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Without a cert, how can your subscribers be certain that their ISP isn't tampering with the connection? Comcast has been caught injecting advertisement display scripts.

I understand Comcast's wrongdoing, but this is a smokescreen from the browser makers altering features purportedly for protection from ISPs and the likes of the NSA.

Governments and non-governments can subvert the CAs and nobody would know better. As
https://www.webopedia.com/TERM... says,

A false digital certificate used to secure Web sites. A rogue Certification Authority (CA) certificate allows malicious users to impersonate any Web site on the Internet, including banking and e-commerce sites secured using the HTTPS protocol. A rogue CA certificate would be seen as trusted by Web browsers, and it is harmful because it can appear to be signed by one of the root CAs that browsers trust by default.

My issue is that private browser makers, not the full WWW Consortium (as little as I trust them), are now the defacto owners of policy decisions with impunity. It's good to repeat the words from the submission that "Google is a guest on the web, as we all are. Guests don't make the rules." We all know that 1) Google is a latecomer browser maker, at that! and 2) making the rules and tracking the Android users is precisely why they made the browser in the first place.

This all ends with Google closing off all roads to fit their own advertising agenda. They are extremely powerful as proven with what they have done with/to Firefox (which had the tables turned at one point when they enjoyed a sizeable portion of Google's current browser market share numbers --they thought Firefox would just be OK when they allowed the Goog to take the passenger seat in exchange for a juicy paycheck from search bar revenues)

So I take browser maker decisions with a grain of salt. "First, they came for my mixed content iframes" but I did nothing because Firefox would be fine. But then Firefox and IE, and Opera, and everyone else relented. Granted, these "security" decisions make sense, but removing the option from the GUI, or about:config or the command line is a jerk move designed to TVO-ize our browsers to the point that we end up with railroaded GUIs for products that are little more than pre-approved "assistants" (computer applications are meant to be tools allowing experts to be experts, but everything companies do today facilitates sinking us all along with the rest of the masses that dug the whole in the ground for their own eternal september) and which have unexplained outages with useless error messages. https://slashdot.org/comments....
The worst part of this is, computers are programmable, but our apathy is letting companies turn them into little more than glass panes into a pay-per-view world that we no longer have a say in.

How often is it that you have a brand new system, in which you get to choose your language? Unless you are independently wealthy, or part of a funded started (indirectly independently wealthy, partially) the answer is probably not very often. Whenever someone has a brand new, completely open, technological problem, they have a green field.

This is not very common, at least for me. I have a BS + MS in computer science, worked for three years as an employee in two companies, and now own my own small software company (with two guys I pay to write code for me) and have been in business for myself for four years. I charge enough money to pay my people, and my bills, through revenue. That means, by definition, that my customers have to be able to pay. I live in a poor state, without a tidal wave of venture capital. Almost everyone here has a legacy system, which is generating them money, which they can use to pay us. Those systems come with constraints.

There have been three times in my 10+ years of experience creating software during which I was able to 100% choose everything technology related for a project. Once was part of a barely funded start up. The other was part of a successful business that contracted with my company to greatly expand their eCommerce, completely scrapping their existing system and letting me choose everything. The third is ongoing - a customer described their problem in a high level, and nothing existed to solve it. For the third example, I am bound by (light) constraints regarding the other system we are interfacing with, and it has to be web-based. Otherwise, my more than full time experience, has been as a maintenance programmer, or as a manager over a team of maintenance programmers. This guy is way more eloquent than I am about the subject, and way smarter + more successful. Think about what the very successful people have to say about these kind of things.

I think different people, in different states, have different approaches. The most poorly organized organizations, and ventures, had very few constraints. They didn't have to answer to anyone about their technological choices, and typically had money to "build something." Sometimes that results in beautiful leaps forward, for humanity as a whole. I think most of the time it doesn't. Maintenance programming means you are maintaining something useful, for someone that is interested in paying you. You'll also learn new skills, and new languages / technologies / tools, just out of necessity, rather than being freely chosen, with no constraints.

