BTW, on a LAN, just use +connect at the command line and then use slist to list all the LAN servers. (+connect'll dump you into the console as the command won't work, I think it needs to be the last option. It's just to skip the menus.)
Then just use connect n (where n is the number of the server, or IP/IPX addy).
Also, I've found the control under Counter-Strike to be horribly sluggish, making it nearly unplayable. Maybe it's improved some. I'll have to get the latest CVS when I have the time...
Using ’ is NOT an error - it's a valid entity, specifying a Unicode character. That's even better than the usual character 146 used for appostrophes by Windows apps (as character 146 is the Windows appostraphe). By HTML standards, that entity is perfectly valid. I'm not sure if character 8217 (0x2019) is a standard Unicode character, but it IS a Unicode character, and should be supported by Unicode compliant browsers. If it fails to render in Mozilla, then that's a Mozilla problem, not a "proprietary Windows-only" thing.
To be just a bit clearer, the article (if you read it) said that one gallon of Fluorinert costs $500US. That would be about $500 in US dollars, surprisingly enough. It was in US dollars (strangely enough, 3M is a US company, and probably would accept $US more than $NZ...).
At one point, I was thinking of copying/dev/random to people's harddrives who had them shared with full write permissions, but I thought that just might violate the Acceptable Usage Policy and get me kicked off the 'net (intranet, of course:)).
Most of my education in security came not from the college's network center, but the local LUG. I suppose that's OK though, since that means that I'd be less of a target, since I'm not telnetting to everything...
Now if only the people from the RIAA would stop looking for shared MP3s... (Ok, I'm not sure if they were ACTUALLY from the RIAA but I do know one person who had his account suspended until he unshared some MP3s - or maybe just moved them into a password-protected shared folder with a name like PAPERS. But he was a w4r3z d00d so I didn't really care...)
The problem is just what SG says-- there ARE ways to encrypt traffic and make personal data more secure, but there is no infrastructure (in terms of human support and resources for teaching the end-user about these things).
I know that at my school, they do offer SSH (but if you go to the CCC (College Computer Center) web area (off the main site) they suggest using telnet for everything, including changing one's password. Great. Well, I've got a new password set up now that I use only through SSH once I learned why telnet was a bad idea...
Which is all well and good, but then I get to access my e-mail using said password via either pine on an SSH terminal (safe) or... POP3. Great, I just love sending my password over the network in plain text. Now I think I understand why most of the Linux geeks on campus use their own mail servers. (We get DNS entries at my college, along with semi-static IPs - the IPs change every year. And yes, we are allowed to host webservers et al. Even better, there's no firewall. After most breaks, we get the horror stories of the few people whose boxes got cracked.)
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The following usernames all resolve to user ID 171285:
chiasmus_
Chiasmus_
CHIASMUS_
Likewise, _xeno_, _Xeno_, and _XENO_ all resolve back to me. (Well, I'd assume _Xeno_ does as the latest Mozilla nightly as a most annoying auto-complete feature, and insisted I meant _XENO_ when I tried typing the URL.) cmdrtaco and CmdrTaco are also one in the same (according to User Info land) - although neither is actually Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. (Either that, or Rob finally decided to join his own creation after some 200,000 other accounts were created, and likes to troll...)
I have a fealing that the users.pl script does do case-insensitive matching by taking the lower-case. Unfortunately, since cmdrtaco seems to have taken over CmdrTaco's user page, this seems to be... in error.
So again, we're left with wondering whether or not that's really Jon Katz. Based on the rather low User ID, there's a distinct possibility, but I'm not sure how low the ID number really should be.
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I dunno - that jonkatz has a truely amazingly LOW user ID of 7654 (which may or may not be right.) Attempting to look up the user JonKatz returns the same user page as jonkatz.
And Jon Katz usually DOES read comments based on his own articles - the jonkatz account mostly replied to his Open Media article with the one post to this article. The jonkatz account seems to only read Jon Katz articles. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that it was legit.
