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One of the actual hackers who occasionally reads stuff from here in his RSS feed. Generally hated by self styled "entrepreneurs". Probably because I am too busy being awesome to swoon over their pedantic musings.

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If not for the liberal use of cameras the world would never have heard of Neda in Iran. The US is effectively on a path to making it illegal to spread truth... maybe it is just a small sliver of truth. But I would rather be judged on that small sliver of truth than end up in a situation where it is my word against a police officer.

It's an interesting question though.

It looks like a user could reset an environment variable, resulting in convincing the PAM module ( running as root ) to write a file somewhere the user should not be able to write. I assume since this could allow root access, it can overwrite something that can be executed as root by another process.

I read "The Search for God and Guinness", fun read even if you aren't religious ( I am not ):

http://www.scribd.com/doc/20861910/The-Search-for-God-and-Gu...

Just saw this, I haven't given it a listen yer, but I do intend to. Looks fun:

http://www.thedigitalhubelevate.com/memoirs_of_guinness

Also Guinness makes their employment archives available to descendents of past workers, which is pretty neat:

http://www.guinness-storehouse.com/en/somehistory.aspx

The only thing I dislike about the beagle board is that the generation 1 had a faulty USB interface. Also the Serial Connection is a 9 pin. I'd rather they just let me use a standard ft cable.

=/ Arm units are definitely cool. Look at the maple leaf, and other Arm 3 based units. Very very cheap stuff. Very very powerful.

Arm is definitely seizing control of the embedded device market, and linux with it.

It will be difficult to make inroads against HP Server Automation, but I am sure people would love to see you succeed.

That being said, this is very much a solution services business. You will need more than core talent. A lot more.

Wow, that's a horrifically one sided and incorrect view. Only held btw in the US, and by people who are not familiar with the actual history. Ford, like GM and IBM invests considerable effort in hiding their roles in that war.

Ford however, was one of the few who "took sides". They didn't just support the Nazis for economic reasons ( which is pretty damned horrific ), they actually hindered allied production purposefully.

Also, he got lucky. He built one of the first car companies and he did a good job at first. End result is he ended up being one of the big 3. Every industry has em. He was in the right place at the right time. From then on he had a large enough enterprise that it could run itself, all he had to do was sit back and not get too involved. Which he couldn't do. He nearly bankrupted the company and embarked on a bunch of inglorious economic escapades resulting in him being kicked out of the Ford.

I mean... jesus, who the hell taught you people history? How can you possibly look up to this guy FOR ANYTHING. He was a bull headed arrogant deceitful bastard who tried very hard to quite literally destroy his own country and his people.

Uhm, Henry Ford was known for violently suppressing unions in his factories. He considered unions to be closely tied to "Jewish Zionist" ambitions. He was also a heavy monetary supporter of Adolf Hitler. In fact, he refused to give back awards he received from the Third Reicht, and was in fact buried with them. Oh, and he was illiterate.

So word of advice... don't take advice from Henry Ford.

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I've seen worse offices, and better offices, but yes... offices are soul crushing prisons the likes of which would haunt your very dreams.