It just let's you straight through

Exactly! There's no difference between having documents on an "anonymous FTP server" and putting them up on a public web page.

For example, Brown's CS department has an anonymous FTP server, described here:
https://cs.brown.edu/about/system/services/ftp/

You can access it here:
ftp://ftp.cs.brown.edu/

Open that in your browser. All modern browsers will give you a directory listing without even prompting for a login.

Now, if someone at Brown accidentally stuck some sensitive files on that server—and I stumbled across one of those files—I can't report it without worrying that the FBI is going to come bash in my front door???

Boy some of you guys must be pretty young. Have you ever used anonymous ftp? Anonymous ftp works by entering the host, then your username, coincidentally: "anonymous" or "ftp", and then you enter your email or the password "guest". It doesn't even check if these are correct. It just let's you straight through

Coreflood, Fareit, NJWorm, Citadel, DNS Changer, Panix, GhostClick:

FAREIT ATTACKS:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

COREFLOOD ATTACKS:

http://www.secureworks.com/cyb...

LAND ATTACKS:

http://www.dshield.org/diary/L...

NJWORM ATTACKS:

http://threatpost.com/njw0rm-a...

CITADEL DNS ATTACKS:

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/...

PANIX ATTACKS:

http://www.dshield.org/diary/P...

GHOSTCLICK ATTACKS:

http://www.dshield.org/diary/F...

DNS CHANGER:

http://news.slashdot.org/story...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> Next is DNS being abused in SEO DNS piggybacking + ABUSING BGP via DNS... apk

What does "satureated" mean to you?

Are you some kind of moron, or does Samsung pay you to pretend it's not well defined thing? http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/color_saturation.html

Does this Dridex Banking Malware run on Apple OS X, Android, Linux or Microsoft Windows ..

Dude you lazy. Three seconds on Google:

"Dridex is a strain of banking malware that leverages macros in Microsoft Office to infect systems."
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/...

Perhaps you should update your lovely Wikipedia page, because it is outdated.

SATA 3.1 standard note at techreport
Webopedia info on SATA 3.x
Wikipedia's own entry on SATA 3.1
TechPowerUp article about SATA 3.1

Here's a press release from sata-io about it: in PDF format

Not only does TRIM via NCQ exist, it is in the recent specifications. You see, the thing about computer technology is that it keeps being improved. Outdated information doesn't stop that. It just becomes outdated.

For those who don't understand LC'd TLAs, here is what IT means: LEO

Just who in their right mind connects a ICS/SCADA unit directly to the Internet. Go and read up on VPN – virtual private network.

1TB is not THAT much data. You can clip 100-200 meg in one day just by goofing around on the web.

Examples of 250 GB Monthly Transfers

"It can be difficult to put a gigabyte -- let alone 250 gigabytes -- into actual usage context. Here are some examples of how different ISPs describe 250 GB of data usage:

• Send 50 million plain text e-mails (at 5KB/e-mail)
• Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song)
• Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
• Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)
• (Source: Comcast)
• Download 50,000 songs
• Download 570 (1 hour) TV shows
• Download 285 standard-definition movies
• Download 25 high-definition movies.
• (Source: Bell Aliant)
• Download one high-definition movie (approx 8 GB) every day for 30 days"

No they're not.

Applications run on software, which then runs on hardware, RedHat is still Redhat & Windows server is still Windows server.

If you're thinking something like vSphere, that's not an enterprise app either.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/enterprise_application.html

The internet was turned loose to the world for a free exchange of information to improve and enhance the species and our lives.

I am not sure if that is the case. It is best to study a timeline such as here , however the most interesting thing about the Internet is that it grew before Governments could put controls on it. Even today Governments are still playing catch-up, however in democratic countries it is almost political suicide for any government to put legislation in place for tighter control of the Internet although that does not stop some politicians (you know the "Holier than thou" or "think of the Children" types) from trying.

they implemented a feature FTP sites had implemented twenty years ago. Back then it wasn't called poking or friend requesting, it was called hammering, and you got temporarily (or sometimes permanently) banned for it.

