll still have access to that.
I'll accept the argument that caching should probably not be enabled by default, though.
Security is the job of the operating system, not the application.
I agree. I plan on sticking with SVN until TortoiseGIT hits 1.0. All my projects currently are personal projects so SVN is really quite easy to use, and that ease of use is completely due to TortoiseSVN. The fact that VisualSVN Server is so easy to set up and manage helps quite a bit, too. Once TortoiseGIT is released I'll get rid of my last Windows "server" and set up Apache+Git on Debian instead.
storing passwords silently in your local $HOME/.subversion/auth direcotory by default, unencrypted
Call me crazy, but exactly how is this insecure? It's the filesystem's job to provide security, hence the access for the directory is 700. Exactly what kind of scenario would an unauthorized person having access to your home folder not already be enough of a security breach so as not to matter? Even then, you can turn off password caching entirely if you want if you're really worried about it (store-passwords = no).
Even then, the FAQ claims that the system will use Keyring or KWallet if you've got them, too (and similar encryption features on Windows and OS X).
The defense made a motion challenging the evidence and the judge agreed that there was not sufficient evidence to support 3 of the 4 charges. There was no plea here. The court threw out the state's allegations for lack of evidence. There was no evidence because what he did was probably not sufficient as a matter of law (a matter of fact would probably have been decided by a jury). The charges were merely trumped up. Fabricated. Lies.
And yet they still kept this man in jail for a year awaiting trial for a ridiculous amount of bail money for a non-violent crime.
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I dunno, imagine the suction a vacuum cleaner would have if it was multi-booting Vista, Windows ME, and MS-DOS 4.
A document format shouldn't store text as an image. That's why it's called text.
PDFs are only searchable if the document contains text. Half the time PDFs contain text-as-image, which is about as useful to a search engine as a captcha image. Google doesn't run OCR on PDFs, AFAIK. Although, come to think of it, that sounds like something they'd get sued by a random company for doing for "violating copyright proprietary information".
Humans have had to handle what happens when your second and minute counters overflow for centuries. Teaching a machine to do it can't possibly be that hard. How about you simply write your code to handle resetting the clock's counter back to zero as necessary? You know, like we already do every 12 hours? (Or 24 for military time.)
As long as you don't overflow, you're not confused about what the clock timer means. Rarely does a precision counter like this really need to know when it started or how long it's been running except in the short term. In this case, from the time the target is detected to the time the interceptor is detonated. You might be able to initialize and start the precision clock as late as when the target is detected. Or perhaps use the sign bit to signify a rollover or something. You can't tell me this isn't a problem that's already been solved hundreds of times in dozens of acceptable ways.
That's not the default configuration, though. Assuming the default is a pretty safe assumption.
It can do a lot more than affect the C: drive. It can affect the Z: drive. C: is mounted to ~/.wine/drive_c, but Z: is mounted to /. That is, system root. And I believe it has the same permissions that your user account has.
And lest ye believe that Linux's permissions will prevent damage to your system, think about what permissions needed to run 'rm -rf ~'. Programs are replaceable, data is not.
Oops. Forgot to enable extrans.
should be:
"then hold <Ctrl>+<Shift> and press <Enter>"
In that case you have to execute cmd.exe as an Admin. Enter "cmd" into the search box on the Start menu, then hold + and press , and you'll get your UAC prompt. If you need to do this a lot, you can create a shortcut to cmd and then modify the shortcut to run as an administrator by default. Again, it's like su, not sudo.
I do wish there were an "elevate.exe" native to Windows that would work like sudo, though. There are a number of widgets online that do this (including some on Microsoft's TechNet but since they're not built-in they're not particularly common.
So why can't Apple do what the rest of the world does when it needs to use code from another application... use libraries. You don't need Quicktime's plugins or media player. Just the libraries should be sufficient.
And I'd like to know why it took someone 3 hours to get Windows working. I can backup, do a clean install, and apply patches and install software in three hours.
This guy's anecdote is not about the ease of use for Linux or inferiority of Windows. It's about how much more he knows about Linux than Windows. His Linux upgrade went fine, but he messed up the Windows upgrade. He complains lost a disc he needed for Windows and had to download one which was 200 MB. Nevermind the fact that it's his fault he lost the CD, he also would have had to download the Linux ISO.
In my Linux experience, for every system that worked fine out of the box, I've dealt with one that needed drivers not in the distro, configuration the installer did not perform but should have, and on more than one occasion getting a system that would not boot because of kernel or bootloader issues ("noapic nolapic" anyone?). I've had problems installing Windows, too, but I've done that so many times I basically don't even need to think anymore and it still comes out right or I'm familiar with how to fix all the common and uncommon problems which arise. HDD not detecting? No SATA drivers. I have a USB floppy or I can use nLite. I'm to the point now that I know that if I'm going to install XP that I should look for the driver disk before I even begin.
This isn't the fault of Windows or Linux. You just need more experience.
Isn't that the subtext of every civil lawsuit?
I just want to thank the submitter/editor for providing the link to Wikipedia for those of us who don't know what's meant by the Long Tail. As it happens, I do know what the "long tail" is, but one of the more tiring aspects of SlashDot is the number of narrow articles that hit the front page that wholly lack any sort of description.
