Doesn't it bother anyone that the ***DoD*** (as opposed to the agency which "owns" the site) has the physical ability -- let alone the brazenness -- let alone the legal authority -- to do this?
No, because I read the whole article, and saw the part mentioning that "The US Department of Defense... runs the Federal Voting Assistance Program." The DoD is the agency that "owns" the site.
And this whole thing is much ado about very little. The website is just a place where you can get info on how to vote absentee and download an absentee ballot request form. People have been voting absentee long before this website was around, and they can continue to do so. Your local US Embassy will have the ballot request form, for example (and they'll even mail it for you free there). Also, most (perhaps all?) states have their own absentee ballots that you can apply for.
My print server runs CUPS and I have the IPP port open to the public internet. I've used it to print remotely, but nobody else has discovered it. Although one time, a friend brought his laptop over to my place and wanted to print something, so he added my printer; he must've accidentally set it as the default printer, so when he went back home and printed something, it came out on my printer:)
Anyway, as far as I can tell, nobody cares about open printers on the net...
Here's an idea: Find some anti-Kerry news and submit it. Then, when the editors have rejected every anti-Kerry article you've been submitting for weeks on end, you can bitch that they're biased. It could be that the only reason there are all anti-Bush stories is that's all that has been submitted so far.
DAldredge says that he's submitted some, and AC here claims to have submitted several pro-Bush articles, along with one that has to do with the recent Venezuelan elections. I can't see the rejected submissions list, but I have no reason to doubt their statements.
Well, I'm expecting that Apple will release a fixed ftpd shortly, so that I won't permanently need a/usr/etc/ftpusers file. Symlinking the entire/etc directory seems like overkill for a workaround for one program, but sure, that's fine too:)
(Actually, I'm using my patched ftpd, so I don't need/usr/etc in any case).
Looks like ftpd was compiled with/usr/etc as its configuration directory, rather than/etc. If you create/usr/etc and copy/etc/ftpusers to/usr/etc/ftpusers, it seems to work.
If you have a decent computer, then it can update firmware without a floppy. does not imply
If your computer can update firmware without a floppy, then it must be a decent computer.
It implies that
If your computer cannot update firmware without a floppy, it is not a decent computer.
Hard drives don't consume a lot of energy, so in a second, they simply can't generate more than 5W of heat, due to the whole "conservation of energy" thing.
FWIW, a watt is a unit of power, not of energy (heat). A hard drive that uses 5 watts of power can't generate more than 5 joules of heat per second.
My laptop hard drive gets pretty hot because there's no ventilation in the little carrier that the drive goes in. Cooling seems to mainly be by conduction to the case, which doesn't really work that well.
Except having automatic updates set to update without asking is a security risk. All it takes is the Microsoft updates server being spoofed or cracked into for a few seconds and you're in serious trouble.
Um, the updates are digitally signed. If someone manages to crack the server and obtain MS's private key and passphrase, there'd be a problem... but say you have automatic updates set to ask you first--how would you tell that the update was bogus? It has a good signature, after all.
In wich part of the world do you live then? How old is your oldest window? I have seen windows about 800 years old. The bottem edge is thicker, and the upper edge is often "molten away". Erm, flown away.
The bottom edge is (sometimes) thicker. However, you have not explained why you think that's because the glass has flowed to the bottom. Maybe it was like that when the glass was made? Because it was--800 years ago, glass windows were made using "the crown glass process. Crown glass is thicker on one end than the other. You'll also note that some old windows have the thick end on top.
But: glass flows. If you place a sheet of simple glass over the edge of a table and fix it with some old books and wait, about 15 years, you see that it bends at the edge of the table.
Oh, okay... I thought you were saying that "if you've got these people [Microsoft] making a WORLD MAP, they damn well should be [knowledgeable about the facts]."
If you've got these people making a WORLD MAP, they damn well should be.
It's not like the map was factually incorrect; it was just politically incorrect for marking Kashmir as disputed between India and Pakistan (which it is), rather than glossing over the facts and claiming that it all belongs to India, as the Indian government wanted.