Back then it was a common sense solution to a common problem. Ever since common sense died out in the 90's, people think common sense solutions are novel and deserve patent.

Try clicking BOTH links to see where they go. HINT: Slashdot is only half of them.

Still a valid question about why a summary posted to Slashdot links to Slashdot. I think most people that are reading Slashdot already know the URL.

But my bigger pet peeve is when a summary contains five different links and you have to play "link roulette" to try to guess the one that takes you to the relevant article - hovering over them to look at the URL's doesn't always tell you which is the relevant one.

There are advantages to having first learned programming on a computer whose memory was only 5Kb, with a 1 Megahertz processor. (A Vic 20.)

One of them undoubtedly is being able to say with a certain smug satisfaction:

Only real men program in assembly!

I suspect it means a Web bug, aka a Web beacon.

They're simple minds eh? Do you know what irony is?

Let's see... How the solutions you listed work in the conditions of TDL DNS refusing to identify the domain as registered?
Ah, I see, not only that you need to host your site elsewhere, but you need to raise a rogue DNS (outside the official hierarchy) and ask everyone interested in your site to trust it?

Many, many rogues sites don't have a fixed IP.

(methinks: the specific difference between these guys and rogue sites: their listeners. The bot herder sites can afford to use rogue DNS-es, after all the ones to trust the rogue DNS are the pieces of malware infecting the computers).

But tell you what: let's see if we can come with better ways to fail their scheme. Who's picking the gauntlet?

Here's an idea (DNS using SEO techniques): how about a group of sympathizers include in their web pages links to the IP-only URL but associating it with the name of the site (or an improbable search phrase in the content of the site)? Then Google will do the job and sorta act as a DNS substitute.
Will they seize google.co.uk?

This shows how well prepared is the british police to deal with matters regarding the internet: I reckon they never heard of the hosts file or, for an URL only, favorites. Such simple minds... life for them must be a permanent bliss.

They're simple minds eh? Do you know what irony is?

Many, many rogues sites don't have a fixed IP.

CDMA cell phone technology => CDMA

Go get an education, and a couple of decades of experience, and you'll know the difference

I have participated in starting a software company, taking it from three starters to fifty employees grown organically and sold to a bigger company, all based on one of the very first commercial Java Enterprise applications ever. I have developed embedded software in C for companies like Sorrento Networks, Cisco, Alcatel and Lucent. I have made a living from software development and related activities since the '80s. For a few years I even worked for IBM. I have worked with Sun long enough to have lamented when they went from BSD to SysV. I have developed software for DEC, Mac and NExT. I am pretty sure I have a lot more varied experience than you. Heck I have even done hardware modifications for a PDP-11 once.

I would assume you are a developer that mostly have developed software for PCs. I might be wrong but only people with a REALLY narrow focus would be as clueless as you.

The JIT is a runtime, same as any other runtime. It INTERPRETS the code

You are astonishingly clueless, and apparently unable to use a search engine: Try this article. I assume you are actually too dumb to click links, here is a quote: "At the time the bytecode is run, the just-in-time compiler will compile some or all of it to native machine code for better performance" (my emphasis). Who is right, the entire world your your dumb ass?

There's a difference between optimizing for the runtime

Again, your SPECIFIC claim was that it was not possible to optimize away getter and setter functions since Java was an interpreted language. Given that Java is COMPILED to bytecode which makes any optimization possible and then again COMPILED to native code by the Just In Time COMPILER which makes it easy, please elaborate. You have so far been unable to do anything relating to your original claim other than denying that you actually made it.

Try this article to learn what a compiler IS. Again, it seems like you are COMPLETELY at odds with the rest of the world. Can you explain why you are right and the rest of the computing world is wrong? Here are some quotes:
While the typical multi-pass compiler outputs machine code from its final pass, there are several other types

• A "source-to-source compiler"
• Stage compiler that compiles to assembly language of a theoretical machine
• Just-in-time compiler, used by Smalltalk and Java systems (my emphasis)
  • Applications are delivered in bytecode, which is compiled to native machine code just prior to execution (my emphasis)

There is also a nice article on Wikipedia about Java compiler. Wonder what that might be... The most common form of output from a Java compiler are Java class files containing platform-neutral Java bytecode. There exist also compilers emitting optimized native machine code for a particular hardware/operating system combination

How about this one? which says: Java source code files (files with a .java extension) are compiled into a format called bytecode. Heck even the DUMBEST computer dictionary on the web gets it right. Even PC Mag gets it right.

