no, the denial of service happened when they stole your phone, taking the SIM card with it.
The SIM card (looks like the gold chip element cut out of a smartcard, because that's what it is) contains your subscriber identity. The network will block the SIM the moment you tell them the phone's been stolen, and they'd block the handset too (the IMEI is sent as part of the sign-on process), but people are getting away with hacking the IMEIs...
Bugs and antibugs can quite easily cancel each other out - many times I've made a +1 mistake somewhere and a matching -1 mistake elsewhere and they've gone unspotted until later.
As for "radiating bugs", we're venturing into Bogon Theory, whereby your working code fails when you show someone else, or your error vanishes when you seek help.
you need a playstation (classic old/cheap psx will do) for the Konami DDR games (if there are any around for dcast I've never seen them).
I've got the Blaze Ravestation softmat (not a shiny-plastic top surface, holds together during play well) along with Dancing Stage Euromix and DS Disney Mix (both of these are euro/pal releases - ddr 3rd mix and ddr disney rave are the US equivalents). Try redoctane.com for a US supplier of various dancemats.
There's one for ye olde psOne/psx (called 'ps x-change' or similar, try LikSang or similar suppliers), it's a factory-burnt CD so it has the copy-protection data properly written. But it's not greatly reliable for playing games from CDRs (may not boot at all, long loadtimes, fmv skips) - I think tweaking the laser gain is commonly done when "professionals" fit modchips to PSXs.
As for dreamcast bootdiscs, most DCs can boot a suitably-written CDR without hardware modding, see dcemulation.com for info and stuff (NES, SNES and Genesis games on your DC, anyone?).
Another similar (but not the same one) Simak book is Ring Around The Sun, where alien-type-things (not read it in a while) flood earth markets with cars that never wear out, cheap modular housing, etc. I picked it up cheap when my school library was selling off old fiction books, it's quite a fun read.
... moral right for an author to retain recognition as the author of their work
A little bit of a diversion, but this is literally referred to as the "moral right" in European copyright law and is not transferred over to Big Media Behemoth, Inc. by authors/creative people when they sign over the rest of their souls - hence if you look on the copyright stuff page of a book published in the UK you will very often see "author has asserted his Moral Right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyrights, Designs and Patents act".
The idea is that the literal copyright, as in the right to make copies, can be bought off you, but not the "bragging rights".
yup, got it in one, that was me - kinda freaky to notice how many Reading peeps I see around/.:o)
And just so you don't feel too bad, most of us did the vision stuff for TORUS digger really badly, just applying a threshold to the image to make it black+white and then just assuming that the only white blob is the ball (after applying some erosion to clean up the image).
hehe - I'm a RDG compsci myself and I'm glad that McKee didn't ask us to do this for last term's Rep+Reasoning (symbolic-level AI stuff, mostly for pure comp-sci peeps like me) assignment. Bloody TORUS remote control digger (with shoddy ball-recog) was bad enough.
I had bish for 1/cy/a6 in part one, he 0wns (esp. in comparison to Warwick!).
If you're using an athlon board based around the VIA KT133 chipset and you're a happy windows xp user (don't laugh - we do exist), don't expect to use a common webcam like the Logitech Quickcam Express (among many others), because it won't work.
(yes, I know VIA chipsets blow. At least, I do now... *G*)
The palm-branded (actually Stowaway made, IIRC) collapsable keyboards have a really nice key action, equivalent to a very good laptop keyboard. I can see this device having the advantage of the actual unit being really small (when folded, my Palm kbd is bigger than my palm IIIx - fine for in my bag, not so good for pockets).
That made news because even though that force had the "rubber bullet" baton gun available for many months, this was the first time it had been used in anger. IIRC, the domestic in question was something like a guy threatening to knife his wife+kids or something of that nature, so the "reach out and blat someone" quality of the baton gun was pretty much ideal in that situation.
Much as I'd dearly love to see this happen (I think the ultimate "killer application" for digital TV would be the execution of the Blair Cabinet live on Pay-Per-View across Sky, ITV digital and Cable), a more practical and lasting approach might be to support the Lib Dems. Not just vote for them - really actually become a party member and start giving a damn. I'm going to, because I've realised that if either of the ConservaLabour SpinDoctor Parties still have power when I graduate uni (got 1.5 years left now), I'm freakin' emigrating.
Nu-uh, not a good plan. We're already being milked through the genitals on fuel tax over here (you did note this article was about the UK, right?) and we've had little internal disturbances before over the obscene cost of petrol here. All the government needs to do is announce something to piss off the entire military (they've already made it quite clear that they're going to force through reforms on the police which have been voted against by a majority of 10:1 of the cops here) and we'll have the good beginnings of a civil uprising (with any luck).
