I assume people are worried about being tracked...
They should be worried if these are contactless smartcards which can be read via radio from short distances now and possibly much longer distances in the future.
Well, IMO, this goes against natural selection. Weaknesses are inherent in all forms of life. And in this case, the weakness is basically being forced out of the child. I don't think this is a good thing, and here is why...
Doesn't any form of medicine or medical treatment disrupt natural selection? We aren't in the jungle anymore - live with it.
It is one of the best internet deals around. When I used to live in the bay area, there was a great little pub (Scruffy's in Sunnyvale) that had a pole pretty close.
Personally, I go to the pub to talk to people and drink beer but hey, whatever turns you on, right?
So instead of half-inch steel armor, all the enemy needs is reflective armor? That's a camouflage problem for tanks but not a problem for missiles. Am I just being dumb?
The rehabilitated system or network should be able to submit there address to a server to be crawled for open relays (much like submitting a URL to a search engine).
The server would connect to each address in the resubmission list and test if the relay was open. If an open relay wasn't detected then the system is put into a probationary state or taken off the list entirely. It's an automated solution that doesn't require any work by spam list administrators.
If necessary, the list of resubmissions could be distributed to volunteered machines (similar to seti) on many different networks. The volunteer machines then double-check the result. This reduces the chance of someone closing the relay exclusively for the spam list server.
A three-strikes and you're out policy could also be put into place.
I think that software which nobody is interested in should be allowed to die gracefully. I think there is little future generations can learn from the kind of spaghetti code that was commonly produced in the 80s and 90s before OOP became the dominant paradigm.
But that same person can just call their Java file deletion function.equals().
Of course they can..and that person would be a goddamn fool.
The point is that an operator overload might make complete sense to the person that programmed it. The next person who looked at it may have used a different convention and interprets it differently.
As an example, I overload (file--) to delete the file. But the convention you read in the latest issue of 'L33T Developer' indicates that (file--) should mean close the file handle. You look at the code, make somes changes and your clients file was just deleted.
And BTW, I would never have called a function that deleted a file.close()
I think you're missing something. The one big thing about Java that differentiates it from languages such as C++ is that it is as much as language as an API.
Languages don't really make you more productive. Sure, one Fortran is good for numbers, Assembly is great for performance but they both lack an API as consistent and productive as the Java API.
Programmers building applications for business (web servers, database front end, app servers, etc.) love the idea that we can use a great language and someone (Sun) is going to help define standards, deliver workable (and free) parts and support developers.
The best comparison is Visual Basic. As a language it stinks. As a development environment it rocks. Delphi is a bit better on the language part and Java nailed both.
I've never found a language that allowed me to be as productive as Java for the type of applications that I build. The language supports all the things I need such as threads, network communication (RMI) and web development (JSP) and the API allows me to develop apps quickly and with the freedom of interchanging parts (Web servers, databases, etc.) from different vendors whenever I want.
Seriously - what else can do system admin scripting(on many different systems), database programming, web programming, network programming, and do it all on just about any platform, not to mention virtually everything C, awk, sed and shell scripting can do.
In other words, they offer the same functionality as modprobe by dynamically loading kernel modules. Guess what - your Linux install has been capable of doing that for years now.
I'm sorry, of course I should have said that not all drivers require this. But I must have recompiled the kernel about 100 times this weekend trying to get alsa-sound and bttv modules to load.
It seems like every year I get infected with the pro-linux bias of slashdot and rip Windows off my machine.
I ripped Windows off at about the same last year and installed Linux. I wasn't impressed. The desktop managers seemed slow (I was running a P3-800) and the web-browser sucked and generally, the applications weren't as good as their Windows counterparts. Not to mention that I managed to crash the system and have ext2 throw away some files.
So, this weekend I tried it again. I ripped off Windows 2000 and installed RedHat 7.2. In one year, Linux (and Gnome / KDE) has improved ten-fold. The KDE browser rocks, KMail is very good and the ext3fs filesystem is much better. However, it still took me hours to get ADSL PPPOE and a VPN client up and running and the soundcard (VIA 8233) and tv-card (Brooktree) still don't work. Apparently, the concept of writing a device driver without patching the kernel is still impossible even though Windows/Mac have been doing it for many years. And the system (now an Tbird-1.33) is still slower than Windows 2K (ex., the mouse gets jerky when my apps thrash the disk).
