Different virus entirely. Among other things, the reovirus uses the RAS pathway, whereas this adenovirus-based solution targets cells that express telomerase.
...and spoke to someone in India who had no clue what I was saying and even less clue why I was upset about it. She kept telling me how to turn it off. I told her, "I've already turned it off! My issue is that it happened in the first place!" She told me how to turn it off. I hung up.
Glad to see someone else is pissed off about this. I turned it off in my router, got mad for an hour or so, and went on using my router.
Coincidentally, Belkin routers can't work with arbitrary MTU's over PPPoE, in case anyone needs further reasons not to buy them. I won't be buying another, even though mine works okay, sort of (I'm the netadmin for my ISP, so I can futz with things to make it work despite itself).
How about Dell's SupportLink, which (and I have the TCPdumps to prove this) broadcasts your system's S/N, your MS Windows S/N, and several other tantalyzing bits of data back to Dell every 30 minutes or so?
Why is their chart done up as a JPEG image? They're a computer magazine, aren't they? Hell, I think it might have been from their pages that I first learned the difference between DCT and RLE; they should know better than to convert a graphic to a JPEG!
Remember kiddies--if it's a solid block of color, use PNG or GIF. Otherwise, use JPEG.
If only they listed contact addresses for the authors on the article.
Backwoods, AL--A group of parents in this small town, calling itself "Citizens for Safer Classrooms", is suing their school district over the installation of what they call "massive portals designed solely for the purpose of subjecting our children to radiation." They claim these portals (which the school district contends are called "windows") are made of material carefully selected to ensure the maximum range of radiation is hitting their children.
"Well, I think it's an outrage," said Patti Jo, a mother of two children in the school district and one of the plaintiffs in the suit. "It's becoming more and more obvious that they're maliciously subjecting our little boys and girls to a whole host of EMR [electro-magnetic radiation], simply so they can save a few pennies on their electricity bill." She started to cry softly. "We intend to petition for a criminal trial, too. We're claiming it's premeditated murder. The school board should fry," she added.
Although both sides are trying to reach an agreement on how best to contain the situation, a school board member we contacted, speaking on condition of anonymity, was resolute. "Sure, they get a little UV radiation burned at times," the anonymous boardmember stated. "But have you looked at the cost of fluorescent tubes lately?"
Punitive damages, if the plaintiffs succeed, are expected to be in the millions.
The zMUD beer is cheap, and it comes complete with the brewer and all of his assistants waiting to help you out of the bar after a long night. Don't get me wrong--I'm an associate member of GNU, and I use Linux on almost all of my boxes. But zMUD is, bar none, the best MUDding software out there. And Zugg (who works with his wife, Chiara) is the most dedicated developer I've ever met.
Oh, and for extra points--he's switching over to PHP and MySQL soon. He's a nuclear physicist. He used Perl back before it was cool. He wrote his own copy-protection engine, which was actually pretty effective. His geek cred is pretty far up there; isn't it worth taking a second look to see what he's really offering?
Don't accept the RMS screw-the-business-case mentality. This is a single developer, not a monolithic corporation, deriving his living from just a few software products he writes by himself, and the end product is far cheaper than the cost of developing a replacement. On a personal level, it's worth supporting him, and as a business case, you really can't justify producing an alternative on any cost basis that I've ever heard of.
Having coded CoolMUD, which does some really nasty things with Telnet negotiation and terminal control, I can assure you that you don't want to support the full range of capabilities of all terminals. It will drive you mad.
Best of luck! But you should probably take a second look at zMUD; hell, zMapper alone is worth the price of admission to the zMUD world, as if the scripting language weren't reason enough to use it.
TinyURL uses a Location: header, which should kill off the referer, yes. But asking everyone to TinyURL their images is a bit much, don't you think? Besides, some browsers don't like having 3XX statuses (stati?) as replies to their image requests, so you'd break some people.
AOL just needs to stop doing that shit. Clamp down on the people transferring 200 gigs in the exhibitionism-community-of-the-week, and leave everyone else alone.
They call it off-topic because it's a first post, and it has a lot of content, the beginning of which, at least, doesn't immediately reference the topic of the discussion.
Of course, if they actually read the whole thing (god forbid!), they'd realize that it is on-topic. And I would hope that between the karma bonus and the subscriber bit, they'd realize that I'm not just trolling.
Slashdot Mirror
[url=http://www.techtvcanada.ca/]Canadian TechTV[/url] is still up and running....
Jouster
Actually, bills are made out of cloth, not paper, in part specifically so they can survive a washing.
Jouster
Link.
Jouster
The word "ironic" has nothing to do with what that is.
Jouster
Different virus entirely. Among other things, the reovirus uses the RAS pathway, whereas this adenovirus-based solution targets cells that express telomerase.
Jouster
That involves effort, man!
Jouster
*restores respect*
Jouster
...and spoke to someone in India who had no clue what I was saying and even less clue why I was upset about it. She kept telling me how to turn it off. I told her, "I've already turned it off! My issue is that it happened in the first place!" She told me how to turn it off. I hung up.
