I thought the whole idea was internet being an inalienable right that no one can take away from you?
So is freedom, but the government can still imprison you if you violate the law. The problem wasn't that you could have your Internet connection cut, but that it could happen completely outside the regular justice system and contrary to the principles of the justice system, especially presumption of innocence.
When a buffer overflow leads to privileges then you have to wonder whether the coders made an honest mistake or whether somebody paid them to sneak in a backdoor or two.
Well, I know what I'm buying you for a birthday gift: a lifetime supply of tin foil.
Ah yes, the authentication piece - the secret that only you and I know. (inaudible whispering)
The secret that only the two of you know, until I get my high-sensitivity microphone into the room. Any non-trivial sharing must go through a medium that allows interception by third parties.
And of course, never underestimate the password-obtaining ability of a $5 wrench.
I don't understand why artists believe they have the right to eternal payments, when none of the rest of us workers have that right.
Because in most cases, that's how their contracts are worked out (except for the "eternal" part). It's called deferred compensation. You could try negotiating such a contract with your employer, where you get paid less while you're working 40-hour weeks and then get residual payments for a certain amount of time afterwards, but since that isn't standard practice in most industries, most employers won't go for it. Similarly, a musician could try to negotiate for a contract where they only got paid once and received nothing for residuals (screen writers, actors, etc. generally don't have this option, since the guilds have collective bargaining agreements). Also keep in mind that most employees either get a constant salary or are pretty much guaranteed 40 hours per week, so they have a pretty steady income. For most actors and writers, their income can be very unsteady, so it works out better for them to have their income spread out over time in the form of residuals. Musicians should have a somewhat more steady income, since it's easier to have a relatively constant performance schedule.
Think of it this way. Why should your employer give you paid vacation time? You should know that you won't get paid for those four weeks that you aren't working. Of course, then you would need to get paid more the rest of the year so that you have the money for those four weeks, so you end up making the same total amount anyway.
Out of curiosity, does kdesu (the graphical privilege-elevation dialog) work yet? The last Kubuntu build I tried had kdesu set up to use `su` not `sudo` (it's a configuration option). Since [K]Ubuntu's root account is disabled by default, it doesn't matter what password you enter - su won't work.
I don't remember encountering this problem, but the correct command to run has been "kdesudo" for a couple releases now.
I don't see this diminishing effect mentioned at all in the linked summary, which still indicates that the link goes to an article that is not accurately described by the link's text content. At the very least, it's a poorly worded summary, which confirms yet again that kdawson is an incompetent editor.
That's only true if the entire cost comes from a single display. It's like saying that having 2 GB of RAM in your computer makes it twice as expensive as it would be if it had 1 GB of RAM.
What's that you say? You have a better version coming next year? Well, thanks for being so honest - we'll put our checkbook back in our pocket rather than giving you money for the obsolescent model now.
And what reasonable company doesn't come out with a "better version" of whatever they sell next year?
We really only have one ocean, it's just convenient to apply different names to parts that have a large continent between them. There may have been the belief at some time in history that the oceans weren't all connected (I find this highly likely, but I don't feel like searching for proof).
Anyone who doesn't have a religious agenda to promote tends to find it pretty dang obvious that the Jewish flood story was based off the Babylonian/Sumerian one.
Sure, plenty of cultures in western Asia at the time had similar flood stories. How do you leap to the conclusion that these stories weren't based on some real event?
I can't believe how far some people will go to twist the true nature of a thing until they can claim it stands for its exact opposite. What's even worse is that it gets by people whose only job is to check this stuff out before posting it to the front page of a widely read website.
Take a look at which "editor" posted this story. I'd be surprised if this even ends up being the worst article posted by kdawson today.
No one who supports state-sponsorship of corporations is right-wing. That's fascism, and it belongs on the left side of the scale as an authoritarian state.
Minor correction, but authoritarianism isn't really a left/right attribute. There are both left-wing authoritarians (Stalin is probably the most famous example) and right-wing authoritarians (there's tons of them these days, with Bush being a prime example). Politcal Compass is a very interesting read.
Until we see an intergalactic threat, I doubt we'll see the kind of R&D needed to really accomplish this.
See, that's the problem. It doesn't require an "intergalactic threat" for us to be in trouble. We already know about one definite cause of Earth's destruction, and it's only about 93 million miles away. If we keep saying, "we have plenty of time," eventually it won't be true.
Just imagine how much healthier our Republic would be if, instead of 60% socialists, 20% democrats and 20% republicans, the ratio was 30% democrats, 30% republicans, 30% libertarians, and 10% socialists
There, fixed it for ya.
