No, cliches already were that. Cliches have been taking arguments for a long, long time.
Maybe they do both take arguments, but I think the arguments serve a different purpose. Cliches usually describe something (probably an adj. or adv. phrase, I think). Furthermore, all writers try to avoid cliches.
Snowclones are intended to be funny or witty (and are used on purpose). They are always based on resemblance to another phrase. They seem to express an idea more often than describing something.
The above descriptions are just my subjective opinion, but I think that the differing usage of snowclones from cliches warrants a separate category with a different name.
He has an obligation to the shareholders to not be "patriotic", but instead to maximise the value of the company. He could be sued in to the ground if he didn't.
Oh, poppycock. He has an obligation to uphold the mission/charter of the company, and before that, an obligation to himself to act according to his own principles. We all do.
There are an enormous amount of laws that a school must follow (for example, administration of financial aid and proper (redundant) recording of grades). Accredited universities are regulated (and need administrators for this), so your suggestion requires more justification.
Who says you need a student body that can't teach, and a faculty that can't learn?
I'm sorry, but I can't take that suggestion seriously. My classmates could not have helped me learn CS or math with the same competence that my professors did.
We can already let blind people see by connecting cameras to their tongues. If this sort of technique becomes easier/safer, it could be used for any sort of human/machine interface. Prosthetic limbs are only the beginning...
I hope this does not have nasty side effects like increased chances of tumors...
AmaroK (a KDE audio player) made some questionable UI design decisions in the recent versions. I sometimes worry that with the goal of making Linux "easy for my grandmother to use", the actual users are left behind.
There will always be good software available. If Ubuntu swallows the Linux world, people that want something different can install BSD or opensolaris.
After using a 3-blade Gilette razor for a couple years, I tried the older 2-blade version and liked it a lot better. I can't really say why, but it seemed to give a cleaner shave and have less irritation. I consequently believe that all this "now with even more blades" nonsense is just marketing.
"And since some people don't see it, modern religions don't try to turn their followers against non-followers. "
Ever heard of Islam?
I wish enough Muslims to either agree with that or argue. The only one I know isn't much of a Muslim--he drinks alcohol, which (I think) is supposed to be a big no-no.
I am so sick of people involving Christianity whenever Scientology comes up. There is a difference between religion and cult
Agreed. And since some people don't see it, modern religions don't try to turn their followers against non-followers. They don't try to seclude followers from their families, either. They don't try to kill people that leave the fold.
Note that some religious fanatics may have the above characteristics, but fanatics do not make up the majority of the people that consider themselves religious.
I know cola has a lot more bad stuff in it but does is it a major catalyst of hypoalkemia?
Looks like the reporter just wanted to make a sensational headline.
On the other hand, how common is it to drink multiple liters of water per day? (Unless you're hiking the Grand Canyon.) If people are more likely to suffer this condition due to drinking soda, it seems fair to include "soda" in the headline.
[Scribd] just seems to act as a huge dumping ground, where anyone can put anything. The trouble is that finding anything there is like saying, "Huh, I need a new cartridge for my antique fountain pen. Maybe I'll go down to the town dump and dig around for one."
Great analogy:). However, my girlfriend said (sounding offended) that antique fountain pens don't use cartridges, as they are a new invention.
People selling goods or services are free to require payment in a set method or increment (cash only, bills only, etc) of their choosing.
But this is not a service that's being sold. It's a debt being paid. In the U.S., you can pay any debt you want in dollar bills (not sure about pennies) because it says it is "legal tender for all debts, public and private". I admit I'm not sure of the legal definition of a debt, so court ordered payments may not count.
I just meant that the file that needs to be deleted is never executed (so it can't delete itself). With an encrypted file, gpg, truecrypt, dm-crypt, or some other program is executed. That program will most likely not be configured to delete the encrypted file, under any condition.
Okay, sorry. What I meant was that if a file is read, it cannot delete itself. The case you mentioned is if the file is executed--crypto-files are generally never executed. Truecrypt (or other forensic software) just writes and reads to it, and the file cannot force truecrypt to do something (like delete it).
...this would depend entirely on the client program, because files can't delete themselves.
Wouldn't the client program have to be running to insert the password?
It depends. If the client program is TrueCrypt, I am sure that the version that a forensic examiner uses will not contain the deletion code. TrueCrypt is open source, after all--there is no reason why the government's version will contain features intended to destroy data.
That's cute. Another way is to start a file with "#!/bin/rm", and then it auto-deletes. But it still needs to be opened in a certain way in order to be deleted...
How about a third password that decrypt the non-secret part, but deletes the secret part?
Data is normally backed up before it is analyzed, so this would not help--besides, this would depend entirely on the client program, because files can't delete themselves.
