Any one of us can have our assets frozen by this order. All you have to do is threaten Iraq's economy. It is conceivable, and precedented, that anyone who speaks badly about this order will be interpreted as threatening Iraq's economy.
Winamp is perfectly legal. They pay all the necessary fees. Just run it under wine. You can also run your paid for (maybe comes with DVD player) DVD playing software under wine, and not worry about breaking "the law."
Winamp is not free. It is not even open source. But at least you can still use linux for other stuff. And, unlike Windows, I am almost positive that it doesn't contain any spyware or backdoors.
I have never tried this solution. I've been using mplayer since before I switched away from Windows. It might not even work, but it probably does. Wine runs just about everything. If not winamp, something else.
I'm surprised more people don't suggest this solution.
No. You can guess 5 every time, and if you are correct or incorrect a disproportionate amount, it is not random. However, the test that the GP suggests only weeds out the low hanging bad fruit, such as the not so random numbers used in many MMORPGs.
There are better, more sophisticated tests. You can learn more about these tests at www.random.org. To the best of my knowledge, every test that someone has done on their numbers suggests that they are completely random.
Microsoft already did this with the OO-XML format that is used in Office 2007. It is a ratified standard or at least I recall them trying to get it ratified.
You should no better than to drink the kool-aid. OOXML is not open, not xml, and not a standard. See http://www.nooxml.org/
MS OOXML is intentionally obfuscated to make implementing it difficult. It also has sections that are closed, to make implemention impossible to anyone without MS source code, or at least without reverse-engineering. You need various older MS programs to even be able to understand what it says.
MS's OOXML implementation (the only one) is probably broken (it's Microsoft). Even if all of the information necessary to make OOXML open was gleaned and published, and a perfect, third-party implementation was made, it would not be 100% compatable with Microsoft's implementation. We would be in a similar mess as we are now with HTML and IE.
Yes, it's a parody. How do they know that Osama bin Laden runs Linux on his laptop? They also have a rapture index to parody the terrorist threat index. "Put Jesus Back into the USA; vote Billy Bob Neck." Sounds like a generic hillbilly name.
The "pro-Windows" comments appear to be written by a small circle of friends who are in on the joke, or possibly all by the author.
the virtual world's regular visitors -- at most 40,000 of them online at any time -- are not only disinterested in in-world marketing, but actively hostile to it, staging attacks on corporate presences such as the Reebok and American Apparel stores.
Just because you get PK'd, doesn't mean they don't like you. It's one of the new challenges on the internet. It comes as a direct result of resurrection.
I disagree. connectu has a nice, simple interface. It was obvious what button I wanted to click if I wanted to join. I didn't, so I can't comment on the code. Then I tried facebook. Also simple. I clicked register, and got an error page telling me I don't have javascript enabled (which is true) and how to enable it if I have one of the "supported browsers."
All in all, both of them are 1000 x better than myspace.
Air travel used to be safer than other forms of transportation. It probably still is. But now that the TSA is discouraging air travel, more people are driving on the dangerous highways, and more people are dying in car accidents. I don't know how many more, but this is the internet, so I'll say 30,000 people die every year because of the TSA. And terrorists enabled the TSA.
I'm surprised Microsoft didn't do this. Their normal strategy is embrace, extend, extinguish. I would have expected them to add one of their half-assed plugins, so people could try it, and mistakenly believe the format was inferior. Kind of like how few people use a decent web browser because a half-assed one comes with Windows. Is Microsoft not on the ball, or do they have a new plan?
FWIW, I've been using a standard office format for several years. I use txt for most stuff. When I want to get fancy-shmancy, I use abiword, and save as rtf. Rtf has fonts, size, bold, italics, underline, colors, and 640k; what more could you need?
stop sprinkling this shit with sugar in a vain effort to make it more palatable: it's always been shit, it's still shit, and it will always be shit, and trying to convince us that your shit don't stink just insults our collective intelligence.
I think you think too highly of our collective intelligence. Politicians are rich and in power because they are genuinely good at something. Controlling people.
Sounds like a great way to wash your hands after selling a vulnerability to the mafia. "I don't know who you are, or what you intend to do with this weapon. I don't want to know."
Wading through the noise is not pleasant but you get to choose what is noise and what is signal.
