Yeah, what's this lame idea that they're allowed to violate the law until you tell them to stop. They aren't allowed to call cell phones, and they aren't allowed to call people on DNC lists. Don't tell them to stop, tell them they've broken the law and you will be informing the police, even if you aren't going to do so.
That's because there is no install. The binary files are identical, they're just coied out of all their packages and installers and lumped in one package.
If you want to download the binaries for mplayer and spend ten hours trying to get them to work under Windows when you don't have an installer to set your registery up right or put the files int he right places, hey, more power to you.
The problem isn't the fact the window isn't maximized, it's that IE gets in a fucking stupid mode when it opens all new windows to this size, and it's apparently unfixable, although the problem sometimes goes away by itself. But even rebooting doesn't fix it.
That pisses me off so much when I'm forced to use IE. If I open a window maximized, and open more windows, I want those maximized also.
Heck, there's a large difference between OO and non-OO programming, even when taught in exactly the same language, like C++.
While languages themselves are easy to get used to, types of programming need to be taught seperately. (Well, the types that need to be taught. GOTO-spagetti code programming maybe shouldn't be taught.;) ) I'd like to see seperate classes for OO, standard procedure, functional, and even event driven vs. polling and coverage of multi-threading. And I've probably forgotten a few.
Once you've figured all those all concept, you can spend a few hours and grasp the basics of any language.
Now you explain which version of Windows comes with p2p and an MSOffice-clone.
And it just got CD burning in XP.
Talking about what things 'come with' OSes is a red herring. Windows doesn't come with quite a lot of things. There is nothing that Windows don't come with that any Linux distro doesn't come with, if you're just talking about general catagories of applications.
One of the best thing you can do with a firewall is something it's hard to do with a desktop machine...LOG.
This adds a third layer of security, in addition to the 'secure firewall' and the 'secure desktop'. If, god forbid, someone gets through your firewall, you'll at least know it.
And I'm talking about logging outgoing traffic, also. After all, if your firewall is set up correctly you can't have any random incoming traffic...but you'll have lots of outgoing. They have NIDS to detect suspicious traffic, or you can just get a huge dump and start filtering out things you know are okay.
And it's about the only way you'll ever catch that some idiot is running an ICQ from three years ago with a known buffer overflow or something stupid. Neither firewalls nor updated desktop machines can protect you from your own users, only log files of network traffic can do that.
You are mostly correct, I have to point out that we do, in fact, know that a certain subsets of MD5 hashes are one-way. You obviously can't generate a three megabyte file from its 32 byte MD5 checksum.
If it was one-way, in fact, the 'brute force a duplicate MD5' wouldn't work, either, because there couldn't be any others.
I think you missed the 'the list could be downloaded once a day or so'. bit.
TLD changes are giant events involving quite a lot of debate and whatnot, and it's not like they happen every few minutes. It's more on the scale of one every three months. So I think redownloading every day would be fine.
The thing to do to fix this is to hack the root servers to pretend that a random number is a TLD, and point then at a fake TLD server that gives out the IP address of 127.0.0.1 for any query.
All those broken programs would immediately stop working.
Ralsky is a liar. He actually is supporting Falun Gong. I'd be very surprised if he ever sets foot in China, I'm sure they're on to him by now, they aren't total idiots. The 'anti-spammers are trying to frame me' only lasts so long.
So your theory is that Chinese government will track down people who fake links to Falun Gong and disappear them from other countries, risking international sanctions and a PR nightmare (Obviously, if they go to the trouble of tracking you down they will know you actually have no link.) but they continue to blantantly ignore people in the US who do actually have links to Falun Gong? Like the people wandering around in public parks practicing it?
That's a genius analog. What if you had to pay.0001 cents for each ad you taped off TV. Not that bad, eh? I wouldn't mind. Tape a show, pay.003 cents for the ads. In fact, you probably do pay that much with wear and tear on the tape, and no one minds at all.
But...what if the ads were free, and the advertisers could insert as many as they wanted? Suddenly, you can't fit a show on a tape, you have to sit there and swap out tapes when the show comes back after two hours of ads, you go through tapes like mad, you can't even find the damn TV show, the advertisers are making the ads look like the TV show they're appearing in...
No,it's very easy: Is the person protected from legal liability because they are doing what they are paid to do so as part of a corporation?