The tool claims to be able to detect patterns that indicate files. So if you give them your first password, they can look for said patterns within the first encrypted file, thereby displaying that a second level of encryption exists.
No, no, no... this isn't hiding an encrypted blob in another encrypted blob. This is just one encrypted filesystem, where some files can be unlocked with one password, and other files can be unlocked with another. As far as I know, there is no way to get at or analyze partially decrypted data.
I would recommend that you don't give out root access to script kiddies on systems where you don't want them to install root kits.
Is it so hard to write a daemon that essentially does "do sudo install_rootkit; sleep 5; while [ $? -ne 0 ]". The syntax may be wrong, but it just tries running sudo until it works. In most systems, sudo permissions are system-wide--once a user uses sudo to install some software, the daemon will succeed in its attempt to get root. Is there a reason this won't work on most linux desktop systems? (Obviously it won't work if the affected account doesn't have sudo.)
This is a desktop system, the user probably either has sudo access, or the user has the same password as root. Either way, that can lead to nasty programs getting root access, unless the user is both careful and paranoid. (I think I'm careful, but my sudo isn't configured with the strictest settings.)
You also don't get any IDEs, or debuggers, or vim or emacs. There's vi, nano, a graphical editor with almost as many features as notepad and (IIRC), jove.
That really depends on the place you participate in the contest. (It is probably more controlled at the national level.) When I participated in an ACM contest last year, they did not care what IDEs we used--we could even install additional IDEs. They were similarly free with documentation, but I think they wanted us to download it in advance (no google searches during the contest).
Actually, I go through 2 days of "cold turkey" a week (maintenance days), and don't consider it macho or anything like that.
I agree--that's quite reasonable. But if you drink every day for a few months, then decide to go cold turkey, you're going through more pain than you need to.
Consumer's relationship with Amazon is voluntary. If Amazon does too much of this, consumers will avoid them.
I think that amazon is a great retailer in a lot of ways (low prices, best selection), but they do arbitrarily ban customers. This makes it safer to buy from smaller retailers if I can, because I don't want my amazon.com account canceled when I need to return something. I have started preferring smaller retailers, and I hope others do the same.
Agreed. Of every screen I've ever used (including several computer labs), I've seen precisely *one* with a dead pixel. A screen that develops a dead pixel during its warranty period is defective.
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No, cliches already were that. Cliches have been taking arguments for a long, long time.
Maybe they do both take arguments, but I think the arguments serve a different purpose. Cliches usually describe something (probably an adj. or adv. phrase, I think). Furthermore, all writers try to avoid cliches.
Snowclones are intended to be funny or witty (and are used on purpose). They are always based on resemblance to another phrase. They seem to express an idea more often than describing something.
The above descriptions are just my subjective opinion, but I think that the differing usage of snowclones from cliches warrants a separate category with a different name.
on't get me started on "snowclone", which is just a fancy and incredibly stupid word for cliche.
A snowclone is to a cliche as a (bash) function is to an alias. (I'm sorry.)
He has an obligation to the shareholders to not be "patriotic", but instead to maximise the value of the company. He could be sued in to the ground if he didn't.
Oh, poppycock. He has an obligation to uphold the mission/charter of the company, and before that, an obligation to himself to act according to his own principles. We all do.
Who says you need administrators?
There are an enormous amount of laws that a school must follow (for example, administration of financial aid and proper (redundant) recording of grades). Accredited universities are regulated (and need administrators for this), so your suggestion requires more justification.
Who says you need a student body that can't teach, and a faculty that can't learn?
I'm sorry, but I can't take that suggestion seriously. My classmates could not have helped me learn CS or math with the same competence that my professors did.
We can already let blind people see by connecting cameras to their tongues. If this sort of technique becomes easier/safer, it could be used for any sort of human/machine interface. Prosthetic limbs are only the beginning...
I hope this does not have nasty side effects like increased chances of tumors...
AmaroK (a KDE audio player) made some questionable UI design decisions in the recent versions. I sometimes worry that with the goal of making Linux "easy for my grandmother to use", the actual users are left behind.
There will always be good software available. If Ubuntu swallows the Linux world, people that want something different can install BSD or opensolaris.
After using a 3-blade Gilette razor for a couple years, I tried the older 2-blade version and liked it a lot better. I can't really say why, but it seemed to give a cleaner shave and have less irritation. I consequently believe that all this "now with even more blades" nonsense is just marketing.
"And since some people don't see it, modern religions don't try to turn their followers against non-followers. "
Ever heard of Islam?
I wish enough Muslims to either agree with that or argue. The only one I know isn't much of a Muslim--he drinks alcohol, which (I think) is supposed to be a big no-no.
You bring up interesting questions, and it's good to hear a reminder that religion is about more than just a belief in a god.
