The average/. reader is an idiot. Half of/. readers are below average. Are you scared yet?
Actually, what it is, is that most people on/. are intelligent. It's just that there is one guy who is really really dumb. If you don't know who it is, then it's you.
They all accept mail before determining whether it can be delivered
You forgot to add the "by default". It is possible to set up an exchange system so that it will not relay and will send a 550 back after looking at the RCPT TO: line.
True, true. Even assuming you have somehow proved it would need to keep a logfile, your inability to find "C:\don't look in here\secret-keylog.txt" hardly proves it doesn't keep a logfile. Nice going logic boy. But hey I'll take your word for it since you are a friend of the guy that wrote it right? *wink* *wink*
Computer viruses are defined by their ability to replicate. Nothing more.
Uhhh, no. A computer virus is a program that is written to modify other programs in secret, so that when you run those other programs, the virus itself gets run. They are able to use this to replicate themselves.
This is in comparison to a worm or a trojan horse, which this hypothesised keylogger would be more like.
"Oh my God! The World Trade Towers! And the Pentagon! And...Pennsylvania? WTF?"
Then I though, well maybe they were making a triple strike against America's Economic Power, America's Military Power and Pittsburgh.
My thoughts go out to all the people that lost friends or relatives this day. If this post offends you then I am sorry. If it raises even a smile then it has served its purpose -- "To laugh at death is not a crime - so long as you start with your own"
Look, there's no point in acting all surprised about it! The plans for the destruction of the Milky Way have been up at your local planning office in the Lesser Magellanic Clouds for the last one and a half Hubble Times so there's no point complaining now! I don't know, stupid bloody apathetic Galaxy, I've got no sympathy at all!
Cooperative multitasking? Pfft, even Win9x multitasks better then Mac OS 9. I wouldn't touch it.
Okay. So what would you say if I told you that one of the worlds most popular network operating systems is a cooperative multitasking system? While a cooperative multitasking system can increase latency, it has the big advantage that you can really maximise your throughput. Now it's not really fair to say that MacOS sucks simply because it uses a cooperative multitasking scheme. What you could say is that the way MacOS's multitasking scheme is implemented sucks, because too often unimportant processes can hog the cpu while waiting for user input (eg. scolling, resizing windows or making a menu selection). I have a feeling that if those problems had been worked around when the Mac first became multitasked way back when, the need for the MacOS to become preemptively multitasked might not have been quite so great.
Consider: Even if the telescope was on the moon, it takes only about 4 seconds for the signal to reach here from the moon. That cuts the hundred-thousand years down by not a lot.
Then what you get is whoever has the most money, wins. Allowing unlimited spending only leads to politicians having to make too many promises to the people who can give them lots of money ie. big business. You also get the minor parties being completely left out since they are unable to effectively compete for the sponsors backing. Limiting the amount they can spend will mean the politicians need to be more efficient.
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Not to put to fine a point on it, "stewardesses" is the sort of word you might *need* to type with one hand, if you know what I mean :)
You'd have to copy the data from the network connection to your harddrive as well.
yog3urt does have a 3
Thanks for the plain english explanation! Without this I would never have understood it.
Hell yeah. I heard someone actually wrote a version of the UNIX kernel that would run on home PCs. Like anyone would ever use something like that.
Any language that has a "yada-yada-yada" operator has nothing to worry about.
Perl will only compile it once anyway since there are no interpolated strings. And you don't need to escape the '&'.
Actually, what it is, is that most people on /. are intelligent. It's just that there is one guy who is really really dumb. If you don't know who it is, then it's you.
...when what you really need is a shovel
You forgot to add the "by default". It is possible to set up an exchange system so that it will not relay and will send a 550 back after looking at the RCPT TO: line.
True, true. Even assuming you have somehow proved it would need to keep a logfile, your inability to find "C:\don't look in here\secret-keylog.txt" hardly proves it doesn't keep a logfile. Nice going logic boy. But hey I'll take your word for it since you are a friend of the guy that wrote it right? *wink* *wink*
Well no. A worm or a trojan can replicate itself in the course of it's running. This doesn't make them viruses.
Actually the "cp" program has the ability to replicate itself as well. Does that make it a virus?
The fact that there is no logfile doesn't prove that it is not storing the keystrokes. Maybe it stores them in this new fangled thing called memory.
Uhhh, no. A computer virus is a program that is written to modify other programs in secret, so that when you run those other programs, the virus itself gets run. They are able to use this to replicate themselves.
This is in comparison to a worm or a trojan horse, which this hypothesised keylogger would be more like.
"Oh my God! The World Trade Towers! And the Pentagon! And...Pennsylvania? WTF?"
Then I though, well maybe they were making a triple strike against America's Economic Power, America's Military Power and Pittsburgh.
My thoughts go out to all the people that lost friends or relatives this day. If this post offends you then I am sorry. If it raises even a smile then it has served its purpose -- "To laugh at death is not a crime - so long as you start with your own"
No silly person, you launch the player and it starts playing instantly. They did forget to mention that the player itself is a 600 Mb download though.
Look, there's no point in acting all surprised about it! The plans for the destruction of the Milky Way have been up at your local planning office in the Lesser Magellanic Clouds for the last one and a half Hubble Times so there's no point complaining now! I don't know, stupid bloody apathetic Galaxy, I've got no sympathy at all!
Okay. So what would you say if I told you that one of the worlds most popular network operating systems is a cooperative multitasking system? While a cooperative multitasking system can increase latency, it has the big advantage that you can really maximise your throughput. Now it's not really fair to say that MacOS sucks simply because it uses a cooperative multitasking scheme. What you could say is that the way MacOS's multitasking scheme is implemented sucks, because too often unimportant processes can hog the cpu while waiting for user input (eg. scolling, resizing windows or making a menu selection). I have a feeling that if those problems had been worked around when the Mac first became multitasked way back when, the need for the MacOS to become preemptively multitasked might not have been quite so great.
You forgot: If Chewbacca is a wookie, then napster must be guilty
I'm registering
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My plan is that they wont all be able to sue me.
Notice how the links on their webpages use JSP?
Consider: Even if the telescope was on the moon, it takes only about 4 seconds for the signal to reach here from the moon. That cuts the hundred-thousand years down by not a lot.
Then what you get is whoever has the most money, wins. Allowing unlimited spending only leads to politicians having to make too many promises to the people who can give them lots of money ie. big business. You also get the minor parties being completely left out since they are unable to effectively compete for the sponsors backing. Limiting the amount they can spend will mean the politicians need to be more efficient.
no, some l33t p33ple just registered their name servers. You get the same for apple.com and aol.com too IIRC
Anyone else find it amusing that is was 'egg' that got cracked? :) No, oh well