Slashdot Mirror

This is the one that has been patched by Microsoft.

I guess you thought it's just not possible for there to be more than one hole per rendering engine, right?

Unregister the dll that provides WMF viewing. Click Start, Run, and enter this:

    REGSVR32 /U SHIMGVW.DLL

Sunbelt has more detail here.

is RSS really important enough to put into the OS?
Sure it is.
I have the following RSS feeds for Firefox in my Knoppix remaster:
BBC News
Yahoo News
Slashdot
Google News
ABC News
FOXNews
Linux Today
Rapidweather Blog
I have just the one blog, mine. While I view a web page, I can quickly drop down the various stories from these feeds by just waving my mouse cursor across them. If I do see something I might want to read, I click on it. I get a lot of news scanned for interesting stories quickly with those seven feeds. The Rapidweather Blog RSS feed is there for others to check out, I already know what's there ;-)
I'd put more RSS feeds there, but I need the browser to fit 800x600 as well as 1024x768.
Oh, wait. Here's an interesting story now:
Disneyland Christmas Tree Catches Fire.

There's a great video podcast called Chasing Windmills. A fictional episodic series about the lives of a young couple. It feature very true to life writing, and it is filmed and acted very well. It should provide tangible evidence that videoblogs/videopodcasts don't have to suck. There will be good ones. To see it, go to http://chasingmills.blogspot.com/ I think the episodes are all worth watching, only two episodes were not so good. The others were all gold.

Especially if the guy running the blog is like that ...

You should take his blog (here) and make a new one that is an absolute copy ;)

MN Stories is a local blog that has received some attention when it was named a finalist in the 2005 Weblog Awards for best video blog.

Then there is Chasing Windmills, another Minneapolis based "vlog" which IMHO is really more of a running series than a "blog".

I don't particuarly care for them (or videocasts) right now, but they are a fledgling arena. I'm sure they will improve with time though. We'll see.

• TX isolation levels (1) READ UNCOMMITTED
• TX isolation levels (2) READ COMMITTED
• TX isolation levels (3) REPEATABLE READ, SERIALIZABLE

It's been this way (except XA, added in 5.0) for years now. I suggest trying it yourself.

You might also find the blog aggregator at Planet MySQL interesting.

• TX isolation levels (1) READ UNCOMMITTED
• TX isolation levels (2) READ COMMITTED
• TX isolation levels (3) REPEATABLE READ, SERIALIZABLE

It's been this way (except XA, added in 5.0) for years now. I suggest trying it yourself.

You might also find the blog aggregator at Planet MySQL interesting.

• TX isolation levels (1) READ UNCOMMITTED
• TX isolation levels (2) READ COMMITTED
• TX isolation levels (3) REPEATABLE READ, SERIALIZABLE

It's been this way (except XA, added in 5.0) for years now. I suggest trying it yourself.

You might also find the blog aggregator at Planet MySQL interesting.

If downloading isn't time sensitive, I don't know what is.

I agree totally. The web may be primarily text, but google video of the day is nice, not to mention streaming video clips from the BBC, video tutorials on new programming tools, etc. And just listening to the radio while you surf. Anyone who thinks that this stuff is the same if you wait half an hour for it to download has never used it. Heck, a minute's wait really breaks the experience of it.

For reference, I'm on a UK ISP with a 4Mb uncapped account. I could use a little more bandwidth once in a while for GVOD.

The video web is waking up, and it's hungry for bandwidth.

That's not only France.
The EU seems to restrict the overall tv content of all EU members to be at least 50% but it is ignored by many tv stations or is not possible by small countries ( http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/forum/1998/ august/critique.html ,
http://the-script.blogspot.com/ ).

And this is got. If there would be more than 50% non-us-content it would cause an uproar by politicians.

Google will come up with GoogleRate, a neat application that will automatically search for, record, archive, and then verify all these claims and predictions that everyone makes.

You're probably joking, but back in September Google mentioned that they've set up a prediction market system to use within their company, for the purpose of forecasting things like product launch dates and "many other things of strategic importance". I wouldn't be surprised if this is a lead-in to creating a publically-open prediction market for more general events, sort of like the Foresight Exchange, Yahoo's Buzz Game, or TradeSports.