This whole 'commercial' speech is a misnomer. It's corporate speech, speech 'said' by a fictional entity that was created to shield people from responsibilty for their actions. Not that I'm complaining about their existence, but it's amazing how many people seem to think they actually really exist. They exist in the same way that a D&D campaign, the United Federation of Planets, or Sherlock Holmes exists, except they were created by the government instead of a person. They do not have rights, they are legal constructs. (BTW, the government is much the same way. No one sees people rambling about the government's right to free speech, because it doesn't have one, it can restrict itself all it wants.)
Frankly, Congress could make all corporate speech be in mime and it would be constitutional. (Well, you could argue that that doesn't serve Interstate Commmerce at all, but, hey, they've managed to get almost anything under that clause.)
And for those people hung up on the wording, remember that a corporation doesn't even exist in the first place to have 'its' rights abridged, and it doesn't have the ability to speak. Talking about it doing without government restriction is a bit like talking about Sherlock Holmes talking without interference from Sir Author Conan Doyle. Taking an entity imagined by X and saying that X cannot 'restrict' it from doing something is insane.
Hey, dumbass, Congress can dissolve all corperations tomorrow, without any due process at all.
They sure as hell can restrict corperation's 'speech'.
Corperations are fictional entities, they don't have rights, only people do.
Not 'citizens', as some people keep claiming, but actual people. This, BTW, even included slaves, they had just as many legal rights under the Bill of Rights as citizens. Of course at that point the Bill of Rights didn't apply to states.
Saying that the Bill of Rights forbids congress from restricting the 'speech of corperations' is like claiming laws against murder make it illegal to steal a car in Grand Theft Auto. Corporations are fictional, and so it all their speech.
Ah, you're about to point out that they are made up of people. All well and good...if someone working for a corperation wants to step outside and say something, they can. But if they really want to do that, they stop having the shielding from liablity that corperations have.
Which, BTW, means not only does that data still exist (of course, on most filesystems, it exists after you delete it, also.), but the file is still being written to after you delete it, until applications close it.
The best way to keep logs from being logs is/dev/null them, or to write them to a memory-based FS. On linux, look at 'tmpfs', you've probably got it mounted on/dev/shm, but you can mount it in additional places too.
Some people will complain that this causes you to lose the logs if something goes wrong and your computer halts, but how likely is it that a) your httpd daemon would cause a computer reboot and b) that it would log and *sync* the error before the reboot? It doesn't really matter if it hypothetically logged it if it didn't make it to disk.
God, what is people fascination with GUIs on media players. I don't want controls on a movie while it's playing. What the hell are you people carrying on about? Give me some volume control and seek keys, and the ability to pause, and I'm perfectly happy. Forward/back, up and down, and space (or click) to pause seems reasonable, no interface at all. Give me a time bar when the movie's paused or stopped so I can pick up where I left off.
For music, I want a clickable volume controls, pause, and some sort of playlist editor/controller. I don't even seek within music, although I can see how some people would want that, so throw that in.
Seriously, someone explain this to me, how the trimmings are so important that anyone would care about them? Do people actually sit and seek though a movie by clicking forward and back with their mouse? Do people fiddle with the volume control for more than five seconds?
Now, something that would be useful that players don't have is gamma control, but I guess it's more important to spend hours designing a stupid interface then actually writing some useful feature. But, no, heaven forbid our player isn't 'cool' enough.
I have no idea what you're trying to say in the first sentence. Whoever invented the LCD panel invented it. And Bell didn't invent the cell phone. (Assuming he invented the telephone, that is.)
Just because inventions are similiar or based on each other doesn't make them not real. Baird invented something we don't really have a term for, but could be called a mechanical television. This is not what we use today, he did not invent what we use today.
Now, if you want to say he demostrated a working moving picture broadcast, go ahead. But that's not an answer to who 'invented' television, because that's nothing like what we call television.
Someone invented the telephone, and someone else invented the cell phone. And someone invented the mechanical television, and someone invented a broadcast to CRT device that we are all familiar with.
Did he also invent the CRT? That would be a much more logical thing to call his invention...once you invent an 'imager' and a device for displaying images from it, it's not hard hard to use a radio signal instead of a wire. I know who 'invented' radio signals and who invented telephones, but I have no idea who invented the idea of transfering voice over radio, aa, a 'radio telephone'.
