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John Carceni has written a nice article on several remote exploits present in the new Suse.

my nuts itch.

Some prior art that dates from before their filing. Our patent system is so broken.

Perhaps this article could change your mind on the subject. It's pretty scary.

I've got the ISO mirrored here. Take it easy on it guys ;)

You're buying a firewall, not a computer. This is a good article about the phenomenon

Mirrored here along with one of my friends' experiences with this particular hardware

A version of the spaceship scale page with the HHGTG Heart of Gold ship included Here

Mirrored here I'm not sure how they plan to track people down.

Isn't this the SAME DAMN PLACE that got into such trouble last month for copying GameSpy's logos?

What sold me on them initially was the complete lack of complaints (and unending praise from Perl/PHP developers like me) on thier user message boards. A hosting provider can post all the cool technical features of thier service on thier website, but it doesn't mean diddlysquat if your customer service sucks (IOW, Verio).

Terra, their admin, really knows what he is doing, and is extremely helpful and responsive with user tech. requests. God, he even installed ImageMagick , after much user prodding!

You will NOT be sorry you went with FutureQuest.

or if the kids get too annoying, shut them up for months by sending them to this site: Scare the Kids

You just brought back one of those embarrassing first job moments. Worse than selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door, it was selling home pop-machines! Evil company called 'sodamistic', long-since-defunct, I'm sure.

A valuable formative experience in the sleazy world of hard-sell direct sales, it lets me watch movies like Tin Men or Boiler Room with an insider's appreciation, and more importantly, it taught me the importance of never ever letting a salesman inside your house. (Not that time-share group sales pitches are much better.)

For those who are interested, a google search for sodamistic turned up a minor reference in the comments section of this totally on-topic to this story web page: How to Make Your Own Carbonated Soda (Coke, Pepsi, ...).

I'd love nothing more than to toast Wayne Newton with a Flame Tank!

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• Even if this is a fake... by Transient0 (Score:3)Tuesday April 01, @05:37PM

I'd love nothing more than to toast Wayne Newton with a Flame Tank!

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• Even if this is a fake... by Transient0 (Score:3)Tuesday April 01, @05:37PM

If its that its being used...wah.

They're welcome to introduce whatever technology they want; if the market doesn't buy it, it will go away on its own. Witness the "Processor Serial Number," a good idea IMO which barfed in the marketplace because so many people screamed "Big Brother". (Apparently, those people had never heard of MAC addresses (which can be spoofed, but so can a PSN))

If its that its being patented - can someone explain why it isn't a valid patent?

Well, take a look at the patent. Specifically, examine Claim 1, which is the keystone of any patent:

What is claimed is:

1. A mechanism for detecting and deterring over-clocking of a clock signal for use in a processor, comprising:

a detection circuit adapted to detect over-clocking of a clock signal for use in the processor based on a reference signal; and

a prevention circuit adapted to prevent over-clocking of said clock signal by limiting or reducing performance of the processor in response to detection of said over-clocking of said clock signal.

Now answer this: Where's the invention?

There is nothing in Claim 1 that is novel in any way. In fact, there is nothing in the entire patent that isn't taught in high-school level electronics and programming classes! Compare the frequency of two oscillators, and then branch software based on the ratio. Yeah, THAT's innovative.

I found two typos (ex: "system basis input/output start up (BIOS)") on my first pass reading the patent, and they've had FOUR YEARS to proofread the thing.

So, I have no beef with anti-overclocking tech; it will sell or it won't. Big whoop. But patents like this one only clog the system and interfere with legitimate innovation.

For example, if I'm using a DSP in a medical device, I want to make sure that it's coming up with the correct answers. One key thing I'd want my hardware to do would be to verify the processor frequency is accurate. If the clock is wrong, I need to compensate for the error. Guess what? I just violated Claim 1 of Intel's patent! If I want the device to indicate there's a clock problem, I've busted several more claims, in particular Claim 25.

The only good thing about this patent is that it makes such a great example of Patent Bloat.

I've been seeing ads everywhere (including slashdot), that use "pageads.googesyndication.com" as their URL. They're frames (or iframes or something), with a bunch of textads.

Like this:

http://tinyurl.com/7plg

Weird stuff. Anybody have the scoop on that?

First Superman (Christopher Reeve), now Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire)? You'd think that powers like being invulnerable and spider-sense would be able to keep these actors/super-heroes out of trouble. Could it be that our childhood idols aren't as indestructable as we were led to believe?

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• Re:Super-heroes and Back Problems by MrWa (Score:2) 11:15 AM March 18th, 2003

Maybe not when it came to mathematics, but whenever I tried to teach myself a new programming language by (initially) reading a book, I never got very far because I tried to understand everything chapter by chapter. More often than not I ended up having to go back and read chapters, and frankly it was very frustrating!