Of course, they'd probably add some sort of Google-specific twist to it, such as forecasting the number of news reports or blog write-ups on a particular keyword (i.e. its "importance" or "impact"), or the future PageRank of a particular site. They probably couldn't legally use real money directly, so perhaps they'd raffle prizes based on earnings, sort of like Yahoo's done.

I should probably add the disclaimer that I have a bit of an obsession with prediction markets. They're statistically the best way to predict the future, better than either opinion polls or individual experts.

To counter abuse, drug makers are developing ways to reformulate prescription painkillers. Purdue Pharma in Stamford, Conn., which makes OxyContin, is thinking of adding a second drug, called an opiate antagonist, that neutralizes the effects of the opiate.

The antagonist would be walled off using polymers or some other sequestering technique, said Dr. David Haddox, the company's vice president of health policy.

A patient who swallowed the drug would get full pain relief, as intended. But if someone tampered with the pills, the antagonist would be released.
...
A second approach is to mix in a chemical irritant like capsaicin, the main ingredient of hot chili peppers, said Dr. Woolf, who has a patent on the idea.

Because the esophagus and stomach do not have many receptors for hot peppers, patients could take the pills as prescribed and find relief, he said. But the lining of the nose and cheeks are loaded with pepper receptors, and anyone who ground up such a pill would get a burning feeling in the chest, face, rectum and extremities, as well as paroxysmal coughing.

I have also bought this book for myself. And it is everything what the reviewer says it is. In fact, I decided to buy this book after reading a review of the book at http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/12/book-review- self-service-linux.html. And boy! I was able to set right quite a few problems related to softwares after reading this book. I strongly recommend buying this book.

This doesn't exactly sound like what you said a month ago "We will fight to the end. Anyone who knows me knows that I don't take on something unless I am prepared to fight to the end. Also, anyone who knows me knows that the one thing I can't stand is a bully. The RIAA will give up long before we do, because sooner or later it will dawn upon them that their attorneys are taking them for a ride."

So if you feel the case is so airtight, are you abandoning Ms. Santangelo in order to save the RIAA money? I mean since you said she would get damages involving the RIAA paying her legal costs once she wins. I'd still like to believe in you, but the fish stinks at the head.

Ouch!

mitch

Thankfully, the EFF has sent its lawyers to defend the poor lady.

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2005 /12/magistrate-conference-scheduled-in.html

FYI, this is an old troll: Example one, example two, example three (and even repeated off slashdot).

There are a lot of falsehoods and misleading information being reported about this case. A full set of court documents is available; scroll down to "Elektra v. Santangelo".

First, Ms. Santangelo is not being charged with just downloading. The complaint actually says that Ms. Santangelo used Kazaa "to download the Copyrighted Recordings, to distribute the Copyrighted Recordings to the public, and/or to make the Copyrighted Recordings available for distribution to others." As evidence for this charge they present a series of screen shots of Kazaa showing an account that is offering thousands of songs available for upload. Their claim is that this account corresponds to Ms. Santangelo's computer, although no evidence for that has been presented yet at this stage of the proceedings.

They did not inspect Ms. Santangelo's computer, which supposedly is in her ex-husband's possession and has had the disk wiped due to virus infections. They got the data from Kazaa by looking at the files which were (supposedly) being offered by her computer for upload.

So this is not a case of "downloading", it is a case of downloading and/or offering to upload. If that account actually does correspond to Ms. Santangelo's computer, the simplest explanation is that her kids were doing it, and she is responsible for their actions.

Even if it is the kids' friend, it's unlikely that he downloaded thousands of songs onto their computer without the kids knowing it. And even if he did, Ms. Santangelo could still be liable herself, and then she would have to sue the friend to recover damages on her own. In other words, she would owe millions of dollars to the RIAA, and then she would sue the friend for millions to cover her debts. But the RIAA would not depend on her success in suing the friend.

In short, instead of paying a few thousand to settle this and make it go away (and punishing the kids for getting the family into this mess), she is now out many times that already, and is likely to end up owing an astronomical sum. Her only recourse will be to declare bankruptcy.