The reason you get these results is because png uses Run Length Encoding (RLE) to compress the images. Images are stored from top to bottom, left to right. When encoding (and decoding) each pixel's color information is stored (or read) along with a value indicating how many pixels directly in line after that have the same value (that's the "Run" part of RLE). So anywhere in an image that you see large expanses of color is where png will excel. It's also where jpg is going to fall down, since jpg (which uses fractal compression) essentially records the "roughness" of an image. Large flat areas of color are anything but rough.
I'm impressed... nearly every sentence is incorrect and filled with misinformation!
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The difference is that the Windows songs actually sound good. *plays %windir%\system32\oobe\images\title.wma*
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No, because I read the whole article, and saw the part mentioning that "The US Department of Defense ... runs the Federal Voting Assistance Program." The DoD is the agency that "owns" the site.
And this whole thing is much ado about very little. The website is just a place where you can get info on how to vote absentee and download an absentee ballot request form. People have been voting absentee long before this website was around, and they can continue to do so. Your local US Embassy will have the ballot request form, for example (and they'll even mail it for you free there). Also, most (perhaps all?) states have their own absentee ballots that you can apply for.
I think it's safe to say that we all have lives; however, it's quite clear that you need to get an education.
Hahahaha! Backpedal backpedal backpedal.
Oh, and Jimmy "Nukear" Carter can??
Anyway, as far as I can tell, nobody cares about open printers on the net...
$ dc
46341 46341 * p
Harder than typing:
$ dc
46341d*p
ahajokes.com? I would hardly consider a joke site a credible source about the law :P
I did a quick search of Texas law and Austin city ordinances and didn't find any such prohibition.
It was obviously a "HAY GUYS! LOOK AT HOW MANY PLACES OF pi AND e I CAN REMEMBER!111!!1!" post.
DAldredge says that he's submitted some, and AC here claims to have submitted several pro-Bush articles, along with one that has to do with the recent Venezuelan elections. I can't see the rejected submissions list, but I have no reason to doubt their statements.
(Actually, I'm using my patched ftpd, so I don't need /usr/etc in any case).
Oh, I suppose I should mention that the binary patch is for 10.2.8. No idea about 10.3.x.
cd /usr/libexec && cp -p ftpd ftpd.orig && printf '/etc\0' | dd of=ftpd bs=1 seek=100252 conv=notrunc
Looks like ftpd was compiled with /usr/etc as its configuration directory, rather than /etc. If you create /usr/etc and copy /etc/ftpusers to /usr/etc/ftpusers, it seems to work.
Classic fallacy of affirming the consequent.
If you have a decent computer, then it can update firmware without a floppy.
does not imply
If your computer can update firmware without a floppy, then it must be a decent computer.
It implies that
If your computer cannot update firmware without a floppy, it is not a decent computer.
Those mice, popular on Sun workstations, used LEDs, not lasers.
What's a rack? Rat and peanut steering... You know--rats eat peanuts?
FWIW, a watt is a unit of power, not of energy (heat). A hard drive that uses 5 watts of power can't generate more than 5 joules of heat per second.
My laptop hard drive gets pretty hot because there's no ventilation in the little carrier that the drive goes in. Cooling seems to mainly be by conduction to the case, which doesn't really work that well.
Um, the updates are digitally signed. If someone manages to crack the server and obtain MS's private key and passphrase, there'd be a problem... but say you have automatic updates set to ask you first--how would you tell that the update was bogus? It has a good signature, after all.
The bottom edge is (sometimes) thicker. However, you have not explained why you think that's because the glass has flowed to the bottom. Maybe it was like that when the glass was made? Because it was--800 years ago, glass windows were made using "the crown glass process. Crown glass is thicker on one end than the other. You'll also note that some old windows have the thick end on top.
But: glass flows. If you place a sheet of simple glass over the edge of a table and fix it with some old books and wait, about 15 years, you see that it bends at the edge of the table.
No, you will not.
Actually, it's very close.
Oh, okay... I thought you were saying that "if you've got these people [Microsoft] making a WORLD MAP, they damn well should be [knowledgeable about the facts]."
It's not like the map was factually incorrect; it was just politically incorrect for marking Kashmir as disputed between India and Pakistan (which it is), rather than glossing over the facts and claiming that it all belongs to India, as the Indian government wanted.
I'm impressed... nearly every sentence is incorrect and filled with misinformation!