Actually, Mozilla gets its ass kicked by Opera in nearly every imaginable test (even IE 5.0 is better than Mozilla). I imagine the years of development were responsible for turning Mozilla into some serious bloatware and XUL (added when there was that skinning craze sometimes during the development of Mozilla, which has of course long since faded down...) gave it the killing blow.
Now, i'm only looking forward to Opera 4.0 for Windows/Linux.
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> There is only one thing left to do... stop watching MPAA movies entirely. Never fear, though... there are lots of good imports (Anime looks promising), and this could give rise to the independant films.
I think you're being overcomplicated here since there are still MPAA members' movies which are worth watching. So go rent a DVD of them somewhere, rip 'em off in MPEG (or preferably DIVX). If you can get a few friends to do the same, you can easily get an archive of hundreds of movies for almost free, which means no $ for the MPAA. And whoever still cares for IP on the verge of the 21st century is anyway lost...
Geez, it's already been mentioned thaaaat many times when someone had nothing better to do than post another/. rant, that i'm really close of just referring to earlier posts...
But alas, one more time: It's called "_NEWS_ for nerds". If they had to verify every single fucking story by phoning for their PR departement and waiting until some lazy representant/lawyer gets off their ass and replies to questions whole days would pass. Misinformations tend to be quickly solved as soon as the comments start pouring, so why care?
This isn't true. Searches don't carry their originating IP in it, only search replies do. Also the Zeropaid list was compiled from download requests, and not from searches.
A $2000-3000 laptop isn't such a big issue for a country which pays other bills in billions... And I seriously hope that the laptop had some strong harddisk encryption installed (without stupid NSA backdoors, that is) so that the theif doesn't really win anything.
Add the language 'ie-ee' to your language settings and move it all the way to the top. Then press the Search button (make sure the function hasn't been modified by your ISP), and press Customize (or whatever, I'm only familiar with the german version of IE)
Then, you'll get a Godzilla type lizard being squashed by a IE logo.
The Kansas board of education decided a few months ago that the biblical theory (Adam and Eve and stuff like that) should be teached as truth. Even though someone (the governour?) quickly overturned that decision it got them quite a bad reputaion. If you have really missed that, you must have lived behind the moon for some six months, just like the Kansas ppl have for 500 years:)
Osama bin Ladin Laden Saddam Hussein Anthrax Plutonium Uranium VX Bomb PETN Kevin Mitnick denial service
You and everyone else who is reading this post have just been indexed by Echelon! And if you see some van camping outside your house for 3 consecutive days, greet them from me, okay?
The difference between a moving body and a rotating body is that you can cut the moving body (the car) into little pieces and all of them will still fly into the same direction. If you were to do this with a (non-moving) rotating body, the parts would fly apart.
A rotating body needs a force to keep rotating. But if the force wouldn't be there, the body wouldn't stop rotating but instead explode, because every part would fly off in a different direction.
The reason why the earth keeps spinning after billions of years even though a) a force needs to keep it together & b) there is nothing present which could propel earth, is that the force doesn't move anything. And since the formula for energy consumption is: Energy = Force * Distance_moved the energy used is exactly zero.
And the reason for earth slowing down is primarily the tides (and therefore the moon). I don't know exactly how much this is every year, but in some far far away time, the earth will use 28 days for a rotation (bringing it completely in synch with the moon).
Which is probably because I haven't got the faintest idea how the US voting system works (it seems to be kinda weird, however:-)
> Aren't elections suppose to be annoymous? Can't they simply track your voting record by cross-referencing it with your pin number?
Don't you normally have numbered sheets where you have to put your vote on? That would be exactly the same. But there are laws which forbid to cross-reference them to get personal voting data.
The lack of SSL connections is however quite dumb...
I think it was back in 1995 when I saw a warez page (on Geocities) which used a feature like that. If a visitor couldn't reach the site because Geocities had taken it down, he just needed to feed "paer9udtzk6gn8modfi" (paraphrased, of course) into Altavista to be pointed to the new location.