There are two lessons from this. The first is that parents ought to keep better track of what their kids (and their kids' friends) are doing on the family computer. But the deeper lesson is that even with cases like this in the press, the odds are still so much against any given person being caught that most parents still don't worry about it. Unless or until we reach the point where most people have personal friends who have been sued, or at least friends of friends, nobody is going to take these threats seriously. At this point it's still like being struck by lightning or killed by bears, a theoretical threat that is so abstract and rare that few people take it seriously.

You might be interested in the perception of bounties in some bigger projects.

Once, Aaron Seigo writes about why he sees bounties with scepticism, also referring to a $30,000 Gimp Bounty gone awry.
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2005/11/mutiny-on-bount y.html

And the original article by Dave Neary detailing what went wrong.

http://dneary.free.fr/gimp_bounties.html

Obviously it's not that easy to support F/OSS, especially not by offering bounties.

There are court documents on her case here (as well as other cases):

http://www.recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/

Apparently you haven't been keeping up with this case. The judge has made a number of resposes in which he displays an obvious favor for Santangelo.

Read up here, troll.

I wrote a blogpost about the Netflix settlement, where I named the law firm. A few weeks back I got a vaguely worded threat from the lawfirm - left as a HaloScan comment - with a number to call, etc.

I spoke to a pro bono lawyer who handles stuff for another website I run, and she advised it was fluff, but recommended I take the name of the firm down, as apparently the BIG firm was using a SMALL firm as a front in the lawsuit, and thereby could claim misrepresentation, lost business, etc.

'Nuff said - the firm name is gone.

• Cover your nuclear reactors with huge shades, paint them with clouds from below and trees from above.
• Paint your airport buildings roofs with reflective paint (effective in daylight sweeps only !)
• Create a "building cover" by sewing together thousands of car covers. Cover your governmental buildings before Google sweeps (need inside information here...), remove afterwards.
• Place a huge magnifying glass over your atomic establishments (Risk involved).
• Place a huge mirror over your submarine base, reflect the bastards.
• Place a huge monitor over your Prime Minister's residences, facing the sky. Broadcast what a second satellite views just a few kilometers away.
• Cover your police stations with small mountains.
• Build your army bases over modular wheeled plates. Shift them around regularly.

On a more serious note (?) Google should definitely have a "blur API" you can use to request to blur your buildings. What about painting a huge crossed "G" over required rooftops ?

Well... It's not as good as it sounds. Because for P2P to be "legal" you would have a "tax" on every single internet connection, that'd go to the RIAA's french subsidiary.

After blank CDs and DVDs, here comes the internet "tax". An open Wifi network would be illegal.

Not all that great overall.
--
Is eBay loosing it?

I'd love to believe the US system of government had enough checks and balances

Yeah, it was designed that way but over the years a two-party system has arisen that tends to remove many of those checks and balances. Here is a quote from George Washington about ANY party system (let alone a two party system). Give it a read its amazing how topical it is today and how he seemed to have an amazing grasp on what would happen.

Sadly, today if the same party controls both congress and executive there is effectivly no checks and balances and when each of the branches is controled by a different party the partisanship means nothing really gets done except finger pointing (though the second is better I guess).

Now not to say better/worse or should/shouldn't but it certainly isn't comforting to me that when congress and president were differnt parties the president was impeached basically for getting a blow job and now when they are the same party it isn't even discussed in the face of domestic spying, setting aside Geneva convetions, unlimited imprisionment without charges, torture, pre-emptive wars, etc, etc.

Obviously, "activist judge" is a dirty word today but I'm a HUGE fan of this. Almost anything the courts do can be undone by the other branches, but when one party controls both other branches the judicuary is the last chance we have for checks and balances. So I say give me more activist judges! They are required to maintain any checks and balances in our current situation. If judges get out of hand, congress can pass new laws on those points to over-ride the judges but that requires passing those laws (bringing whatever topic it is out in the open for discussion and actually having to put thier names down as voting for it).

