But what does it say about the state of programming practice writ large when so many developers believe that their 'rights' are trampled because they cannot write programs for a particular device in a particular language? Or that their 'freedom' as creators is squelched for the same reason?"
It says we have fucking spines, you blind amorphous blob.
You don't have an excuse like 'oh I didn't know this was a porn site!' when caught. You can't just say you were searching Large fresh melons and accidentally found such a smutty site.
Yes, you can. This was addressed ages ago, in RFC 3675.
This is exciting. The knowledge contained within this crater will feed millions and advance the knowledge nessesary for the survival of the Human Race by many years, and reveal the secrets of oil spill clean up as an added bonus!
I find your post very enlightening. Spirit and Opportunity should be supplied with Slashdot accounts and reprogrammed to post discouraging comments every few minutes. That would be far more helpful.
No. If you put up a website accessible from the public Internet, then you should expect that the public is going to access it using the software of their choice, period. If you don't like it, don't publish on the web.
... the browser will automatically alter the response...
This smacks of the thinking behind PHP's magic quotes.
Microsoft's so-called security experts should have known that this was a bad idea, especially if they'd worked with the UTF-7 XSS vulnerabilities. Any time you take a parsed language and haphazardly change the way that it parses, you're opening the door to security holes. That's probably why Dan Bernstein, years ago, said "Don't parse" in his page about qmail security.
Maybe the aliens just stay away from Earth in order to avoid being infected by popular mainstream rap artists carrying viruses such as ILOVEYOU and Monkey.B.
+1 for creativity. -1 million for lack of supporting evidence.
bribe n : payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment [syn: {payoff}] v : make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought" [syn: {corrupt}, {buy}, {grease one's palms}]
The person still was in possession of something that indicates their guilt, punish them. As well, punish the people who violated his rights by performing the illegal search.
That's possible, but easier said than done, and would require fundamental changes to the way the justice system operates. Who would prosecute the case? The Crown (government), whose agents were the ones who violated the person's rights in the first place? The judge? Our rules of procedure aren't set up to handle prosecution from the bench---who would be the disinterested arbiter, then?
But by no mean should the public be punished by allowing a villain to remain at large.
The Canadian courts have overlooked rights violations in criminal cases before, under the grounds that to dismiss the case would bring the justice system into disrepute (i.e it would be really, really bad). In this case, if all the guy did was to access child porn online, then there's a good chance that whether he is punished or goes free, the number of abused children won't change. Child porn law is like tax law. If one guy doesn't pay his taxes, it doesn't really make a difference, but the country is in big trouble if lots of people don't pay their taxes, so we prosecute those who don't pay their taxes.
Now, if he were directly producing the child porn, it might be a different story.
Base-2 units have been in use for computers for decades, with HDD manufacturers the sole dissenters not for any technical reason, but because it makes for better marketing.
Sole dissenters? Quiz: How many bit-per-second in a 1.544 Mbps DS1 line? Or a 64 kbps telephone signal? Or a 100 Mbps Ethernet line?
Considering that kilobytes predates SI units...I kind of doubt that it broke the established anything.
SI didn't pop into existence out of thin air. The cgs system of units "goes back to a proposal made in 1832 by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss." The Turing machine was described in 1937, and Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" was published in 1948.
Also, people in digital communications always used base-10 units, anyway. A 64 kbps data line is 64,000 bits per second, and so on.
a few years ago you didn't need to: 1kb was 1024 byte. it was defined like that.
No, it wasn't. It meant, variously: 1000 bytes, 1024 bytes, 1000 bits, 1024 bits, or "approximately 1000 bits/bytes". There was also the goofiness that if you transferred at 64 kbps for 10 seconds, you ended up with 62.5 kb, and when you formatted your 10 GB hard drive, you ended up with only 9.3 "GB" of space.
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But what does it say about the state of programming practice writ large when so many developers believe that their 'rights' are trampled because they cannot write programs for a particular device in a particular language? Or that their 'freedom' as creators is squelched for the same reason?"
It says we have fucking spines, you blind amorphous blob.
You don't have an excuse like 'oh I didn't know this was a porn site!' when caught. You can't just say you were searching Large fresh melons and accidentally found such a smutty site.
Yes, you can. This was addressed ages ago, in RFC 3675.
This is exciting. The knowledge contained within this crater will feed millions and advance the knowledge nessesary for the survival of the Human Race by many years, and reveal the secrets of oil spill clean up as an added bonus!