(And, before you mention it, cell phones are not 'voice transfered over radio'. They're a lot more complicated. the neat trick proved, once again, proved to be in the routing.)
Don't know what country you live in, but the cable company, in America, cannot, by law, charge more for additional outlets and/or TVs. (Though it can obviously charge you to install them.)
It is perfectly okay to find someone has committed the acts they have been charged with, but not guilty due to the law being incorrect or unacceptable. It's called jury nullification, and in fact has probably happened more in bigamy cases in Utah than anywhere else. Seems a lot of Mormons did it, and would get arrested by the Utah government after the Feds forced them to make it illegal. It was all for nothing, however, as other Mormons would just find them not guilty and let them walk.
Some of us prefer to use Usenet the right way, with our actual email address.
The fact that people are getting spammed is the fault of a) spammers, b) the companies that pay them, and c) ISPs that turn a blind eye. Do not blame those of us that use the internet as it's intended.
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Yeah, what's this lame idea that they're allowed to violate the law until you tell them to stop. They aren't allowed to call cell phones, and they aren't allowed to call people on DNC lists. Don't tell them to stop, tell them they've broken the law and you will be informing the police, even if you aren't going to do so.
A better analogy might be gassing up a car after it's caught on fire.
If you want to download the binaries for mplayer and spend ten hours trying to get them to work under Windows when you don't have an installer to set your registery up right or put the files int he right places, hey, more power to you.
All well and good, but it doesn't explain how the hell they get unmaximized in the first place.
That pisses me off so much when I'm forced to use IE. If I open a window maximized, and open more windows, I want those maximized also.
LET FIRST-VARIABLE EQUAL FIRST-VARIABLE TIMES 6
I think that's right. And, yes, that's honestly how we were taught to name variables, and type in uppercase.
And our COBOL editor had a 7x column setup designed to emulate punched cards.
While languages themselves are easy to get used to, types of programming need to be taught seperately. (Well, the types that need to be taught. GOTO-spagetti code programming maybe shouldn't be taught.;) ) I'd like to see seperate classes for OO, standard procedure, functional, and even event driven vs. polling and coverage of multi-threading. And I've probably forgotten a few.
Once you've figured all those all concept, you can spend a few hours and grasp the basics of any language.
And it just got CD burning in XP.
Talking about what things 'come with' OSes is a red herring. Windows doesn't come with quite a lot of things. There is nothing that Windows don't come with that any Linux distro doesn't come with, if you're just talking about general catagories of applications.
This adds a third layer of security, in addition to the 'secure firewall' and the 'secure desktop'. If, god forbid, someone gets through your firewall, you'll at least know it.
And I'm talking about logging outgoing traffic, also. After all, if your firewall is set up correctly you can't have any random incoming traffic...but you'll have lots of outgoing. They have NIDS to detect suspicious traffic, or you can just get a huge dump and start filtering out things you know are okay.
And it's about the only way you'll ever catch that some idiot is running an ICQ from three years ago with a known buffer overflow or something stupid. Neither firewalls nor updated desktop machines can protect you from your own users, only log files of network traffic can do that.
If it was one-way, in fact, the 'brute force a duplicate MD5' wouldn't work, either, because there couldn't be any others.
TLD changes are giant events involving quite a lot of debate and whatnot, and it's not like they happen every few minutes. It's more on the scale of one every three months. So I think redownloading every day would be fine.
All those broken programs would immediately stop working.
Sharp stakes? Let's use dull stakes.
Ralsky is a liar. He actually is supporting Falun Gong. I'd be very surprised if he ever sets foot in China, I'm sure they're on to him by now, they aren't total idiots. The 'anti-spammers are trying to frame me' only lasts so long.
Alternately, you're an idiot.
But...what if the ads were free, and the advertisers could insert as many as they wanted? Suddenly, you can't fit a show on a tape, you have to sit there and swap out tapes when the show comes back after two hours of ads, you go through tapes like mad, you can't even find the damn TV show, the advertisers are making the ads look like the TV show they're appearing in...
I'm just wondering...why do you think heroin should be illegal? It's a fairly safe drug, except for the whole 'hard to get off of quickly' thing.