The only people that think Democrats are socialists are people who don't know any actual socialists. Kucinich was the only candidate in 2008 that's even slightly left of center. Most Democrats in the federal government are just less extreme authoritarian corporatists than the average Republican. Politics in the United States is far enough to the right that centrists get labeled as communists. If you want to see some real socialists, talk to the left-wing parties in Europe sometime.
In my opinion the Terry Goodkind books are far more entertaining although they got quite monotonous at least things happened in them rather than the...the trip took 6 days...on day one...over and over and over...
I think this is why I won't bother reading Wheel of Time. After four or five Terry Goodkind books, I felt like I was in Groundhog Day. "Main character gets a new wife then saves the world" isn't quite as exciting the fifth time around. From what I've heard and read online, Wheel of Time is pretty much the same, except with twice as many books.
Of course, I have an entire shelf of Terry Pratchett books, so my opinions may be atypical.
I just noticed that I have an excuse. Newegg calls them "Solid State Disks", which is where I got it from. I don't know if one is more "official" than the other.
If the government said, "Y'know, we'd like to exert more control over the blogosphere, over all electronic media, really: restrict what is said, know the identities of who is saying it, get a firm handle on who is on the mailing lists of Markos Moulitsas and Rush Limbaugh... whaddya say, citizens, can we do that?" the answer would be a resounding, "Who won American Idol last night?"
Fixed that for you. Your faith in humanity is admirable, but unfortunately I don't think it matches reality too well.
Take a look at New England, Verizon sold off its lines there, and now the company is filing for bankruptcy and their service is horrible.
I know someone that works for the company that Verizon sold their lines to. She said the employees refer to the company as "the F-word" in public because they don't dare let people on the street find out that they work there.
Slashdot Mirror
Zealot isn't like a class you pick when you signup for slashdot...
Yeah, you have to spend at least a couple months as a Marine or Zergling first.
I thought the whole idea was internet being an inalienable right that no one can take away from you?
So is freedom, but the government can still imprison you if you violate the law. The problem wasn't that you could have your Internet connection cut, but that it could happen completely outside the regular justice system and contrary to the principles of the justice system, especially presumption of innocence.
When a buffer overflow leads to privileges then you have to wonder whether the coders made an honest mistake or whether somebody paid them to sneak in a backdoor or two.
Well, I know what I'm buying you for a birthday gift: a lifetime supply of tin foil.
Ah yes, the authentication piece - the secret that only you and I know. (inaudible whispering)
The secret that only the two of you know, until I get my high-sensitivity microphone into the room. Any non-trivial sharing must go through a medium that allows interception by third parties.
And of course, never underestimate the password-obtaining ability of a $5 wrench.
Blank CDs are mostly used to copy copy written material.
Why should musicians care if you put a bunch of text from a copywriter on a CD?
Pro tip: The word you were looking for is "copyrighted".
I don't understand why artists believe they have the right to eternal payments, when none of the rest of us workers have that right.
Because in most cases, that's how their contracts are worked out (except for the "eternal" part). It's called deferred compensation. You could try negotiating such a contract with your employer, where you get paid less while you're working 40-hour weeks and then get residual payments for a certain amount of time afterwards, but since that isn't standard practice in most industries, most employers won't go for it. Similarly, a musician could try to negotiate for a contract where they only got paid once and received nothing for residuals (screen writers, actors, etc. generally don't have this option, since the guilds have collective bargaining agreements). Also keep in mind that most employees either get a constant salary or are pretty much guaranteed 40 hours per week, so they have a pretty steady income. For most actors and writers, their income can be very unsteady, so it works out better for them to have their income spread out over time in the form of residuals. Musicians should have a somewhat more steady income, since it's easier to have a relatively constant performance schedule.
Think of it this way. Why should your employer give you paid vacation time? You should know that you won't get paid for those four weeks that you aren't working. Of course, then you would need to get paid more the rest of the year so that you have the money for those four weeks, so you end up making the same total amount anyway.
Out of curiosity, does kdesu (the graphical privilege-elevation dialog) work yet? The last Kubuntu build I tried had kdesu set up to use `su` not `sudo` (it's a configuration option). Since [K]Ubuntu's root account is disabled by default, it doesn't matter what password you enter - su won't work.
I don't remember encountering this problem, but the correct command to run has been "kdesudo" for a couple releases now.
I don't see this diminishing effect mentioned at all in the linked summary, which still indicates that the link goes to an article that is not accurately described by the link's text content. At the very least, it's a poorly worded summary, which confirms yet again that kdawson is an incompetent editor.
we're a hell of a long way from having machines that you can usefully reprimand for fucking up. :)
Apparently you aren't familiar with the phrase "Disassemble Number Five".
