Seriously, I would love to know what this has to do with AT&T. Of course U-Verse was declared not to be cable, since it isn't cable. How is this relavent in the context of the article? A non-cable television service doesn't have to follow the same rules as a cable television service? What a shocker!
Mod me as you will, but you know you're thinking the same thing.
A malware infection doesn't just impact the infected system's users.
Hammer, meet nail.
A malware infection typically affects the infected system and its users much less (noticeably) than it affects the users DoSed and spammed by the infected system. If it affected the infected system too greatly, it would be noticed and fixed.
It's usually the systems infected with several unrelated pieces of malware that get fixed; but the time that can take allows the first infection to do all the damage it needs.
Liken it to HIV. Some people are carriers and will never know if they have it unless someone they infect tells them. Some people might notice something and write it off as a cold or the flu until it becomes full-blown AIDS, then see a doctor who tells them there's nothing that can be done. Others, in the know, might figure it out and treat it, prolonging the time it takes to develop into AIDS. Either way, the only solution is prevention; once you're infected, there's no going back. You're going to keep spreading the virus until you change your habits.
For any detractors of my analogy, I have this. Yes, you can format a hard drive and reinstall. However, if you don't change your habits (clicking every link you see, not using -- and keeping up-to-date -- antimalware apps, not running a hardware firewall -- even just a NAT router works, you'll get infected with something again. When this happens, you're going to wreak havoc once again; just like someone with HIV who won't quit fucking random people.
Then, there are those who got HIV through other means and/or who don't fuck random people. Those people, I feel genuine compassion for. As such, I'll leave it to the rest of the community to provide an analogy to cover them.
You mean die laughing at the Apple systems that refuse to boot on the new Intel chips?
And the Apple group will then say the same about Windows, who, in turn, will say it about Linux users, who, realizing that they're heading into an infinite loop, change it up a bit and pass the ball to the BSD camp.
Of course, they decide the ball should be useable by everyone and that changes to the ball need not be distributed back to the community.
Oh my God. Fellow Linux users, I implore you, when the ball comes to you the 2nd time, enter that infinite loop. If you pass it to the BSD camp, random namecalling and flaming will insue and we'll have nobody to blame but ourselves. </post>
No risk of data corruption if you forget to charge it or otherwise let the battery run low, eh?
Naw. Not at all...
Still, a cool idea, I suppose. But another device to carry around with you; unless you leave it in the glove box (can it run on a DC supply?) and, perhaps, use your phone (with the, perhaps built-in, FM transmitter) as an audio headend in the car.
Sorry for the run-on and any grammar issues. Actually, I'm not. It happens. Deal. And no, I did not RTFA; as I've said alot lately, I'm not that new here.
I was using small numbers for simplicity. Obviously, with current polymers, you wouldn't get a 4nm thick line anyway, so the 1nm deep line would be pointless right now. Perhaps by the time we develop polymers capable of forming such tiny structures, we'll be able to etch such shallow lines into the platters.
There's a faint smell of sarcasm in the air, here. Just in case everyone else couldn't smell it.
If one beef packer can pay to have his product tested, so can everyone else; no unfair advantage.
If one company can make a PZEV, so can everyone else; no unfair advantage.
Some competition is more fair that other competition, in that a smaller competitor may not be able to afford certain certifications or equipment. As long as those certifications and equipment are open to them when they can afford and are not under the control of a competitor in the same market, there is nothing at all unfair going on.
It would seem to me that the registry and formation of the pattern would actually be greatly controllable. Per the summary (I'm not THAT new), "The distance between the lines, called the period, is four times the film thickness." To me, this indicates that, by using one smooth platter and one textured platter, one could, quickly and reporoduceably, control the registry of the lines on the smooth platter.
One would need only one "perfect" (master) platter to copy from, similar to pressing CDs. This master platter would be created by etching lines into it at a depth of 1/4 of the desired width of the line on the final product. When the process completes, a 1nm-deep line would create a 4nm-wide line, while a 10nm-deep line would create 1 40nm-wide line. The process, it would seem, would scale very well. Once a new platter has been pressed, the master platter would be washed and reused, almost exactly like pressing a CD, right down to the master rquiring several degrees more time and accuracy to create and being reusable almost indefinitely.
The design process would be vastly different from what it is today, but that may not be entirely a bad thing. Being able to stamp (lather), rinse, repeat, simply press a platter of mocrochips as if it were a CD could bring chip manufacture to independant producers, much like the same ability wich CDs did for independant record labels.
Of course, then we'll have the SPAA (Semiconductor Producer Association of America) suing people for reselling their CPUs on eBay, while indie shops try to break into the market. Freakin * * Associations of America.
(Informative? Maybe. Insightful? Possibly. Funny? To some. Overrated? Only if it's already +5.)