> There are two ways that people could cheat: returning false negative results without actually checking the results, and returning false positive results when there really isn't a positive.
When talking about cheating (and generally about abusing the S@H software), people generally talk about delivering work units without actually processind them. This has been done in the past (with the closed source client), and was only detected because the lowlifes doing this forgot to forge reasonable processing times and instead sent them in with a 10 minute counter. If a more intelligent idiot would decide to boost his fame and sabotage the client by sending in bogus data, this would really sabotage S@H, and since the S@H authors are members of the holy church of 'security through obscurity' they're not gonna change their opensourcing policy anytime soon:-(
The sites' name isn't "Yahoo Quebec" but "Youhou Quebec", but it still uses the Yahoo banner. Also, it doesn't make fun out of Yahoo, but simply plagiarizes it's design and function as a moderated link-list. Since this page would be listed in search-engines under the term 'yahoo' and most people won't see the difference immediately, quite a few would believe that they got on a page produced by the well known Yahoo! And since quite a few links on the Quebec page lead to sites which contain sexual references or even p0rn (most of it has already been pulled by their respective hosting companies, i guess also because of Yahoo!), Yahoo may indeed get into some troubles with concerned parents.
Even though i don't agree with the cybersquatting laws, which will doubtless be applied here, taking a name of a well known site just to attract more visitors is extremely lame and certainly deserves to be taken action again.
Sure, projects like KDE/Gnome (no flamewar please) or Mozilla are important, but they are sponsored enough by other sources, we don't need to support them that badly. What is needed more IMHO is support for all those small coders who use a few weeks of their spare-time to write useful utilities for free (the type of software which would be distributed as 20$ shareware under Windows).
So why not create a foundation? If the money was invested with a 10% interest, we would have roughly 5000$ dollars per half year available. We could then have a/. poll every six months giving out five 1000$ prizes...
Just imagine a new generation of a Bubbleboy-Type worm (you don't seriously believe M$ has fixed every security-hole in VBS, WSH and their email-clients, don't you?), this time not without payload and several weeks after the first warnings about the signature checking in Outlook, but instead especially designed to do whatever damage you could do on a PC.
A few ideas from myself: - Randomize the registry - Insert errors in every file residing on accessable network shares - Flash the BIOS incorrectly - Burn graphics chips by overlocking them - Crash harddisks - Damage Monitors/Graphics-cards
I'm sure a good terrorist could come up with a few more tricks. If only some of these tricks work, and about 25% of NT/Win 9x boxes are hit (which isn't too unrealistic), you can prepare for some _serious_ damage. It would cost billions alone in hardware damages, but these would be dwarfed by the costs in work and lost productivity.
After the recent feature on/. about the Konqueror browser I probably wasn't the only one who was impressed by what you did with such few resources when compared to Microsoft or Mozilla. However, I have an issue with it: As Konqueror seems to have a lot more features than the really limited HTML widget in KDE 1.x, aren't you worried that Microsoft might take it as an argument in their current case vs. the DOJ that a powerful Web Browser really belongs into the operating system? Also, how will you ensure that malicious active content (mainly JavaScript-Trojan Horses/Viruses like Bubbleboy) will take advantage of the tight integration between Konqueror and the rest of the system to endanger security on the Linux platform as a whole (especially since the MSIE/Outlook Express developers have proved it more than once that adequate code validation isn't possible and does always leave room for just one more backdoor)?
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Actually, Mozilla gets its ass kicked by Opera in nearly every imaginable test (even IE 5.0 is better than Mozilla).
I imagine the years of development were responsible for turning Mozilla into some serious bloatware and XUL (added when there was that skinning craze sometimes during the development of Mozilla, which has of course long since faded down...) gave it the killing blow.
Now, i'm only looking forward to Opera 4.0 for Windows/Linux.
> There is only one thing left to do... stop watching MPAA movies entirely. Never fear, though... there are lots of good imports (Anime looks promising), and this could give rise to the independant films.
