And of course the Rapture was suppose to happen last week because the "Bible Guarantees it!"
Just so no one is misinformed, the Bible quotes Jesus as saying anyone who says they know the day or hour of the Rapture is full of it. No Bible thumpers were convinced by Campy, because they read the parts of the Bible he skipped.
That's not the point. I didn't go significantly out of my way to do those things. The dark side isn't more powerful, it's easier; mote seductive. The "good" options for consumer goods are more difficult, and you have to go significantly out of your way to do them.
A goat, pig, chicken and a lobster are not worth a lot of EP. I doubt Zuckerberg is even second level. There! Now it is news for geeks.
But the real XP is in plot points and gold value. The lobster might have been key in a Sahuagin attempt to rule the seas. And there's no doubt he's got a lot of XP from gold. Of course, there is the one-level per adventure limit to consider.
But people who eat hamburgers aren't going significantly out of their way to kill animals? Seems real similar to me, except he's going out of his way to kill the animals personally. You eat a burger instead of the fries, you've pretty much gone out of your way to kill a cow.
That's like saying I went significantly out of my way to kill Foxconn employees for my iPhone. Or significantly out of my way to enslave Indian factory workers for my haubergeon. Or significantly out of my way to enslave illegal immigrants for my produce.
People eat the end product of the Farm->Reseller->Slaughterhouse->Reseller->Marketplace chain because of convenience. It's just as easy as gathering (because it's right next to the rest of the food in the store), or even easier in a restaurant since they prepare it too.
for 25 points, align that as a metaphor (bettryet, conceit) for the current state of our economy.
I prefer car analogies, but this one includes a little of Michael J Fox and gas prices, so that's got some economy:
It's like Back to the Future where Marty uses his skateboard by grabbing onto passing cars. If he did that today, there would be some serious road rage since he'd be "stealing" gas.
Goat meat is fantastic! They make great stew or lasagne. The last two that we slaughtered we shot in the brain pan. Quick and easy. A knife? That's stupid.
Yeah, a knife and blood-letting sounds more like a ritual sacrifice than a slaughter. Maybe he's doing it within city limits though, so no shooting of firearms..
It is completely different to "not predict a earthquake" to "predict that it will not happen".
These specialists PREDICTED that there would be no problem.
This is a case of scientific hubris (belief in self-ability to predict things) that cost many lives.
How? Did the victims take especially risky actions that day, believing earthquakes were impossible? In what way did the scientists make the damage of the earthquake worse than if they made no prediction?
Providing such a strong affirmative statement that they were in no danger, despite the fact that it was probably a sincere statement, was not a correct thing to say and they should have realized that if something did happen it was going to open them up to issues. It's like the inspector for a bridge telling people that they are in no danger driving over it yet it collapses days later. Shouldn't they be held responsible for their statements turning out to be untrue?
The results would have been the same either way. If the seismologists had chosen the third option and told people that 309 people would die, then there could have been a panic, and they get arrested for inciting a riot. If they chose the fourth option ("we know what will happen, but we're not telling you"), then they get arrested for some conspiracy with earthquake makers.
Well a good example of a hardware feature we don't see any more is the SCSI or Firewire target disk mode.
Basically that allows putting a machine in a state where another machine can hook to the first as if it were an external drive, and even boot from it.
Reboot your Mac and hold down "T". Or use "startup" to reboot into target mode.
It is absolutely trivial to fix. You pick the first free UID over when grabbing a UID for a new service. There is no reason to hardcode a UID, ever.
That's fine when you're using an existing system, but if you install a new OS, and suddenly discover that/etc/passwd already has entries in the 500's, you'll have some extra work chown'ing/chgrp'ing a bunch of user files on/home,/usr/people, etc. Not a huge issue, but it's something you have to keep in mind for Fedora16 now.
They're probably planning on putting daemon users above 500. I feared such when they started encroaching into the 300s and 400s (forcing me to move my own custom daemon users).
And, probably because it thought it could get away with overworking or undertraining its net admins, it cut corners when it came to security.
Listen up, HR. Don't skimp on IT salary or benefits. When your IT group thinks it needs more manpower, it needs more manpower. An understaffed/undertrained IT staff is like hiring Barney Fife for your bank guard; a lot of bluster and bravado, but only one bullet kept in his shirt pocket.
I'd suggest that operating system security patches should be delivered via ads that utilize security flaws... except a lot of malware programs do upgrade security patches after infecting.
[pot] is, by far, the least damaging "drug" in the western world.... The pothead next door, while annoying with his brain-damaged music tastes and lack of valuable employment...
[Cutaway to a small orphan sitting on the steps of an orphanage, red suitcase in hand] [Carter and Chris drive up to the front, and the orphan runs to the car] Carter: [During this, the orphan tries to open the door to the car, unsucessfully] Come on! Come on in! Your family's waiting in here! There are toys, and a puppy! And food that's not served from warming trays! [The orphan desperately tries to open the door, and then bangs on the window of the door, as a small puppy eagerly presses up against the glass, barking] Carter: Come on, you gotta want it! [Orphan throws the briefcase at the window, only for it to bounce off the glass] Carter: Aw, you gotta do better than that! Okay i guess you don't want a new family, toys and a puppy.
