You obviously aren't aware of exactly what Perl 6 is. It's more than just a language, it's a whole runtime environment similar to.NET or Java. When Perl 6 comes out you can continue to use your Perl 5 scripts with it, or write scripts in Pascal, or in C, or in Java, or in BrainFuck. The compiler and runtime are completely separated.
Interestingly enough usually Mozilla on Linux. However, Browser and OS aren't the only factors, how many times you've viewed the item and time periods between viewing it are major factors. For example I was pricing TrueAir Air Purifiers on Amazon. And one of the models I was looking at the lowest price I got on Mozilla on Linux the first time was 150 bucks. I kept that open, and ended up going off somewhere for part of the day. I came back and refreshed that exact page and it went up to 170 bucks. I believe Amazon does this hoping I'll think that some sale ended or that the sale price will continue to rise until it reaches the regular retail price (of 200 bucks), and cause me to buy it while it's "still cheap."
Of course I knew about their price games so I just didn't buy it and waited until another day when it was around 150 bucks.
I've known this for a while now. I have a small network at home, a number of Windows workstation, a few Linux workstations and a number of OpenBSD servers. What I do is look for an item on Amazon I want to buy, then go to that item on every available browser on every computer at home. Through Netscape, Mozilla, IE, Konqueror, Opera, Phoenix and Galeon. Then I complete the purchase from the cheapest one.
It's worked very well for me. Some browsers were as much as 30 dollars more than others for larger priced items. That to me would seem like a grey area in the legal system. You aren't allowed to charge varying prices at regular stores based on the customers appearance. You'd see Walmart getting sued left and right if at the registers they charged 15% more because I was wearing a suit and tie as opposed to looking like white trash. Or charging more for black comedy DVD's if you are black, the ACLU would be all over them in a heartbeat.
Remember when they went to make the lunar recreation mines or whatever.. They blew the moon apart.
But in all seriousiness the moon is vital to current life on Earth. Aside from the tides, without the moons orbit, Earth would rotate in all sorts of directions, not just on a single axis.So we'd have parts of the Earth exposed to the Sun for prolonged periods, while the other half freezes, and then sudden change. I don't want someone messing around with the moon, especially when we really don't understand enough about it. It's not like we can just replace it if we accidentally mess it up.
Plus, no one has the authority to make a decision as to who owns the moon or portions of it. It belongs to Earth, not to the UN, US, China, Russia, India, etc..
I bet its mostly new users and the eldery. Why a few months ago a colleage of mine received one of these emails and I happened to go over and catch him replying! Lucky him I walked by and explained exactly what it was before he sent all his bank account information. He looked all excited like he was going to become a millionaire until I explained to him it's a scam, and that once he sends that bank account information, he can expect his account to be wiped clean.
I spent a week in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum. I was awarded a special pass which allowed me full access to not only the entire official meeting, but also private dinners with the likes the head of the Saudi Secret Police, presidents of various insundry countries, your Fortune 500 CEOS and the leaders of the most important NGOs in the world. This was not typical press access. It was full-on, unfettered, class A hobnobbing.
You can be sure he'll never get that again. Of course though it's his own fault.
And when has the WHOIS database been updated properly? Or quickly? Or even at all? I've had an organizational change request in place for a few of my domains for over a year now.
It's not unusual. If you don't protect your name and you let it become a part of the english language, you can lose all your rights to it.
For example, back in the 80's to Xerox was heavily used instead of "making a copy". It became so common that Xerox had a hard time defending it as a brand. Same thing. What's a Bandaid? What's a QTip? A Bandaid is a brand of medical bandage used for small cuts, QTip? Cotton Swab. I don't say Cotton Swab or bandage, I said QTip and Bandaids. They're are really brand names, not things but they were so popular and became commonplace that consumers referred to them as things and not a brand of a thing.
I was looking forward to hacking a lot of the RIAA and MPAA computers looking for works Copyrighted by me. Hey, I have plenty of probable cause, they've already posted numerous articles how they use the file trading software to browse for their Copyrighted material, how do I know they didn't download mine off it while they were at it?:)
How about that? I'm an Enterprise Systems Engineer. I use both Scripting and Programming languages. I also design systems that incorporate scripts, programs, applications, physical components, etc. That's what engineering is, creating something using many different components. I'm a programmer, a sysadmin, and a 'scripter' if there is such a thing.
Back in the day the difference between a script and a program was simply how it was run. A script was a interpreted (usually line by line), and a program was compiled into the native machine language. Hense scripting was writing scripts, and programming was creating a program. Back then scripting languages were usually very very simple, such as shell scripting. They would execute a repeated amount of statements and become the glue between programs.