There used to be a Java interpreter on the market. It was called Bean Shell, and it interpreted Java code. I have not checked to see if it still exists. Try Google for "Java interpreter".

Yes, but if it was a PCI card, we couldn't plug these into external JBOD arrays that combine 24 drives and allows volumes/LUNs to be carved out and served up to various servers... Actually, it'd be nice if they made it SAS instead of SATA.

WTH is with high-end hardware using the low-performance ATA standard instead of SCSI nowadays, anyways?

If you take a look, they aren't all that far apart.

This article would be funny if it weren't so sad. What's the reason computer professionals don't understand SSL? Bad documentation. And neither the Slashdot summary or the article to which Slashdot links is willing to link to documentation.

The Wikipedia explanation of SSL helps. This explanation helps, also.

The Do It Yourself SSL Guide is useful.

Only worms spread by themselves. See e.g. http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2004/virus.asp

Initial Program Load

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/IPL.html

"an application of computer hardware" is a completely unidiomatic expression; no eductated native speaker would use it. Even if it wasn't, you should learn that certain words used in a specific technical context have a meaning different from their common meaning as used by laymen like yourself.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/application.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_applications
compare with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system

http://www.yourdictionary.com/application

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/51745

Do you see word, excel and powerpoint on here? http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8

What does 'arse' has to do with ANYTHING I have said?

One, you claimed that because a word exists, it means you're free to invent meanings for it. When (or if) you grow up you'll lear that it's called "giving a counter example".

Two, everything you said and ever will say is shit, because you're the worst kind of thick bastard - the kind who doesn't realise it.

So on the evidence, it's you that can't speak English, you arrogant little pillock.

Your main statement was this:

"Holy cow, how does this stuff get under the radar, especially on Slashdot?" - by TheNetAvenger (624455) on Tuesday April 28, @12:15AM (#27741331)

And it clearly did not "get under the radar": As my post which corrected for YOURS, mind you, & predated that quoted statement of yours, here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1213751&cid=27741251

PLUS - My reply was more accurate than yours, in my noting the POSIX subsystem there, specifically... Whereas you called it specifically bsd, and you are incorrect there)

However - there, or later to one of the other posters? In defense of your statement, I did state you were BASICALLY correct: In that you probably could take an unaltered tty binary from say, HP/UX & run it beneath an NT-based OS via the POSIX subsystem, though I've never tried it myself, it's supposedly doable for BOTH *NIX &/or Os/2 tty-charactermode apps, on NT-based OS'...

(Care to dispute that?)

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"again this is really wrong, as the display driver model has nothing to do with GDI." - by TheNetAvenger (624455) on Wednesday April 29, @05:28PM (#27764639)

Untrue - GDI stands for "Graphics Device Interface", see here -> http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/G/GDI.html

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"Short for Graphical Device Interface, a Windows standard for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices, such as monitors and printers."

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& it does have to do with display functions...

Also:

User32 = "The user32.dll library is required by windows and contains the program components for a large number of GUI and user functions" from http://www.auditmypc.com/process/user32.asp

Also you said this:

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"GDI is just a set of APIs, like Display Poscript/PDF on OSX is just a set of APIs to draw things on the screen and what video driver model sits underneath this has nothing to do with it." - by TheNetAvenger (624455) on Wednesday April 29, @05:28PM (#27764639)

First of all: When you come RIGHT down to it?

EVERYTHING in Windows is an "API" (i.e.-> Calleable functions from libraries), & I work with them everyday coding... just like everything you perform I/O to, is a file that you Open/Read-Write/Close...

