It's really getting obscene... and who the hell gives a damn that there's a new test available, I hoped it was some comic 'how good are you on a computer test' as that would add more value to my day than knowing that some company is trying to make money out of selling tests to employers and educational establishments.
When the officer came, he noticed that the bills all had sequential serial numbers - apparently a common sign in counterfeit currency.
No that just means people are dumb, sequential serial numebrs are a common sign they came new from the bank, any person who's counterfeiting currency would have to be a complete moron to print sequential serial numbers on the notes:)
Well actually, even 30 yearold coins arn't legal anymore, the 50p, 10p, 5p, 2p and 1p coins have changed and the 1/2p has been phased out, all of the notes have changed over the years, the latest incarnations including holograms, which helps a bit as people don't spend so long checking there legal, used to be quite embarising with people holding things up to the light to check the metal strip and watermark.
I think the only coins which have remained the same from the decimialisation until now are the 20p and the pound coin, no doubt the'll have there sights on changing the 20:)
Problem is the dolar is now so wide spread, it'd be an almost impossible task to replace all of them, mabie someone will but it'd take at least 20 years to get near 100% usage of the new notes.
"these days of ultra-Americanism"... I could have sworn america was more of an idea than a country, that people should be free to live in liberty and persue happyness. I'd say what you refer to as ultra-Americanism is nothing more than America being draged down the path to fascism by those who are intrusted by the people to protect there liberty.
I check though the sub-groups for any interesting news that has come over the past week, stumble over some odd things to look at, and only then later check the date:)
Kinda wish they'd take them down once the days over, it's not supposed to be april fools month, just the 1st.
But a nice gag anyway, first one I've fallen for in ages, mainly because I didn't have my guard up:)
At $749.99 it's a bit much, but it's a great idea for a product if they can make it cheeply in the $50 area, ideal time of year to release would be just before fathers day:)
"So some buy Paintshop Pro instead." - more probably pirate it.
Photoshop is an awkward price, some amateurs could afford it, 3DS is just insane, and out of the price range of virtually any amateur.. which is a shame. But I havn't heard either moaning too much about piracy, they probably know that there never going to sell vast numbers to the home user market and are more keen on protecting there commercial customers who might be spending $500k on equiping there office with the latest versions of Max.
Though it would be nice if they could both provide fully functional versions at a decent low price, with the only restriction that no profit can be made using it, I know most game modders probably couln't afford to dig into there pockets for $6000, but a few might concider it around $300, even if they can't sell there work without a upgrade.
Another way to look at it would be, if all the game modders know Max, there going to have Max on there CV when they apply for jobs in the game industury, if everyone in the industury knows Max, there going to sell more.
1) ccTLD operators charging whatever they like 2) ccTLD operators not having a default naming polity (eg.com.tv.org.tv.net.tv) 3) Fake ccTLDs: yourname.uk.com
Lack of TLDs is not one I would personally worry about, personally I dislike TLDs, each country should really be aiming for it's ccTLD rather than have everyone fight over who gets the yourname.com
Not always enough, sometimes you need telepathic powers to work out what the lecturer wants from a project, since they kindly ommited any of it from the assignment sheet and put down something completely diferent.
But hey, didn't affect my final grade in the end, but I'm still peved he got away with it.
The User-ISP one is pretty solid. The only diference to the current system is where the filtering takes place. Instead of you filtering out incoming pings (for example) the filtering would be done on the other side of the Cable/ADSL line, thus freeing the limited-bandwidth link for valid trafic.
It could be abused in some situations, but for the most part, some simple rules to remove filters which arn't in use anymore, and to ensure only sensible requests are made would probably make it very dificult for any organisation on it's own to abuse the system.
Mabie if I find time I'll write out the idea and pick though all the issues, been on my mind for a long time, under the basic principle, of why should I recieve DDoS's why can't the zombies ISPs shut off the flow and save the harm to me, my ISP and the backbones.
Or the fact that of the few people who can vote (under 1000), and likely most of them don't have a clue they can vote, or there lives don't revolve around debian enough to be worried theres an election on.
Has anyone even seen this guy: http://www.cyrius.com/.. yes he's the leader of Debian. Though I think debian really needs a leader who stands up and puts debian on the map, instead of looking like a group of geeks who isn't really relevant to the rest of the world.
Subject says it all, and it's pretty much all I want, a automated system where by if I say I don't want to recieve ICMP messages for the next hour, my ISP firewalls them off.