Take a look at Remote Action Interface - RAI it's solves many security problems currently expienced using the internet. here the link to the complete article http://birarai.blogspot.com/ Bira Rai birarai

The term fourth estate is frequently attributed to the nineteenth century historian Carlyle, though he himself seems to have attributed it to Edmund Burke:

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important than they all. It is not a figure of speech, or a witty saying; it is a literal fact, .... Printing, which comes necessarily out of Writing, I say often, is equivalent to Democracy: invent Writing, Democracy is inevitable. ..... Whoever can speak, speaking now to the whole nation, becomes a power, a branch of government, with inalienable weight in law-making, in all acts of authority. It matters not what rank he has, what revenues or garnitures: the requisite thing is that he have a tongue which others will listen to; this and nothing more is requisite.

More:

"According to the API doc, the Class class "represent classes and interfaces in a running Java application". Confused? If not, you've likely been around Java for a while. What we're actually saying here is that an instance of Class represents a class or an interface. That's like calling the Collections class Lists, or the JComponent class JButton"

"StringBuilder / StringBuffer

"Hands up who can tell me the difference without looking at the API documentation. No, not you Billy - you can go and sit in the corner. No, not that one. The dark, damp one. With the rats.

"The difference is that StringBuffer is synchronised, whereas StringBuilder is not. Of course! It's so obvious!"

"Boolean

"The next syntax issue is a small one with a long name - boolean. It's irritating to write boolean every time you need one. Why not bool as chosen by C# and, prior to that, C++? (and prior to that?) Maybe it's just me, but "boolean" seems to be one of those harder words to type on a QWERTY [^] because of the spread of the letters.

"And it's not as if you have to type integer every time you want one. You just type int."

All from http://kentb.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_kentb_archive .html

I understand how someone who says "hey ID makes sense to me" could be viewed as a loudmouthed cry baby because I've met a few and when asked the big "why?" they proceed to list off reasons why evolution makes no sense which isnt exactly a Pro for ID but rather a Con for Evolution.

However, having said that, I am going to go out on a limb and say that's its my opinion that believe in evolution takes just as much faith as belief in Inteligent Design.

If you want to know why I feel that way, or just feel like proving me wrong, then read yesterdays post in my blog. Its a funny coincidence that I happened to be writing about this very thing just the other day.

Just follow your nose. It always knows.

well, this is their own list, but hey, it has some names...
http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/case-studies/

then there's this story ;)
http://xooglers.blogspot.com/2005/12/lets-get-real -database.html

hoping that "you get what you pay for" will get a swarm of professional bloodsuckers that will make sure to sell you the most expensive plan, even you could get the same quality for much less.

and, adiitionally, i don't hear much "you can trust big systems to ms products" nowadays ;)
usually stories are quite opposite...

This guy is looking for voice actors for his sf story podcast:

http://childrenofthegods.blogspot.com/

If you want more audit stories take part...

Check out Podcast of the Red Death for an original story set in Lovecraft-land. It's rough around the edges, but pretty interesting if this sort of thing is your bag.

On http://xooglers.blogspot.com/ (ex google employees blog), it is mentioned that Google had started their adsense and adwords programs in MySQL. They moved to a "real" database and had so many problems that they decided to migrate back to MySQL, which they are still using to run Adsense and Adwords today. http://xooglers.blogspot.com/2005/12/lets-get-real -database.html

On http://xooglers.blogspot.com/ (ex google employees blog), it is mentioned that Google had started their adsense and adwords programs in MySQL. They moved to a "real" database and had so many problems that they decided to migrate back to MySQL, which they are still using to run Adsense and Adwords today. http://xooglers.blogspot.com/2005/12/lets-get-real -database.html

I wrote a Linux Kernel patch to check if I would do better with Kvorak.
And I would. Someday I'll switch.

http://arhuaco.blogspot.com/2005/10/cat-prockeystr okes-keyboard-fun.html

This is the distribution with 14500 keystrokes:

n@gaira:~$ cat /proc/keystrokes
14500
q 160
w 760
e 1260
r 560
t 710
y 140
u 440
i 880
o 890
p 360
a 990
s 870
d 840
f 180
g 210
h 230
j 50
k 170
l 580
ñ 0
z 120
x 1600
c 640
v 260
b 230
n 720
m 520

I posted some stats here(I can not put them here becouse they trigger the "Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!" message :) Maybe This post is way too lame).

