It's not like if he spills it all then the platform will be secure.. there are a million vulnerabilities and he's not doing anything wrong by keeping a few up his sleeve.
Because you're not buying the software you have none of the explicit protections of a normal sale. You're licensing it. And read the license: "We don't guarantee this even does anything. It could wipe your hard drive for all you know. WE PROMISE NOTHING"
The difference it makes is that with OSS more people can sneak in malicious code without jeopardizing their careers. I always avoid unstable releases and especially nightlies.. but for stable releases "somebody" is reading through everything in the source tarball, right?
The kernel is always safe though of course due to extremely high profile.
Additionally, Pike notes, another "absurd ruse" is that "hate criminals affect interstate commerce, by terrorizing their victims into traveling across state lines â" or not."
"Considering the pervasive influence of interstate commerce upon our lives, how often can the government meddle in local hate crimes enforcement? Any time," Pike wrote. "In fact, this ridiculous argument could be used to justify federal intervention in a crime of any kind, since any crime victim might be scared into different spending or traveling choices."
We hardly even use nuclear fission. We already need fusion? How about building some nice easy nuclear power plants.. just stick some radioactive rods in some coolant and let the steam do the work. You don't have to worry about magnetically containing a sustainable fusion reaction.
True geekness period, whether god- or goddess-hood, is something you're born with. I love recommending Hackers , which gives the classic example (among many others) of Ghostscript creator Peter Deutsch who implemented LISP on the PDP-1 at 12 years old.
Think of it this way. While most people are computer-illiterate, most of the computer-literate are men. They're just not used to seeing girls like them, so surprise is understandable. The insult is to the female gender, if anyone, not you specifically. In fact if you think about it, the insult is to the female gender excluding you and other tech-savvy girls.
These guys obviously have disdain for females, but their surprise is that you don't fit that image of the female they disdain. The attention isn't as negative as you may think. And don't discount sexuality.. maybe the surprise and jaw dropping should be considered positive, if annoying.
By the way I don't think I'm wrong in saying most "geeks" are male. A significant factor in development is the influence of society. Socializing forces push girls together into interactive, close-knit groups whose values include loyalty, kindness, and beauty. Boys are taught to be self-sustaining and competitive, and value hard work, strength, and intelligence. The..shall we say individualism that ends up pushing people into love of machines or math over their peers at an early age is encouraged in boys while discouraged in girls. Obvously most other factors are equal, but girls (and boys too) have to fight or reject those social forces to end up on the other side
I don't know how anyone can enjoy a book by listening to it. How do you reread exceptional passages, or flip back to review past pages, or put up with the sloowww rate of speech? Also I find it very difficult to follow an argument without it in writing. The only time I would consider an audio book is a dialogue-based third-person-limited narrative, since dialogue actually does work well out loud and the feel of the book is only captured by putting yourself into the forward-rushing subjective shoes of the main character, with only the benefit of memory to look back.
Wait what? How is an in-browser version any better than the standard Quake 3 if you have to download and install a plugin? "Reduces code" doesn't make sense, they've already written the lobby code and it's in Q3A. "Reduces the amount of time" is also nonsense; it takes less than 10 seconds to start Q3TA and connect to a server.. I'm not playing an fps in my browser when I can fire up the real game.
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Stop making me pay $40000 for a degree to prove I'm not as stupid as you!
is a negative statement.
It's not like if he spills it all then the platform will be secure.. there are a million vulnerabilities and he's not doing anything wrong by keeping a few up his sleeve.
If they left a gaping hole in your wall..
Because you're not buying the software you have none of the explicit protections of a normal sale. You're licensing it. And read the license: "We don't guarantee this even does anything. It could wipe your hard drive for all you know. WE PROMISE NOTHING"
The difference it makes is that with OSS more people can sneak in malicious code without jeopardizing their careers. I always avoid unstable releases and especially nightlies.. but for stable releases "somebody" is reading through everything in the source tarball, right?
The kernel is always safe though of course due to extremely high profile.
The info isn't public but that doesn't mean they don't have IP address information associated with the post.
I'm not sure anyone could troll so hard accidentally...
How do these undergraduates access the LHC hardware schematics? I'd like to poke through them, if only to gape.
Really.
We hardly even use nuclear fission. We already need fusion? How about building some nice easy nuclear power plants.. just stick some radioactive rods in some coolant and let the steam do the work. You don't have to worry about magnetically containing a sustainable fusion reaction.
Exactly, so don't buy an iphone. And don't give the iphone owners the jealous looks they paid $400 for.
Are you secretly laughing at slashdot?
And to think at one time people naively thought 128 terabits of addressing space was enough.
Don't they propogate at the speed of light?
The problem is that you can't exactly reproduce a supernova..
So give Q3A away. Valve would certainly distribute it for Id for free to bring customers to the Steam platform.
If they're trying to demonstrate that it's possible then they've succeeded. They still haven't demonstrated that it's a good idea.
True geekness period, whether god- or goddess-hood, is something you're born with. I love recommending Hackers , which gives the classic example (among many others) of Ghostscript creator Peter Deutsch who implemented LISP on the PDP-1 at 12 years old.
He said the mindset of society. Also, while most boys AND girls aren't nerds, most nerds are boys.
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..shall we say individualism that ends up pushing people into love of machines or math over their peers at an early age is encouraged in boys while discouraged in girls.
Think of it this way. While most people are computer-illiterate, most of the computer-literate are men. They're just not used to seeing girls like them, so surprise is understandable. The insult is to the female gender, if anyone, not you specifically. In fact if you think about it, the insult is to the female gender excluding you and other tech-savvy girls.
These guys obviously have disdain for females, but their surprise is that you don't fit that image of the female they disdain. The attention isn't as negative as you may think. And don't discount sexuality.. maybe the surprise and jaw dropping should be considered positive, if annoying.
By the way I don't think I'm wrong in saying most "geeks" are male. A significant factor in development is the influence of society. Socializing forces push girls together into interactive, close-knit groups whose values include loyalty, kindness, and beauty. Boys are taught to be self-sustaining and competitive, and value hard work, strength, and intelligence. The
Obvously most other factors are equal, but girls (and boys too) have to fight or reject those social forces to end up on the other side
I don't know how anyone can enjoy a book by listening to it. How do you reread exceptional passages, or flip back to review past pages, or put up with the sloowww rate of speech? Also I find it very difficult to follow an argument without it in writing. The only time I would consider an audio book is a dialogue-based third-person-limited narrative, since dialogue actually does work well out loud and the feel of the book is only captured by putting yourself into the forward-rushing subjective shoes of the main character, with only the benefit of memory to look back.
And why was that modded down? I was hoping people would see I meant it seriously; nobody using linux uses Acrobat.
Why does she need to convince people she's a geek?
Wait what? How is an in-browser version any better than the standard Quake 3 if you have to download and install a plugin? "Reduces code" doesn't make sense, they've already written the lobby code and it's in Q3A. "Reduces the amount of time" is also nonsense; it takes less than 10 seconds to start Q3TA and connect to a server.. I'm not playing an fps in my browser when I can fire up the real game.