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I'm afraid you are very wrong rewt66, the NT based OS was designed from the beginning to be multi-user capable system. To be clear on this, NT has very a very capable multi-user model, infact it relies on this fact, combined with a very fine grained security model (read here and here: ftp://shell.shore.net/members/w/s/ws/Support/OS/W2 K.pdf).

Security problems exist with all operating systems.

Shatter, you mentionned it, is confined to single session userspace code, and it relies on badly written privaliged code - think drivers, ... thus your citation of the shatter just demonstrates you lack of knowlege. If you want to know what is dangerous in a multiuser system then here are some examples of privalege escalation, look: here and here.

And no Windows NT was not a ground up rewrite of Windows 1.0 it is infact a entirely different design, only sharing a subset of user-space application API.

So the dude is not stupid, but he would be if he were asking you for advice

I'm afraid you are very wrong rewt66, the NT based OS was designed from the beginning to be multi-user capable system. To be clear on this, NT has very a very capable multi-user model, infact it relies on this fact, combined with a very fine grained security model (read here and here: ftp://shell.shore.net/members/w/s/ws/Support/OS/W2 K.pdf).

Security problems exist with all operating systems.

Shatter, you mentionned it, is confined to single session userspace code, and it relies on badly written privaliged code - think drivers, ... thus your citation of the shatter just demonstrates you lack of knowlege. If you want to know what is dangerous in a multiuser system then here are some examples of privalege escalation, look: here and here.

And no Windows NT was not a ground up rewrite of Windows 1.0 it is infact a entirely different design, only sharing a subset of user-space application API.

So the dude is not stupid, but he would be if he were asking you for advice

go elsewhere and never see the problem!

It's not a great example, but my mind seems to have gone temporarily blank of words that have many synonyms :(

From the summary:

they're starting to have success with automatic clustering of concepts, so that pages can match even if none of the words in your query actually appear on the page.

From the help guide:

By default, Google only returns pages that include all of your search terms.

Which of these is correct? If it's the summary, is there any way to turn this behaviour off? I find it immensely annoying.

You might find some GIS (Geographical Information System) tools, such as GRASS http://grass.itc.it/ [grass.itc.it] useful for plotting out/ organising things such as:

*likely voting patterns

*areas of responsibility for canvassing

*local issues (flooding, crime?)

*Junk mail shots... (if you want to go there!)

*And maybe a spot of gerrymandering!!

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefo x-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=define:+gerry mandering&spell=1

That might be funny, until you realize that answer was posted 9 years later, well after the XFL first (and last) season. And guess what, the "XFL guy" used Google Groups to answer to such an old post.

full post
XFL

Fh

Haha, gotta love this reply to Bezos' post about developers.

Jeff,

My name is Jonathan. I think that commerce on the Internet will never
work, because people prefer to buy things in stores. Just my two
cents, I don't want to see you wasting effort on a company that is
going to bankrupt you very quickly. If you want to hear a much better
outlet for capital funding, my start-up company is involved in
something called the XFL, which is sure to be the most successful
enterprise of the decade. Just my two cents.

-Jonathan

And Google Groups is always a lot of fun.. you can see Jeff Bezos asking some questions about marketing Amazon here, and even searching for developers here

I know somewhere the very first attempt at a bookstore by Jeff Bezos is still archived, but I can't remember where..

And Google Groups is always a lot of fun.. you can see Jeff Bezos asking some questions about marketing Amazon here, and even searching for developers here

I know somewhere the very first attempt at a bookstore by Jeff Bezos is still archived, but I can't remember where..

Uh, you can build a perfectly useful vehicle with a 1500 Watt engine. The Citroen 2CV, 2CV meaning 2 horsepower.

Okay, I'll bite. I don't work for them, and I don't see anything in my history that could possibly suggest that I did. I hate spam as much as anybody.

So what, was this just a drive-by trolling, or do you actually have a reason for believing that?

Which is why the link text at google.co.uk says "Go to Google.com".

Google's list of addresses is going to upset you then. They've already got tech centres in Bangalore and Hyderabad; presumably they didn't want to add Mumbai to the list.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=rpm+phonega im&meta= etc :-) Email me what you think.