This is just a stepping stone to create things that will change the world for the better..
...For instance, a monkey with four asses.
How the hell does a monkey with four asses change the world for the better?
Now, a monkey with five asses, that would be a marvelous achievement.
I just can't help thinking that sorting out such basic problems as hunger and poverty...
The only real solution to these problems is education. Everything else is just a temporary fix.
2 displays == 2x the cost
That's only true if the entire cost comes from a single display. It's like saying that having 2 GB of RAM in your computer makes it twice as expensive as it would be if it had 1 GB of RAM.
What's that you say? You have a better version coming next year? Well, thanks for being so honest - we'll put our checkbook back in our pocket rather than giving you money for the obsolescent model now.
And what reasonable company doesn't come out with a "better version" of whatever they sell next year?
We really only have one ocean, it's just convenient to apply different names to parts that have a large continent between them. There may have been the belief at some time in history that the oceans weren't all connected (I find this highly likely, but I don't feel like searching for proof).
Anyone who doesn't have a religious agenda to promote tends to find it pretty dang obvious that the Jewish flood story was based off the Babylonian/Sumerian one.
Sure, plenty of cultures in western Asia at the time had similar flood stories. How do you leap to the conclusion that these stories weren't based on some real event?
I can't believe how far some people will go to twist the true nature of a thing until they can claim it stands for its exact opposite. What's even worse is that it gets by people whose only job is to check this stuff out before posting it to the front page of a widely read website.
Take a look at which "editor" posted this story. I'd be surprised if this even ends up being the worst article posted by kdawson today.
No one who supports state-sponsorship of corporations is right-wing. That's fascism, and it belongs on the left side of the scale as an authoritarian state.
Minor correction, but authoritarianism isn't really a left/right attribute. There are both left-wing authoritarians (Stalin is probably the most famous example) and right-wing authoritarians (there's tons of them these days, with Bush being a prime example). Politcal Compass is a very interesting read.
Until we see an intergalactic threat, I doubt we'll see the kind of R&D needed to really accomplish this.
See, that's the problem. It doesn't require an "intergalactic threat" for us to be in trouble. We already know about one definite cause of Earth's destruction, and it's only about 93 million miles away. If we keep saying, "we have plenty of time," eventually it won't be true.
Just imagine how much healthier our Republic would be if, instead of 60% socialists, 20% democrats and 20% republicans, the ratio was 30% democrats, 30% republicans, 30% libertarians, and 10% socialists
There, fixed it for ya.
The only people that think Democrats are socialists are people who don't know any actual socialists. Kucinich was the only candidate in 2008 that's even slightly left of center. Most Democrats in the federal government are just less extreme authoritarian corporatists than the average Republican. Politics in the United States is far enough to the right that centrists get labeled as communists. If you want to see some real socialists, talk to the left-wing parties in Europe sometime.
Then come the sandworms
Then you have to spend your entire afterlife worrying about the next sandworm attack.
that over a field in AZ
um, blame the cold meds. PA. :P
Well, the 'P' and 'Z' keys are practically right next to each other.
In my opinion the Terry Goodkind books are far more entertaining although they got quite monotonous at least things happened in them rather than the...the trip took 6 days...on day one...over and over and over...
I think this is why I won't bother reading Wheel of Time. After four or five Terry Goodkind books, I felt like I was in Groundhog Day. "Main character gets a new wife then saves the world" isn't quite as exciting the fifth time around. From what I've heard and read online, Wheel of Time is pretty much the same, except with twice as many books.
Of course, I have an entire shelf of Terry Pratchett books, so my opinions may be atypical.
I just noticed that I have an excuse. Newegg calls them "Solid State Disks", which is where I got it from. I don't know if one is more "official" than the other.
If the government said, "Y'know, we'd like to exert more control over the blogosphere, over all electronic media, really: restrict what is said, know the identities of who is saying it, get a firm handle on who is on the mailing lists of Markos Moulitsas and Rush Limbaugh... whaddya say, citizens, can we do that?" the answer would be a resounding, "Who won American Idol last night?"
Fixed that for you. Your faith in humanity is admirable, but unfortunately I don't think it matches reality too well.
Take a look at New England, Verizon sold off its lines there, and now the company is filing for bankruptcy and their service is horrible.
I know someone that works for the company that Verizon sold their lines to. She said the employees refer to the company as "the F-word" in public because they don't dare let people on the street find out that they work there.
Private enterprise at its finest, huh?