The UK hauliers complained. The government did what was honestly expected (fuck all). Various hauliers decided on an attitude of "if you can't beat them, join them".
Not too dissimilar to the spat between AOL and Freeserve (the UK's largest ISP) over VAT issues - as AOL's UK arm doesn't "really exist" as a company within the UK, the £14.99 a month they extract all goes to AOL, whereas Freeserve's £12.99/month already includes 17.5% VAT. Freeserve are promising to move offshore if the loophole AOL are [ab]using isn't resolved.
Oh no, don't be fooled, we the real British people don't like the status quo. There's just piss-all we can do about it. We're being milked through the genitals on fuel tax and the average public transport system is not usable if you have to actually GET anywhere.
You've heard the joke about "no matter who I vote for, the Government always gets in"? Well Britain created it. The Tories fucked things over massively. Tony Blair's Labour party: new politicians, apparently the same shit results. I'm sick and tired of the lot of them.
Maybe I should go into politics and try to fix the system from the inside - a policy/law forbidding all ministers for transport issues from making more than 10% of their journeys by private car should be a good start.
*nod*, I've noticed this recently (don't have formmail.pl on my site, but I check up on 404s in my logs out of habit), and I posted bits above. now I'll tip off the nice support dude at my cheap webhost company I use so they can't claim not to know...
quite probably unrelated to this is a few days ago my website got hit by some apparent script which was searching for "open" formmail.pl scripts to abuse by trying to send an email off to some random guy (I guess formmail.pl is fairly standard - the owner of the site whose script is being used may be an innocent relay in the warhol worm/virus). Here's the apache log line of when my site was scanned, just in case anyone else has spotted similar:
If this is about the same thing I saw earlier today, it's "chips as in fries", specifically the process of putting salt on them. It's some charity/pressure group attempting it to point out social issues raised by patenting of crops by Monsanto et al.
"As a software user I am in no way obligated to use the program in the exact way in which you, as the author, intended"
Click-through EULAs, made legally binding by the DMCA. Yes, you are.
And at the risk of being modded down for dissenting with the hive mind, I think this is a good thing. If you don't want to use my software in the ways I say you may, do not use my software. Take it or leave it.
not very likely, given that "they" already paid large amount$ of mon£y for a law that says it's illegal to use cleverness to try to use something you've already bought.
bit of a typo there, I think you meant New Zealand - they obviously have a collective clue, what with the legal requirement of DVD players to be ready region-cracked/chipped/etc...:-)
That's a policy in English for human beings to interpret. If they want to stop browsing automatons from cacheing/indexing, the Robots Exclusion Standard is the common and almost always adhered-to standard (except for spambots, of course).
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have to agree and emphasize that Trigun is "laugh until my testicles ache from the effort" funny in the funny parts, whilst being pleasantly gripping in the serious bits.
I'm slowly watching through the Pioneer DVD set (Region 1 but watching it in jap+sub) which one of my housemates owns. I'm almost converted-enough to go with him to the animesoc at uni (u of Reading, UK), if I weren't so lazy.
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The SIM card (looks like the gold chip element cut out of a smartcard, because that's what it is) contains your subscriber identity. The network will block the SIM the moment you tell them the phone's been stolen, and they'd block the handset too (the IMEI is sent as part of the sign-on process), but people are getting away with hacking the IMEIs...
As for "radiating bugs", we're venturing into Bogon Theory, whereby your working code fails when you show someone else, or your error vanishes when you seek help.
you need a playstation (classic old/cheap psx will do) for the Konami DDR games (if there are any around for dcast I've never seen them).
I've got the Blaze Ravestation softmat (not a shiny-plastic top surface, holds together during play well) along with Dancing Stage Euromix and DS Disney Mix (both of these are euro/pal releases - ddr 3rd mix and ddr disney rave are the US equivalents). Try redoctane.com for a US supplier of various dancemats.
As for dreamcast bootdiscs, most DCs can boot a suitably-written CDR without hardware modding, see dcemulation.com for info and stuff (NES, SNES and Genesis games on your DC, anyone?).
Another similar (but not the same one) Simak book is Ring Around The Sun, where alien-type-things (not read it in a while) flood earth markets with cars that never wear out, cheap modular housing, etc. I picked it up cheap when my school library was selling off old fiction books, it's quite a fun read.
A little bit of a diversion, but this is literally referred to as the "moral right" in European copyright law and is not transferred over to Big Media Behemoth, Inc. by authors/creative people when they sign over the rest of their souls - hence if you look on the copyright stuff page of a book published in the UK you will very often see "author has asserted his Moral Right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyrights, Designs and Patents act".
The idea is that the literal copyright, as in the right to make copies, can be bought off you, but not the "bragging rights".