Today however technology has progressed so much that the line between a script and a program is blurred so much it's become irrelevent. What is Java then? You compile Java into bytecode, and then the bytecode is interpreted into native machine code, sometimes constantly, or in the case of a JIT, once.
Luckily I'm in a company with a manager who doesn't care how it's done, as long as it's done to specification and done by the set due date (which is flexible within reason). I use all kinds of languages, C, Perl, Java, PHP, Shell scripts, flat out SQL and PL/SQL.
Of course this is my take on it. And in Slashdot fashion I'm sure at least 10 people will point out 'flaws' in my comment and how it makes me stupid.
Did you even read any of it? Citi believes there system is 100% secure! They're trying to hush this so they can continue to say it is. Chances of them fixing it are very low. Remember, Citi is in the business to make money. If they can use their lawyers to hush up talk about the security vulnerabilities, then they consider the problem fixed. It's like Microsoft, security through obscurity. "If no one knows about the problem it's not a problem is it?"
The information on how I managed to send a message to myself in the past. This way my 12 year old self can send a message to his 5 year old self, and create an endless loop up self improvement, creating the ultimate human being to rule all...... Excellent...
Pennslyvania needs to provide ISPs a list of websites it says contains child porn. It's not an ISP's job to determine what is and isn't child porn. It's only job should be to block it if the state deems something child porn. You can't just go off enabling filters that filter out key words like child porn, etc without disabling other legitimate websites. In fact, that article itself on ISP's filtering child porn would probably be marked as a child porn site and thus filtered.
So now, I have to pay shipping and tax on items online, wait days to get it, and have an even hard time returning it or getting a refund if it was a defective item? No thanks.
Sure, I'm all for taxes, I understand what taxes do. But I also see a suffering economy with low consumer confidence, low consumer spending, and now the government is finding ways to increase the average cost of living with no direct benefit to the consumer? Online businesses have just as much if not more expenses than an average brick and mortar store. How many Wal-Marts do you know of that get millions of customers a day who merely walk in, take up space and never purchase anything? There are a number, but it's no where near the amount of people that log into a website, browse, and never buy. Where as that store never has to pay a metered fee for someone who walks into the store, online companies do. Heck, just today I've been to 10 online stores browsing and never purchased an item. I've been to maybe 3 regular stores, and purchased an item from 2.
I don't think it's very unfair to not require online consumers to pay taxes in the originating state. It's going to drive away people from purchasing online, driving up the cost of ecommerce sites, causes more ecommerce sites to go out of business, more layoffs, lower consumer confidence, all because Uncle Sam wants to make change right now. Why not wait 5 or 6 years after the economy has recovered to do this?...
Verizon has a service that will block incoming calls who's caller ID is marked private or out of area. It doesn't entirely block them however, it presents them with a message that they must leave their name and wait for me to accept the call.
I actually got this service because some automated computer system in another state had my number in it to automatically call to do some kind of batch processing (someone fat fingered the number obviously..). So every day, twice a day at exactly 10am and 3pm, I'd get a call with no answer. Since it was out of area, Verizon couldn't specifically block it (or so they told me), but they offered this service. For 5 bucks a month I figured what the hell, but I also noticed that now that I have the service in place, I never get telemarketing calls anymore.
It also has a feature if in case someone you know who regularually calls you has an out of area or private number can enter a simple 4 digit pin to automatically be put through without leaving a message and waiting for me to accept.
I've had the service for about 6 months now, and it's been worth the $5/mo I've paid for it. Maybe with this Do-Not-Call list I won't need it anymore provided this batch machine no longer calls my number anymore..I doubt it though, considering telemarketing companies will lobby to have some kind of end run around it..
Not entirely. I have all my potential spam filtered into a SPAM folder. That's only potential spam, things like vbs worms are deleted by the mail server with procmail.
I then just take a quick glance at my SPAM folder and all the subjects, I get around 400 spams a day, so it takes maybe a minute to scroll through real quick, anything that's potentially not spam, maybe 10 mail messages, I actually look at the body. If not, I just delete the entire contents of the folder immediately.
It's not fool proof, but I have caught a number of emails that were from family that happened to have various spam-like features in the body, but the subject and from were obviously from my family. Doesn't seem so useles to me.
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You obviously aren't aware of exactly what Perl 6 is. It's more than just a language, it's a whole runtime environment similar to .NET or Java. When Perl 6 comes out you can continue to use your Perl 5 scripts with it, or write scripts in Pascal, or in C, or in Java, or in BrainFuck. The compiler and runtime are completely separated.
