Natural Selection happening on a microscopic scale does not in any way prove that we all started as dust and evolved into our current forms. Really all we've observed is the natural selection half of evolution- there's that other part in which one of two like organisms has to mutate first so that there's some difference to select.
Evolution currently only wins because it's more believable than some all-powerful being deciding to create a bunch of weak little pissfreaks and thinking we're special.
this will legitimize all those videogames where you can't pick up the guns of those you kill. Bastards. I know that's the only reason they're doing this!!
"local exploit" means "you need to take advantage of an exploit in some other program which will give you unprivleged remote access before you can take advantage of this bug"
I always wonder if the same people who say "it's not a remote exploit, who cares?" are the same people who say "it's not a root exploit, who cares?"
it's BOTH free speech and free as in free beer. Fire was mainstream before people were selling central heating. It's usage, not how much is sold, that makes something mainstream. People use free linux because it is cheap to do so. Huge corporations pay for linux because it is reliable to do so. (you can turn on free linux and leave it on forever, no problems, but if you want to be secure, etc, it helps to have support)
remember that test someone did where garbage code was thrown at IE and firefox in order to see how they held up and find things like buffer overflows which could be potentially exploited? What ever happened with that? Were the bugs in firefox fixed? I remember that IE did well in that test, but I dont remember any specifics. Anyone know?
yes, it could. It could be much easier. I absolutely hate it when people try to make things "easier" and instead succeeed only in making it completely non-configurable. So no, firefox does not have a way to launch thunderbird. Firefox has a way of bombing out to explorer instead- you know, that same method which allowed web pages to run arbitrary commands simply by viewing them.
I know nothing of the Java language, I know only that I have never seen Java used and thought to myself "this is not an abysmal peice of crap, and it runs smoothly enough that it is useable"
ever try out a basic hello world type application in PHP and have it inexplicably start showing you values from other peoples' sessions? Values like names, addresses, credit card numbers? I've never had that happen in PHP, but when I tried mod_perl (and yes, I know perl), I started seeing that happen. No, I dont know why. I know this happens to other people, too. I dont _care_ why. Anything which can let you do that without knowing why- by fucking default -should be avoided.
And Java is crap.
(this is _NOT_ a troll post. This is an answer to a question.)
Employees are paid in stock options. Now these must be counted as and expense. This causes the company to not show a profit, which decreases the stock value, which reduces the expense shown, which allows the company to be shown turning a profit, which increases the stock value, which increases the expense, decreasing the profit, and so decreasing the expense. A little bit of statistical analysis shows that every company practicing this will have a profit of approximatly (on average) 50 cents this year. So, now is the time to buy.
copyrights for software have always seemed like copyrighting a hammer to me. Not that this will actually happen, but if we wanted to actually be logical about it, copyrights have no place in software. The source code, Maybe. And of course, for this to all make sense, no protection will be given to anyone without full disclosure of all source code.
so members of the science community not only know that it's the highest designation something can be given, but they also understand the difference so that they know it's not the highest designation something should be given. Woopie.:)
Maybe they should start calling it the evolution hypothesis?:) The real problem there is that "evolution" is just as blanket a statement as "religion". Most people who say "Evolution is just a theory" are really talking about only specific parts of it, like speciation. Meanwhile, many people who say "religion is full of shit" are really only talking about a specific part of a specific religion, like giant talking hotdogs of holyness
putting a name in front of it takes away from the word "law"'s status as a grand designation. It's an observation made by a guy named Moore, not a fundamental law of the universe. Come up with an explanation for things falling down which is better than gravity and we can start calling gravity "Newton's Law of Gravity", an interesting statistical analysis which shows that things tend to fall down.
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Natural Selection happening on a microscopic scale does not in any way prove that we all started as dust and evolved into our current forms. Really all we've observed is the natural selection half of evolution- there's that other part in which one of two like organisms has to mutate first so that there's some difference to select.
Evolution currently only wins because it's more believable than some all-powerful being deciding to create a bunch of weak little pissfreaks and thinking we're special.
but no, facts dont exist.
havent ever met a kid from Cobb county, have ye? :)
this will legitimize all those videogames where you can't pick up the guns of those you kill. Bastards. I know that's the only reason they're doing this!!
