The sun is warmer, so that makes us buy more cars. Then those increased cars means more pollution - and then the pollution causes global warming... hell, cars probably have pecial "car-rays" that reach out to the sun to cause this warming. In fact... it is probably only in America that this happens. America seems to get the blame for all the evil these days, so I'd totally blame them for fucking with the sun.
I wrote in my journal here on slashdot recently that I wanted this technology. had I know I'd be getting that wish granted, I'd have instead wished for Naomi Watts.
technically, unless the Flash contains bitmaps or audio, it isn't all that large. If you stick to actual vector graphics, the entire compiled package remains quite small since it is rendering it all at run time.
/. was hacked into at least once that I can recall.
IIRC it was something like:
When Slash (the code) is distributed, there are default passwords in place (so they say, I've never looked at the code b/c I don't particularly care - I don't run it anywhere). Someone ran a check to see all of the hosts at slashdot that could be seen from the outside world. From there, then they looked to see which of those servers was running Slash. They found one which wasn't a production one, and they got in via the default password still being in place. From there they made changes... and that is where I'm less clear - how the changes were propigated up to the main site(s).
just because you run it at a resolution XYZ, that doesn't mean "most people" run it at that.
90% of the designers I know run at 1600x1200, and even more programmers I know run at that.
I run my laptop at 1400xsomething - and I would run higher if the screen could do it.
Just because you have bad eyes and therefore can't comprehend that there is a real need/desire for more real estate doesn't mean that you can just shrug off other users.
I don't assume that everyone runs at 1600x1200 or higher - but you assume that anyone that runs higher than you will strain their eyes... I suppose there isn't much use in me writing this since it looks like a bunch of other people replied to this and also mentioned you were a dipshit.
that p1120 looks excellent, but I just can't justify paying that much for something when I will only use it during the times when I can't use my laptop or desktop (which is fairly rare for me).
I'm curious as to how easy/fast it is to code on them. I type fast on a full sized keyboard (albeit frequently poorly) and it seems I'd go nuts going down to that size - otherwise the Zaurus is really sounding enticing.
I get bored out of my mind if I'm not programming. If I go somewhere to "do stuff" I'm going to be thinking of programming. It is just sort of how my brain works. I've frequently thought about getting a small handheld exactly like what this guy wants (although I'd likely work in Forth since it is so small and readily available for the handhelds). The only time I couldn't justify getting a laptop instead was maybe brining one to a horsetrack for betting (not sure if they are as uptight about computers there as Vegas is).
But in the end, I have a very spoiled life though and in two months I will be working/living on a beautiful island - so I can have a vacation life and program too.
If you are buying/selling a stock within a 3 week period, it really doesn't matter at all if the company truly makes money over that time period. It matters how the market reacts to it.
If it is percieved that it will go up, then people will move to it, if they then see that it doesn't go up - people will move away from it (hence the move in and the move out over the short term).
If the company has a spike in profits, it will go up in the short term, due to the idea above. But it won't stay up.
Were you buying and holding, then that would not be a valid way of investing - or were you looking to actually buy the company (which is essentially what you are doing on a small scale when you buy and hold), then it wouldn't make sense.
But from a day trading perspective, it doesn't matter at what price the stock is at, or really if they truly profit at the end of the quarter or not. You watch for movements - and that would cause movement.
As for what companies - I'm too lazy to go and look - for starters I'd look at the highest volume today and see what is in there to see if others are moving to it or not - if it is in the highest volume group, then it is likely already too late (XM satellite was in there earlier today, but not related to this war thang).
Find public companies that own satellites inolved in this and invest heavily for one to three weeks.
Deep pockets are going to fight over limited resources - which means a lot of money is going to be exchanged in the short term. Assuming that they satellite companies don't offer some sort of bargain deal or preference to the military/gov't, then they are looking to make a metric crapload on this.
Very true. And to be fair, just because something is server side, that obviously doesn't mean it is secure either. All kinds of generalizations I made there - I was just trying to get ideas out:)
I was seeing so much spam because of this (over 500 a day) that I just setup my server to redirect any mail that comes in to an address that doesn't exist to/dev/null. That brought me down to the "reasonable" 100+ a day.