I also wouldn't be surprised to find that it's a troll. (But then again, some would argue that the two are one in the same.:))
Even better than that, the first five books of the Old Testament where passed down orally over the years. (Gotta love that supposedly Moses wrote them even though he dies partway in (I think) the third book...) Eventually it was written down (in Hebrew?), some 500-2000 years later (I'm not completely sure of how long). Moving on to the New Testament, those were mostly written (in a mix of Greek and Hebrew if I'm not mistaken) about 50 years after the events they describe.
So yeah, some time has passed before the Biblical accounts of things were written down on paper and when they were just stories told around the camp fire. And just like the story of the huge fish that the guy across the fire is telling, some embellishing had to have taken place.
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(I agree with you, just playing devil's advocate. Pun not intended.)
According to the (second) story of Creation (the first taking seven days, the second starting in the Garden of Eden), God created a tree which held the Fruit of Knowledge and condemned man from ever tasting of it. By extension, man is therefore going against the will of God by attempting to gain knowledge.
Signal is spelled with the G first - hence the SIG... The Signal 11 page you gave isn't the real Signal 11 either. As far as I can tell, it isn't even POSSIBLE to get to the real user info page. (It would be here. I think that some of the extended ASCII character bugs prevent/. from showing the proper Signal 11 user page. Not that it's much of a loss:))
Did you do any research on modern psychology before writing this?
Katz? Research? There's a good one. On the one article I thought Katz made a good point, he responded to my post and told be I was wrong about it. Katz's articles seem to be long winded sensationalism. He wants to stir up trouble more than actually promote any progress. Katz never seems to actually want to solve any issues, just get other people thinking about them. That's good, in a way, but the fact that the way he does that usually ends up being everyone finding out ways that he's WRONG on an issue isn't really helping.
I could go on about why I dislike Katz's style (if it could be called that), but I'd rather not. It's not really worth my time.
Besides, the current state of the human genome map doesn't make it possible to really fool around with genes. We know where there are paterns, but not what they do. It's a start towards genetic manipulation, but it doesn't actually allow any of the horrors Katz is talking about.
Given that they didn't bother confirming, or using encryption, or anything like that before, why would they bother being smart enough to ignore the Reply-to: header?
I can't wait for the next spoof... someone spoofs an address, and uses the reply-to: header to snarf up the response and "confirm" it.
It's actually quite easy to do something like that under Netscape. Trust me, I had my e-mail misconfigured for a while and wasn't getting any responses...
AC's start at 0. Logged in people start at 1. Signal 11 starts at 2.
Well, some people can use a +1 bonus to start at 2. But by posting as Anonymous Coward, he starts at 0. The Moderation Guielines should explain anything else you want to know about how Slashdot works.
Stupid Mozilla just stopped echoing my keystrokes... crap.
Have you ever been near a dumpster? It would cost a LOT more to have people go to the dumpster, considering the need for gas masks, air fresheners, etc, then just going for the janitors. Besides, chances are, the dumpsters are also used by the cafeteria... so by getting it from janitors, they're actually getting information presorted in a way.
But the main reason would have to be the smell. I can't imagine MS dumpsters smelling better than anyone elses...
Well, it wouldn't be free then, would it? (Keep in mind that even if you include source code, it still isn't free by anyone's definition, don't try that ploy.)
I think it makes a lot of sense that free software shouldn't have warrenties but pay software should. When I'm using Linux, I have paid nothing to the people who developed the kernel, the people who developed the shell, the people of developed most of the programs! When I use Windows and the ~$200 OS crashes before the ~$500 office suite can save my work from the last three hours (which I of course should have been saving at regular intervals, as the OS/software isn't stable...), then it would be nice to have a recourse. What's the difference between that and free software? About $700.