A similar system could be employed by the ISP to inform the backbone to stop sending them specific types of packet for a while, and mabie evolved so that backbones can tell large ISPs to filter some of there customers from sending packets at a specific target.
Similar case here, 98% of spam gets swallowed up by RBL's and Exim's no-tolerance aproach to protocol violations (eg sending the data without waiting for the ok). Though my logs show only direct attemts at legitimate email inboxes.
My guess is that they only target big organisations with dictionary attacks, so it's a problem the enthusiast won't encounter often at all.
I was first exposed to them a long time ago, and yes there is no easy way to include dependency checking, though I can't see why it would be any more dificult to include a dependency resolver for when the required support libraries arn't available.
My main guess as to why they havn't chosen this technique is because app folders are not a feature of linux, theres no kernel support for them and theres virtually no support for them in graphical filers (ROX Desktop is the only one which comes to mind).
I'm sure at some point Windows or MacOS will come up with a lovely system for installing applications and then we'll copy them:)
Internet2 was a crappy name for a WAN linking universities, it was faster, but not a lot diferent to many of the other University WANs aroudnd the world.
You couln't achieve a nice effect like this in color using LCDs, A mono display might work to a degree though, similar to several alarmclocks which use a transparent display.
Though you never know what technologys around the corner and how it will work, I think LEP/OLEDs achieve significantly higher density than LCDs and if there power output increased and the clusters of 3 colors had enough gap between each cluster to let light though something might be workable.
I truely hate these popup links in text, I move my pointer over the text to aid reading, and wham I can't read cos some stupid script has poped up a sponsored link.
Just voicing my objection to this all to common practice.
Downlaoding using bit-torrent is in essence running a server, and people are usually not allowed to run servers from university or college connections without prior permission.
But I do agree, people should look more carefully at things, I got a nasty letter from my ISP after someone complained that I was sharing copyrighted content (Openoffice 1.1.0 windows binary)... uhh...
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It's really getting obscene... and who the hell gives a damn that there's a new test available, I hoped it was some comic 'how good are you on a computer test' as that would add more value to my day than knowing that some company is trying to make money out of selling tests to employers and educational establishments.
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If it's in the DMZ, it's a combattant.
When the officer came, he noticed that the bills all had sequential serial numbers - apparently a common sign in counterfeit currency.
:)
No that just means people are dumb, sequential serial numebrs are a common sign they came new from the bank, any person who's counterfeiting currency would have to be a complete moron to print sequential serial numbers on the notes
Well actually, even 30 yearold coins arn't legal anymore, the 50p, 10p, 5p, 2p and 1p coins have changed and the 1/2p has been phased out, all of the notes have changed over the years, the latest incarnations including holograms, which helps a bit as people don't spend so long checking there legal, used to be quite embarising with people holding things up to the light to check the metal strip and watermark.
:)
I think the only coins which have remained the same from the decimialisation until now are the 20p and the pound coin, no doubt the'll have there sights on changing the 20
Problem is the dolar is now so wide spread, it'd be an almost impossible task to replace all of them, mabie someone will but it'd take at least 20 years to get near 100% usage of the new notes.
"these days of ultra-Americanism"... I could have sworn america was more of an idea than a country, that people should be free to live in liberty and persue happyness. I'd say what you refer to as ultra-Americanism is nothing more than America being draged down the path to fascism by those who are intrusted by the people to protect there liberty.
Woot community access TV for the internet!
PLEASE NOOOO, I don't want even more campers who refuse to go anywhere near danger.
I check though the sub-groups for any interesting news that has come over the past week, stumble over some odd things to look at, and only then later check the date :)
:)
Kinda wish they'd take them down once the days over, it's not supposed to be april fools month, just the 1st.
But a nice gag anyway, first one I've fallen for in ages, mainly because I didn't have my guard up
At $749.99 it's a bit much, but it's a great idea for a product if they can make it cheeply in the $50 area, ideal time of year to release would be just before fathers day :)
When the US Pattent office grants the pattent on it to Opera :/
"So some buy Paintshop Pro instead." - more probably pirate it.
Photoshop is an awkward price, some amateurs could afford it, 3DS is just insane, and out of the price range of virtually any amateur.. which is a shame. But I havn't heard either moaning too much about piracy, they probably know that there never going to sell vast numbers to the home user market and are more keen on protecting there commercial customers who might be spending $500k on equiping there office with the latest versions of Max.