I'm on a shared server (pair.com - I highly recommend them) - so my scripts are only allowed to run for a max of 30 seconds. They don't run the spamassassin c daemon, so I have to use the spamassassin perl script. With the default settings, it was getting slow going through my mail - so it would timeout, and then when that happened, the mail it was looking at would just get dumped into my inbox, unscanned. I've adjusted the settings of SA so that it doesn't talk to the RBLs and it only autolearns on 20 or higher scores. I also set the bayes_90 and the bayes_99 to higher scores (3.5 and 4 respectively) just because I personally had never seen those be wrong on my mail.
With those settings and whichever version of the 2.60 I have, I'm loving it right now.
It saves caughtspam out to a "caughtspam" file and I also have yesterday's caughtspam in another file. I can then just run "frm caughtspam | more" and see it formatted out to the screen in an easy way to read. If I have free time I will glance over it to make sure I'm not missing anything. I also have scripts that run against it as well to warn me of things that might be things I'd want to keep - but those can only be so smart - but are better than not reading through it at all.
One of the funnier (to me - others likely hate it) things I've seen are those "somebody has a crush on you" sites. you then have to "guess" who sent you the thing, so you put in emails and it collects them. I don't think that anyone ever really sends you anything, it just says that, then collects all the emails that generates and then tells those people that someone has a crush on them, etc etc. Then that list can be resold.
I have my email address up on slashdot, I have it on my webpage (current and an old school one). I have posted to various discussion boards, yahoo groups, newsgroups, mailing lists, etc. I have purchased online from literally hundreds of online stores (I pretty only buy anything aside from dinner online). Our of all of those, I definitely saw increases in spam coming in - but it wasn't huge increases until the two things that I mentioned up there - the online gamling and the domain registration.
There are ways around it - but for the most part, Java is just bytecode and therefore you can go backwards and get the source - it isn't truly compiled in the sense of C/C++ exe code. You don't get comments, but the code is there.
This is why you need to be very careful about how you do things in Java applets if you want security. Not really an issue if your code is server side - but in the case of a client side applet - once they have it, they can go through it all easily. For the most part, the way around it is to have anything that needs to be secure done server side over an ssl connection and have the applet as dumb as possible - only relaying what has happened to the server or the user, depending on which is needed. Also, the server should keep track of what "should" be happening, that way if something comes back to it that doesn't match what it is expecting, it can be suspicious that the data has been tampered with.
In the case of the online casino code - they had done this in all of their newest code, and in older code it looked like they had hacked it in - so I presume at one point it wasn't done this way and they likely ran into someone winning too frequently as a result.
1) Sign up on an internet gambling site. 2) Register a domain name.
I have multiple domain names and I know for certain that much of my spam originated from either scanning the whois database, or someone selling the e-mail addresses from there.
I don't gamble, but I noticed that the java applets that were used for 99% of the gambling sites were all from the same place. In other words, if you want to start a gambling site, but you don't want to write software - you can pay to use the java applets of this one company. There is some rebradning that goes on - but in the end, it all goes through their servers and uses their code. Because of that, I figured if there were any holes in the software, that would mean a whole crapload of open spots out there. So out of curiosity I registered at a gambling site and then looked at the source (you can get the source from a java applet). After that, my spam increased exponentially - the immediate group was spamming me, as well as selling off the address - which then gets repeated over and over.
I use spamassassin now and I have it tweaked to the point where out of over 100 spams a day, I only have 1 get through - and that is because the code times out and lets it through, not because SA hasn't caught it. I first installed it in January and in that time have only had it once grab mail that it shouldn't have - from my mom. I added her to the whitelist and have never had a problem since. I use one of the more recent 2.60 versions, have the spam threshold lowered to 3.5, and I have tweaked a few of the score settings. Workds great for me.