Secondly: User32.dll does do display related functions (though it does more) such as "FlashWindow" as one of its calleable functions, & User32 + GDI do interact w/ the underlying HAL & videocard driver via the HAL, see the defintion for that, above.

(Care to dispute that also...?)

APK

P.S.=> On User32 & GDI (older NT-based OS method prior to VISTA) being "faster"? I stated that, because it does seem to paint/repaint & respond faster than VISTA does (less heavy/less overheads perhaps, but it does seem 'snappier', but that may have to do with quite a bit more than just the graphics subsystem)... apk

The typeface isn't the problem. In fact, I rather like it. It is a well-designed typeface, very readable, and appropriate for playful images - projects like children's books, comic books, children's toys and clothing, and the like. You know. its intended purpose.

The problem is, the typeface (a "typeface" is an outline/shape - it's not a "font" until it has size and weight, kerning, etc. attributed to it) has become used for things where it is completely inappropriate: the main text in "professional"[sic] web sites, books, official documents, advertisements, and so forth.

I use the typeface on occasion - but only where it's appropriate. In nearly every case where I see Comic Sans used, Helvetica or Arial or even Verdana would be far more appropriate. I won't stop using the Comic Sans typeface where it is appropriate (dialog for comic/clip art/line art images/strips, for example) but I have never nor would I ever plaster it all over the place.

No one typeface is intended to be used for all circumstances. The type of user who would use Comic Sans in a professional document is the same kind of "designer"[sic] who would mix typefaces from four or five (or more) different font families in a single document; you know, as if they were creating examples of how NOT to use typefaces.

Just as with guns, the problem isn't fonts; the problem is people.

Oh, and you're curious about my nit-picking about "font" vs. "typeface?" I'm not in the wrong here. See:

http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/fonts.asp
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/theyre-not-fonts
http://desktoppub.about.com/b/2005/05/02/2-minute-tutorial-font-vs-typeface.htm
http://www.publish.com/c/a/Graphics-Tools/Font-vs-typeface/
http://fontfeed.com/archives/font-or-typeface/

No, the last one was valid. 5-4-3 rule. You can have 5 network segments connected by 4 repeaters, where 3 of the network segments can have user connections.

Now, i could add the fact that you can have a repeater every 3 inches, but since there are already 3 active replies on the others, my message wou#@&^$*% NO CARRIER

you have the "windows guide to networking" definition of Class. Class != subnet mask. Classes are quite a bit different, and millions of times larger than you are thinking.

For example, the Class A network is:
1.0.0.1 - 126.255.255.254
Thats around 2Billion hosts, if i'm not mistaken

Class C is: 192.0.1.1 - 223.255.255.254

For reference:
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2002/IPaddressing.asp

Collisions occur when there are more than one sender on a collision domain, they don't have to be sending to the same host. Imagine you have four computers on a hub. Computer A sends a message to B while C simultaneously sends a message to D -- this is a collision.

We are really just talking about how collisions occur on a switch. Technically, they CAN'T occur on a full duplex switched network. The collision domain is the switch port and the PC port, and both can talk at once (full duplex).

Hypothetically though, if you set aside buffering, a 'collision like' conflict occurs when multiple PCs try to talk to a single port, except that one gets through and the rest are 'blocked' which is what I was trying to say. Of course, due to buffering, this is 'handled' and the conflict is actually pushed back to when the buffer overflows instead.

And yes, switches do have outbound buffers for each port so that if two sources try to send to the same host they can be done in sequence rather than causing an outbound collision on the destination port's collision domain. I am not sure what happens if this buffer becomes full, I had always assumed the switch would just begin dropping the packets (as indicated by this Cisco document).

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/backpressure.html

Dropping packets is one option. The other is to use 'back pressure' to signal to the PC to back off a bit. This can be done by sending 'fake collisions' or via 802.3x Flow Control 'pause' signals. Many switches support these modes including those from intel and cisco.

Its often better to just dropping the packets and let tcp deal with it, but in some cases you can get better performance by using flow control/back pressure features.