I'm a developer, so I'm thinking of writing support for some of these things (such as an easy VPN installer). Or, maybe a universal driver installer that would automagically patch the kernel and say 'You must reboot now', ala Windows. But the thought of having to support different distributions and versions makes me cringe.
Alot of the problems in Windows can be attributed to Microsoft trying to be backwards-compatible. But with Linux, the kernel and major libraries (ie. glibc) are always changing underneath your feet. This is a major design flaw that I not sure can ever be rectified.
They have professional audio testers and anechoic chambers at _Kenwood_?
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Sure, it uses Bluetooth, but you still have to run power cables to each one of these things, a VGA cable to the monitor and worry about replacing batteries in the keyboard.
Cry me a river. I'm download the images on a 75bps acoustic coupler modem, converting them to ASCII-ART, printing them on a ribbonless 9-pin Epson and deciphering the braille-like images with my fingertips.
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Enough is enough, no more April Fools jokes!!
It also says that the site is on Verio's network. Verio chose to use FreeBSD, what's the big deal?
All the various and heinous anti-circumvention / IP protection laws also probably have something to do with it.
If you can't tinker with something, how on earth are you supposed to figure out how it works?
Yeah, that's right - my Mom doesn't fully understand how to use her computer because she doesn't have the source code to Windows and Office.
And my sister has can't figure out how to turn off widescreen on the DVD player because of the DMCA, MPAA and CSS.
I smell a troll,
Jason.
I assume people are worried about being tracked...
They should be worried if these are contactless smartcards which can be read via radio from short distances now and possibly much longer distances in the future.
Jason.
Well, IMO, this goes against natural selection. Weaknesses are inherent in all forms of life. And in this case, the weakness is basically being forced out of the child. I don't think this is a good thing, and here is why...
Doesn't any form of medicine or medical treatment disrupt natural selection? We aren't in the jungle anymore - live with it.
Jason.
It is one of the best internet deals around. When I used to live in the bay area, there was a great little pub (Scruffy's in Sunnyvale) that had a pole pretty close.
Personally, I go to the pub to talk to people and drink beer but hey, whatever turns you on, right?
Jason.
Remember when Sony released a Internet terminal that used BeOS? It certainly cemented BeOS' future.
Jason.
Anyone else think it odd that GamePC is reviewing this? Do ANY gamers run Xeons?
Jason.
What's the average length of time between a slashdot posting and the subsequent DoS attack on the linked site?
Jason.
So instead of half-inch steel armor, all the enemy needs is reflective armor? That's a camouflage problem for tanks but not a problem for missiles. Am I just being dumb?
The rehabilitated system or network should be able to submit there address to a server to be crawled for open relays (much like submitting a URL to a search engine).
The server would connect to each address in the resubmission list and test if the relay was open. If an open relay wasn't detected then the system is put into a probationary state or taken off the list entirely. It's an automated solution that doesn't require any work by spam list administrators.
If necessary, the list of resubmissions could be distributed to volunteered machines (similar to seti) on many different networks. The volunteer machines then double-check the result. This reduces the chance of someone closing the relay exclusively for the spam list server.
A three-strikes and you're out policy could also be put into place.
Jason.
I think that software which nobody is interested in should be allowed to die gracefully. I think there is little future generations can learn from the kind of spaghetti code that was commonly produced in the 80s and 90s before OOP became the dominant paradigm.
Why make future generations suffer ?
Dammit! I left my cluestick at home.
Jason.
Ford decided to add a spoiler to this years Escort.
Dell released a PC today with 4 USB ports! (Now you surf the information superhighway twice as fast! - Dude, you're getting a Dell!)
Pleez,
Jason.
But the java compiler itself is SLOOW. My energy
is exhausted waiting to test the effect of a one line change.
I found the same thing until I found jikes.
Try it. I don't want to promise numbers (I've forgotten how slow Sun's javac is) but I'd bet you're looking at 5-10 times faster.
Jason.
But that same person can just call their Java file deletion function .equals().
.close()
Of course they can..and that person would be a goddamn fool.