I find your post very enlightening. Spirit and Opportunity should be supplied with Slashdot accounts and reprogrammed to post discouraging comments every few minutes. That would be far more helpful.
If nobody tries to do anything, nothing will ever get done.
You are my hero. That quote should be posted right above the "Preview" button for every comment.
No. If you put up a website accessible from the public Internet, then you should expect that the public is going to access it using the software of their choice, period. If you don't like it, don't publish on the web.
... the browser will automatically alter the response ...
This smacks of the thinking behind PHP's magic quotes.
Microsoft's so-called security experts should have known that this was a bad idea, especially if they'd worked with the UTF-7 XSS vulnerabilities. Any time you take a parsed language and haphazardly change the way that it parses, you're opening the door to security holes. That's probably why Dan Bernstein, years ago, said "Don't parse" in his page about qmail security.
Unfortunately I don't think you can "apt-get install fedora".
But you can "apt-get install gentoo", though it won't do what you probably think it does.
"Weapon". Biased, much?
Maybe the aliens just stay away from Earth in order to avoid being infected by popular mainstream rap artists carrying viruses such as ILOVEYOU and Monkey.B.
+1 for creativity. -1 million for lack of supporting evidence.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bribe
n : payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt
his judgment [syn: {payoff}]
v : make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or
influence; "This judge can be bought" [syn: {corrupt}, {buy},
{grease one's palms}]
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Don't you need calculus to do stats?
Because our gov. cares more about the well being of corporations then its citizens
And this helps our corporations how, exactly?
Go read Peter Gutmann's X.509 Style Guide if you want to cry. If that doesn't work, try implementing an ASN.1 library from scratch.
I'll take SSH and SPKI any day over the X.509/TLS mess.
The person still was in possession of something that indicates their guilt, punish them. As well, punish the people who violated his rights by performing the illegal search.
That's possible, but easier said than done, and would require fundamental changes to the way the justice system operates. Who would prosecute the case? The Crown (government), whose agents were the ones who violated the person's rights in the first place? The judge? Our rules of procedure aren't set up to handle prosecution from the bench---who would be the disinterested arbiter, then?
But by no mean should the public be punished by allowing a villain to remain at large.
The Canadian courts have overlooked rights violations in criminal cases before, under the grounds that to dismiss the case would bring the justice system into disrepute (i.e it would be really, really bad). In this case, if all the guy did was to access child porn online, then there's a good chance that whether he is punished or goes free, the number of abused children won't change. Child porn law is like tax law. If one guy doesn't pay his taxes, it doesn't really make a difference, but the country is in big trouble if lots of people don't pay their taxes, so we prosecute those who don't pay their taxes.
Now, if he were directly producing the child porn, it might be a different story.
You sound like a danger to society with thoughts like those.
Uh...
The real issue I think is, who wants an IP6-only Internet connection?
If I could have an IPv6-only network with a SOCKS proxy or NAT-PT for v4 connectivity, I'd love it. IPv4 is such a pain to administer.
I've been ... for 20+ years and I do _not_ want to change
People like you are best ignored.
I know you are, but what am I?
Base-2 units have been in use for computers for decades, with HDD manufacturers the sole dissenters not for any technical reason, but because it makes for better marketing.
Sole dissenters? Quiz: How many bit-per-second in a 1.544 Mbps DS1 line? Or a 64 kbps telephone signal? Or a 100 Mbps Ethernet line?
Considering that kilobytes predates SI units...I kind of doubt that it broke the established anything.
SI didn't pop into existence out of thin air. The cgs system of units "goes back to a proposal made in 1832 by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss." The Turing machine was described in 1937, and Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" was published in 1948.
Also, people in digital communications always used base-10 units, anyway. A 64 kbps data line is 64,000 bits per second, and so on.
a few years ago you didn't need to: 1kb was 1024 byte. it was defined like that.
No, it wasn't. It meant, variously: 1000 bytes, 1024 bytes, 1000 bits, 1024 bits, or "approximately 1000 bits/bytes". There was also the goofiness that if you transferred at 64 kbps for 10 seconds, you ended up with 62.5 kb, and when you formatted your 10 GB hard drive, you ended up with only 9.3 "GB" of space.
It confuses ordinary people for no good reason.
this takes time=money.
Boo hoo. It's part of the cost of doing business. With me, anyway.
they couldn't legally pre-install the NVidia drivers
This just goes to show that ACTA is really all about policy laundering.