This is what Amazon was doing to those poor orphans gaga for Gaga.
My plutonium spoons certainly do. They also keep food warm, they glow in the dark, and you can't put too many of them in the same drawer. They are superior to all other types of spoon.
Ignoring the obvious radiation points, plutonium is also chemically poisonous.
I [am] someone who used to develop Java desktop software
Okay, so you're not a sysadmin or info-security person. Something you might not be aware of is that information security personnel (and to a lesser extent, sysadmins) are tasked with preventing people from having more access to company data and resources than they require for their positions. Believe it or not, developers can be more troublesome in that department than any secretary who accidentally inserts a CD. I've known a few coders who think that rooting their own box is necessary for their job because IT won't let them install a daemon/service without a little (necessary) red tape. Then HR tells them differently, and infosec tells them why. Remember that most computer security breaches are inside jobs.
Physical locks can do a good enough job at locking down most desktop machines, which, in combination with bios boot options, prevents the physical access you're describing. Unfortunately, iMacs don't have their RAM locked at all. And instead of a useful (physically secured) jumper to reset the nvram(bios), it just takes a change in RAM size. A rooted iMac is a nail file and a boot CD away in most instances. Of course, there are ways to check after the fact (have daemons that poll nvram to check if the obfuscated [not even encrypted!] nvram password is the same), but it's a lot of extra work (still something you want to do in case your developers own lockpicks or boltcutters).
They can torture the secretary for her password.
This is an extreme rarity, and frankly, it's a "here, take the computer" moment. Most information security preventative measures are done to keep employees from doing things they're not supposed to, not weapon toting maniacs. That's physical security's job. I presume it involves something to do with calling SWAT or using tasers depending on the scenario.
no-one uses Java on the desktop any more, has not for years
I do kind of regularly. Some people complain if JDK isn't installed on their desktops. Maybe you're trolling me?
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I hope they're at least using ECC. I wonder if neutrinos are more prevalent near nuke plants...
And of course the Rapture was suppose to happen last week because the "Bible Guarantees it!"
Just so no one is misinformed, the Bible quotes Jesus as saying anyone who says they know the day or hour of the Rapture is full of it. No Bible thumpers were convinced by Campy, because they read the parts of the Bible he skipped.
That's not the point. I didn't go significantly out of my way to do those things. The dark side isn't more powerful, it's easier; mote seductive. The "good" options for consumer goods are more difficult, and you have to go significantly out of your way to do them.
A goat, pig, chicken and a lobster are not worth a lot of EP. I doubt Zuckerberg is even second level. There! Now it is news for geeks.
But the real XP is in plot points and gold value. The lobster might have been key in a Sahuagin attempt to rule the seas. And there's no doubt he's got a lot of XP from gold. Of course, there is the one-level per adventure limit to consider.
But people who eat hamburgers aren't going significantly out of their way to kill animals? Seems real similar to me, except he's going out of his way to kill the animals personally. You eat a burger instead of the fries, you've pretty much gone out of your way to kill a cow.
That's like saying I went significantly out of my way to kill Foxconn employees for my iPhone. Or significantly out of my way to enslave Indian factory workers for my haubergeon. Or significantly out of my way to enslave illegal immigrants for my produce.
People eat the end product of the Farm->Reseller->Slaughterhouse->Reseller->Marketplace chain because of convenience. It's just as easy as gathering (because it's right next to the rest of the food in the store), or even easier in a restaurant since they prepare it too.
He could as well fund the research for artificially grown meat
It tastes like despair.
if he really wants to be "eco friendly"
Somehow I doubt artificially grown meat is more "eco friendly" than natural meat.
for 25 points, align that as a metaphor (bettryet, conceit) for the current state of our economy.
I prefer car analogies, but this one includes a little of Michael J Fox and gas prices, so that's got some economy:
It's like Back to the Future where Marty uses his skateboard by grabbing onto passing cars. If he did that today, there would be some serious road rage since he'd be "stealing" gas.
Goat meat is fantastic! They make great stew or lasagne. The last two that we slaughtered we shot in the brain pan. Quick and easy. A knife? That's stupid.
Yeah, a knife and blood-letting sounds more like a ritual sacrifice than a slaughter. Maybe he's doing it within city limits though, so no shooting of firearms..
It is completely different to "not predict a earthquake" to "predict that it will not happen". These specialists PREDICTED that there would be no problem. This is a case of scientific hubris (belief in self-ability to predict things) that cost many lives.
How? Did the victims take especially risky actions that day, believing earthquakes were impossible? In what way did the scientists make the damage of the earthquake worse than if they made no prediction?