Perhaps I (and anyone else who has experienced) would do well to revisit these books using this prescanning approach.

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• Re:An interesting approach by MrWa (Score:3) 10:41 AM March 18th, 2003

MSNBC is a retard. Along with AOL, the MPAA, etc., they're doing all they can to kill the Internet as anything other than a click-NOW-to-buy network.

Re-read Death From Above ... still the most salient and accurate prophecy ever written about the commercialization of the Internet.

or

http://tinyurl.com/6wud

Another backdoor found!!!!!

Stop the presses!!!! MS is full of holes!!!! OMG GASP!

YET Another backdoor found!!!!!

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or http://tinyurl.com/6ffr>

The world's longest name officially used by a person is "Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Senior" which is composed of 28 words or 192 letters.

Google it!

PC Speakers certainly have come a long way from the little buzzers we used to listen to before the days of SoundBlaster. Remember the 'Windows Speaker Driver' that gave you more than beeps and buzzing through the little cone in your case? Well now we have full Dolby Surround Sound setups, THX Certified, the works, for Gaming, DVD and Multimedia bliss. Take a look at the sweet Z-680 setup from Logitech that is reviewed here, they sport 1000 Watts of Peak Power, a hardware Dolby Pro Logic II 5.1 Decoder, Digital Inputs and serious style[slashdot.org]

Plant them in your own body[health.com].

BTW, which thing grows when you plant a bomb?

All crypto systems have deep known holes [microsoft.com] that anyone can exploit.

http://tinyurl.com/btw

Encrypted disk images are really easy to use on OS X. They're encrypted using AES-128 (much more secure than the above hardware solution) and the performance is really quite good (fast enough to playback Quicktime movies from, even on a G3.) The Apple KBase entry on how to use them is here.

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/local_ra dar.asp?nxsite=kshv&nxtype=r1&type=loop

You sure about the "spinning off" part?

"However, parent company General Motors (GM: news, chart, profile) said recently it is considering all its options, including spinning off DirecTV, keeping it or inviting other strategic partners."

From CBS MarketWatch, January 22, 2003

Hughes' stock symbol is GMH, and they're often mentioned in GM press releases and earnings reports.

A simple Google search reveals the technique already! Why is everybody so excited about this? It's been known forever.

See:
here: Locksmith School
here: Decoding 101

However, the way that mozilla renders sites is usually much more pleasant to look at than IE. Here is a fine example.

Man, that got slashdotted fast for a Sunday. I've mirrored the article, and it's got a nasty long url. Here's a tinyurl to it: http://tinyurl.com/4ui.

Slashdot fuel cell concept car

The way I see it, apple's simply walked in, ripped off YEARS of work done by the KDE team and gotten it all for free. Isn't there something that can be done about this?

A post sporting links to shorl.com and tinyurl.com that is being modded up! What is the world coming to?

Of course, as moderation of this post shows, both of them are unfortunately also rather useful for trolling, so I'm not sure how long you'll be able to use these.

here

To the Slashdot Community:

I represent a group with a strong presence in the open source community and came across this article. We are looking for the best and brightest software developers to create a new, completely open source operating system to rival Linux. We believe that our operating system has the potential to revolutionize the OS industry. Please visit our website (currently we are in the process of registering a domain name so this is a temporary site) to find out more details on our project (project code 360-p) and send us your resume so that we can see that you match our required skills. We look forward to hearing from all of you!

Sincerely,
Darryl Hall, Co-Founder
Oates Hall Industries

... as bugzilla have disabled referrals from Slashdot.

Try this one instead, it routes via yahoo first:

http://tinyurl.com/38uw

Please, support the petition that we are sending to the Finnish Government to protest this outrageous and unfair act. As a close relative of mine in Finland is a taxi driver and barely makes enough to support his family, these kinds of royalties are putting him out of money. With enough signitures, we can let the Finnish government know that we will not stand for it.

Dear Sir:

I represent a large corporation in the telecommunications sector and came across your resume on Slashdot. I would be interested in setting up a meeting to discuss a possible employment opportunity. Please visit our website to find out more details on the position (job code 360-p). We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
G. Oates
GBH Ltd.

The real URL can be found at this location.

Hello Sir,

I work for a large corporation in the telecommunications sector and came across your resume on Slashdot. I would be interested in setting up a meeting to discuss a possible employment opportunity. Please visit our website to find out more details on the position (job code 360-p). We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
G. Oates

Hello Sir,

I work for a large corporation in the telecommunications sector and came across your resume on Slashdot. I would be interested in setting up a meeting to discuss a possible employment opportunity. Please visit our website to find out more details on the position (job code 264). We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
G. Oates

According to someone on NANAE, here's a picture of the building site of his house.

According to someone on NANAE, here's a picture of the building site of his house.

It's impressive how slashdot rejects important news about the meteors detected entering a huge black hole. You can see pictures here and here, and more news here.