My previous company did this in order to stay afloat. And the company before that tried to farm off as much as possible to their office in India. Initially they were farming out to India in hopes that they would do the work while we slept, and vice versa... but it turned into a logistical trainwreck - so instead they would have them write the bulk of the code and then we would go through and clean up where they messed up. The particular programmers we had over there sucked ass, so largely we had to rewrite everything that they ever did. Where I work now is very weird in that we are all dirty Americans.
I like to leave them like a breadcrumb trail as I walk in new areas. That way I can always find my way home and I won't get attacked by wolves... or is it witches in candy houses? Either way, old phones are a lifesaver that way.
I like using XML for certain things. I just find that it is really only useful for tasks that don't need to be fast and/or small. Working with XML can be annoying if you try to squeeze it into something it isn't ideal for - like trying to race an elephant against a cheetah.
Those things had real power. Somewhere I might still have mine. if I can get this page to load, then I'll read to see if I can change it to that. or perhaps a loaf of nutbread.
I can remember playing those games all of the time. My dad was getting his PhD at VA Tech and I would go and visit him and play on the 386s in his lab - envious of those guys that got to get some time in on their amazing 486 that they had in there... it had some crazy about of RAM like 16MB - I remember just being blown away by it - and wonder how it would play games.
It seems now that the new phones that are coming out that are color and all - the commander keen series would port over to that relatively well - perhaps this has already been done since it seems to obvious.
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wow, what a douchebag you are. I guess I know to add "tubgirl" to my list of "don't open at work" links.
If I had karma, I'd give you a big steaming pile of asshole in the face.
it is creating jobs. it is increasing hardware sales. it is a revenue generating system.
yay spam!
seriously though, I *wish* spam was only 40% of my mail. I also wish I had a gold plated Bentley. In fact, I'll take the latter over the former any day.
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The sun is warmer, so that makes us buy more cars. Then those increased cars means more pollution - and then the pollution causes global warming... hell, cars probably have pecial "car-rays" that reach out to the sun to cause this warming.
In fact... it is probably only in America that this happens. America seems to get the blame for all the evil these days, so I'd totally blame them for fucking with the sun.
I wrote in my journal here on slashdot recently that I wanted this technology.
had I know I'd be getting that wish granted, I'd have instead wished for Naomi Watts.
technically, unless the Flash contains bitmaps or audio, it isn't all that large. If you stick to actual vector graphics, the entire compiled package remains quite small since it is rendering it all at run time.
/. was hacked into at least once that I can recall.
IIRC it was something like:
When Slash (the code) is distributed, there are default passwords in place (so they say, I've never looked at the code b/c I don't particularly care - I don't run it anywhere).
Someone ran a check to see all of the hosts at slashdot that could be seen from the outside world.
From there, then they looked to see which of those servers was running Slash.
They found one which wasn't a production one, and they got in via the default password still being in place.
From there they made changes... and that is where I'm less clear - how the changes were propigated up to the main site(s).
I'm both shocked and awed at your post.
So much discontent, yet eliciting so very little interest on my part.
I think they should be combined into one word "shockawe" (shuh-caw) - it can be the contemporary "blitzkrieg"
I'd pay over $100 to see The Rock beat up an 11 year old retarded kid on pay per view.
I think you are on to something.
and I never watch pay per view at all.
I'd also pay over $100 to watch Mike Tyson either fight a polar bear, or get sodomized by a horse.
Either way, that is just good TV right there.
most people?
just because you run it at a resolution XYZ, that doesn't mean "most people" run it at that.
90% of the designers I know run at 1600x1200, and even more programmers I know run at that.
I run my laptop at 1400xsomething - and I would run higher if the screen could do it.
Just because you have bad eyes and therefore can't comprehend that there is a real need/desire for more real estate doesn't mean that you can just shrug off other users.
I don't assume that everyone runs at 1600x1200 or higher - but you assume that anyone that runs higher than you will strain their eyes...
I suppose there isn't much use in me writing this since it looks like a bunch of other people replied to this and also mentioned you were a dipshit.
that is what I paid for my laptop though.
that p1120 looks excellent, but I just can't justify paying that much for something when I will only use it during the times when I can't use my laptop or desktop (which is fairly rare for me).