I think you're being overcomplicated here since there are still MPAA members' movies which are worth watching.
So go rent a DVD of them somewhere, rip 'em off in MPEG (or preferably DIVX). If you can get a few friends to do the same, you can easily get an archive of hundreds of movies for almost free, which means no $ for the MPAA.
And whoever still cares for IP on the verge of the 21st century is anyway lost...
I'd really like to know where Seagram thinks all those black Americans are coming from...
Censoring fascism does make about as much sense as planting bombs for peace.
Strange enough, people seem to have a problem understanding the stupidity of both methods.
Humans! Go figure...
Could prove useful someday
Good work!
Geez, it's already been mentioned thaaaat many times when someone had nothing better to do than post another /. rant, that i'm really close of just referring to earlier posts...
But alas, one more time:
It's called "_NEWS_ for nerds". If they had to verify every single fucking story by phoning for their PR departement and waiting until some lazy representant/lawyer gets off their ass and replies to questions whole days would pass.
Misinformations tend to be quickly solved as soon as the comments start pouring, so why care?
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This fucker kept me from finishing the game even if I sure tried him several dozen times
This isn't true.
Searches don't carry their originating IP in it, only search replies do.
Also the Zeropaid list was compiled from download requests, and not from searches.
Something tells me that you aren't talking about the same word 'free' as I...
A $2000-3000 laptop isn't such a big issue for a country which pays other bills in billions...
And I seriously hope that the laptop had some strong harddisk encryption installed (without stupid NSA backdoors, that is) so that the theif doesn't really win anything.
Perhaps your ISP changed the search function, so it doesn't link to the original IE search page.
Add the language 'ie-ee' to your language settings and move it all the way to the top.
Then press the Search button (make sure the function hasn't been modified by your ISP), and press Customize (or whatever, I'm only familiar with the german version of IE)
Then, you'll get a Godzilla type lizard being squashed by a IE logo.
You owe me 5$ now!
Uhhm, wait, where did my point go ???
Damn...
The Kansas board of education decided a few months ago that the biblical theory (Adam and Eve and stuff like that) should be teached as truth. :)
Even though someone (the governour?) quickly overturned that decision it got them quite a bad reputaion.
If you have really missed that, you must have lived behind the moon for some six months, just like the Kansas ppl have for 500 years
> I'd almost rather be considered a threat
You can have that.
Osama bin Ladin Laden Saddam Hussein Anthrax Plutonium Uranium VX Bomb PETN Kevin Mitnick denial service
You and everyone else who is reading this post have just been indexed by Echelon!
And if you see some van camping outside your house for 3 consecutive days, greet them from me, okay?
The difference between a moving body and a rotating body is that you can cut the moving body (the car) into little pieces and all of them will still fly into the same direction. If you were to do this with a (non-moving) rotating body, the parts would fly apart.
A rotating body needs a force to keep rotating. But if the force wouldn't be there, the body wouldn't stop rotating but instead explode, because every part would fly off in a different direction.
The reason why the earth keeps spinning after billions of years even though a) a force needs to keep it together & b) there is nothing present which could propel earth, is that the force doesn't move anything. And since the formula for energy consumption is:
Energy = Force * Distance_moved
the energy used is exactly zero.
And the reason for earth slowing down is primarily the tides (and therefore the moon). I don't know exactly how much this is every year, but in some far far away time, the earth will use 28 days for a rotation (bringing it completely in synch with the moon).
Does that mean that you have no other choice than to physically go to some place and enter your vote there?
Not even by snail-mail?
If it really is that way, I'm not too surprised that too few people are voting in the US.
Which is probably because I haven't got the faintest idea how the US voting system works (it seems to be kinda weird, however :-)
> Aren't elections suppose to be annoymous? Can't they simply track your voting record by cross-referencing it with your pin number?
Don't you normally have numbered sheets where you have to put your vote on? That would be exactly the same. But there are laws which forbid to cross-reference them to get personal voting data.