I am so sick of people involving Christianity whenever Scientology comes up. There is a difference between religion and cult
Agreed. And since some people don't see it, modern religions don't try to turn their followers against non-followers. They don't try to seclude followers from their families, either. They don't try to kill people that leave the fold.
Note that some religious fanatics may have the above characteristics, but fanatics do not make up the majority of the people that consider themselves religious.
I know cola has a lot more bad stuff in it but does is it a major catalyst of hypoalkemia?
Looks like the reporter just wanted to make a sensational headline.
On the other hand, how common is it to drink multiple liters of water per day? (Unless you're hiking the Grand Canyon.) If people are more likely to suffer this condition due to drinking soda, it seems fair to include "soda" in the headline.
[Scribd] just seems to act as a huge dumping ground, where anyone can put anything. The trouble is that finding anything there is like saying, "Huh, I need a new cartridge for my antique fountain pen. Maybe I'll go down to the town dump and dig around for one."
Great analogy :). However, my girlfriend said (sounding offended) that antique fountain pens don't use cartridges, as they are a new invention.
It is (prohibited), at least in the U.S.
People selling goods or services are free to require payment in a set method or increment (cash only, bills only, etc) of their choosing.
But this is not a service that's being sold. It's a debt being paid. In the U.S., you can pay any debt you want in dollar bills (not sure about pennies) because it says it is "legal tender for all debts, public and private". I admit I'm not sure of the legal definition of a debt, so court ordered payments may not count.
I just meant that the file that needs to be deleted is never executed (so it can't delete itself). With an encrypted file, gpg, truecrypt, dm-crypt, or some other program is executed. That program will most likely not be configured to delete the encrypted file, under any condition.
Okay, sorry. What I meant was that if a file is read, it cannot delete itself. The case you mentioned is if the file is executed--crypto-files are generally never executed. Truecrypt (or other forensic software) just writes and reads to it, and the file cannot force truecrypt to do something (like delete it).
...this would depend entirely on the client program, because files can't delete themselves.
Wouldn't the client program have to be running to insert the password?
It depends. If the client program is TrueCrypt, I am sure that the version that a forensic examiner uses will not contain the deletion code. TrueCrypt is open source, after all--there is no reason why the government's version will contain features intended to destroy data.
That's cute. Another way is to start a file with "#!/bin/rm", and then it auto-deletes. But it still needs to be opened in a certain way in order to be deleted...
How about a third password that decrypt the non-secret part, but deletes the secret part?
Data is normally backed up before it is analyzed, so this would not help--besides, this would depend entirely on the client program, because files can't delete themselves.
The tool claims to be able to detect patterns that indicate files. So if you give them your first password, they can look for said patterns within the first encrypted file, thereby displaying that a second level of encryption exists.
No, no, no... this isn't hiding an encrypted blob in another encrypted blob. This is just one encrypted filesystem, where some files can be unlocked with one password, and other files can be unlocked with another. As far as I know, there is no way to get at or analyze partially decrypted data.
I would recommend that you don't give out root access to script kiddies on systems where you don't want them to install root kits.
Is it so hard to write a daemon that essentially does "do sudo install_rootkit; sleep 5; while [ $? -ne 0 ]". The syntax may be wrong, but it just tries running sudo until it works. In most systems, sudo permissions are system-wide--once a user uses sudo to install some software, the daemon will succeed in its attempt to get root. Is there a reason this won't work on most linux desktop systems? (Obviously it won't work if the affected account doesn't have sudo.)
This attack still requires root access
This is a desktop system, the user probably either has sudo access, or the user has the same password as root. Either way, that can lead to nasty programs getting root access, unless the user is both careful and paranoid. (I think I'm careful, but my sudo isn't configured with the strictest settings.)
You also don't get any IDEs, or debuggers, or vim or emacs. There's vi, nano, a graphical editor with almost as many features as notepad and (IIRC), jove.
That really depends on the place you participate in the contest. (It is probably more controlled at the national level.) When I participated in an ACM contest last year, they did not care what IDEs we used--we could even install additional IDEs. They were similarly free with documentation, but I think they wanted us to download it in advance (no google searches during the contest).
Actually, I go through 2 days of "cold turkey" a week (maintenance days), and don't consider it macho or anything like that.
I agree--that's quite reasonable. But if you drink every day for a few months, then decide to go cold turkey, you're going through more pain than you need to.
Consumer's relationship with Amazon is voluntary. If Amazon does too much of this, consumers will avoid them.
I think that amazon is a great retailer in a lot of ways (low prices, best selection), but they do arbitrarily ban customers. This makes it safer to buy from smaller retailers if I can, because I don't want my amazon.com account canceled when I need to return something. I have started preferring smaller retailers, and I hope others do the same.
Agreed. Of every screen I've ever used (including several computer labs), I've seen precisely *one* with a dead pixel. A screen that develops a dead pixel during its warranty period is defective.