I thought Windows WAS a rootkit.
Interestingly enough usually Mozilla on Linux. However, Browser and OS aren't the only factors, how many times you've viewed the item and time periods between viewing it are major factors. For example I was pricing TrueAir Air Purifiers on Amazon. And one of the models I was looking at the lowest price I got on Mozilla on Linux the first time was 150 bucks. I kept that open, and ended up going off somewhere for part of the day. I came back and refreshed that exact page and it went up to 170 bucks. I believe Amazon does this hoping I'll think that some sale ended or that the sale price will continue to rise until it reaches the regular retail price (of 200 bucks), and cause me to buy it while it's "still cheap."
Of course I knew about their price games so I just didn't buy it and waited until another day when it was around 150 bucks.
I've known this for a while now. I have a small network at home, a number of Windows workstation, a few Linux workstations and a number of OpenBSD servers. What I do is look for an item on Amazon I want to buy, then go to that item on every available browser on every computer at home. Through Netscape, Mozilla, IE, Konqueror, Opera, Phoenix and Galeon. Then I complete the purchase from the cheapest one.
It's worked very well for me. Some browsers were as much as 30 dollars more than others for larger priced items. That to me would seem like a grey area in the legal system. You aren't allowed to charge varying prices at regular stores based on the customers appearance. You'd see Walmart getting sued left and right if at the registers they charged 15% more because I was wearing a suit and tie as opposed to looking like white trash. Or charging more for black comedy DVD's if you are black, the ACLU would be all over them in a heartbeat.
and a get into Jail free card!
Remember when they went to make the lunar recreation mines or whatever.. They blew the moon apart.
But in all seriousiness the moon is vital to current life on Earth. Aside from the tides, without the moons orbit, Earth would rotate in all sorts of directions, not just on a single axis.So we'd have parts of the Earth exposed to the Sun for prolonged periods, while the other half freezes, and then sudden change. I don't want someone messing around with the moon, especially when we really don't understand enough about it. It's not like we can just replace it if we accidentally mess it up.
Plus, no one has the authority to make a decision as to who owns the moon or portions of it. It belongs to Earth, not to the UN, US, China, Russia, India, etc..
And when djb and Theo collide, it's quite a sight :)
I bet its mostly new users and the eldery. Why a few months ago a colleage of mine received one of these emails and I happened to go over and catch him replying! Lucky him I walked by and explained exactly what it was before he sent all his bank account information. He looked all excited like he was going to become a millionaire until I explained to him it's a scam, and that once he sends that bank account information, he can expect his account to be wiped clean.
I spent a week in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum. I was
awarded a special pass which allowed me full access to not only the
entire official meeting, but also private dinners with the likes the
head of the Saudi Secret Police, presidents of various insundry
countries, your Fortune 500 CEOS and the leaders of the most important
NGOs in the world. This was not typical press access. It was full-on,
unfettered, class A hobnobbing.
You can be sure he'll never get that again. Of course though it's his own fault.
And when has the WHOIS database been updated properly? Or quickly? Or even at all? I've had an organizational change request in place for a few of my domains for over a year now.
With the Spider-Wasps? :)
It's not unusual. If you don't protect your name and you let it become a part of the english language, you can lose all your rights to it.
For example, back in the 80's to Xerox was heavily used instead of "making a copy". It became so common that Xerox had a hard time defending it as a brand. Same thing. What's a Bandaid? What's a QTip? A Bandaid is a brand of medical bandage used for small cuts, QTip? Cotton Swab. I don't say Cotton Swab or bandage, I said QTip and Bandaids. They're are really brand names, not things but they were so popular and became commonplace that consumers referred to them as things and not a brand of a thing.
Nothing interesting here, move along.
I was looking forward to hacking a lot of the RIAA and MPAA computers looking for works Copyrighted by me. Hey, I have plenty of probable cause, they've already posted numerous articles how they use the file trading software to browse for their Copyrighted material, how do I know they didn't download mine off it while they were at it? :)
How about that? I'm an Enterprise Systems Engineer. I use both Scripting and Programming languages. I also design systems that incorporate scripts, programs, applications, physical components, etc. That's what engineering is, creating something using many different components. I'm a programmer, a sysadmin, and a 'scripter' if there is such a thing.
Back in the day the difference between a script and a program was simply how it was run. A script was a interpreted (usually line by line), and a program was compiled into the native machine language. Hense scripting was writing scripts, and programming was creating a program. Back then scripting languages were usually very very simple, such as shell scripting. They would execute a repeated amount of statements and become the glue between programs.