Though it would be nice if they could both provide fully functional versions at a decent low price, with the only restriction that no profit can be made using it, I know most game modders probably couln't afford to dig into there pockets for $6000, but a few might concider it around $300, even if they can't sell there work without a upgrade.
Another way to look at it would be, if all the game modders know Max, there going to have Max on there CV when they apply for jobs in the game industury, if everyone in the industury knows Max, there going to sell more.
So 3 problems I can see with DNS:
.com.tv .org.tv .net.tv)
1) ccTLD operators charging whatever they like
2) ccTLD operators not having a default naming polity (eg
3) Fake ccTLDs: yourname.uk.com
Lack of TLDs is not one I would personally worry about, personally I dislike TLDs, each country should really be aiming for it's ccTLD rather than have everyone fight over who gets the yourname.com
Not always enough, sometimes you need telepathic powers to work out what the lecturer wants from a project, since they kindly ommited any of it from the assignment sheet and put down something completely diferent.
But hey, didn't affect my final grade in the end, but I'm still peved he got away with it.
The User-ISP one is pretty solid. The only diference to the current system is where the filtering takes place. Instead of you filtering out incoming pings (for example) the filtering would be done on the other side of the Cable/ADSL line, thus freeing the limited-bandwidth link for valid trafic.
It could be abused in some situations, but for the most part, some simple rules to remove filters which arn't in use anymore, and to ensure only sensible requests are made would probably make it very dificult for any organisation on it's own to abuse the system.
Mabie if I find time I'll write out the idea and pick though all the issues, been on my mind for a long time, under the basic principle, of why should I recieve DDoS's why can't the zombies ISPs shut off the flow and save the harm to me, my ISP and the backbones.
Or the fact that of the few people who can vote (under 1000), and likely most of them don't have a clue they can vote, or there lives don't revolve around debian enough to be worried theres an election on.
.. yes he's the leader of Debian. Though I think debian really needs a leader who stands up and puts debian on the map, instead of looking like a group of geeks who isn't really relevant to the rest of the world.
Has anyone even seen this guy: http://www.cyrius.com/
Subject says it all, and it's pretty much all I want, a automated system where by if I say I don't want to recieve ICMP messages for the next hour, my ISP firewalls them off.
A similar system could be employed by the ISP to inform the backbone to stop sending them specific types of packet for a while, and mabie evolved so that backbones can tell large ISPs to filter some of there customers from sending packets at a specific target.
Well if NY does it, I guess people telecommuting to TN should pay no tax if they live in NY... uhh I can't see them liking that one :)
They must have found a +3 dagger at the scene of the crime.
Similar case here, 98% of spam gets swallowed up by RBL's and Exim's no-tolerance aproach to protocol violations (eg sending the data without waiting for the ok). Though my logs show only direct attemts at legitimate email inboxes.
My guess is that they only target big organisations with dictionary attacks, so it's a problem the enthusiast won't encounter often at all.
I was first exposed to them a long time ago, and yes there is no easy way to include dependency checking, though I can't see why it would be any more dificult to include a dependency resolver for when the required support libraries arn't available.
:)
My main guess as to why they havn't chosen this technique is because app folders are not a feature of linux, theres no kernel support for them and theres virtually no support for them in graphical filers (ROX Desktop is the only one which comes to mind).
I'm sure at some point Windows or MacOS will come up with a lovely system for installing applications and then we'll copy them
Internet2 was a crappy name for a WAN linking universities, it was faster, but not a lot diferent to many of the other University WANs aroudnd the world.
You couln't achieve a nice effect like this in color using LCDs, A mono display might work to a degree though, similar to several alarmclocks which use a transparent display.
Though you never know what technologys around the corner and how it will work, I think LEP/OLEDs achieve significantly higher density than LCDs and if there power output increased and the clusters of 3 colors had enough gap between each cluster to let light though something might be workable.
I truely hate these popup links in text, I move my pointer over the text to aid reading, and wham I can't read cos some stupid script has poped up a sponsored link.
Just voicing my objection to this all to common practice.
Downlaoding using bit-torrent is in essence running a server, and people are usually not allowed to run servers from university or college connections without prior permission.
But I do agree, people should look more carefully at things, I got a nasty letter from my ISP after someone complained that I was sharing copyrighted content (Openoffice 1.1.0 windows binary)... uhh...