Seriously. how does the GPL lock anyone out of using the code?
If you're using it in an open-source project, use it; you're giving the source away anyway. Enjoy the (percieved) protection it gives you.
If you're using it in-house, use it; you're not distributing it, so you aren't affected by the 'must provide the source' clause. Enjoy the free code.
If you're using it in a closed-source project, use it; please, however, consider opening the source, at least to that parts of your app that touch the GPL code you are using. You probably don't care about anyone else's license anyway.
If you're using a license that allows the code to be modified, without those modifications being made public, and have included the option of removing that license from your code, don't whine; though you explicitly allowed it, we worked with you to 'fix' it because we're, generally, a helpful community. We might not do so next time if you're going to whine, carry on and generally try to make things hard for us either way.
All of this news about the RIAA... I've read it all, comments included (on, you got me, I never RTFA, I'm not that new here). I'm surprised this hasn't been said yet:
Rape you
In the
Ass
Association
Still karma to spare. I'll regret all of this, someday.
Kind of reminds me of how I signed a going-away card for a coworker who said "fuck" a lot:
First, he came
Unto us as a
Child. He leaves us as a
King.
He framed the card, after highlighting the first letter of each of my four lines.
No, it proves that people who would have bought an IBM ThinkPad want the best. Since the LeNovo ThinkPad is not the IBM ThinkPad, the best is now the MacBook Pro.
Or, anything at this point is just conjecture and this is nothing more than a small market fluctuation, the meaning of which we won't know for years to come.
I have no affilliation with either of the companies I mentioned, nor do I own any of their products. This post was typed on a Compaq notebook....
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Seriously, I would love to know what this has to do with AT&T. Of course U-Verse was declared not to be cable, since it isn't cable. How is this relavent in the context of the article? A non-cable television service doesn't have to follow the same rules as a cable television service? What a shocker!
Mod me as you will, but you know you're thinking the same thing.
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Hammer, meet nail.
A malware infection typically affects the infected system and its users much less (noticeably) than it affects the users DoSed and spammed by the infected system. If it affected the infected system too greatly, it would be noticed and fixed.
It's usually the systems infected with several unrelated pieces of malware that get fixed; but the time that can take allows the first infection to do all the damage it needs.
Liken it to HIV. Some people are carriers and will never know if they have it unless someone they infect tells them. Some people might notice something and write it off as a cold or the flu until it becomes full-blown AIDS, then see a doctor who tells them there's nothing that can be done. Others, in the know, might figure it out and treat it, prolonging the time it takes to develop into AIDS. Either way, the only solution is prevention; once you're infected, there's no going back. You're going to keep spreading the virus until you change your habits.
For any detractors of my analogy, I have this. Yes, you can format a hard drive and reinstall. However, if you don't change your habits (clicking every link you see, not using -- and keeping up-to-date -- antimalware apps, not running a hardware firewall -- even just a NAT router works, you'll get infected with something again. When this happens, you're going to wreak havoc once again; just like someone with HIV who won't quit fucking random people.
Then, there are those who got HIV through other means and/or who don't fuck random people. Those people, I feel genuine compassion for. As such, I'll leave it to the rest of the community to provide an analogy to cover them.
Don't forget, the rule of twos:
With windows, it works for two hours and never again.
With Linux, it takes two hours to get it working, then you never have to fuss with it again.
With Mac, you spend two hours finding and app that does what you need, but it "just works".
Going for +5 Funny and falling far short.
When a story about a Tor node powered by otameal makes it to the front page, let me know.
Eventually, this troll will be worthy of an Insightful moderation. That will be the day I leave slashdot.
You mean die laughing at the Apple systems that refuse to boot on the new Intel chips?
And the Apple group will then say the same about Windows, who, in turn, will say it about Linux users, who, realizing that they're heading into an infinite loop, change it up a bit and pass the ball to the BSD camp.
Of course, they decide the ball should be useable by everyone and that changes to the ball need not be distributed back to the community.
Oh my God. Fellow Linux users, I implore you, when the ball comes to you the 2nd time, enter that infinite loop. If you pass it to the BSD camp, random namecalling and flaming will insue and we'll have nobody to blame but ourselves.
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Which, in turn, results in more knee-jerk reactions by more uneducated blowhards who otherwise would have never heard the news to begin with.
I'll leave the next step open to the next poster.
I forgot to ask. Is it just automatically Offtopic because it was a first post?
Did the n00b that modded this Offtopic bother reading the summary? How about the post they moderated? If not, they should not be moderating.
I'll submit that this post, as well, is on topic, with the topic being temporarily swayed toward the subject of responsible moderation.
I bet there were no replies when they moderated, either. Sad.