I guess the world isnt doomed, people still dont know the difference between a trademark and a copyright on slashdot.
"local exploit" means "you need to take advantage of an exploit in some other program which will give you unprivleged remote access before you can take advantage of this bug"
I always wonder if the same people who say "it's not a remote exploit, who cares?" are the same people who say "it's not a root exploit, who cares?"
if they find out that the whole system is fundamentally flawed, millions could lose their jobs!
it's BOTH free speech and free as in free beer. Fire was mainstream before people were selling central heating. It's usage, not how much is sold, that makes something mainstream. People use free linux because it is cheap to do so. Huge corporations pay for linux because it is reliable to do so. (you can turn on free linux and leave it on forever, no problems, but if you want to be secure, etc, it helps to have support)
Excuse me, wtf? Shouldnt it be based on usage? It's FREE.
will the roads be motorized tracks with fully livable cities on them?
Anyone want to buy the system I built to play Half Life 2? $2000.
remember that test someone did where garbage code was thrown at IE and firefox in order to see how they held up and find things like buffer overflows which could be potentially exploited?
What ever happened with that? Were the bugs in firefox fixed? I remember that IE did well in that test, but I dont remember any specifics.
Anyone know?
yes, it could. It could be much easier.
I absolutely hate it when people try to make things "easier" and instead succeeed only in making it completely non-configurable.
So no, firefox does not have a way to launch thunderbird. Firefox has a way of bombing out to explorer instead- you know, that same method which allowed web pages to run arbitrary commands simply by viewing them.
I know there are several extensions for it, but I assume there is some reasoning behind not having a built-in option. What is that reasoning?
I know nothing of the Java language, I know only that I have never seen Java used and thought to myself "this is not an abysmal peice of crap, and it runs smoothly enough that it is useable"
ever try out a basic hello world type application in PHP and have it inexplicably start showing you values from other peoples' sessions? Values like names, addresses, credit card numbers? I've never had that happen in PHP, but when I tried mod_perl (and yes, I know perl), I started seeing that happen. No, I dont know why. I know this happens to other people, too. I dont _care_ why. Anything which can let you do that without knowing why- by fucking default -should be avoided.
And Java is crap.
(this is _NOT_ a troll post. This is an answer to a question.)
CD Keys and the CDs themselves are then sealed seperately, broken software is still non-returnable. Grand victory for the consumer.
...Accelerated...
...and causes movie tickets to cost $50 each
Employees are paid in stock options. Now these must be counted as and expense. This causes the company to not show a profit, which decreases the stock value, which reduces the expense shown, which allows the company to be shown turning a profit, which increases the stock value, which increases the expense, decreasing the profit, and so decreasing the expense.
A little bit of statistical analysis shows that every company practicing this will have a profit of approximatly (on average) 50 cents this year. So, now is the time to buy.
copyrights for software have always seemed like copyrighting a hammer to me. Not that this will actually happen, but if we wanted to actually be logical about it, copyrights have no place in software.
The source code, Maybe. And of course, for this to all make sense, no protection will be given to anyone without full disclosure of all source code.
that's what you get for not having nothing to do all day other than hitting refresh on slashdot.
do I get a -6 "If I made any attempt to articulate just how much that sucked I'd get a -1 flamebait due to the lack of -1 flame"?
so members of the science community not only know that it's the highest designation something can be given, but they also understand the difference so that they know it's not the highest designation something should be given. Woopie. :)
:)
Maybe they should start calling it the evolution hypothesis?
The real problem there is that "evolution" is just as blanket a statement as "religion". Most people who say "Evolution is just a theory" are really talking about only specific parts of it, like speciation. Meanwhile, many people who say "religion is full of shit" are really only talking about a specific part of a specific religion, like giant talking hotdogs of holyness
oops, I guess you can shut up now
putting a name in front of it takes away from the word "law"'s status as a grand designation. It's an observation made by a guy named Moore, not a fundamental law of the universe. Come up with an explanation for things falling down which is better than gravity and we can start calling gravity "Newton's Law of Gravity", an interesting statistical analysis which shows that things tend to fall down.