I'm pretty sure most people who want to "save the planet" are actually motivated by a need to make sure the Earth continues to be habitable by human beings. The Earth isn't going anywhere for a few billion years even if we cause catastrophic nuclear winter or global warming. Humanity is a lot more fragile.
In that sense, they're just as "selfish" as Norman Borlaug. Then again, nobody else has been credited with saving one billion lives that I know of, so anybody who remotely suggests he's selfish is being a condescending asshole.
The sample size is perfectly fine. In fact, it's excessively large. If we assume the population of computers in the world to be 1 billion (it's far, far less than that, I'd wager), then you only need a sample of about 16,000 total computers to arrive at statistics with a 99% confidence level and a 1% margin of error. You guys really need to play with stats numbers before you start shouting that the sample size is too small.
Now, you also have to accept the obvious premise that the participants in the database are not significantly biased (that is, that the selection criteria are properly formed so that the sample represents the total population). I know nothing of their sampling methods, so I can't really comment on that.
The Wrights didn't start out building toy birds, true. They first tried to use the data from some Russian or European who had modeled wings after birds. They found that the lift his data predicted was so far off from what they observed in their gliders that they could no longer assume that the data hadn't just been made up. Then they went and built a small scale wind tunnel and designed small model wings which could be reformed and shaped and angled easily and a scale which could be used to measure lift from the wing model. So, no, they didn't start out building toy birds. They effectively ended up doing that when they discovered how little data there was on the subject of a wing. They took a step back to toy bird models.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/23333/nova-wright-brothers%E2%80%99-flying-machine
They haven't finished counting Stephen King's books yet.
So, the argument is that the new system is bad because it may have errors or bad data?
Were card catalogs immune to this? It's a database. It's only as good as what you put into it. A bad database is not useful. It just means someone needs to do it better. Honestly, if anything this seems like an argument that the database shouldn't be proprietary. It should be open to everyone so that someone can always make a better version of the metadata with the same base data.
"It's a piece of shit" shouldn't be the same argument as "nobody should even try it". The Wright brothers didn't exactly start out with a 747 or an F-35.
It's not a stereotype if it's her observed reality. Anecdote is not data, but personal experience is not stereotype.
Terrorism? So you're scared of ELF? Really?
So it's on every backup tape. So what? Your code is on every backup tape, too, and that's a lot more valuable reason to physically secure your tapes.
If you don't trust your sysadmin, fire them. If they're malicious, they'll just change your password and do whatever they want, or create a new account and do whatever they want. Or just modify the data directly. As a sysadmin I don't want your password because I don't want the responsibility of caring for it, but don't think that the fact that I don't know it means I don't have access to everything you may ever possibly need or want. "LOL I'M ROOT" springs to mind. Your password doesn't protect you from your sysadmin. Neither does a modern encrypted file system (most EFS systems have master keys).
The permissions on the folder are 700. They are not world or group accessible. Heck, root would still need to chmod, chown, or su to access them. Even if your home directory is shared out, nobody has access to this folder and it's contents except you. This situation is exactly what 700 permissions are designed for.
I do not agree that the assumption that the home directory is an insecure location is true. If it is true, then all your systems are already insecure and there's nothing you can do to secure the system until you correct that. More to the point, it's not Subversion's fault nor Subversion's job to secure your home directory. That's the OS's job.
Are you afraid someone will steal your laptop and access the password? Well, then they have access to all your data, too, which should be just as much of a concern so you ought to be encrypting the disk.
Are you afraid someone will access your system when you're not there? Logout or lock the system.
Do you not trust the admins? Why are they admins at all then? Data is more valuable than passwords, and they'll still have access to that.
I'll accept the argument that caching should probably not be enabled by default, though.
Security is the job of the operating system, not the application.
I agree. I plan on sticking with SVN until TortoiseGIT hits 1.0. All my projects currently are personal projects so SVN is really quite easy to use, and that ease of use is completely due to TortoiseSVN. The fact that VisualSVN Server is so easy to set up and manage helps quite a bit, too. Once TortoiseGIT is released I'll get rid of my last Windows "server" and set up Apache+Git on Debian instead.
Call me crazy, but exactly how is this insecure? It's the filesystem's job to provide security, hence the access for the directory is 700. Exactly what kind of scenario would an unauthorized person having access to your home folder not already be enough of a security breach so as not to matter? Even then, you can turn off password caching entirely if you want if you're really worried about it (store-passwords = no).
Even then, the FAQ claims that the system will use Keyring or KWallet if you've got them, too (and similar encryption features on Windows and OS X).
The defense made a motion challenging the evidence and the judge agreed that there was not sufficient evidence to support 3 of the 4 charges. There was no plea here. The court threw out the state's allegations for lack of evidence. There was no evidence because what he did was probably not sufficient as a matter of law (a matter of fact would probably have been decided by a jury). The charges were merely trumped up. Fabricated. Lies.
And yet they still kept this man in jail for a year awaiting trial for a ridiculous amount of bail money for a non-violent crime.
I see you've been talking to the Christians again....
So quit. I don't see no gun to your head. Go play Runes of Magic or Oblivion.