No risk of data corruption if you forget to charge it or otherwise let the battery run low, eh?
Naw. Not at all...
Still, a cool idea, I suppose. But another device to carry around with you; unless you leave it in the glove box (can it run on a DC supply?) and, perhaps, use your phone (with the, perhaps built-in, FM transmitter) as an audio headend in the car.
Sorry for the run-on and any grammar issues. Actually, I'm not. It happens. Deal. And no, I did not RTFA; as I've said alot lately, I'm not that new here.
I don't consider them editors, either.
Obviously not, he edits.
I was using small numbers for simplicity. Obviously, with current polymers, you wouldn't get a 4nm thick line anyway, so the 1nm deep line would be pointless right now. Perhaps by the time we develop polymers capable of forming such tiny structures, we'll be able to etch such shallow lines into the platters.
There's a faint smell of sarcasm in the air, here. Just in case everyone else couldn't smell it.
If one beef packer can pay to have his product tested, so can everyone else; no unfair advantage.
If one company can make a PZEV, so can everyone else; no unfair advantage.
Some competition is more fair that other competition, in that a smaller competitor may not be able to afford certain certifications or equipment. As long as those certifications and equipment are open to them when they can afford and are not under the control of a competitor in the same market, there is nothing at all unfair going on.
It would seem to me that the registry and formation of the pattern would actually be greatly controllable. Per the summary (I'm not THAT new), "The distance between the lines, called the period, is four times the film thickness." To me, this indicates that, by using one smooth platter and one textured platter, one could, quickly and reporoduceably, control the registry of the lines on the smooth platter.
One would need only one "perfect" (master) platter to copy from, similar to pressing CDs. This master platter would be created by etching lines into it at a depth of 1/4 of the desired width of the line on the final product. When the process completes, a 1nm-deep line would create a 4nm-wide line, while a 10nm-deep line would create 1 40nm-wide line. The process, it would seem, would scale very well. Once a new platter has been pressed, the master platter would be washed and reused, almost exactly like pressing a CD, right down to the master rquiring several degrees more time and accuracy to create and being reusable almost indefinitely.
The design process would be vastly different from what it is today, but that may not be entirely a bad thing. Being able to stamp (lather), rinse, repeat, simply press a platter of mocrochips as if it were a CD could bring chip manufacture to independant producers, much like the same ability wich CDs did for independant record labels.
Of course, then we'll have the SPAA (Semiconductor Producer Association of America) suing people for reselling their CPUs on eBay, while indie shops try to break into the market. Freakin * * Associations of America.
(Informative? Maybe. Insightful? Possibly. Funny? To some. Overrated? Only if it's already +5.)
Seriously. how does the GPL lock anyone out of using the code?
If you're using it in an open-source project, use it; you're giving the source away anyway. Enjoy the (percieved) protection it gives you.
If you're using it in-house, use it; you're not distributing it, so you aren't affected by the 'must provide the source' clause. Enjoy the free code.
If you're using it in a closed-source project, use it; please, however, consider opening the source, at least to that parts of your app that touch the GPL code you are using. You probably don't care about anyone else's license anyway.
If you're using a license that allows the code to be modified, without those modifications being made public, and have included the option of removing that license from your code, don't whine; though you explicitly allowed it, we worked with you to 'fix' it because we're, generally, a helpful community. We might not do so next time if you're going to whine, carry on and generally try to make things hard for us either way.
"fancy fair scheduler"
Oh, FFS.
Say it with me: Theo de Raadt...
Theo, the rat.
All of this news about the RIAA... I've read it all, comments included (on, you got me, I never RTFA, I'm not that new here). I'm surprised this hasn't been said yet:
Rape you
In the
Ass
Association
Still karma to spare. I'll regret all of this, someday.
Kind of reminds me of how I signed a going-away card for a coworker who said "fuck" a lot:
First, he came
Unto us as a
Child. He leaves us as a
King.
He framed the card, after highlighting the first letter of each of my four lines.
We're all being sucked into the same black hole!
Ok then...
Let's hear it for music piracy, the only thing that's putting some competition into the market.
Who'da thunk it... Betrayed by one of our own...
Ok, so I open with a joke, make a valid point, state that I'm not engaging in fanboyism and make a political comment and now I'm a troll?
Okay. I guess I should have expected that.
No, it proves that people who would have bought an IBM ThinkPad want the best. Since the LeNovo ThinkPad is not the IBM ThinkPad, the best is now the MacBook Pro.
...
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Or, anything at this point is just conjecture and this is nothing more than a small market fluctuation, the meaning of which we won't know for years to come.
I have no affilliation with either of the companies I mentioned, nor do I own any of their products. This post was typed on a Compaq notebook.
and, as I have karma to spare...
IMPEACH BUSH!