Glad to see someone else is pissed off about this. I turned it off in my router, got mad for an hour or so, and went on using my router.
Coincidentally, Belkin routers can't work with arbitrary MTU's over PPPoE, in case anyone needs further reasons not to buy them. I won't be buying another, even though mine works okay, sort of (I'm the netadmin for my ISP, so I can futz with things to make it work despite itself).
Jouster
Hahaha, you actually install Flash?
At least have the decency to grab Flash click-to-play, if you're going to install that sloppily-coded, highly-intrusive ad-enabler.
Jouster
Jouster
For version 1, it was DADApp.exe. Dunno what it's called in version 2, though.
Jouster
Jouster
How about Dell's SupportLink, which (and I have the TCPdumps to prove this) broadcasts your system's S/N, your MS Windows S/N, and several other tantalyzing bits of data back to Dell every 30 minutes or so?
Mind you, I love my Dell, but this pissed me off.
Jouster
They used to offer a 5- to 10-cent "bounty" for each copy of New.Net you installed; that's why it was bundled with a lot of other programs.
The bounty program was discontinued, however.
Jouster
Why is their chart done up as a JPEG image? They're a computer magazine, aren't they? Hell, I think it might have been from their pages that I first learned the difference between DCT and RLE; they should know better than to convert a graphic to a JPEG!
Remember kiddies--if it's a solid block of color, use PNG or GIF. Otherwise, use JPEG.
If only they listed contact addresses for the authors on the article.
Jouster
Backwoods, AL--A group of parents in this small town, calling itself "Citizens for Safer Classrooms", is suing their school district over the installation of what they call "massive portals designed solely for the purpose of subjecting our children to radiation." They claim these portals (which the school district contends are called "windows") are made of material carefully selected to ensure the maximum range of radiation is hitting their children.
"Well, I think it's an outrage," said Patti Jo, a mother of two children in the school district and one of the plaintiffs in the suit. "It's becoming more and more obvious that they're maliciously subjecting our little boys and girls to a whole host of EMR [electro-magnetic radiation], simply so they can save a few pennies on their electricity bill." She started to cry softly. "We intend to petition for a criminal trial, too. We're claiming it's premeditated murder. The school board should fry," she added.
Although both sides are trying to reach an agreement on how best to contain the situation, a school board member we contacted, speaking on condition of anonymity, was resolute. "Sure, they get a little UV radiation burned at times," the anonymous boardmember stated. "But have you looked at the cost of fluorescent tubes lately?"
Punitive damages, if the plaintiffs succeed, are expected to be in the millions.
Jouster
The zMUD beer is cheap, and it comes complete with the brewer and all of his assistants waiting to help you out of the bar after a long night. Don't get me wrong--I'm an associate member of GNU, and I use Linux on almost all of my boxes. But zMUD is, bar none, the best MUDding software out there. And Zugg (who works with his wife, Chiara) is the most dedicated developer I've ever met.
Oh, and for extra points--he's switching over to PHP and MySQL soon. He's a nuclear physicist. He used Perl back before it was cool. He wrote his own copy-protection engine, which was actually pretty effective. His geek cred is pretty far up there; isn't it worth taking a second look to see what he's really offering?
Don't accept the RMS screw-the-business-case mentality. This is a single developer, not a monolithic corporation, deriving his living from just a few software products he writes by himself, and the end product is far cheaper than the cost of developing a replacement. On a personal level, it's worth supporting him, and as a business case, you really can't justify producing an alternative on any cost basis that I've ever heard of.
Just something to think about,
Jouster
That's easy.
man 5 terminfo
Having coded CoolMUD, which does some really nasty things with Telnet negotiation and terminal control, I can assure you that you don't want to support the full range of capabilities of all terminals. It will drive you mad.
Best of luck! But you should probably take a second look at zMUD; hell, zMapper alone is worth the price of admission to the zMUD world, as if the scripting language weren't reason enough to use it.
Jouster
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Jouster
Yep, it's very much true. RFTA; there's an image linked off of it that's on AOL's servers.
AITP
TinyURL uses a Location: header, which should kill off the referer, yes. But asking everyone to TinyURL their images is a bit much, don't you think? Besides, some browsers don't like having 3XX statuses (stati?) as replies to their image requests, so you'd break some people.
AOL just needs to stop doing that shit. Clamp down on the people transferring 200 gigs in the exhibitionism-community-of-the-week, and leave everyone else alone.
Jouster (My LJ)
Jouster
Jouster
They call it off-topic because it's a first post, and it has a lot of content, the beginning of which, at least, doesn't immediately reference the topic of the discussion.
Of course, if they actually read the whole thing (god forbid!), they'd realize that it is on-topic. And I would hope that between the karma bonus and the subscriber bit, they'd realize that I'm not just trolling.
Jouster
Ever tried documenting Perl an hour after you wrote it? Especially if you were using lots of regular expressions?
Do it right or do it not at all.
Jouster