The victim briefly describes the setup on the cam.misc newsgroup.

seeing as the mods are on crack...

take your pick..

it's considered a 'grey' area because the FSF says it's 'wrong' but if you take all the arguments into account it's just wishfull thinking on the part of the FSF and nothing to do with copyright law.
"
e.g.That may be true, but an important issue is who does the linking. The link (static or dynamic) produces a derived work. But if the dynamic linking is done by the end user, he or she has the right to produce the derived work, even containing non-GPL'd code, provided that he or she does not distribute the derived work.

Stallman may not like this interpretation, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who believes that the dynamic linking was done by the producer of the distribution. "

"

I agree; I always go through groups.google.co.uk. I remember being distinctly unimpressed with the 'new' Google groups, then figuring they'd reverted for some reason.

Actually, I think what happened was that if you go through google.com (as I always did anyway), it redirects you to google.co.uk now; then if you click on 'groups', it (google.co.uk) then takes you to groups.google.co.uk.

OTOH, if you type 'groups.google.com' *directly* into the title bar (from the UK), it *doesn't* forward you to groups.google.co.uk, as you might have expected. Had me briefly confused until I figured out what Google were doing.

The question is, does 'groups.google.co.uk' work for non-UK users (and why this inconsistency in forwarding/not forwarding?)

Just in case you didn't know, for as long as it lasts, you can still use the old version of Google Groups through the international domains. groups.google.co.uk, for example. I hope it'll work for a long time, because indeed Google Groups II is far from an improvement. :-(

Not really started in Russia:

Historical Context of Phage Therapy

More: BBC

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&lr=&q=+site:w ww.orbitz.com+orbitz/

Google is breaking the T&Cs 130,000 times - perhaps we should inform them.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&lr=&q=+site:w ww.orbitz.com+orbitz/

It appears Google has broken their terms and conditions 130,000 times - perhaps someone should inform them.

here is the clickable link version

Here :)

I remember when the Saatchi fire happened, and with all the damaged caused... I wondered if the firefighters had put out the fire, walked around to inspect the mess and for one of them to say "But is it art?". That thought makes me chuckle everytime.

I can't find the source that said this explicitly (if I'm wrong about all flights being covered I'm sorry) however the US request for PNR relates to directly accessing airline databases for those airlines whose flights that go to the US. Because the US has direct access to airline databases rather than being *given* selected PNR by the airlines there are major concerns about what degree of access US agents will be able granted (intentionally or otherwise)

Information about the agreement for direct EU-US flights via Google
Unless I've been mislead it also applies if you are on a flight route that goes to the EU and then onto the US. So if you go from Dubai to Germany and the plane goes on to the US then I understand the airline is still required to submit your PNR.

Either you don't understand what Y!Q does, or you know something about Google that I don't. Can you explain to me how I can do the equivalent of Y!Q with Google?

Like this. Look for "Only return results from the site or domain", about 4-5 lines down.

Granted, you need to copy-and-paste a bit to do what Y!Q does a little more easily, but the fundamental tech has been there for a while.

In current common usage, if the source code is available, it is open source;

I need more evidence to be persuaded that this is current common usage. Whenever I see somebody who says that, I correct them. I haven't run across any such examples for many months now.

$ ping google.com
PING google.com (216.239.37.99): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 216.239.37.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=239 time=92.3 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.37.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=239 time=93.5 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.37.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=239 time=93.1 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.37.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=239 time=102.8 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 92.3/95.4/102.8 ms

Sorry, couldn't resist. Lots of people don't mention freedom to run or distribute when describing "open source".

Well, interestingly my search for circumspect elephantitis displays exactly one result - the same number as the same search on Google!.

But the REALLY interesting thing about this is that the results are different - how about THAT for a Moogle Whack?!

Oh, you can beat that:

1987.

Even talking about software too. (The post is from 1990, but references a 1987 NSA document that explicitly mentions OS with respect to software).

Lynx - the adventure browser

That comment, and this situation, reminds me of the infamous Usenet thread, "Kicked out of school for Nethacking".

Oh, the joy of misunderstandings...

Incidentally, if you look at point 2, you will see that Valve claim that all Steam accounts sold on eBay are "either Stolen accounts or opened with stolen credit cards". So, bear that in mind if you decide to sell your legally purchased HL2 on eBay.

You can read that article via Google, here: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ny+times+a+ question+of+numbers&btnG=Google+Search&meta= It's the 2nd item right now.