That is true. However, it is important to have balance. Slashdot is "news for nerds," but in recent years, it has reported on internet trolls, Britney Spear's beaver, and scammers' wild claims. There are certain things that just shouldn't be reported here, and unproven claims that we are pretty sure are impossible is one of them.
If you report everything, the noise-to-signal ratio will be so large that it will be unreasonably difficult to find anything of value. If I wanted to read about wild claims, I would go to crackpot.com. On the other hand, I did click on this story...
When I was reading the article, I thought, "these must be old person pranks." I've seen other older people pull the same kind of stuff; stuff that isn't particularly funny, or convincing, like "pull my finger."
Yes. That is it exactly. When I wrote the comment, I put tags around the "he". At least, I thought I did. For some reason, it didn't work.
Although, I've been thinking about it. When a human man jizzes into a woman, it is said that he is "laying" the woman. When frogs have sex, the male frog jizzes onto the eggs as they evacuate. So, it could be said that the male frog is laying the eggs.
I completely agree with urging caution when it comes to regulation. However, the fact that they urge caution with network neutrality, but pretty much nothing else, suggests that they are singling out network neutrality.
The Blue Pill is indeed a myth. It is detectable. All you have to do, is check if you are running under a virtual machine. Contrary to the claims of Joanna Rutkowska, this is easy, not impossible. If you didn't think you were running under a VM, but you are, something is wrong.
It is also removable. Simply reboot the machine. I didn't say re-install, but reboot. If blue pill were to install files to the hard drive, the files would be detectable in an offline scan. Because Joanna claims that even an offline scan would not detect blue pill, it doesn't write to the hard drive. Because it doesn't write to the hard drive, it is not persistent.
On the other hand, Joanna's claims are often moderately dishonest, at best. There is no such thing as completely undectable. If you sneezed 10 years ago, there is evidence of it somewhere.
She hasn't released the code. She might have legitimate reasons, but this is normally considered inexcusable for security research. All we have to go on is "what she says."
As the first born, I can testify to the accuracy of this claim. My parents had no idea how to raise a child. We all had to figure it out together. When my brother and sister were born, our parents already had experience, and (somewhat) knew what they were doing. My brother and sister never had to learn what I did.
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Any one of us can have our assets frozen by this order. All you have to do is threaten Iraq's economy. It is conceivable, and precedented, that anyone who speaks badly about this order will be interpreted as threatening Iraq's economy.
Winamp is perfectly legal. They pay all the necessary fees. Just run it under wine. You can also run your paid for (maybe comes with DVD player) DVD playing software under wine, and not worry about breaking "the law."
Winamp is not free. It is not even open source. But at least you can still use linux for other stuff. And, unlike Windows, I am almost positive that it doesn't contain any spyware or backdoors.
I have never tried this solution. I've been using mplayer since before I switched away from Windows. It might not even work, but it probably does. Wine runs just about everything. If not winamp, something else.
I'm surprised more people don't suggest this solution.
No. You can guess 5 every time, and if you are correct or incorrect a disproportionate amount, it is not random. However, the test that the GP suggests only weeds out the low hanging bad fruit, such as the not so random numbers used in many MMORPGs.
There are better, more sophisticated tests. You can learn more about these tests at www.random.org. To the best of my knowledge, every test that someone has done on their numbers suggests that they are completely random.
You should no better than to drink the kool-aid. OOXML is not open, not xml, and not a standard. See http://www.nooxml.org/
MS OOXML is intentionally obfuscated to make implementing it difficult. It also has sections that are closed, to make implemention impossible to anyone without MS source code, or at least without reverse-engineering. You need various older MS programs to even be able to understand what it says.
MS's OOXML implementation (the only one) is probably broken (it's Microsoft). Even if all of the information necessary to make OOXML open was gleaned and published, and a perfect, third-party implementation was made, it would not be 100% compatable with Microsoft's implementation. We would be in a similar mess as we are now with HTML and IE.
IE developers use firefox for testing. They have to make sure that firefox chokes on their "extensions."
Yes, it's a parody. How do they know that Osama bin Laden runs Linux on his laptop? They also have a rapture index to parody the terrorist threat index. "Put Jesus Back into the USA; vote Billy Bob Neck." Sounds like a generic hillbilly name.
The "pro-Windows" comments appear to be written by a small circle of friends who are in on the joke, or possibly all by the author.
