I am curious if anyone has run into situations where SmartDefense is screwing up legitimate traffic, especially traffic that resembles an XSS attack.
"Cross-site scripting" or XSS sounds like a fancy way of saying "failed to properly escape arbitrary client-submitted data". If user input is properly escaped (or otherwise cleansed) when outputted to a web page, there shouldn't be any vulnerability or interference with ligitimate input submission.
What cliffhanger ending to FotR? Granted it's been a while since I've read LotR but i recall the first book ending with Frodo and Sam walking off towards Mordor, and the second book picking up with the funeral of Boromir.
The FotR book ends with the fellowship scattered looking for Frodo and Sam, who take off alone toward Mordor. Boromir doesn't die until the start of TTT. The FotR movie shifts those events forward a bit.
Of course, said eagle can't possibly be used elsewhere in the story! Why can't Frodo hop on the eagle and fly to Mount Doom?
The eagles obviously aren't at Gandalf's beck and call. If he could use them to go anywhere he liked, he'd have no use for a horse. In the book, this is even more explicit:
' "How far can you bear me?" I said to Gwaihir.
' "Many leagues," said he, "but not to the ends of the earth. I was sent to bear tidings not burdens."
' "Then I must have a steed on land," I said, "and a steed surpassingly swift, for I have never had such need of haste before."
In Toklein's TTT, the cliff-hanger ending is Shelob the spider almost ends the quest. I guess Jackson moved this to the part III for some reason or the other.
Jackson took the cliffhanger ending out of FotR too. I suppose if the audience has sat three hours for a movie and won't see the next one for nearly a year, he figured ending it on a cliffhanger wouldn't sit well with them.
Why do people bitch and complain that the Matrix was too much gobbledygook (translation: they didn't understand, and hate movies that challenge them to think about it anywhere beyond the concession stand on their way out), then act like LotR is this untouchable masterpiece?
That's because the two Matrix sequels had most of us thinking about all the gigantic plot holes that the LotR books and movies didn't have.
Reportedly, the PSP uses rechargable batteries and gets 3-6 hours per charge. That means it'll need recharging twice as often as a GBA-SP with the side lights on. That's not a good sign for the PSP, but it isn't surprising given all the hardware involved.
Is this mere coincidence or something deliberate by the directors?
If he had used guns to shoot the French Guy's gang of kung-fu henchmen, the directors could've cut what seemed like a half hour of fight scene. My guess is that the directors needed to pad out the film.
Talking about FOREIGN anime fans. Nice disingenousness, though.
Trust me, the males all have a shockingly extensive collection of anime porn on their PCs. It's not like they take it out for viewing time at the student union.
There's quite a few foreign, female anime fans. And the fact that you know a lot of people with a big collection of anime porn says more about the people you know than the state of fandom in general. Perhaps you should meet more people, though that might have an adverse effect on your collection of broad stereotypes.
But you cared enough to craft a reply, right? Truth hurts, doesn't it?
I'm just weary of the same tired old stereotypes being bandied about on/. and am amused someone would actually want an example to disprove them. I had no intention to disrupt your tiny little worldview, nor do I have any interest in sharing it.
What's the draw? Seeing teenage girls being raped by tentacled monsters, perhaps? C'mon, this isn't flamebait...name one anime fan YOU know, moderator, who DOESN'T have a SINGLE tentacle porn. Yeah, that's what I thought.
It's a safe bet few of the female anime fans own any tentacle porn - and there are quite a lot of female fans since so much of anime is targeted to them. But personally, I don't know of any anime fans that own tentacle porn at all. Still, this is/. where broad stereotypes are to be expected.
The stereotype you quote is correct, to a degree. The anime target consumer is a child. The reason full-grown adults in America flock to anime is unknown at this time.
The target audience is largely childen and teens, but a lot of it is made for a broad family audience. You might not understand the appeal, but I doubt fans of the medium give a rat's ass about your opinion either way.
Anime, on the other hand, is clearly targeted at the fantasy adult crowd. Is it because I'm not into fantasy that I don't get anime?
Anime is mostly targeted at japanese kids and teenagers. A lot of non-japenese, non-kids and non-teenagers enjoy it also, but it's not for everyone. There seems to be a lot of overlap with fantasy/sci-fi loving folks, but that's probably because a lot of those people also grew up watching a lot of anime as kids and feel no reason to stop now.
I love X... but I have to admit that you've hit the nail on the head. It's astonishing how bad cut and paste works between applications. It really only works for text, and then only if the text is flat ASCII. Because it's so bad, many applications have their own, internal version of the clipboard, and you're never really sure whether you're manipulating X's clipboard or the internal clipboard, or what information makes it onto X's clipboard and in what form. It's a total disaster.