You have a legitimate complaint. But note that there are only two official connectors for either end of a USB cable. So at least three of the cables you use have prorprietary connectors. Obviously the computer end has to use an A connector, or else you couldn't plug it into any computer. But too many manufacturers feel free to use proprietary connectors at the device end. As you say, PITA.

Another PITA is that even devices with standard connectors don't always work with all standard cables. I bought a couple of those retractable USB cables, only to discover that they don't work with most of my devices. (I now only use them for recharging off the wall or in my car.) Some devices seem to require the cables that came with them, or that are constructed similarly. These constructions may or may not include permanent magnets near one or both ends of the cable. Devices that come with fancy cables sometimes work with cheap cables. And since I have no notion of which cables came with which devices...

But wait, there's more! The USB standard is supposed to work so that hubs are invisible to the device. Alas, many devices just don't work with hubs. It's not uncommon for USB disk makers to specify that using hubs may cause data loss. My HP printer doesn't document a "no hub" requirement, but if I plug it into a hub, it will just stop working about 500 characters into any print job.

And then there are devices with non-standard USB power requirements...

The "Internet" and "World Wide Web" are not the same thing, and using them interchangeably is incorrect usage. (WWW is just a part of the Internet)

Webopedia
Many people use the terms Internet and World Wide Web (aka. the Web) interchangeably, but in fact the two terms are not synonymous. The Internet and the Web are two separate but related things.

The Internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure. It connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the Internet. Information that travels over the Internet does so via a variety of languages known as protocols.

The World Wide Web, or simply Web, is a way of accessing information over the medium of the Internet. It is an information-sharing model that is built on top of the Internet. The Web uses the HTTP protocol, only one of the languages spoken over the Internet, to transmit data. Web services, which use HTTP to allow applications to communicate in order to exchange business logic, use the the Web to share information. The Web also utilizes browsers, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox, to access Web documents called Web pages that are linked to each other via hyperlinks. Web documents also contain graphics, sounds, text and video.

The Web is just one of the ways that information can be disseminated over the Internet. The Internet, not the Web, is also used for e-mail, which relies on SMTP, Usenet news groups, instant messaging and FTP. So the Web is just a portion of the Internet, albeit a large portion, but the two terms are not synonymous and should not be confused.

Besides, everybody knows that Al Gore invented the internet...

Binaries that launch and run at the speed of C with the ability to write in a high level language? Sounds like the future of programming to me.

C is a high level language, so that sounds like the present and past of programming too.

Personally, my wife places a lot of value on being able to reach me any time she has an important question or concern, whether I'm shopping, at work (I'm not always next to my desk phone), etc.

Most people require telephone service of some kind for the daily lives, even if it's not a cellphone. Guess what? The landline companies are the same evil companies that provide cellular service, so you're not getting away from them by using a landline.

So you're not getting away from these companies by using the internet either.

A site (location) on the World Wide Web. Each Web site contains a home page, which is the first document users see when they enter the site. The site might also contain additional documents and files. Each site is owned and managed by an individual, company or organization. (Webopedia: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/w/web_site.html ).

Cyberbullies can create Web sites that mock, torment and harass others. If these are published on a local/regional Internet Service Provider (ISP), you should copy and print out these Web sites and then contact the ISP. Give them a chance to respond and address the situtation. For most responsible IPSs in Canada, this is likely a violation of the Terms of Use or Acceptable Use Policies (AUP). Better ISPs will post a copy of their AUP in an easily accessible place as well as appropriate contact information where you can report any such abusive situations with an e-mail account such as abuse@isp.ca (example).

Unfortunately, some ISPs are not as responsible, and you may have GREAT difficulty in not only finding their AUP or abuse reporting options, but even in getting them to acknowledge your concerns, let alone having the defamatory Web site taken down. Equally unfortunately, some ISPs may not respond or take action unless you tell them that you are contacting the police, the media and/or a lawyer.

Defamatory Web sites posted on large Web hosts such as Yahoo! / Geocities, Tripod, Homestead etc. may be even harder to get the attention of, let alone see action from, so this is why www.cyberbullying.ca believes that the most effective efforts that can be made with respect to the issue of cyberbullying is based upon PREVENTION.

