Because it is the mice that paid for the building of this planet. They have enough money to pay for a copy to be built too, after the Earth I was destroyed by the Vogons.
It is no big deal. Tons and tons of proprietary code runs on Linux. Almost all the CAD companies, EDA companies and CFD companies and so many others support Linux for their proprietary products. It is very difficult for MS to port its product to Linux because it is a huge spaghetti tangle of activeX and COM and.NET and other MS-only technologies. But Dvorak, in his infinite ignorance finds some completely untenable theory.
I am thinking it is all paalitiks yaar. When Bush said put a man on mars in a decade, he was just cogging J F K. And our real PM Sonia Gandhi and the benami Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are just cogging Bush saying big big things to fool the junta.
Glossary:
yaar: Punjabi for friend.
cogging: copying/imitating/aping. IIT Madras slang
benami: Owning property in the name of a trusted flunky
big big: Repeated adjectives to replace the adverb very is a common Indianism.
junta : (the j is j not h) Hindi for public/people/populance
I am thinking: Use of continuous present tense where simple present is appropriate is another very common Indianism.
I dont know what they modelled but I know why they modelled it. So that the California Spinach farmers can claim, "No E Coli was actually harmed in filming this commercial".
I have seen all kinds of tough authentication systems. My friend used to carry around a key fob with a random number generator that changes every minute. Along with his user id and password he needs to supply this random number to access his cray account. And I have seen others carrying a credit card sized challenge-and-response thingie from RSA. But all these elaborate measures are used to autheticate the user for the server.
In the phishing scenario, the user has to authenticate the server. That is the crux of the problem. The user base is vast and their technical expertise varies significantly. There is an urgent need to let the users spot phishing attacks easily and reliably. All the banks and financial institutions know it is a looming problem, still they dont do anything. Finally some lawyer sues some bank and suddently the pendulam will swing all the way to the other end and the banks will make us ALL jump through hoops of fire just to log in.
Vote verification can be performed only in your local library computer. Need to show ID to get to the terminal. And you can verify the vote of only the name mentioned in the ID. But would people go through the hazzle to verify? But some will do. And the threat of verification would remove the incentive to try to hack the elections.
That is probably true, may be under JPII. But after the ascent of panzercardinale I am not so sure. He even issued a clarification of JPII's belated pardon of Gelileo to argue that it was not really a pardon because Church did not really err on that issue. So he might issue yet another clarification about evolution. Who knows?
Anyway that comment about Pope wanting to ban Harry Potter books is mainly about the principle of standing up to one's own ideological brethern. Almost all religions preach about defending the faith against the enemies of faith and circle the wagon and face outward mentality. It takes a lot of courage for the so called "pro-life" Christians to stand up to terrorists like that Eric Rudolph than to shout "baby killer" to pregnant women on the way to their clinic who may or may not be seeking abortion.
It is the duty of the moderate Christians, atleast a few of the vast majority, to counter the claims by the fundamentalists. If not the fundamentalists get to define Christianity by default. Same way it is the duty of the moderate Muslims to reign in the ists if they want the world to believe that Islam is a religion of peace. It is the duty of the enlightened moderate Hindus to regin in their fundamentalists and eradicate the injustices of the caste system.
Moderates, of any religion, can not continue to sit on their tails, doing nothing to counter the vociferous extremists and still demand respect by default. They cant expect the outsiders to
carefully discriminate between the extremists and the moderates while they do diddly squat to help
them do the discriminating.
At the end of the first Harry Potter book, Albus Dumbledore awards 10 points to Gryffindor to Neville Longbottom saying "It takes bravery and courate to fight your enemies. But it takes even more courage to stand up to your friends." No wonder Pope wants that book banned.
Hindu Creation: At the end of the previous the universe was filled with water. On it floating on the leaf of a banyan tree was Infant Krishna, an Avatar of Vishnu. From his navel a lotus vine sprouted and bloomed. Vishnu created Brahma to create the universe. He climbed up the vine, sat on the flower and was totally confused by all that water. He said, "I dont know anything". Then Vishnu taught him all the four Vedas (Hindu scriptures). Then Brhama realized his role in the universe. He created 33 million divine beings, the sky, the stars, the seven higher worlds, the seven nether worlds, and all the plants and human beings. After four eons, (Eon of Truth, Second Eon, Third Eon and the present Black eon) each of them lasting several billion years it all will end with the arrival of the tenth avatar of Vishnu, Kalki, riding a white horse, who will flood the universe with water and start the cycle all over again.
