People are going to start fighting with swords again, because bullets won't work.
Somebody will be able to fill a pool full of this stuff (or, if it floats, it'll be even more feasible), causing the swimmers to be fine, but the divers to suffer spinal cord injuries.
I'm tired of this phrase. If I went blind, one of the first things I would do (once I got tired of being depressed) would be to get help from blind people. How many seeing people know anything about using brltty?
Good question. Also, one of the things you might be concerned about is the remote compromise of your machines. If you have a 7-day daily backup stored in separate directories on a remote server, but they're *all* writable via rsync, and you have a cron job on your (e.g.) webserver that backs up to the remote server, what stops someone from corrupting both your webserver and all the remote backups?
Presumption: After a crash or loss, you may not have access to any of your own encryption keys.
GPG can encrypt using a symmetric key. Re-encrypt all the aforementioned encryption keys using GPG, and post the result to your Slashdot profile or something.
Install Debian, install rsyncd if it's not already there, and open a port in the firewall for it. (Actually you don't really even need to run it as a daemon, now that I think about it.)
Modern hard drives don't use stepper motors to position their heads. Instead, they use a voice coil between two strong magnets. By varying the current through the coil (under closed-loop control) they can vary the position of the heads.
You know, a lot of us asshat sales people think that you technical people are a bunch of basement dwelling, Star Wars quoting, self-rightous, introverted, bad-heigene virgins who scoff at any question and make no attempt to educate your users because in your mind there is no possible way they could ever understand the complicated intricities of a computer.
We know. That's what makes you an asshat salesman.
To be fair to MS, voice recognition is hard to get right, and even theoretically is basically impossible to get 100% right. Writing a working scanner driver is vastly easier, and much more embarassing when screwed up, IMHO.
Aw, c'mon; how many English dialects pronounce "mom" and "aunt" similarly?
At least one. A friend of mine from Nova Scotia pronounces "mom" and "aunt" with the same vowel sound. He pronounces "aunt" like "on" with a "t" at the end.
Linus's whole point is that the GPL 3 dictates technical details of projects that use it, where V2 didn't.
Ahem. GPLv2 2c:
c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
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I work at home, so my Vim usage takes priority over crossing streets. ;-P
What we can expect in the 21st century:
Of course, if you break crypto for the NSA, you don't get to tell anyone, and someone else will eventually get the credit.
Doctorates in Math or doctorates in general? I would hope that doctorates in Math would be theoretical.
I'm sure you know the assembly language of every machine you've programmed for!
I'm tired of this phrase. If I went blind, one of the first things I would do (once I got tired of being depressed) would be to get help from blind people. How many seeing people know anything about using brltty?
Good question. Also, one of the things you might be concerned about is the remote compromise of your machines. If you have a 7-day daily backup stored in separate directories on a remote server, but they're *all* writable via rsync, and you have a cron job on your (e.g.) webserver that backs up to the remote server, what stops someone from corrupting both your webserver and all the remote backups?
GPG can encrypt using a symmetric key. Re-encrypt all the aforementioned encryption keys using GPG, and post the result to your Slashdot profile or something.
And you shouldn't. Run it over ssh.
rsync -e ssh -avSHx --numeric-ids / root@example.com:/backups/`date -I`/
I'd be concerned about an attacker getting access to my server *and* my rsync backups, and corrupting both.
Keep in mind that the best talent already has jobs.
Modern hard drives don't use stepper motors to position their heads. Instead, they use a voice coil between two strong magnets. By varying the current through the coil (under closed-loop control) they can vary the position of the heads.
You can't have a "humble opinion" about a statement of fact.
I work with PHP on a professional basis every day, and I will tell you that PHP has many shortcomings that simply are not present in other languages.
PHP is the "glue" of the web, eh? Must be because of the sticky mess it makes wherever it's used.
No. "off his horse" is correct. It's a prepositional phrase.
Ugh... Perl in 1993 was about as clean as PHP in 2006.
And how is the GPLv3 draft any different in that respect, then?
We know. That's what makes you an asshat salesman.
To be fair to MS, voice recognition is hard to get right, and even theoretically is basically impossible to get 100% right. Writing a working scanner driver is vastly easier, and much more embarassing when screwed up, IMHO.
At least one. A friend of mine from Nova Scotia pronounces "mom" and "aunt" with the same vowel sound. He pronounces "aunt" like "on" with a "t" at the end.
But does it run Linux?
Ahem. GPLv2 2c:
Then what's the other 44% [sic]?
Hmm... I wonder if I could claim a GST exemption on that. After all, I paid the GST when I bought the Oreos.
They're great for sniffing passwords!