I believe Wikipedia. True Color is defined as millions of colors here:

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gc i213224,00.html
http://www.scala.com/definition/true-color.html
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/true_color.html
http://www.sketchpad.net/basics6.htm

All of these sights say 16 million colors. I'm sure I could easily find a dozen more. True Color MEANS millions of colors. Microsoft is just disguising their guilt with another term. Let the lawyers converge on Redmond!

All I am trying to say is, if Apple is guilty, the WHOLE INDUSTRY is guilty.

Throw it out of court before it sets a precedent!

Andy

I like to use Webopedia for succinct definitions like this.

"A global network connecting millions of computers. More than 100 countries are linked into exchanges of data, news and opinions..."
http://webopedia.com/TERM/I/Internet.html

Uh what? DNS stands for domain name system ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_system , http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DNS.html ) . This could be a system for resolving ips on a local machine (service) or a system for resolving them over the internet (servers). No one said it was a technical problem with the root servers. The registrar part of the domain name system is being stressed.

Nothing wrong with the title at all.

What do you mean, near-line. USB speeds compare favorably with other consumer harddrive connection protocols.

If by ITU you mean International Telecommunication Union, it's been a United Nations agency since 1947.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/ITU.html

I think a better term would be "deprecated." It's not "obsolete," because a lot of people still use them. However, it's obvious that DirectTV is moving away from them, and would like people to move to newer boxes, and at some point in the next few years, their usefulness will decrease substantially.

This article is talking about network appliances, not dumb terminals. See http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/dumb_terminal.html

I don't think anyone is going back to using green screens anytime soon. In fact, even the VT100 wasn't so dumb. It could show bold, blinking and double-width characters, among its other features.

So are you opposed to speed limits, or just their enforcement?

By sniff for drugs I mean technology.

Read the definition of spam.

"PC = a computer standard started by IBM around 1982."

As somebody who was involved in computing before and during that time, I can assure you that this is utter balderdash. The term "personal computer" was commonly used during the 1970s and early 1980s to describe a business computer designed for use by a single person, hence the fact that IBM used it as a name for their offering to distinguish it from their larger systems.

"You might want to check the magazines and catalogs of the time, such as Mac Mall and PC Mall, Mac World, PC World, etc. They knew the difference, even if you do not."

I have a large collection of computer publications from that period (including a several that review the original IBM PC, first Mac, etc.) and can therefore categorically state that you are utterly wrong. But don't take my word for it -- have a look at these links:

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/personal_computer. html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/total-shar e.ars

Or perhaps you might simply like to consider the fact that "Personal Computer World", a British publication, was founded in 1978, when the IBM PC wasn't even being thought about, let alone sold.

The point of DRM is to keep someone from making full use of some data they have

Its a phish attack, not spam.

While I agree that this is obviously phishing, and more specifically spear phishing, the attack did originate via Unsolicited Bulk Email, or UBE, better known as spam.

Of course not all spam is phishing, and not all phishing is spam (although all the attempts that I have personally encountered were initiated via spam).

In this case though, the phish definitely is spam.

On the local scale, yes, but if you're setting up for offset printing, you'll need color separation with a separate film or plate or whatever per color, and you'll likely specify each of those colors very precisely.

See also: Color Separation

Code morphing sound a lot like a software embedded runtime cross compiler that works at the p-Code level. In other words a JIT interpreter that runs on a chip. In other words where's the innovation.

If Intel merely utilized such methods to impliment "Code Morphing" then I don't think Transmeta should have a case. If they actually reverse engineered the Transmeta chip that would be a different matter. It wouldn't be the first time Intel was caught at it, according to experts at the time, the Xeon processor was a "reversed engineered" copy of the AMD64.

Before I had cable (5+ years ago) I had two modems in what is called a Shotgun configuration. I've never had satellite so I can't make a fair comparison. I'm sure you will get better speed with satellite but the latency may be less with a modem Shotgun. Just a thought.

BTW, is anyone still doing this?