But most Hindus are not very dogmatic. Nor are they proselysing. They dont care if you dont believe in this story or if you disagree with it. Infact they dont let the story interfere with day-to-day life. There was this famous story of a Hindu astronomer working in the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory busily taking pictures of the corona of the Sun during a rare solar eclipse. As he was working at a furious pace manning all the cameras and loading and unloading film cartridges, he was reciting aloud Sanskrit prayers to the snake Raghu that has swalloed the Sun, beseeching it to release the Sun and allow the world sunlight once again!
Yeah, all European Space Agency was trying to do was to use the Ariane 4 code in Ariane 5. And the rocket blew up 40 seconds after the launch. Why? Ariane 5 flies faster than Ariane 4 and hence it has larger lateral velocity. The main software thought the readings were too high and marked lateral velocity sensors as "failed". All four of them. Then without sensors all the computers shut down. The vehicle blew up. But by that time some bean counter had already shown millions of francs in savings, claimed credit for specifying ADA language for flight control software, collected his bonus.
Some basic tasks like file io or token processing and such minor things might be reused. But even then porting something so simple like a string tokenizer written for a full fledged virtual memory OS like Unix/WinXP to a fixed memory handheld device is highly non trivial, especially if you want to handle multi-byte i18n char streams
If the author sells what he was smoking while coming up with the article, he stands to make tons of money.
If they have the content to sell, the bandwidth wont be a big problem. Apple already has Apple Stores in most malls. They can set up Download Kiosks at gyms, grocery stores and other places with fiber optic connections and humongous bandwidth. Drop in, plug the vPod in, lock, take the key and go do your grocery shopping or workout. Take the vPod back on the way out. They can stream in DVD quality videos in 10 minutes in setups like this.
Also do you really care if they take all night to download a movie when you are sleeping or all day when you were at work? The bandwidth is NOT the issue, the selection is an issue.
Looks like some wall street type suit's despo attempt to stand out from the crowd.
Most wall-street mumbo-jumbo graphs have large arrows on axes, like "Better" pointing to north and "Worse" pointing south. And stuff like "Cheaper" towards west and "Costly" to East. And amorphous amoeba like blobs with different colours strewn there with labels like "Buyers' Marker"
"Seller's Market" etc.
So this suit decides to put some real numbers on the axes like the real scientists and engineers do.
And actually plot points and rectangular shaded region instead of the usual amoebas. I basically see some
kernel of truth in his verbal arguments. So probably he is on the right track. But I think he would have been better off if he stuck to amoeba graphs. With absolutely no explanation, not even a hint, of how those points were calculated, this is the most charitable explanation I can come up with.
PS: I am sure he is very smart. Otherwise, why I would be working extremely hard on impossible problems for (relatively) low pay while he is, in all likelyhood, raking in millions of bucks drawing amoeba graphs?
Well, how long do you think it will be fore UTube sues slashdot for slashdotting its site even more than they were by clueless n00bs trying to find raunchy videos? Well,/. does not have the billions that Google has. But if/. ever grows that big, it too will be sued I think.
If human beings were designed, it seems to be a poor design to include copies of viruses in it. But we mere mortal humble human beings dont have the intellect to fathom the Divine Intentions. All we can say for sure is that, unless you pay the priest 10% of your income and get dunked in a pool you will rot in Hell.
Why would they be hacking these ballot machines? If they are smart enough to hack ballot machines, they would be smart enough to get a well paying job that allows them post in slashdot all day in a working day using his employer's machine;-)
Nah, The CIA has a program called "extrodinary rendition" that will take care of critters such as these, I suppose. After all the dividing line between extremophiles and terrorophiles is quite fuzzy;-)
Are you talking about viruses and worms that afflict computers or some kind mystic God?
If they are not detectable in anyway, even you might be hosting malware and would not be aware of it. Right?
As for special hooks that MS applications get into the OS that no one else gets, how about an actual example?
Well couple of minutes in google fetches this gem
private\mvdm\wow32\wcntl32.c: // These undocumented messages are used by Excel 5.0
private\mvdm\wow32\wgdi31.c: // InquireVisRgn is an undocumented Win 3.1 API. This code has been // suggested by ChuckWh. If this does not fix the s 2.0 // problem, then ChuckWh would be providing us with an private entry // point.
from this site.