I'm curious as to how easy/fast it is to code on them. I type fast on a full sized keyboard (albeit frequently poorly) and it seems I'd go nuts going down to that size - otherwise the Zaurus is really sounding enticing.
I get bored out of my mind if I'm not programming. If I go somewhere to "do stuff" I'm going to be thinking of programming.
It is just sort of how my brain works.
I've frequently thought about getting a small handheld exactly like what this guy wants (although I'd likely work in Forth since it is so small and readily available for the handhelds).
The only time I couldn't justify getting a laptop instead was maybe brining one to a horsetrack for betting (not sure if they are as uptight about computers there as Vegas is).
But in the end, I have a very spoiled life though and in two months I will be working/living on a beautiful island - so I can have a vacation life and program too.
If you are buying/selling a stock within a 3 week period, it really doesn't matter at all if the company truly makes money over that time period.
It matters how the market reacts to it.
If it is percieved that it will go up, then people will move to it, if they then see that it doesn't go up - people will move away from it (hence the move in and the move out over the short term).
If the company has a spike in profits, it will go up in the short term, due to the idea above. But it won't stay up.
Were you buying and holding, then that would not be a valid way of investing - or were you looking to actually buy the company (which is essentially what you are doing on a small scale when you buy and hold), then it wouldn't make sense.
But from a day trading perspective, it doesn't matter at what price the stock is at, or really if they truly profit at the end of the quarter or not.
You watch for movements - and that would cause movement.
As for what companies - I'm too lazy to go and look - for starters I'd look at the highest volume today and see what is in there to see if others are moving to it or not - if it is in the highest volume group, then it is likely already too late (XM satellite was in there earlier today, but not related to this war thang).
Find public companies that own satellites inolved in this and invest heavily for one to three weeks.
Deep pockets are going to fight over limited resources - which means a lot of money is going to be exchanged in the short term.
Assuming that they satellite companies don't offer some sort of bargain deal or preference to the military/gov't, then they are looking to make a metric crapload on this.
LOL
well, that's just how mom is. always wanting more more more. their her damn genes in the first place.
Very true. And to be fair, just because something is server side, that obviously doesn't mean it is secure either. :)
All kinds of generalizations I made there - I was just trying to get ideas out
I was seeing so much spam because of this (over 500 a day) that I just setup my server to redirect any mail that comes in to an address that doesn't exist to /dev/null. That brought me down to the "reasonable" 100+ a day.
I'm on a shared server (pair.com - I highly recommend them) - so my scripts are only allowed to run for a max of 30 seconds. They don't run the spamassassin c daemon, so I have to use the spamassassin perl script. With the default settings, it was getting slow going through my mail - so it would timeout, and then when that happened, the mail it was looking at would just get dumped into my inbox, unscanned.
I've adjusted the settings of SA so that it doesn't talk to the RBLs and it only autolearns on 20 or higher scores. I also set the bayes_90 and the bayes_99 to higher scores (3.5 and 4 respectively) just because I personally had never seen those be wrong on my mail.
With those settings and whichever version of the 2.60 I have, I'm loving it right now.
It saves caughtspam out to a "caughtspam" file and I also have yesterday's caughtspam in another file.
I can then just run "frm caughtspam | more" and see it formatted out to the screen in an easy way to read. If I have free time I will glance over it to make sure I'm not missing anything.
I also have scripts that run against it as well to warn me of things that might be things I'd want to keep - but those can only be so smart - but are better than not reading through it at all.
One of the funnier (to me - others likely hate it) things I've seen are those "somebody has a crush on you" sites. you then have to "guess" who sent you the thing, so you put in emails and it collects them. I don't think that anyone ever really sends you anything, it just says that, then collects all the emails that generates and then tells those people that someone has a crush on them, etc etc.
Then that list can be resold.
I have my email address up on slashdot, I have it on my webpage (current and an old school one). I have posted to various discussion boards, yahoo groups, newsgroups, mailing lists, etc. I have purchased online from literally hundreds of online stores (I pretty only buy anything aside from dinner online).
Our of all of those, I definitely saw increases in spam coming in - but it wasn't huge increases until the two things that I mentioned up there - the online gamling and the domain registration.