The X11 clipboard is already quite powerful and supports a broad array of selection types, not just ASCII. A lot of apps only support ASCII, but that's not X11's problem. If any toolkit or app is reinventing the wheel by implementing a whole new clipboard, that really is quite brain-damaged.
I've seen using Red Hat exclusively since 5.2. Now I've basically been forced to migrating to SuSE partly because of the impending 9.0 support droppage but also because of the lack of x86-64 support from Fedora. And although I'm still in the early stages of migration, going from one Linux distro to another is less of a hassle than my original migration from Solaris to Red Hat.
It's going to be strange not giving Red Hat any more cash; getting a box full of distro CDs was a good deal back when I used a modem for internet access. But I'm willing to give Fedora a try when an x86-64 build arrives.
Hasn't the slashdot crowd been clamoring for a test of the GPL since day one?
Only the morons. There's nothing to test. If the GPL isn't an applicable license, code licensed under it can't be redistributed in any fashion without some new license. But since the copyright holder gets to determine the license, there's little reason the GPL shouldn't be a valid one.
But if you have better things to do with your time than customize your window manager and desktop environment (and XFree86 modelines) all day, then maybe OS X is for you.
I use Linux every day precisely because I don't like to spend all day tinkering with shit. I've spent a few minutes here and there adjusting with my shells and window managers to get them the way I like them to be most productive. And because I'm on a Linux box, I don't have to worry about my comfortable, productive environment being pulled out from under me at the whim of some OS manufacturer.
Are you comfy with OS X now? Maybe. But will you be just as comfy with OS X + 1? Apple's going to change stuff sooner or later and you're going to have to adapt. It's inevitable, it wastes time and I'd rather avoid it.
(And kindly spare me the whole "What if Gnome/KDE change stuff?" argument, since I use neither of them - for much the same reason I don't use OS X).
This is the endless debate between Free Software and Open Source advocates. GPL is freer in the sense that it protects the *code* from being captured by proprietary distributors. BSD and PD is freer in that it protects the *redistributor* to do what he likes with the code.
GPLed code is proprietary. The copyright holders own it and distribute it with redistribution conditions (but not usage restrictions). It is less "free" than public domain code because one cannot do whatever they like with it, like distribute binaries without source and so forth.
The GPL is a truly revolutionary license, it is *designed*, as SCO says, to reduce the financial value of proprietary software. Yes, GPL software is freer than public domain, in the sense that the source code can never be taken proprietary (other than by the original author) and redistributed.
That's a bit of a paradox, isn't it? If one defines freedom by lack of restrictions, GPLed code is less free than public domain code by virtue of the GPL's specific copying conditions. Thus the only thing seperating GPLed code from other proprietary code is those cost and conditions.
Mad King Darl, it seems, doesn't like the GPL's cost and conditions because of what they mean for his stock price.
The reality is that 99.9% of X applications have both the client application and X server on the same machine. So why have such a complicated networking layer to draw a window on a screen? Seems like a lot of unnecessary overhead to me.
That's why when an X client and X server share a machine, XFree86 doesn't use the network layer whatsoever. And every time someone complains about that nonexistant "overhead" when X11 is discussed, God kills a kitten. X11 and Free86 have enough genuine warts of their own without having to make up more. So think of the kittens and forget the "network overhead".
I'm switching over to SuSE since the professional Athlon64 version is within the budget of mortals. Red Hat's Advance Server 3.0 for workstations (the cheapest they've got with Athlon64 support) costs $792(!) which is out of my league.
Wouldn't this mean if the content providers (cable / satalight companies) didn't switch over, they would not be able to supply these stations to their customers?
Cable companies are allowed to "pass thru" HDTV broadcasted signals for local channels, but that's the extent of it. Whether or not they want to carry anything else in HDTV is entirely up to them.
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"Cross-site scripting" or XSS sounds like a fancy way of saying "failed to properly escape arbitrary client-submitted data". If user input is properly escaped (or otherwise cleansed) when outputted to a web page, there shouldn't be any vulnerability or interference with ligitimate input submission.
The FotR book ends with the fellowship scattered looking for Frodo and Sam, who take off alone toward Mordor. Boromir doesn't die until the start of TTT. The FotR movie shifts those events forward a bit.
The eagles obviously aren't at Gandalf's beck and call. If he could use them to go anywhere he liked, he'd have no use for a horse. In the book, this is even more explicit:
Jackson took the cliffhanger ending out of FotR too. I suppose if the audience has sat three hours for a movie and won't see the next one for nearly a year, he figured ending it on a cliffhanger wouldn't sit well with them.