Anyway, if you check the stats you'll notice that My left hand is wasted! I have the 'ñ' at the home row! Insane.

(I posted those statistics by hand, someday I might use the blogger API to have the PC post by itself).

I wrote a Linux Kernel patch to check if I would do better with Kvorak.
And I would. Someday I'll switch.

http://arhuaco.blogspot.com/2005/10/cat-prockeystr okes-keyboard-fun.html

This is the distribution with 14500 keystrokes:

n@gaira:~$ cat /proc/keystrokes
14500
q 160
w 760
e 1260
r 560
t 710
y 140
u 440
i 880
o 890
p 360
a 990
s 870
d 840
f 180
g 210
h 230
j 50
k 170
l 580
ñ 0
z 120
x 1600
c 640
v 260
b 230
n 720
m 520

I posted some stats here(I can not put them here becouse they trigger the "Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!" message :) Maybe This post is way too lame).

Anyway, if you check the stats you'll notice that My left hand is wasted! I have the 'ñ' at the home row! Insane.

(I posted those statistics by hand, someday I might use the blogger API to have the PC post by itself).

You'll notice also the repeated use of the phrase "for foreign intelligence information." The problem here is that at least some of the 18,000 times this power has been used to spy on domestic political groups that posed no "terrorist" threat and certainly had no ties to foreign governments.

Your definition of speech is somewhat all-encompassing. If I were to want to "express" myself by taking pictures of naked children (without their knowledge, perhaps) and display them on billboards throughout the country your argument would permit that. You base your argument on some sort of arbitrary freedom that you think you have as a member of this country. Nowhere in the Constitution are you granted that freedom.

You picked one of maybe 5 places where I don't have a good response -- yet. I do believe that if you are taking secret pictures of naked children on your property, you likely DO own the right to those pictures. In my free market utopia (note that I don't believe in utopias), I would have to say that I would not take my children onto anyone's property without an agreement that they won't be taking private video, pictures or record our conversations. I understand that this isn't a perfect reply, but the naked children picture taking debate comes up SO OFTEN that I continue to work on my reply :) In the Constitution, a property owner DOES have the right to take pictures of anyone on that property without warning. See the 9th and 10th Amendments.

In fact, the Commerce clause gives Congress the right (and the power) to regulate commerce with foreign nations and between states

Wrong. The Commerce clause was written specifically to prevent the individual states from restricting trade. The original founders never intended Congress to restrict trade -- in fact, most of them actually said that we should never have alliances or entanglements with other countries. Trade with all, prosper with all. The Commerce clause is badly abused.

I also happen to know that you do believe that the Constitution is void, because you mentioned on your blog (http://anarcap.blogspot.com/) that you were burning your "Cato pocket Constitution" and replacing it "with a real pro-freedom guide: Champions of Freedom from the Mises Institute

I'm pro-Constitution, actually, but I am anti-State. I made that comment because Cato aligns themselves with the Constitution on their face, but behind your back they attack it at ever chance they get, it seems. A Constitution published by Cato is worthless, in my opinion, unless that Constitution is upheld as the true letter of the law for government.

Coming from that standpoint, your posturing is contradictory because you believe the government can restrict trade during time of war, but that the government itself is based upon a void document and doesn't have any power at all. So which is it? Do you believe the government can restrict trade during war, which means they can restrict trade at any time, or do you believe the government shouldn't even exist?

You are 100% correct -- in some posts I actually will say (and the end) that I don't believe in the State and am only posturing for those who do.

If our citizens want a Constitutional government, they should stick to it, and I will listen. If they don't want one, I will live outside of the law and outside of their rules. The citizens need to make a decision, so I know how to live, but they can't.

I will never accept a government that fights undeclared wars. If we could agree to a truly Constitutionally-limited government, I WILL accept a government that defers to the minority decision of an individual except when that individual commits an act of physical force against another person, or violates a contract.

