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The FTC should have put up an 0WN3D message explaining why the site was taken down, and what to do if you were defrauded by the company in the past.
Much more informative than a blank page, and it's what the MPAA does for sites it takes down (ie. lokitorrent.com)

Then again spywareassassin.com still resides at the same IP address (66.172.78.113) that it did before, so the order was probably to remove all content. Perhaps an A record change or domain transfer to an FTC controlled server (with informational message) is iminent.
- Cary
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Thank god. The crappy html browser in the windows smartphone platform (bastardized internet explorer) was the only thing holding me back from getting one of the smartphones out there today. Symbian is still a hot contender but most symbian phones are way too bulky for my use. For some reason the windows smartphones seem to be much slimmer. Sendo has a nice proprietary smartphone setup with their Sendo X but they still haven't worked all the bugs out. The ability to use a "real" browser with a smartphone just tipped the scales, goodbye Ericsson P910!
Link to minimo project
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Redhat alienated much of their loyal userbase with the introduction of Fedora Core. This is a step in the right direction for Redhat to get back to their roots and stop concentrating so hard on their commercial offerings that they leave their grassroots projects underdevloped and insufficient. Short bio. Interview from a few years ago
- Cary
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Wow 200 lines? I bet it has tons of includes though. If image recognition is this good in 200 lines of python how have those anit-spam boxes that make you copy an obscure string to prove you're human not been broken yet. Or maybe they just have?
- Cary
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A great deal of people are buying iPod's these days. If more of them would buy mac's too Apple's market share for personal computers would greatly increase. I'm sure they originally put the dock idea in the low-cost model to attract these windows iPod buyers but the purists at Apple fought to keep the box cheap, simple, and clean.
Also, since I have karma to spare, with I googled for mac mini ipod dock I got a picture of this crazy contraption. Just thought I'd share.
- Cary
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I wish it was that easy. It's pretty hard to find a moving target with a little pocket device that gives signal strength. A better solution would be to buy a nice receiver that can process signal direction (like a newer ICOM or Uniden). Of course you'd still have to fire up the laptop to figure out what channel the SSID you're chasing is on.
Ham's have these (find the transmitting guy) things all the time. They call them foxhunts. The best anecdote I remember is one year the guy transmitting was an elderly man fishing off a bridge. He was using the fishing poll as the antenna. Nobody wanted to disturb him.
- Cary
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void translateHemos (*std::string hemosspeak) {
if (hemosspeak == "shows") {
hemossspeak = "conference"; }
}
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Basically the article says that some site-installed search engines that simply index all the files in /var/www or whatever are insecure because they will index things that httpd would return a 401 or 403 for. Makes sense. A smarter way to do such a thing would be to "crawl" the whole site on localhost:80 instead of just indexing files, that way .htaccess and the such would be preserved throughout.
Does anyone know if the Google search applicance is affected by this?
- Cary
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Hilarious that a couple of years ago a judge ruled that they have to open up their network before offering advanced features such as Video IM. They stubbornly stayed their ground and the FCC finally lifted the ruling once they lost some market share to Yahoo/MSN IM clients. And now they're opening it up anyway, shows how times have changed. I remember there being a slashdot article about this ages ago but I couldn't find it. Easy karma for anyone who does.
- Cary
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The link at the bottom of the page to the german "computerbase.de" provides much more information. Just make sure you run it through the fish.
Even after fishing it provides more detail than the original article.
- Cary
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For the serious gamer how about something like a cell GPU? Why not? It should be entirely possible. Or maybe even a dual-core GPU. Anything that is possible with the CPU is also with the GPU. It's just a microprocessor with a different instruction set. That being said, why can't we plug "CPU cards" into eachother for automatic performance increases? How much of this is limitation on technology and how much are the big players stifling innovation in the market?
- Cary
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Wait a minute here, you want me to click the link in your sig to help you get a limited slip differential for your BMW!? Because you want to redline the engine and drop the clutch? I think you should save up by kicking your hooker and blow habits, not begging slashdot. But shit, you got that BMW somehow, sign me up!
- Cary
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Much more information suitable to the slashdot crowd is available at:
http://www.virginatlanticglobalflyer.com/
We don't like press releases or watered down news articles.
Also, I bet the US government has some recon plane that has/can do something like this. I know it's possible with mid-air refueling but I bet they can do it without. Just my $0.02
- Cary