The point is that an operator overload might make complete sense to the person that programmed it. The next person who looked at it may have used a different convention and interprets it differently.
As an example, I overload (file--) to delete the file. But the convention you read in the latest issue of 'L33T Developer' indicates that (file--) should mean close the file handle. You look at the code, make somes changes and your clients file was just deleted.
And BTW, I would never have called a function that deleted a file
Jason.
I think you're missing something. The one big thing about Java that differentiates it from languages such as C++ is that it is as much as language as an API.
Languages don't really make you more productive. Sure, one Fortran is good for numbers, Assembly is great for performance but they both lack an API as consistent and productive as the Java API.
Programmers building applications for business (web servers, database front end, app servers, etc.) love the idea that we can use a great language and someone (Sun) is going to help define standards, deliver workable (and free) parts and support developers.
The best comparison is Visual Basic. As a language it stinks. As a development environment it rocks. Delphi is a bit better on the language part and Java nailed both.
I've never found a language that allowed me to be as productive as Java for the type of applications that I build. The language supports all the things I need such as threads, network communication (RMI) and web development (JSP) and the API allows me to develop apps quickly and with the freedom of interchanging parts (Web servers, databases, etc.) from different vendors whenever I want.
Jason.
What's the difference between running a pump and running a fan?
Jason.
Seriously - what else can do system admin scripting(on many different systems), database programming, web programming, network programming, and do it all on just about any platform, not to mention virtually everything C, awk, sed and shell scripting can do.
All of them but none of them very well.
Jason.
1). It takes too much time to keep up on MS software patches.
AND
2). Once you know what you need you still have to go box to box to box to patch (in *most* cases).
Isn't this the central idea of Microsoft's new subscription model that
I think it's a great idea as long as you can opt-out for important servers running non-MS applications (such as Oracle database servers, etc.)
Jason.
My system (PII-350, 192M RAM, KDE 2.2.1) has never done that. Do you have enough memory? Large swap space on its own partition?
256 meg DDR + 512 meg swap. I think it's a problem with the IDE driver and the KT266 chipset.
Jason.
In other words, they offer the same functionality as modprobe by dynamically loading kernel modules. Guess what - your Linux install has been capable of doing that for years now.
I'm sorry, of course I should have said that not all drivers require this. But I must have recompiled the kernel about 100 times this weekend trying to get alsa-sound and bttv modules to load.
Jason.
It seems like every year I get infected with the pro-linux bias of slashdot and rip Windows off my machine.
I ripped Windows off at about the same last year and installed Linux. I wasn't impressed. The desktop managers seemed slow (I was running a P3-800) and the web-browser sucked and generally, the applications weren't as good as their Windows counterparts. Not to mention that I managed to crash the system and have ext2 throw away some files.
So, this weekend I tried it again. I ripped off Windows 2000 and installed RedHat 7.2. In one year, Linux (and Gnome / KDE) has improved ten-fold. The KDE browser rocks, KMail is very good and the ext3fs filesystem is much better. However, it still took me hours to get ADSL PPPOE and a VPN client up and running and the soundcard (VIA 8233) and tv-card (Brooktree) still don't work. Apparently, the concept of writing a device driver without patching the kernel is still impossible even though Windows/Mac have been doing it for many years. And the system (now an Tbird-1.33) is still slower than Windows 2K (ex., the mouse gets jerky when my apps thrash the disk).
I'm a developer, so I'm thinking of writing support for some of these things (such as an easy VPN installer). Or, maybe a universal driver installer that would automagically patch the kernel and say 'You must reboot now', ala Windows. But the thought of having to support different distributions and versions makes me cringe.
Alot of the problems in Windows can be attributed to Microsoft trying to be backwards-compatible. But with Linux, the kernel and major libraries (ie. glibc) are always changing underneath your feet. This is a major design flaw that I not sure can ever be rectified.
Jason.
They have professional audio testers and anechoic chambers at _Kenwood_?
Sure, it uses Bluetooth, but you still have to run power cables to each one of these things, a VGA cable to the monitor and worry about replacing batteries in the keyboard.
Cry me a river. I'm download the images on a 75bps acoustic coupler modem, converting them to ASCII-ART, printing them on a ribbonless 9-pin Epson and deciphering the braille-like images with my fingertips.