Cop #1: I think Guy A did it, let's go extract a confession! Cop #2: I don't think he did it, but he confessed, and we found the evidence we planted, so we won't be punished for torturing him!
I hadn't heard of your books, or you, before. But thanks to your this article, lots of nerds now know about where to download your books:-)
I noticed on your website that you're selling print-on-demand copies for $40. You can't be making much money from that, if it is textbook-sized. Also, you're encouraging people to buy used copies, which will contribute $0 to your income for each sale. It looks to me like you care more about your book getting read than you making money off it, so why are you worrying about pirate pdfs? Unless, of course, you're just Slashvertising. In that case, well done, since your biggest threat is obscurity.
N.B.: I downloaded the Free For All pdf from your website, but the letter spacing looks awful on my Ubuntu 8.04 computer.
It's not tracking your surfing habits. It'll just check with Firefox, which by default stores the urls of pages you have visited recently, and count the results, so it can determine whether you "frequent" the site or not. This is entirely different from the Stasi analysing your network traffic.
Maybe it was a spyware botnet? I keep reading about the millions of Windows computers infected with programs that spy for banking information to use in fraudulent transactions.
Linux, even if you've got a great distribution and you can argue which one is better or not, still requires a lot more hands-on than somebody who is using Windows.
AFAIK, only Dell has a netbook with a decent Linux distribution pre-installed, and it isn't even available in large parts of the world.
Yeah, the fact that they can charge the batteries at night, when electricity demand is lower, should be a big advantage.
But if they're going to swap out the powerpacks at refueling stations, why should they actually be rechargeable batteries instead of some other power source that can be recharged in some other way (e.g. a more complicated chemical process that can be implemented at the refueling station)?
The problem is that modern CPUs are superscalar, and go for parallel execution rather than fast execution. I.e. an instructions take more cycles to complete, but it can execute many of them in parallel. So if you need the result of operation A as input to operation B, they can't be executed in parallel, so the whole operation takes longer.
Oddly enough, that one doesn't show up for me at all. Not that I mind, though. I think these achievements are kind of nonsensical, and I hope they'll go away after today, or we'll just get more gaming behaviour here.
Can't you do it more subtly, as in steering the conversation to a relatively complicated topic, and requiring the conversation partner to actually reflect on your statements?
Yes, they did some damage, but nothing lasting (assuming that they can relatively easily disinfect the botnet afterwards), but they probably have drastically increased public awareness of the problem.
And since knowing is half the battle, and so far, little progress has been made combating botnets, the BBC is at the forefront of combating botnets.
Nice dig at Linux. Except that it hasn't been like that for years. And it's still better than not even knowing about the availability of better tools, or the better tools all costing $20 each.
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That would be an extremely bad solution:
An extremely bad solution.
WAAAGH !!!
Wesnoth is okay, but Freeciv I find boring, especially when compared to Civilization IV (which I paid for).
I don't think 12x10 pixels is huge by today's standards. My netbook has 1024x600 pixels!
It's obscurity.
I hadn't heard of your books, or you, before. But thanks to your this article, lots of nerds now know about where to download your books :-)
I noticed on your website that you're selling print-on-demand copies for $40. You can't be making much money from that, if it is textbook-sized. Also, you're encouraging people to buy used copies, which will contribute $0 to your income for each sale. It looks to me like you care more about your book getting read than you making money off it, so why are you worrying about pirate pdfs? Unless, of course, you're just Slashvertising. In that case, well done, since your biggest threat is obscurity.
N.B.: I downloaded the Free For All pdf from your website, but the letter spacing looks awful on my Ubuntu 8.04 computer.
Wait until you get to page 216. There are also several pages missing in the bibliography.
Unblocking ads by service (source) is just a matter of editing your blocklists.
It's not tracking your surfing habits. It'll just check with Firefox, which by default stores the urls of pages you have visited recently, and count the results, so it can determine whether you "frequent" the site or not. This is entirely different from the Stasi analysing your network traffic.
Maybe it was a spyware botnet? I keep reading about the millions of Windows computers infected with programs that spy for banking information to use in fraudulent transactions.
Linux, even if you've got a great distribution and you can argue which one is better or not, still requires a lot more hands-on than somebody who is using Windows.
AFAIK, only Dell has a netbook with a decent Linux distribution pre-installed, and it isn't even available in large parts of the world.
Warranty on an $x00 device is irrelevant compared to espionage charges, IMHO.
Yeah, the fact that they can charge the batteries at night, when electricity demand is lower, should be a big advantage.
But if they're going to swap out the powerpacks at refueling stations, why should they actually be rechargeable batteries instead of some other power source that can be recharged in some other way (e.g. a more complicated chemical process that can be implemented at the refueling station)?
Why does it remind you of a false color image?
How about just counting pennies in integers?
Funny thing is my ISP has a new web app that displays the bill, and it has exactly that floating point error.
The problem is that modern CPUs are superscalar, and go for parallel execution rather than fast execution. I.e. an instructions take more cycles to complete, but it can execute many of them in parallel. So if you need the result of operation A as input to operation B, they can't be executed in parallel, so the whole operation takes longer.
Man, when you rule the world, maybe I should become a dictator.
I'd like to see you try...
Oddly enough, that one doesn't show up for me at all. Not that I mind, though. I think these achievements are kind of nonsensical, and I hope they'll go away after today, or we'll just get more gaming behaviour here.
I'll just go to the fun side of the space station.
Most laptops already come with such a sticker. It's got a four-colored flag-like logo on it.
Unless they're homeopaths.
That's what I was implying :-)
Can't you do it more subtly, as in steering the conversation to a relatively complicated topic, and requiring the conversation partner to actually reflect on your statements?
Yes, they did some damage, but nothing lasting (assuming that they can relatively easily disinfect the botnet afterwards), but they probably have drastically increased public awareness of the problem.
And since knowing is half the battle, and so far, little progress has been made combating botnets, the BBC is at the forefront of combating botnets.
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Nice dig at Linux. Except that it hasn't been like that for years. And it's still better than not even knowing about the availability of better tools, or the better tools all costing $20 each.