Just because you get PK'd, doesn't mean they don't like you. It's one of the new challenges on the internet. It comes as a direct result of resurrection.
Microsoft has been doing this since 2002. Here is the link: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2002/10/bsod_ads.html
Warning: bbspot is not always 100% accurate.
I disagree. connectu has a nice, simple interface. It was obvious what button I wanted to click if I wanted to join. I didn't, so I can't comment on the code. Then I tried facebook. Also simple. I clicked register, and got an error page telling me I don't have javascript enabled (which is true) and how to enable it if I have one of the "supported browsers."
All in all, both of them are 1000 x better than myspace.
The GPLv2 already allows that.
I wasn't surprised yesterday. What makes you think I'll be more surprised today?
Air travel used to be safer than other forms of transportation. It probably still is. But now that the TSA is discouraging air travel, more people are driving on the dangerous highways, and more people are dying in car accidents. I don't know how many more, but this is the internet, so I'll say 30,000 people die every year because of the TSA. And terrorists enabled the TSA.
If you're not willing to take it up the ass without complaining, you have no business doing business with Sprint.
I'm surprised Microsoft didn't do this. Their normal strategy is embrace, extend, extinguish. I would have expected them to add one of their half-assed plugins, so people could try it, and mistakenly believe the format was inferior. Kind of like how few people use a decent web browser because a half-assed one comes with Windows. Is Microsoft not on the ball, or do they have a new plan?
FWIW, I've been using a standard office format for several years. I use txt for most stuff. When I want to get fancy-shmancy, I use abiword, and save as rtf. Rtf has fonts, size, bold, italics, underline, colors, and 640k; what more could you need?
I think you think too highly of our collective intelligence. Politicians are rich and in power because they are genuinely good at something. Controlling people.
Sounds like a great way to wash your hands after selling a vulnerability to the mafia. "I don't know who you are, or what you intend to do with this weapon. I don't want to know."
That is true. However, it is important to have balance. Slashdot is "news for nerds," but in recent years, it has reported on internet trolls, Britney Spear's beaver, and scammers' wild claims. There are certain things that just shouldn't be reported here, and unproven claims that we are pretty sure are impossible is one of them.
If you report everything, the noise-to-signal ratio will be so large that it will be unreasonably difficult to find anything of value. If I wanted to read about wild claims, I would go to crackpot.com. On the other hand, I did click on this story...
When I was reading the article, I thought, "these must be old person pranks." I've seen other older people pull the same kind of stuff; stuff that isn't particularly funny, or convincing, like "pull my finger."
I don't recall agreeing to that. I can't imagine anyone else on slashdot would either.
Yes. That is it exactly. When I wrote the comment, I put tags around the "he". At least, I thought I did. For some reason, it didn't work.
Although, I've been thinking about it. When a human man jizzes into a woman, it is said that he is "laying" the woman. When frogs have sex, the male frog jizzes onto the eggs as they evacuate. So, it could be said that the male frog is laying the eggs.
I completely agree with urging caution when it comes to regulation. However, the fact that they urge caution with network neutrality, but pretty much nothing else, suggests that they are singling out network neutrality.
Yes. Because, as everyone knows, scammers will never break the law.
I would mod you up, but I have no points.
The Blue Pill is indeed a myth. It is detectable. All you have to do, is check if you are running under a virtual machine. Contrary to the claims of Joanna Rutkowska, this is easy, not impossible. If you didn't think you were running under a VM, but you are, something is wrong.
It is also removable. Simply reboot the machine. I didn't say re-install, but reboot. If blue pill were to install files to the hard drive, the files would be detectable in an offline scan. Because Joanna claims that even an offline scan would not detect blue pill, it doesn't write to the hard drive. Because it doesn't write to the hard drive, it is not persistent.
On the other hand, Joanna's claims are often moderately dishonest, at best. There is no such thing as completely undectable. If you sneezed 10 years ago, there is evidence of it somewhere.
She hasn't released the code. She might have legitimate reasons, but this is normally considered inexcusable for security research. All we have to go on is "what she says."
I assume you did not get an A in biology?
As the first born, I can testify to the accuracy of this claim. My parents had no idea how to raise a child. We all had to figure it out together. When my brother and sister were born, our parents already had experience, and (somewhat) knew what they were doing. My brother and sister never had to learn what I did.