The lack of SSL connections is however quite dumb...
I think it was back in 1995 when I saw a warez page (on Geocities) which used a feature like that.
If a visitor couldn't reach the site because Geocities had taken it down, he just needed to feed "paer9udtzk6gn8modfi" (paraphrased, of course) into Altavista to be pointed to the new location.
> There are two ways that people could cheat: returning false negative results without actually checking the results, and returning false positive results when there really isn't a positive.
:-(
When talking about cheating (and generally about abusing the S@H software), people generally talk about delivering work units without actually processind them.
This has been done in the past (with the closed source client), and was only detected because the lowlifes doing this forgot to forge reasonable processing times and instead sent them in with a 10 minute counter.
If a more intelligent idiot would decide to boost his fame and sabotage the client by sending in bogus data, this would really sabotage S@H, and since the S@H authors are members of the holy church of 'security through obscurity' they're not gonna change their opensourcing policy anytime soon
I speak german, french, english, and a little of an arab dialect and japanese
:-)
How many languages do YOU speak?
(Hmm, why do I think i won't get an answer on this post
The sites' name isn't "Yahoo Quebec" but "Youhou Quebec", but it still uses the Yahoo banner. Also, it doesn't make fun out of Yahoo, but simply plagiarizes it's design and function as a moderated link-list.
Since this page would be listed in search-engines under the term 'yahoo' and most people won't see the difference immediately, quite a few would believe that they got on a page produced by the well known Yahoo!
And since quite a few links on the Quebec page lead to sites which contain sexual references or even p0rn (most of it has already been pulled by their respective hosting companies, i guess also because of Yahoo!), Yahoo may indeed get into some troubles with concerned parents.
Even though i don't agree with the cybersquatting laws, which will doubtless be applied here, taking a name of a well known site just to attract more visitors is extremely lame and certainly deserves to be taken action again.
Sure, projects like KDE/Gnome (no flamewar please) or Mozilla are important, but they are sponsored enough by other sources, we don't need to support them that badly.
/. poll every six months giving out five 1000$ prizes...
What is needed more IMHO is support for all those small coders who use a few weeks of their spare-time to write useful utilities for free (the type of software which would be distributed as 20$ shareware under Windows).
So why not create a foundation?
If the money was invested with a 10% interest, we would have roughly 5000$ dollars per half year available.
We could then have a
Just imagine a new generation of a Bubbleboy-Type worm (you don't seriously believe M$ has fixed every security-hole in VBS, WSH and their email-clients, don't you?), this time not without payload and several weeks after the first warnings about the signature checking in Outlook, but instead especially designed to do whatever damage you could do on a PC.
A few ideas from myself:
- Randomize the registry
- Insert errors in every file residing on accessable network shares
- Flash the BIOS incorrectly
- Burn graphics chips by overlocking them
- Crash harddisks
- Damage Monitors/Graphics-cards
I'm sure a good terrorist could come up with a few more tricks. If only some of these tricks work, and about 25% of NT/Win 9x boxes are hit (which isn't too unrealistic), you can prepare for some _serious_ damage.
It would cost billions alone in hardware damages, but these would be dwarfed by the costs in work and lost productivity.
After the recent feature on /. about the Konqueror browser I probably wasn't the only one who was impressed by what you did with such few resources when compared to Microsoft or Mozilla.
However, I have an issue with it: As Konqueror seems to have a lot more features than the really limited HTML widget in KDE 1.x, aren't you worried that Microsoft might take it as an argument in their current case vs. the DOJ that a powerful Web Browser really belongs into the operating system?
Also, how will you ensure that malicious active content (mainly JavaScript-Trojan Horses/Viruses like Bubbleboy) will take advantage of the tight integration between Konqueror and the rest of the system to endanger security on the Linux platform as a whole (especially since the MSIE/Outlook Express developers have proved it more than once that adequate code validation isn't possible and does always leave room for just one more backdoor)?