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Expecting a patient that wants to "return to normal life" is never going to leave the house is unrealistic. Why create a home network layer for this kind of application when you can use something like Bluetooth and a GSM/GPRS cell phone to relay the information instead. This way the patient can go anywhere as long as they keep their cell phone with them and the hospital can still receive updates on the patients health. They may have to shield some of the sensetive equipment from the cell transmitter however, but that's something that they should already have looked into. The Bluetooth/GPRS combo is incredibly underrated. I bought a $30 usb bluetooth dongle for my laptop and now I have wireless internet access everywhere. Albeit not that fast but sufficient for an ssh session, or in this case, sending vital signs every couple minutes.
- Cary
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It is in nature itself to create patterns which is why humans look for them everywhere. But anyway iTunes has the ability to rate the songs you listen to on a 0-5 basis so some songs will be favored over others and so you can easily create a "favorites" list. I have not heard of the iPod Shuffle importing these ratings from iTunes but it is very possible that it is. Just a possible explanation.
- Cary
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You'd think he would have compressed the jpeg a little better. An image like that shouldn't be 217k. With a "normal" jpeg compression algorithm the file is brought down to 65k with no loss in quality. Especially with the amazing 10BaseT and 2400 baud modem technology available in 1992!
- Cary
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There is a more in-depth article about this at the Boston Globe.
First ChoicePoint now this? How long until a major government database like one from the IRS gets hacked and information on almost every US citizen is available? Scary thought.
- Cary
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You can code in a way that is both easy to understand and efficient. That's what //comments are for.
Then again enough comments and the code becomes pretty murky.
My favorite code editor (little windows program called pcGRASP) has a button that will hide/show all code comments. Very useful when trying to see just the beef through a mountain of comments.
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I wonder what operating system the central Nasdaq transaction computers run. If it's Linux SCO can try to pull all sorts of conspiracy theories in the courts. But it's probably more like an old UNIX or BSD.
- Cary
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Seems like a blink of the eye since 1.0.
They removed default compatibility for international domain names. I wonder how much of an impact this will have on foreign adoption of Firefox over IE.
- Cary
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I hope the government reads the fine print on his contract before hiring him.
Asshole probably wrote the EULA's for Gator.
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No not The Onion, Salon. Which isn't much better.
And I guess it's true as CNET has picked up the story too.
He is apparently a Law Professor and teaches a class on The Regulation of Advertising.
My question is how can somebody such as himself be associated with a company like Gator that tries their best to trick consumers?
- Cary
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This would make sense as it would fit in with their "digital hub" philosophy. My only question is how would they integrate it with their existing product line?
iPodTV anyone?
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Seth's proposed improvements over the current X11/Xorg server sound very nice, but what about the core speed issue in X. X has come leaps and bounds over the past 5 years or so but still "feels" extremely sluggish compared to a similarly equipped Windows XP machine. I know it's comparing apples to oranges since X is network-based but still...
Anyone have any ideas if he plans to address performace as well?
- Cary
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Thank you very much, but next time please try to get the link right. :)
http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/
- Cary
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I'm glad that you're a big boy and can handle your computer all by yourself. However, that fact that you're reading Slashdot means you're in the great minority. We blackhole very little traffic. Hell, we don't even block any TCP ports! However if there's a class C out there that does nothing but spam/advertise/distribute spyware we're going to block it. Nothing serious, just a puny little block on 253 hosts. If you were one of our customers you could always ask us to add you to the allow-all access list. But you use AOL or Verizon DSL or comcast cable now don't you. Good luck getting them to unblock port 80 even though CodeRed/Nimda has long passed. www.patriot.net
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I work at an ISP. If all these domains point to the same class C or something I'll just block it at the router if it's purely advertising junk.
Anyone know details? Thanks.
- Cary
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Here's the press release on a different site:
http://press.arrivenet.com/aut/article.php/584418. html
Feel free to rip this server a new asshole as well.
Slashdot better not be teasing me with vaporware again! I get angry when teased!
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Good luck. Maybe you've been nice but someone with that much karma definitely been naughty. If he can see you when you're sleeping he can sure as hell see you when you're killing kittens

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There are checks against this type of thing. An advocacy group like EFF shouldn't even have to get involved.