Sorry for the confusion, thanks for holding me to my beliefs :)

Your definition of speech is somewhat all-encompassing. If I were to want to "express" myself by taking pictures of naked children (without their knowledge, perhaps) and display them on billboards throughout the country your argument would permit that. You base your argument on some sort of arbitrary freedom that you think you have as a member of this country. Nowhere in the Constitution are you granted that freedom.

In fact, the Commerce clause gives Congress the right (and the power) to regulate commerce with foreign nations and between states. Your hypothetical trade of arms with Iran is commerce with a foreign nation, and the Congress has every right to regulate that commerce. You cannot argue reasonably for unrestricted and unregulated trade without also arguing that the Constitution is void, because the Constitution clearly gives Congress the right to regulate trade. I also happen to know that you do believe that the Constitution is void, because you mentioned on your blog (http://anarcap.blogspot.com/) that you were burning your "Cato pocket Constitution" and replacing it "with a real pro-freedom guide: Champions of Freedom from the Mises Institute."

Coming from that standpoint, your posturing is contradictory because you believe the government can restrict trade during time of war, but that the government itself is based upon a void document and doesn't have any power at all. So which is it? Do you believe the government can restrict trade during war, which means they can restrict trade at any time, or do you believe the government shouldn't even exist?

*"this" being the United States.

Cutting HCFS demand would probably lead to more of it being burned as motor fuel (ethanol). This is a wasteful process with a very poor EROEI; the most optimistic calculations thus far show that you need at least 6/10 of a gallon-equivalent of other fuel to get a gallon of ethanol out (and the usual figure is more like 3/4).

This is one of the reasons I wrote this rant about ethanol (and also a FAQ entry on it).

Cutting HCFS demand would probably lead to more of it being burned as motor fuel (ethanol). This is a wasteful process with a very poor EROEI; the most optimistic calculations thus far show that you need at least 6/10 of a gallon-equivalent of other fuel to get a gallon of ethanol out (and the usual figure is more like 3/4).

This is one of the reasons I wrote this rant about ethanol (and also a FAQ entry on it).

I wrote about this yesterday.

Oh, did you also know this Government passed an identical law to Hitler's Enablement Act? This law enabled Hitler to assume absolute power after he burned down the Reichstag and blamed it on communists.

My Grandfather fought Hitler across two continents to protect Britain from this kind of totalitarianism. The least we can do is help the resistance campaigns at Privacy International and No2ID.

I wrote about this
    yesterday.

Oh, did you also know this Government passed an identical
    law to Hitler's Enablement Act? This law enabled Hitler to assume
    absolute power after he burned down the Reichstag and blamed it on communists.

My Grandfather fought Hitler across two continents to protect Britain from
    this kind of totalitarianism. The least we can do is help the resistance
    campaigns at Privacy International
    and No2ID.

Part of the deal that had my parents paying for my education was an undergraduate, course load heavy in Economics, Commmerce and Business Law. Having the tools to gain some perspective in how large organizations run, it's instructive to look into the internals of a giant, once prestigious organization like Los Alamos and try to trace the systemic flaws that led to it's current plight.

Part of the deal that had my parents paying for my education was an undergraduate, course load heavy in Economics, Commmerce and Business Law. Having the tools to gain some perspective in how large organizations run, it's instructive to look into the internals of a giant, once prestigious organization like Los Alamos and try to trace the systemic flaws that led to it's current plight.

I found it quite interesting to follow the latest Wales/Sanger wars, initially on real topics as the effectiveness of the Wiki model and deteriorating to Wiki-update wars on who really came with name Wikipedia... But the bottom line as I see it is simple - I hope that when these silly bashing cease, the general public will benefit from a new publicly available source of scientific/historical information. But as always, only time will tell. If you're interested, a summary of the latest Wales/Sanger wars is available here.

Please do tell me you are joking?

Mod me informative.

AFAIK, it's still speculation.
Nothing @ http://googlepress.blogspot.com/

good question. I didn't see it on their news site (at least not yet anyways)
http://googlepress.blogspot.com/

not on the company blog either (yet)
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

???
http://www.google.com/press/