Today however technology has progressed so much that the line between a script and a program is blurred so much it's become irrelevent. What is Java then? You compile Java into bytecode, and then the bytecode is interpreted into native machine code, sometimes constantly, or in the case of a JIT, once.
Luckily I'm in a company with a manager who doesn't care how it's done, as long as it's done to specification and done by the set due date (which is flexible within reason). I use all kinds of languages, C, Perl, Java, PHP, Shell scripts, flat out SQL and PL/SQL.
Of course this is my take on it. And in Slashdot fashion I'm sure at least 10 people will point out 'flaws' in my comment and how it makes me stupid.
Did you even read any of it? Citi believes there system is 100% secure! They're trying to hush this so they can continue to say it is. Chances of them fixing it are very low. Remember, Citi is in the business to make money. If they can use their lawyers to hush up talk about the security vulnerabilities, then they consider the problem fixed. It's like Microsoft, security through obscurity. "If no one knows about the problem it's not a problem is it?"
The information on how I managed to send a message to myself in the past. This way my 12 year old self can send a message to his 5 year old self, and create an endless loop up self improvement, creating the ultimate human being to rule all.... .. Excellent ...
Other people might know it as an emulsifier.
Pennslyvania needs to provide ISPs a list of websites it says contains child porn. It's not an ISP's job to determine what is and isn't child porn. It's only job should be to block it if the state deems something child porn. You can't just go off enabling filters that filter out key words like child porn, etc without disabling other legitimate websites. In fact, that article itself on ISP's filtering child porn would probably be marked as a child porn site and thus filtered.
Ah, nevermind I'll stop beating the horse.
Anti-Fair Use?
So now, I have to pay shipping and tax on items online, wait days to get it, and have an even hard time returning it or getting a refund if it was a defective item? No thanks.
Sure, I'm all for taxes, I understand what taxes do. But I also see a suffering economy with low consumer confidence, low consumer spending, and now the government is finding ways to increase the average cost of living with no direct benefit to the consumer? Online businesses have just as much if not more expenses than an average brick and mortar store. How many Wal-Marts do you know of that get millions of customers a day who merely walk in, take up space and never purchase anything? There are a number, but it's no where near the amount of people that log into a website, browse, and never buy. Where as that store never has to pay a metered fee for someone who walks into the store, online companies do. Heck, just today I've been to 10 online stores browsing and never purchased an item. I've been to maybe 3 regular stores, and purchased an item from 2.
I don't think it's very unfair to not require online consumers to pay taxes in the originating state. It's going to drive away people from purchasing online, driving up the cost of ecommerce sites, causes more ecommerce sites to go out of business, more layoffs, lower consumer confidence, all because Uncle Sam wants to make change right now. Why not wait 5 or 6 years after the economy has recovered to do this?...
*watches all the green eyes blink*
Why not search all the homes on the street a known drug dealer does business? Bah, to hell with the Fouth Amedment, the ends DO justify the means.
Don't forget teflon.
Verizon has a service that will block incoming calls who's caller ID is marked private or out of area. It doesn't entirely block them however, it presents them with a message that they must leave their name and wait for me to accept the call.
I actually got this service because some automated computer system in another state had my number in it to automatically call to do some kind of batch processing (someone fat fingered the number obviously..). So every day, twice a day at exactly 10am and 3pm, I'd get a call with no answer. Since it was out of area, Verizon couldn't specifically block it (or so they told me), but they offered this service. For 5 bucks a month I figured what the hell, but I also noticed that now that I have the service in place, I never get telemarketing calls anymore.
It also has a feature if in case someone you know who regularually calls you has an out of area or private number can enter a simple 4 digit pin to automatically be put through without leaving a message and waiting for me to accept.
I've had the service for about 6 months now, and it's been worth the $5/mo I've paid for it. Maybe with this Do-Not-Call list I won't need it anymore provided this batch machine no longer calls my number anymore..I doubt it though, considering telemarketing companies will lobby to have some kind of end run around it..
Yes, but that wouldn't explain why when I hear someone I'm talking to on the phone yawn causes me to yawn..
Not entirely. I have all my potential spam filtered into a SPAM folder. That's only potential spam, things like vbs worms are deleted by the mail server with procmail.
I then just take a quick glance at my SPAM folder and all the subjects, I get around 400 spams a day, so it takes maybe a minute to scroll through real quick, anything that's potentially not spam, maybe 10 mail messages, I actually look at the body. If not, I just delete the entire contents of the folder immediately.
It's not fool proof, but I have caught a number of emails that were from family that happened to have various spam-like features in the body, but the subject and from were obviously from my family. Doesn't seem so useles to me.