Providing such a strong affirmative statement that they were in no danger, despite the fact that it was probably a sincere statement, was not a correct thing to say and they should have realized that if something did happen it was going to open them up to issues. It's like the inspector for a bridge telling people that they are in no danger driving over it yet it collapses days later. Shouldn't they be held responsible for their statements turning out to be untrue?
The results would have been the same either way. If the seismologists had chosen the third option and told people that 309 people would die, then there could have been a panic, and they get arrested for inciting a riot. If they chose the fourth option ("we know what will happen, but we're not telling you"), then they get arrested for some conspiracy with earthquake makers.
Well a good example of a hardware feature we don't see any more is the SCSI or Firewire target disk mode. Basically that allows putting a machine in a state where another machine can hook to the first as if it were an external drive, and even boot from it.
Reboot your Mac and hold down "T". Or use "startup" to reboot into target mode.
No, but he'll prevent some of his future competitors from being more educated than him.
Forget that. This guy has the real answer. My answer was off the cuff, and I didn't think about files with differing gids.
It is absolutely trivial to fix. You pick the first free UID over when grabbing a UID for a new service. There is no reason to hardcode a UID, ever.
That's fine when you're using an existing system, but if you install a new OS, and suddenly discover that /etc/passwd already has entries in the 500's, you'll have some extra work chown'ing/chgrp'ing a bunch of user files on /home, /usr/people, etc. Not a huge issue, but it's something you have to keep in mind for Fedora16 now.
They're probably planning on putting daemon users above 500. I feared such when they started encroaching into the 300s and 400s (forcing me to move my own custom daemon users).
You'll need to find / -uid [number] -exec chown [new number]:[new gid] {} \;
I suppose RHEL will make the switch in RHEL9. At least I know to prepare...
And, probably because it thought it could get away with overworking or undertraining its net admins, it cut corners when it came to security.
Listen up, HR. Don't skimp on IT salary or benefits. When your IT group thinks it needs more manpower, it needs more manpower. An understaffed/undertrained IT staff is like hiring Barney Fife for your bank guard; a lot of bluster and bravado, but only one bullet kept in his shirt pocket.
I'd suggest that operating system security patches should be delivered via ads that utilize security flaws... except a lot of malware programs do upgrade security patches after infecting.
[pot] is, by far, the least damaging "drug" in the western world. ... The pothead next door, while annoying with his brain-damaged music tastes and lack of valuable employment...
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Not quite "homeowner", but police killed their mayor's dogs a few years ago. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/08/national/main4331948.shtml Google mayor dogs shot raid for more.
[Cutaway to a small orphan sitting on the steps of an orphanage, red suitcase in hand]
[Carter and Chris drive up to the front, and the orphan runs to the car]
Carter: [During this, the orphan tries to open the door to the car, unsucessfully] Come on! Come on in! Your family's waiting in here! There are toys, and a puppy! And food that's not served from warming trays!
[The orphan desperately tries to open the door, and then bangs on the window of the door, as a small puppy eagerly presses up against the glass, barking]
Carter: Come on, you gotta want it!
[Orphan throws the briefcase at the window, only for it to bounce off the glass]
Carter: Aw, you gotta do better than that! Okay i guess you don't want a new family, toys and a puppy.
This is what Amazon was doing to those poor orphans gaga for Gaga.
My plutonium spoons certainly do. They also keep food warm, they glow in the dark, and you can't put too many of them in the same drawer. They are superior to all other types of spoon.
Ignoring the obvious radiation points, plutonium is also chemically poisonous.
It will make the spotted horny lizard go extinct.
I [am] someone who used to develop Java desktop software
Okay, so you're not a sysadmin or info-security person. Something you might not be aware of is that information security personnel (and to a lesser extent, sysadmins) are tasked with preventing people from having more access to company data and resources than they require for their positions. Believe it or not, developers can be more troublesome in that department than any secretary who accidentally inserts a CD. I've known a few coders who think that rooting their own box is necessary for their job because IT won't let them install a daemon/service without a little (necessary) red tape. Then HR tells them differently, and infosec tells them why. Remember that most computer security breaches are inside jobs.
Physical locks can do a good enough job at locking down most desktop machines, which, in combination with bios boot options, prevents the physical access you're describing. Unfortunately, iMacs don't have their RAM locked at all. And instead of a useful (physically secured) jumper to reset the nvram(bios), it just takes a change in RAM size. A rooted iMac is a nail file and a boot CD away in most instances. Of course, there are ways to check after the fact (have daemons that poll nvram to check if the obfuscated [not even encrypted!] nvram password is the same), but it's a lot of extra work (still something you want to do in case your developers own lockpicks or boltcutters).
They can torture the secretary for her password.
This is an extreme rarity, and frankly, it's a "here, take the computer" moment. Most information security preventative measures are done to keep employees from doing things they're not supposed to, not weapon toting maniacs. That's physical security's job. I presume it involves something to do with calling SWAT or using tasers depending on the scenario.
no-one uses Java on the desktop any more, has not for years
I do kind of regularly. Some people complain if JDK isn't installed on their desktops. Maybe you're trolling me?