It was Pamela Jones of Groklaw who revealed the existence of "The Slog" from the Comes vs. Microsoft case documents. On reading of this latest conflict-of-interest issue with Hopkirk, PJ's February 17, 2008 article is eerily familiar...
"do you know of any other great fantasy or science fiction books that time has forgotten?" Taking your question literally, here is the ultimate collection:
By "Exec" in the title the actual position of the speaker is in fact "director of Portfolio, Product Marketing & Sales at Nokia Entertainment Global", which equates to something like "manufacturer of consent via media manipulation, innuendo, and implication". No hard science or technology in that guy's department.
Any patents filed on this by Paul Allen yet? Quick, what have we got for prior art?
How about a wide variety of designs through aviation history in which smaller piloted aircraft are launched from larger ones while airborne, not to mention the X-1 through X-15 programs and of course the Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka.
Yep, but first install a Squid proxy on an internet-facing machine and then set all internal browsers to proxy through it, then set all browsers to use a cache size of 0.
Hmmm... so auto-updates NEVER cause problems for home users, right? Seriously, shut off auto-update and be glad that you did. Install the newer version beside the old one, and if everything seems fine after using the newer one go ahead and delete the older one. Simple. With Beta versions (the topic of this Slashdot article, after all) this is the only sane way to go.
Shut Off Auto-Update!Re:Finally abandoned FF at v8
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Firefox 9.0 Beta Available
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· Score: 1, Insightful
For the luff of ghod shut off auto-update, and when a new version comes out just download it and then run a dry-run test in a temporary fashion before committing to the next version. Oh and stop kvetching about having to abandon a product because your skills are sloppy.
...which nobody can deny is a marketing hoax perpetuated by HSPA+ carriers. Time for a single grand unified body of generation number definers.
Different Test Gives IQ Rank By Platform
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2010 Geek IQ Test
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Intelligence Elite did the following: "During the last two years people from all over the world took the MV2G IQ test of Intelligent Elite. The test consists of 315 questions of different difficulty and different types (Verbal, logical, mathematical & visual). The test could be taken as a Facebook application, a Twitter application or on the website of IntelligentElite.com. For each test taker the country, the specialization, the age, the gender, the operating system and the browser used was recorded. Thus the IQ obtained could be aggregated and correlated to the information collected. One of the most interesting statistics that is visible is the differences between Apple and PC users." The resulting IQ rankings by platform:
1. IPad users 2. Linux users 3. Apple users 4. Windows users
Of course this assumes that the botnet attack is a standard SSH-based one. Also the # RESERVED_HOST=$(cat/var/lib/denyhosts/hosts-restricted|awk -F ":" '{print $1}') line needs to be uncommented.
Instructions for Linux, but can be modified to suit *BSD, some other OSes. Remember, with firewalls fascism is good.
1. install and configure denyhosts http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ 2. use the reporting/updating feature of denyhosts to coordinate and sync botnet-dropping with other denyhosts users 3. write a script or daemon that checks for updates to denyhost's hosts-restricted file and then tells your iptables firewall to drop all packets to and from those hosts
Example of iptables firewall config file with blacklists:
# Blacklisted IP addresses: uses output of denyhosts daemon # # RESERVED_HOST=$(cat/var/lib/denyhosts/hosts-restricted|awk -F ":" '{print $1}') # # Blacklisted subnets: place banned subnets here # RESERVED_NET=" " # # Prevent packets sent to unassignable and blacklisted subnets from # leaving the firewall (see Blacklist above) # $IPTABLES -N SRC_EGRESS $IPTABLES -F SRC_EGRESS $IPTABLES -A SRC_EGRESS -s 10.0.0.0/8 -j DROP $IPTABLES -A SRC_EGRESS -s 172.16.0.0/12 -j DROP $IPTABLES -A SRC_EGRESS -s 192.168.0.0/16 -j DROP $IPTABLES -A SRC_EGRESS -s 224.0.0.0/4 -j DROP $IPTABLES -A SRC_EGRESS -s 240.0.0.0/5 -j DROP
for NET in $RESERVED_NET
do
$IPTABLES -A SRC_EGRESS -s $NET -j DROP
done
$IPTABLES -N DST_EGRESS $IPTABLES -F DST_EGRESS $IPTABLES -A DST_EGRESS -d 10.0.0.0/8 -j DROP $IPTABLES -A DST_EGRESS -d 172.16.0.0/12 -j DROP $IPTABLES -A DST_EGRESS -d 192.168.0.0/16 -j DROP $IPTABLES -A DST_EGRESS -d 224.0.0.0/4 -j DROP $IPTABLES -A DST_EGRESS -d 240.0.0.0/5 -j DROP
for NET in $RESERVED_NET
do
$IPTABLES -A DST_EGRESS -d $NET -j DROP
done
# Prevent packets sent to or from blacklisted hosts from # entering or leaving the firewall (see Blacklist above) #
for HOST in $RESERVED_HOST
do
$IPTABLES -I INPUT -s $HOST -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A SRC_EGRESS -s $HOST -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A DST_EGRESS -d $HOST -j DROP
done
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It was Pamela Jones of Groklaw who revealed the existence of "The Slog" from the Comes vs. Microsoft case documents. On reading of this latest conflict-of-interest issue with Hopkirk, PJ's February 17, 2008 article is eerily familiar...
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20071023002351958
If you buy a WDTV product you really, really want to flash it with WDLXTV goodness:
http://forum.wdlxtv.com/
Oops, that cruise liner way off in the distance just got torched... sorry...
Isn't this the same thing that Project Festival has been doing since about 2004?