Look into things such as Jet, Mocha, Dj, etc.
Many newer editors have it built in.
There are ways around it - but for the most part, Java is just bytecode and therefore you can go backwards and get the source - it isn't truly compiled in the sense of C/C++ exe code.
You don't get comments, but the code is there.
This is why you need to be very careful about how you do things in Java applets if you want security. Not really an issue if your code is server side - but in the case of a client side applet - once they have it, they can go through it all easily.
For the most part, the way around it is to have anything that needs to be secure done server side over an ssl connection and have the applet as dumb as possible - only relaying what has happened to the server or the user, depending on which is needed. Also, the server should keep track of what "should" be happening, that way if something comes back to it that doesn't match what it is expecting, it can be suspicious that the data has been tampered with.
In the case of the online casino code - they had done this in all of their newest code, and in older code it looked like they had hacked it in - so I presume at one point it wasn't done this way and they likely ran into someone winning too frequently as a result.
1) Sign up on an internet gambling site.
2) Register a domain name.
I have multiple domain names and I know for certain that much of my spam originated from either scanning the whois database, or someone selling the e-mail addresses from there.
I don't gamble, but I noticed that the java applets that were used for 99% of the gambling sites were all from the same place. In other words, if you want to start a gambling site, but you don't want to write software - you can pay to use the java applets of this one company. There is some rebradning that goes on - but in the end, it all goes through their servers and uses their code.
Because of that, I figured if there were any holes in the software, that would mean a whole crapload of open spots out there. So out of curiosity I registered at a gambling site and then looked at the source (you can get the source from a java applet).
After that, my spam increased exponentially - the immediate group was spamming me, as well as selling off the address - which then gets repeated over and over.
I use spamassassin now and I have it tweaked to the point where out of over 100 spams a day, I only have 1 get through - and that is because the code times out and lets it through, not because SA hasn't caught it.
I first installed it in January and in that time have only had it once grab mail that it shouldn't have - from my mom. I added her to the whitelist and have never had a problem since.
I use one of the more recent 2.60 versions, have the spam threshold lowered to 3.5, and I have tweaked a few of the score settings. Workds great for me.
My previous company did this in order to stay afloat. And the company before that tried to farm off as much as possible to their office in India. Initially they were farming out to India in hopes that they would do the work while we slept, and vice versa... but it turned into a logistical trainwreck - so instead they would have them write the bulk of the code and then we would go through and clean up where they messed up. The particular programmers we had over there sucked ass, so largely we had to rewrite everything that they ever did.
Where I work now is very weird in that we are all dirty Americans.
I like to leave them like a breadcrumb trail as I walk in new areas. That way I can always find my way home and I won't get attacked by wolves... or is it witches in candy houses?
Either way, old phones are a lifesaver that way.
I like using XML for certain things. I just find that it is really only useful for tasks that don't need to be fast and/or small. Working with XML can be annoying if you try to squeeze it into something it isn't ideal for - like trying to race an elephant against a cheetah.
Those things had real power. Somewhere I might still have mine.
if I can get this page to load, then I'll read to see if I can change it to that.
or perhaps a loaf of nutbread.
I can remember playing those games all of the time. My dad was getting his PhD at VA Tech and I would go and visit him and play on the 386s in his lab - envious of those guys that got to get some time in on their amazing 486 that they had in there... it had some crazy about of RAM like 16MB - I remember just being blown away by it - and wonder how it would play games.
It seems now that the new phones that are coming out that are color and all - the commander keen series would port over to that relatively well - perhaps this has already been done since it seems to obvious.
wow, what a douchebag you are. I guess I know to add "tubgirl" to my list of "don't open at work" links.
If I had karma, I'd give you a big steaming pile of asshole in the face.
I just reported that 100% of spam is e-mail.
it is creating jobs. it is increasing hardware sales.
it is a revenue generating system.
yay spam!
seriously though, I *wish* spam was only 40% of my mail.
I also wish I had a gold plated Bentley.
In fact, I'll take the latter over the former any day.