This whole 'commercial' speech is a misnomer. It's corporate speech, speech 'said' by a fictional entity that was created to shield people from responsibilty for their actions. Not that I'm complaining about their existence, but it's amazing how many people seem to think they actually really exist. They exist in the same way that a D&D campaign, the United Federation of Planets, or Sherlock Holmes exists, except they were created by the government instead of a person. They do not have rights, they are legal constructs. (BTW, the government is much the same way. No one sees people rambling about the government's right to free speech, because it doesn't have one, it can restrict itself all it wants.)
Frankly, Congress could make all corporate speech be in mime and it would be constitutional. (Well, you could argue that that doesn't serve Interstate Commmerce at all, but, hey, they've managed to get almost anything under that clause.)
And for those people hung up on the wording, remember that a corporation doesn't even exist in the first place to have 'its' rights abridged, and it doesn't have the ability to speak. Talking about it doing without government restriction is a bit like talking about Sherlock Holmes talking without interference from Sir Author Conan Doyle. Taking an entity imagined by X and saying that X cannot 'restrict' it from doing something is insane.
They sure as hell can restrict corperation's 'speech'.
Corperations are fictional entities, they don't have rights, only people do.
Not 'citizens', as some people keep claiming, but actual people. This, BTW, even included slaves, they had just as many legal rights under the Bill of Rights as citizens. Of course at that point the Bill of Rights didn't apply to states.
Saying that the Bill of Rights forbids congress from restricting the 'speech of corperations' is like claiming laws against murder make it illegal to steal a car in Grand Theft Auto. Corporations are fictional, and so it all their speech.
Ah, you're about to point out that they are made up of people. All well and good...if someone working for a corperation wants to step outside and say something, they can. But if they really want to do that, they stop having the shielding from liablity that corperations have.
The best way to keep logs from being logs is /dev/null them, or to write them to a memory-based FS. On linux, look at 'tmpfs', you've probably got it mounted on /dev/shm, but you can mount it in additional places too.
Some people will complain that this causes you to lose the logs if something goes wrong and your computer halts, but how likely is it that a) your httpd daemon would cause a computer reboot and b) that it would log and *sync* the error before the reboot? It doesn't really matter if it hypothetically logged it if it didn't make it to disk.
For music, I want a clickable volume controls, pause, and some sort of playlist editor/controller. I don't even seek within music, although I can see how some people would want that, so throw that in.
Seriously, someone explain this to me, how the trimmings are so important that anyone would care about them? Do people actually sit and seek though a movie by clicking forward and back with their mouse? Do people fiddle with the volume control for more than five seconds?
Now, something that would be useful that players don't have is gamma control, but I guess it's more important to spend hours designing a stupid interface then actually writing some useful feature. But, no, heaven forbid our player isn't 'cool' enough.
Just because inventions are similiar or based on each other doesn't make them not real. Baird invented something we don't really have a term for, but could be called a mechanical television. This is not what we use today, he did not invent what we use today.
Now, if you want to say he demostrated a working moving picture broadcast, go ahead. But that's not an answer to who 'invented' television, because that's nothing like what we call television.
Someone invented the telephone, and someone else invented the cell phone. And someone invented the mechanical television, and someone invented a broadcast to CRT device that we are all familiar with.
Did he also invent the CRT? That would be a much more logical thing to call his invention...once you invent an 'imager' and a device for displaying images from it, it's not hard hard to use a radio signal instead of a wire. I know who 'invented' radio signals and who invented telephones, but I have no idea who invented the idea of transfering voice over radio, aa, a 'radio telephone'.
(And, before you mention it, cell phones are not 'voice transfered over radio'. They're a lot more complicated. the neat trick proved, once again, proved to be in the routing.)
Don't know what country you live in, but the cable company, in America, cannot, by law, charge more for additional outlets and/or TVs. (Though it can obviously charge you to install them.)
It is perfectly okay to find someone has committed the acts they have been charged with, but not guilty due to the law being incorrect or unacceptable. It's called jury nullification, and in fact has probably happened more in bigamy cases in Utah than anywhere else. Seems a lot of Mormons did it, and would get arrested by the Utah government after the Feds forced them to make it illegal. It was all for nothing, however, as other Mormons would just find them not guilty and let them walk.
The fact that people are getting spammed is the fault of a) spammers, b) the companies that pay them, and c) ISPs that turn a blind eye. Do not blame those of us that use the internet as it's intended.