Frivilous lawsuit damages anyone?

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all my SMS's are belong to him
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I use passwords that I do not consciously remember, but manage to do it very easily.

Instead of basing a password on a word, I base passwords on keyboard finger patterns.

For example, one of my passwords might be "pqlsnv" or maybe "ju7ft6la"

Open notepad and type one of them out. Go on, try it.

Note the alternating finger pattern.

You can create very complex passwords with this method that are virtually impervious to dictionary based password crackers.

Definitely a novelty in having a password that my fingers know by heart but my mouth couldn't recite if my life depended on it.

- Cary
Tell the FCC you demand broadband choice!"
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I recently bought a Mitsubishi Eclipse which fits this description perfectly. It has a very strong iron block, factory turbo setup, and an all-wheel-drive model. The 1990-1999 Eclipse's are referred to as DSM's (Diamond Star Motors). Diamond Star Motors is(was) a partnership between Mitsubishi, Eagle (Chrysler), and Plymouth. The Mitsubishi Eclipse, Eagle Talon, and Plymouth Laser (90-94 only) are all the exact same car with very subtle external "branding differences." Many of these cars are available today for less than $5000, and up to 100hp can be added for as little as $1000. Sure beats modding a civic!

For more information the forums on dsmtuners.com and dsmtalk.com are an invaluable reference.

- Cary
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(somehow using wget?)

wget -m (mirror)
like this: http://patriot.net/~cary/www.physorg.com/news1524. html

hell of a lot more bandwidth than your poor ADSL line. enjoy.

- Cary
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I was surprised that the NRO (National reconnaissance office) was fully visible in the latest 2002 batch of USGS photos. In the old photos it appeared as nothing but a field. Then again the DoD didn't even admit it existed until 1992, and its present location in Chantilly, VA was classified until 1994. It was hilarious, before 1994 it was played off as the "Honeywell building." With 24/7 armed guards and all those satellite dishes? Yeah right!
For you Northern Virginians it's that huge building across 28 from the Capital Expo Center right before the 28/50 exits.
I was going to try and check it out with NASA's World Viewer but couldn't get at it before the server fried.

- Cary
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His "blog" is pretty interesting but right now talks more about digital TV than anything pertinent to the internet. Still a nice outreach, we'll see how often it gets updated...
In related FCC news, they just passed an order lessening the restrictions on the unlicensed 2.4Ghz and 5.8Ghz frequency bands.
The news release (pdf) says that this order removes roadblocks keeping deployment of next generation (longer range) Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices.
There is also a statement from Chairman Powell himself (more pdf)

-Cary
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5-MeO-DiPT (Foxy) - Similar to LSD with some of the "rolling" effects of MDMA (ecstacy)

2C-I - A trippy phenethylamine

5-MeO-AMT - Very potent tryptamine

2C-T-2 - Very powerful hallucinogen
What makes these "new" drugs so interesting is that many have not yet been scheduled by the DEA. Although a few on the list above were recently added to Schedule 1 by an emergency scheduling process. Unscheduled drugs are simply chemicals that can be legally possessed and sold and therefore are done so over the internet. A lot of modern "drug dealers" buy these chemicals cheap on the internet and sell them in their locality. A couple popular distributors are:

Rac:Research

LTK Research Products

Omega Fine Chemicals
Just to give you guys an idea of what kids are up to these days

- Cary
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Just upgraded and launched 0.9.1 and saw an attempt for Firefox to access h-207-126-111-205-mozilla.sv.meer.net (207.126.111.205) on port 80.
I wonder what information they're collecting.
-Cary
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I also use passwords that I do not consciously remember, but in a much less obscure manner.

Instead of basing a password on a word, I base passwords on keyboard finger patterns.

For example, one of my passwords might be "pqlsnv" or maybe "ju7ft6la"

Open notepad and type one of them out. Go on, try it.

Note the alternating finger pattern.

You can create very complex passwords with this method that are virtually impervious to dictionary based password crackers.

Definitely a novelty in having a password that my fingers know by heart but my mouth couldn't recite if my life depended on it.

- Cary
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