Since MS is closed source, it would be very difficult to produce numerous examples of such private entry points and undocumented interfaces. So please dont come back with, this source file doe s this this and this which has nothing to do with kernel mode disk access. My point is that OS dev team is under severe pressure from MSOffice dev teams. MsOffice produces 80% of the profit for MS. When MsOffice honcho calls on the OS Big Kahuna, we all know who is a chair throwee and who is the chair thrower.
Wonder what would happen if someone pulls a SCO on MS and get some comments alone out, not any
code, just the comments.
So MS will fix it on the double. If it has already been shipped they will even issue an out of cycle patch like they did for WMP crack. But any security hole that affects only the users and not MS's stranglehold on the market, they will tackle it by waiting till the OS is end of lifed. They they resolve the bug, "OS no longer supported".
OK, let us take the next logical step, all direct disk write by non-kernel mode process will be off. Applications like Pinnacle, Adobe Photo Editor, Maya and Gimp will suffer slow disk write times. MS PhotoEditor also would suffer similarly. Except, MS PhotoEditor coder, some nice chap who is just doing his job gets his ears chewed out and small chairs thrown at him. Goes into the source code tree finds the coder who is controlling the access to the direct diskwrite part in OS side. Bingo, in the next release MS PhotoEditor performs 100x faster than Adobe. Mindless editors of PCMag and others ooh and aaah about the "technological advances" made by innovative MS.
Yeah, sure it is a far fetched conspirational theory. Mods, before you mod it troll or offtopic or wierd or paranoid, take a look at the comments in the code outed by MainSoft. Obsolete version of Windows NT code. But it had numerous comments like, "Private entry point for Jim to get Excel access memory faster". Private entry points, calls that take shortcuts through several application layers and protocols... that is how security holes are made. Such close nexus between application coders and OS coders is the reason why such api-layers are violated.
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Because it is the mice that paid for the building of this planet. They have enough money to pay for a copy to be built too, after the Earth I was destroyed by the Vogons.
It is no big deal. Tons and tons of proprietary code runs on Linux. Almost all the CAD companies, EDA companies and CFD companies and so many others support Linux for their proprietary products. It is very difficult for MS to port its product to Linux because it is a huge spaghetti tangle of activeX and COM and .NET and other MS-only technologies. But Dvorak, in his infinite ignorance finds some completely untenable theory.
Slshdot is kicking itself for not patenting its moderation system?
Glossary:
yaar: Punjabi for friend.
cogging: copying/imitating/aping. IIT Madras slang
benami: Owning property in the name of a trusted flunky
big big: Repeated adjectives to replace the adverb very is a common Indianism.
junta : (the j is j not h) Hindi for public/people/populance
I am thinking: Use of continuous present tense where simple present is appropriate is another very common Indianism.
Yes, I will answer that question in about 10 years ;-)
I dont know what they modelled but I know why they modelled it. So that the California Spinach farmers can claim, "No E Coli was actually harmed in filming this commercial".
Any fool can ask a profound question that takes a wise man decades to answer. [This chinese proverb is distributed to you under GPL V2.0]
In the phishing scenario, the user has to authenticate the server. That is the crux of the problem. The user base is vast and their technical expertise varies significantly. There is an urgent need to let the users spot phishing attacks easily and reliably. All the banks and financial institutions know it is a looming problem, still they dont do anything. Finally some lawyer sues some bank and suddently the pendulam will swing all the way to the other end and the banks will make us ALL jump through hoops of fire just to log in.
Vote verification can be performed only in your local library computer. Need to show ID to get to the terminal. And you can verify the vote of only the name mentioned in the ID. But would people go through the hazzle to verify? But some will do. And the threat of verification would remove the incentive to try to hack the elections.
Anyway that comment about Pope wanting to ban Harry Potter books is mainly about the principle of standing up to one's own ideological brethern. Almost all religions preach about defending the faith against the enemies of faith and circle the wagon and face outward mentality. It takes a lot of courage for the so called "pro-life" Christians to stand up to terrorists like that Eric Rudolph than to shout "baby killer" to pregnant women on the way to their clinic who may or may not be seeking abortion.
92.3856% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Moderates, of any religion, can not continue to sit on their tails, doing nothing to counter the vociferous extremists and still demand respect by default. They cant expect the outsiders to carefully discriminate between the extremists and the moderates while they do diddly squat to help them do the discriminating.