Having watched the film "Super-Size-Me" yesterday, I started wondering if MacDonalds use this form of advertising.

I found a sponsored link to: www.supersizeme-thedebate.co.uk by googling for "macdonalds".

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=macdonalds&start= 0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=o rg.mozilla:en-US:official

So, I wonder who is paying for it, and how much it's gonna cost them, what with all the click fraud going on...

Come to think of it, theres nothing to stop a signed java applet running amok on your linux hard-drive either (if you disable the security or) accept the activex style security prompt.

Come to think of it, theres nothing to stop a signed java applet running amok on your linux hard-drive either (if you disable the security or) accept the activex style security prompt.

They do that already, http://www.google.co.uk/services/ offers business solutions for companies, allowing them to set up google within their networks, by the looks of things.

I know what you mean - all they had to do was a quick Google search to come up with a host of tutorials!

Call themselves geniuses...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ipod+batter y+replacement&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Or if you would like an additional 15 hours battery life, try a Belkin Backup Battery Pack for iPod:

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process ?Merchant_Id=1&Product_Id=148969

Iceland plans to become the first oil-free country by 2050.

Best of luck to them: lots of people out there are saying that we're going to reach peak oil (the point at which supply of oil can no longer meet demand) much sooner - in which case, Iceland and, well, every other country won't have any choice but to be almost entirely oil free by 2050.

If only every country was at least this forward thinking and we didn't all take energy for granted.

Here's a few references: 1 2 3 4 5 or just Google for peak oil.

Worrking google mirror with pics!

Brought to you by the letters R O and B.

Cache

Remember when media files used to be safe? When we only needed to worry about files with .exe and .zip and a few others containing viruses or malware?

Presumably that was before you learned things.

All data is safe, processing untrusted data is potentially dangerous, particularly if it is automatic.

Email is just plain text but look how many buffer overflows various email clients have had just parsing it

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=email+parsing+buf fer+overflow

and is has nothing to do with OSS/CSS they have all been vulnerable in various ways over time.

IBM to give free access to 500 patents
CNet
And others

Google cache http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:KiH513c0cEc J:support.bbc.co.uk/support/+&hl=en

The user/pass only seems to affect access to the main page. Once you view the cached version you can get access (mostly) to the sub-pages.

Extensive use of MRTG (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/) for the graphing. Someone at the beeb is/was a geek that liked their charts/graphing/Perl/etc.

Baz

But unfortunately, Google 's Cache can't be password-protected.

I definantly remember a 3d version of gta3 for the GBA , i saw a few screenshots They were using some form of raytracing engine perhaps it was just a hoax http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://ww w.gamersshop.co.uk/images/videogames/gba/big/gta3. jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.gamersshop.co.uk/show_gam e.php%3FgameID%3D660%26mi%3D96&h=250&w=250&sz=43&t bnid=5Oq4IMZFDOsJ:&tbnh=106&tbnw=106&start=1&prev= /images%3Fq%3Dgta3%2Bfor%2Bgameboy%26hl%3Den%26lr% 3D%26sa%3DNBox art i was only abble to find the box art

Try the copy on UK Google Groups, which looks much better. Hopefully Google won't alter the link automatically (they now change google.com to google.co.uk in the UK).

So, about that $5.00... ;-)

Linus marks his posts X-No-Archive these days to prevent them being included in the Usenet archive.

Linus came in on this thread and joined in the discussion, unfortunately his side of things isn't there you have to look in the plan9 version of the archive here

an example of Linus' humble prose (I'm not saying any of this is the wrong thing to say but some of it is not very as humble as you suggest):

(3) Implementation sucks. Irix and Plan-9 both get it wrong, and they
_pay_ for it. Heavily. The Linux code is just better. ...

And the plan-9/irix thing isn't. It's an abomination. ...

You don't like it. Fine. I don't care. You're myopic, and have an agenda
to push, so you want to tell others that "you can't do that, it's against
my agenda". ...

Welcome to the real world, Neo.

Stop playing around with those examples your professors showed you. They
had no relevance. ...

I can speak the newspeak as well as anybody else.

But when I speak it, I realize when I'm full of shit. ...

Yes, but don't forget Alan Turing committed suicide with an apple .....