That's because the two Matrix sequels had most of us thinking about all the gigantic plot holes that the LotR books and movies didn't have.
Reported on IGN among other places.
Reportedly, the PSP uses rechargable batteries and gets 3-6 hours per charge. That means it'll need recharging twice as often as a GBA-SP with the side lights on. That's not a good sign for the PSP, but it isn't surprising given all the hardware involved.
If he had used guns to shoot the French Guy's gang of kung-fu henchmen, the directors could've cut what seemed like a half hour of fight scene. My guess is that the directors needed to pad out the film.
The critics hated "Citizen Kane", "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Star Wars" at the time.
But the critics also hated "Gigli", "The Real Cancun" and "From Justin to Kelly".
There's quite a few foreign, female anime fans. And the fact that you know a lot of people with a big collection of anime porn says more about the people you know than the state of fandom in general. Perhaps you should meet more people, though that might have an adverse effect on your collection of broad stereotypes.
I'm just weary of the same tired old stereotypes being bandied about on /. and am amused someone would actually want an example to disprove them. I had no intention to disrupt your tiny little worldview, nor do I have any interest in sharing it.
It's a safe bet few of the female anime fans own any tentacle porn - and there are quite a lot of female fans since so much of anime is targeted to them. But personally, I don't know of any anime fans that own tentacle porn at all. Still, this is /. where broad stereotypes are to be expected.
The target audience is largely childen and teens, but a lot of it is made for a broad family audience. You might not understand the appeal, but I doubt fans of the medium give a rat's ass about your opinion either way.
Anime is mostly targeted at japanese kids and teenagers. A lot of non-japenese, non-kids and non-teenagers enjoy it also, but it's not for everyone. There seems to be a lot of overlap with fantasy/sci-fi loving folks, but that's probably because a lot of those people also grew up watching a lot of anime as kids and feel no reason to stop now.
The X11 clipboard is already quite powerful and supports a broad array of selection types, not just ASCII. A lot of apps only support ASCII, but that's not X11's problem. If any toolkit or app is reinventing the wheel by implementing a whole new clipboard, that really is quite brain-damaged.
It's on his candle truck, even.
It's going to be strange not giving Red Hat any more cash; getting a box full of distro CDs was a good deal back when I used a modem for internet access. But I'm willing to give Fedora a try when an x86-64 build arrives.
Only the morons. There's nothing to test. If the GPL isn't an applicable license, code licensed under it can't be redistributed in any fashion without some new license. But since the copyright holder gets to determine the license, there's little reason the GPL shouldn't be a valid one.
I use Linux every day precisely because I don't like to spend all day tinkering with shit. I've spent a few minutes here and there adjusting with my shells and window managers to get them the way I like them to be most productive. And because I'm on a Linux box, I don't have to worry about my comfortable, productive environment being pulled out from under me at the whim of some OS manufacturer.
Are you comfy with OS X now? Maybe. But will you be just as comfy with OS X + 1? Apple's going to change stuff sooner or later and you're going to have to adapt. It's inevitable, it wastes time and I'd rather avoid it.
(And kindly spare me the whole "What if Gnome/KDE change stuff?" argument, since I use neither of them - for much the same reason I don't use OS X).
GPLed code is proprietary. The copyright holders own it and distribute it with redistribution conditions (but not usage restrictions). It is less "free" than public domain code because one cannot do whatever they like with it, like distribute binaries without source and so forth.
Mad King Darl, it seems, doesn't like the GPL's cost and conditions because of what they mean for his stock price.
Only if Netcraft confirms it.
That's why when an X client and X server share a machine, XFree86 doesn't use the network layer whatsoever. And every time someone complains about that nonexistant "overhead" when X11 is discussed, God kills a kitten. X11 and Free86 have enough genuine warts of their own without having to make up more. So think of the kittens and forget the "network overhead".
I've owned four AMD chips going on five. Perhaps my usage patterns differ from yours, but I haven't experienced a CPU failure yet.
By "a little" you mean over $670, right? :)
I'm switching from Red Hat to SuSE at least until Fedora's support catches up. I figure a little change once in awhile isn't so bad.
I'm switching over to SuSE since the professional Athlon64 version is within the budget of mortals. Red Hat's Advance Server 3.0 for workstations (the cheapest they've got with Athlon64 support) costs $792(!) which is out of my league.
Cable companies are allowed to "pass thru" HDTV broadcasted signals for local channels, but that's the extent of it. Whether or not they want to carry anything else in HDTV is entirely up to them.