At the end of the first Harry Potter book, Albus Dumbledore awards 10 points to Gryffindor to Neville Longbottom saying "It takes bravery and courate to fight your enemies. But it takes even more courage to stand up to your friends." No wonder Pope wants that book banned.
But most Hindus are not very dogmatic. Nor are they proselysing. They dont care if you dont believe in this story or if you disagree with it. Infact they dont let the story interfere with day-to-day life. There was this famous story of a Hindu astronomer working in the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory busily taking pictures of the corona of the Sun during a rare solar eclipse. As he was working at a furious pace manning all the cameras and loading and unloading film cartridges, he was reciting aloud Sanskrit prayers to the snake Raghu that has swalloed the Sun, beseeching it to release the Sun and allow the world sunlight once again!
Some basic tasks like file io or token processing and such minor things might be reused. But even then porting something so simple like a string tokenizer written for a full fledged virtual memory OS like Unix/WinXP to a fixed memory handheld device is highly non trivial, especially if you want to handle multi-byte i18n char streams
If the author sells what he was smoking while coming up with the article, he stands to make tons of money.
Also do you really care if they take all night to download a movie when you are sleeping or all day when you were at work? The bandwidth is NOT the issue, the selection is an issue.
Most wall-street mumbo-jumbo graphs have large arrows on axes, like "Better" pointing to north and "Worse" pointing south. And stuff like "Cheaper" towards west and "Costly" to East. And amorphous amoeba like blobs with different colours strewn there with labels like "Buyers' Marker" "Seller's Market" etc.
So this suit decides to put some real numbers on the axes like the real scientists and engineers do. And actually plot points and rectangular shaded region instead of the usual amoebas. I basically see some kernel of truth in his verbal arguments. So probably he is on the right track. But I think he would have been better off if he stuck to amoeba graphs. With absolutely no explanation, not even a hint, of how those points were calculated, this is the most charitable explanation I can come up with.
PS: I am sure he is very smart. Otherwise, why I would be working extremely hard on impossible problems for (relatively) low pay while he is, in all likelyhood, raking in millions of bucks drawing amoeba graphs?
Well, how long do you think it will be fore UTube sues slashdot for slashdotting its site even more than they were by clueless n00bs trying to find raunchy videos? Well, /. does not have the billions that Google has. But if /. ever grows that big, it too will be sued I think.
If human beings were designed, it seems to be a poor design to include copies of viruses in it. But we mere mortal humble human beings dont have the intellect to fathom the Divine Intentions. All we can say for sure is that, unless you pay the priest 10% of your income and get dunked in a pool you will rot in Hell.
Why would they be hacking these ballot machines? If they are smart enough to hack ballot machines, they would be smart enough to get a well paying job that allows them post in slashdot all day in a working day using his employer's machine ;-)
Nah, The CIA has a program called "extrodinary rendition" that will take care of critters such as these, I suppose. After all the dividing line between extremophiles and terrorophiles is quite fuzzy ;-)
Are you talking about viruses and worms that afflict computers or some kind mystic God? If they are not detectable in anyway, even you might be hosting malware and would not be aware of it. Right?
It is long since I read contact. But it is very unlikely of good ol' Carl to say "millions" when he could have easily said, "billions and billions" :-)
Well couple of minutes in google fetches this gem
from this site. Since MS is closed source, it would be very difficult to produce numerous examples of such private entry points and undocumented interfaces. So please dont come back with, this source file doe s this this and this which has nothing to do with kernel mode disk access. My point is that OS dev team is under severe pressure from MSOffice dev teams. MsOffice produces 80% of the profit for MS. When MsOffice honcho calls on the OS Big Kahuna, we all know who is a chair throwee and who is the chair thrower. Wonder what would happen if someone pulls a SCO on MS and get some comments alone out, not any code, just the comments.So MS will fix it on the double. If it has already been shipped they will even issue an out of cycle patch like they did for WMP crack. But any security hole that affects only the users and not MS's stranglehold on the market, they will tackle it by waiting till the OS is end of lifed. They they resolve the bug, "OS no longer supported".
Yeah, sure it is a far fetched conspirational theory. Mods, before you mod it troll or offtopic or wierd or paranoid, take a look at the comments in the code outed by MainSoft. Obsolete version of Windows NT code. But it had numerous comments like, "Private entry point for Jim to get Excel access memory faster". Private entry points, calls that take shortcuts through several application layers and protocols... that is how security holes are made. Such close nexus between application coders and OS coders is the reason why such api-layers are violated.