And just so you don't feel too bad, most of us did the vision stuff for TORUS digger really badly, just applying a threshold to the image to make it black+white and then just assuming that the only white blob is the ball (after applying some erosion to clean up the image).
I had bish for 1/cy/a6 in part one, he 0wns (esp. in comparison to Warwick!).
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If you're using an athlon board based around the VIA KT133 chipset and you're a happy windows xp user (don't laugh - we do exist), don't expect to use a common webcam like the Logitech Quickcam Express (among many others), because it won't work.
(yes, I know VIA chipsets blow. At least, I do now... *G*)
The palm-branded (actually Stowaway made, IIRC) collapsable keyboards have a really nice key action, equivalent to a very good laptop keyboard. I can see this device having the advantage of the actual unit being really small (when folded, my Palm kbd is bigger than my palm IIIx - fine for in my bag, not so good for pockets).
That made news because even though that force had the "rubber bullet" baton gun available for many months, this was the first time it had been used in anger. IIRC, the domestic in question was something like a guy threatening to knife his wife+kids or something of that nature, so the "reach out and blat someone" quality of the baton gun was pretty much ideal in that situation.
Much as I'd dearly love to see this happen (I think the ultimate "killer application" for digital TV would be the execution of the Blair Cabinet live on Pay-Per-View across Sky, ITV digital and Cable), a more practical and lasting approach might be to support the Lib Dems. Not just vote for them - really actually become a party member and start giving a damn. I'm going to, because I've realised that if either of the ConservaLabour SpinDoctor Parties still have power when I graduate uni (got 1.5 years left now), I'm freakin' emigrating.
Nu-uh, not a good plan. We're already being milked through the genitals on fuel tax over here (you did note this article was about the UK, right?) and we've had little internal disturbances before over the obscene cost of petrol here. All the government needs to do is announce something to piss off the entire military (they've already made it quite clear that they're going to force through reforms on the police which have been voted against by a majority of 10:1 of the cops here) and we'll have the good beginnings of a civil uprising (with any luck).
Not too dissimilar to the spat between AOL and Freeserve (the UK's largest ISP) over VAT issues - as AOL's UK arm doesn't "really exist" as a company within the UK, the £14.99 a month they extract all goes to AOL, whereas Freeserve's £12.99/month already includes 17.5% VAT. Freeserve are promising to move offshore if the loophole AOL are [ab]using isn't resolved.
You've heard the joke about "no matter who I vote for, the Government always gets in"? Well Britain created it. The Tories fucked things over massively. Tony Blair's Labour party: new politicians, apparently the same shit results. I'm sick and tired of the lot of them.
Maybe I should go into politics and try to fix the system from the inside - a policy/law forbidding all ministers for transport issues from making more than 10% of their journeys by private car should be a good start.
*nod*, I've noticed this recently (don't have formmail.pl on my site, but I check up on 404s in my logs out of habit), and I posted bits above. now I'll tip off the nice support dude at my cheap webhost company I use so they can't claim not to know...
24.90.121.snip - - [12/Feb/2002:00:38:16 -0500] "GET /cgi-bin/formmail.pl?email=f2%40aol%2Ecom&subject= bbx%2Eflarp%2Enet%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fformmail%2Epl&reci pient=icases0ber%40aol%2Ecom&msg=w00t HTTP/1.1Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" 404 295 "-" "Gozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; windows 2000)"
It's RoadRunner cable modem service apparently, and the browser info is obviously going to be rubbish.
If this is about the same thing I saw earlier today, it's "chips as in fries", specifically the process of putting salt on them. It's some charity/pressure group attempting it to point out social issues raised by patenting of crops by Monsanto et al.
Click-through EULAs, made legally binding by the DMCA. Yes, you are.
And at the risk of being modded down for dissenting with the hive mind, I think this is a good thing. If you don't want to use my software in the ways I say you may, do not use my software. Take it or leave it.
or, if we strip off the cuddly veneer from what you say, software piracy is like rape...
this would be the "not upgradable" with the USB and firewire connections, along with however the HDD unit is hooked up?
not very likely, given that "they" already paid large amount$ of mon£y for a law that says it's illegal to use cleverness to try to use something you've already bought.
bit of a typo there, I think you meant New Zealand - they obviously have a collective clue, what with the legal requirement of DVD players to be ready region-cracked/chipped/etc... :-)
That's a policy in English for human beings to interpret. If they want to stop browsing automatons from cacheing/indexing, the Robots Exclusion Standard is the common and almost always adhered-to standard (except for spambots, of course).
I'm slowly watching through the Pioneer DVD set (Region 1 but watching it in jap+sub) which one of my housemates owns. I'm almost converted-enough to go with him to the animesoc at uni (u of Reading, UK), if I weren't so lazy.