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ (try the demo)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/Mondrian_CompRYB.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian
Not THAT Gibson... Bob Gibson. Read this link:
http://devel.specialcollections.ucalgary.ca/books/gibson
Not THAT Gibson... read the link.
"do you know of any other great fantasy or science fiction books that time has forgotten?" Taking your question literally, here is the ultimate collection:
http://slashdot.org/story/02/08/02/0349211/scifi-motherlode-donated-to-canadian-university
Check out these various Open Source hardware projects for licensing ideas:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/31/2221206/open-hardware-journal
By "Exec" in the title the actual position of the speaker is in fact "director of Portfolio, Product Marketing & Sales at Nokia Entertainment Global", which equates to something like "manufacturer of consent via media manipulation, innuendo, and implication". No hard science or technology in that guy's department.
Any patents filed on this by Paul Allen yet? Quick, what have we got for prior art?
How about a wide variety of designs through aviation history in which smaller piloted aircraft are launched from larger ones while airborne, not to mention the X-1 through X-15 programs and of course the Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka.
The ultimate question has already been answered: 42.
Yep, but first install a Squid proxy on an internet-facing machine and then set all internal browsers to proxy through it, then set all browsers to use a cache size of 0.
Hmmm... so auto-updates NEVER cause problems for home users, right? Seriously, shut off auto-update and be glad that you did. Install the newer version beside the old one, and if everything seems fine after using the newer one go ahead and delete the older one. Simple. With Beta versions (the topic of this Slashdot article, after all) this is the only sane way to go.
For the luff of ghod shut off auto-update, and when a new version comes out just download it and then run a dry-run test in a temporary fashion before committing to the next version. Oh and stop kvetching about having to abandon a product because your skills are sloppy.
Eerie physical similarities...
Get an amygdala!
...which nobody can deny is a marketing hoax perpetuated by HSPA+ carriers. Time for a single grand unified body of generation number definers.
Intelligence Elite did the following: "During the last two years people from all over the world took the MV2G IQ test of Intelligent Elite. The test consists of 315 questions of different difficulty and different types (Verbal, logical, mathematical & visual). The test could be taken as a Facebook application, a Twitter application or on the website of IntelligentElite.com. For each test taker the country, the specialization, the age, the gender, the operating system and the browser used was recorded. Thus the IQ obtained could be aggregated and correlated to the information collected. One of the most interesting statistics that is visible is the differences between Apple and PC users." The resulting IQ rankings by platform:
1. IPad users
2. Linux users
3. Apple users
4. Windows users
http://www.intelligentelite.com/blog/it-is-finally-proven-apple-users-are-more-intelligent-than-pc-users/ [intelligentelite.com]
Yep, and just like that it went bye-bye while the number of reads on this item still showed 3.
Grandma Titor was likely using one of these:
http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Carbon/WesternElectric/info/westelect34a.htm
It still doesn't explain why the person she's conversing with is INVISIBLE!!!
Of course this assumes that the botnet attack is a standard SSH-based one. Also the # RESERVED_HOST=$(cat /var/lib/denyhosts/hosts-restricted|awk -F ":" '{print $1}') line needs to be uncommented.
Instructions for Linux, but can be modified to suit *BSD, some other OSes. Remember, with firewalls fascism is good.
1. install and configure denyhosts http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/
2. use the reporting/updating feature of denyhosts to coordinate and sync botnet-dropping with other denyhosts users
3. write a script or daemon that checks for updates to denyhost's hosts-restricted file and then tells your iptables firewall to drop all packets to and from those hosts
Example of iptables firewall config file with blacklists:
# Blacklisted IP addresses: uses output of denyhosts daemon /var/lib/denyhosts/hosts-restricted|awk -F ":" '{print $1}')
#
# RESERVED_HOST=$(cat
#
# Blacklisted subnets: place banned subnets here
#
RESERVED_NET=" "
#
# Prevent packets sent to unassignable and blacklisted subnets from
# leaving the firewall (see Blacklist above)
#
$IPTABLES -N SRC_EGRESS
$IPTABLES -F SRC_EGRESS
$IPTABLES -A SRC_EGRESS -s 10.0.0.0/8 -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A SRC_EGRESS -s 172.16.0.0/12 -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A SRC_EGRESS -s 192.168.0.0/16 -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A SRC_EGRESS -s 224.0.0.0/4 -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A SRC_EGRESS -s 240.0.0.0/5 -j DROP
for NET in $RESERVED_NET
do
$IPTABLES -A SRC_EGRESS -s $NET -j DROP
done
$IPTABLES -N DST_EGRESS
$IPTABLES -F DST_EGRESS
$IPTABLES -A DST_EGRESS -d 10.0.0.0/8 -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A DST_EGRESS -d 172.16.0.0/12 -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A DST_EGRESS -d 192.168.0.0/16 -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A DST_EGRESS -d 224.0.0.0/4 -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A DST_EGRESS -d 240.0.0.0/5 -j DROP
for NET in $RESERVED_NET
do
$IPTABLES -A DST_EGRESS -d $NET -j DROP
done
# Prevent packets sent to or from blacklisted hosts from
# entering or leaving the firewall (see Blacklist above)
#
for HOST in $RESERVED_HOST
do
$IPTABLES -I INPUT -s $HOST -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A SRC_EGRESS -s $HOST -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A DST_EGRESS -d $HOST -j DROP
done
If you were given a free trip into the past you could fix it so that his "Ubuntu's Apt" statement would be correct.
Cue the beeping sound of the trash truck dumping out these poll "results"...