Wasn't she holding the coffee cup between her legs and driving at the same time? Sounds to me like it was her fault for dumping it all over herself, reguardless of how hot it was. If the coffee was too hot, she could have let it sit somewhere (like maybe in a cup holder?) for a while to cool off. That's what I do if my coffee is too hot...
And if she didn't have a cup holder, why not just rest it in the passenger seat? If there was someone in the passenger seat, they could have held it in their hand. It's still a dumb and frivolous lawsuit from what I've heard, but I'm not overly sure of my facts anyway.
There is a cheaper alternative to the LCD screens being developed right now. It's called LEP or Light Emitting Plastic. A British company called Cambridge Display Technology recently came up with a method of creating LEP displays through what should be a rather cheep and high-yield process.
Their press release gives some details about how they're creating displays for use (currently) on small handheld devices, but suggests that they could easily be scaled up for use in larger devices.
"The pre-production colour light emitting polymer display being shown by CDT and Seiko-Epson has a colour density similar to current LCDs. The techniques being jointly developed by the two companies means that the manufacturing cost of an LEP display will be significantly less than the cost of producing conventional LCD or cathode ray tube displays," said Dr. Shimoda, general manager of basic research, Seiko-Epson.
Whether or not this technology will be used in the future to really lower the price of laptops is to be seen in the future, but it seems like something cool.
Unless BXXP is adopted by [Microsoft's] and Netscape['s latest browsers]...
And by Apache, and in Java... Don't forget the server end. The radio in my car can pick up many different frequencies, but unless someone is actually broadcasting on a given frequency, I'll be getting static.
Apache 2.0 including BXXP support would go a long way towards it being used, as over half the websites in the world are run on Apache. Support in the Java java.net package for BXXP URL connections would also help enabled BXXP in a wide variety of applications.
Support for new technologies client-side is nice - but unless there's also support server-side, the technology can't be used.
HDTV is taking a long time to be adopted simply because of the expense to purchase a set - at $1000 a set, it's not surprising people aren't rushing to get one. Yeah, it'll take time - but all it takes is a few sites to start using BXXP, a few services, and a few web browsers to support that, and eventually, it can come into it's own right as a internet protocol. But it may be coming sooner than you think.
Ah, but you can't keep a trademarked domain. Suppose I decide to register maxwell.com. I don't have a trademark to the name Maxwell, but if I get it first, according to your rules, I get to keep it. Well, no. I'd be sued and forced to give it up to the first party to file suit.
If, however, I was representing something with a valid Maxwell trademark (and I can't help but think of Maxwell House Coffee, even though I can't stand the stuff), then yes, it would be first-come, first-serve.
I thought about adding something that would prevent windows from being opened when the page was being closed - so that within the "page closed" JavaScript event (forget what it's called) attempting to open more windows will always fail. Or you can set it to prompt - although I think that would get annoying after a while.
I'm a United States citizen, also known as an "American". I don't know what a "unitedstatesian" is, but I'm not it.
Technically, any citizen of any country on either South or North America could possibly be called an "American." So yes, "unitedstatesian" makes more sense than calling people from the US "American." So yes, you could conceivably be called a "unitedstatesian" (as could I).
Now if I'd done better in my Spanish classes I might actually remember what the Spanish word for "person from the US" is, but I don't. I think (I may be wrong though) that "unitedstatesian" is a fairly good Englishism (if you will) for it, though.
Then again, we still call the native people to both North and South America "Indians" so I suppose that "American" will probably last quite awhile....
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Then just use connect n (where n is the number of the server, or IP/IPX addy).
Also, I've found the control under Counter-Strike to be horribly sluggish, making it nearly unplayable. Maybe it's improved some. I'll have to get the latest CVS when I have the time...
Using ’ is NOT an error - it's a valid entity, specifying a Unicode character. That's even better than the usual character 146 used for appostrophes by Windows apps (as character 146 is the Windows appostraphe). By HTML standards, that entity is perfectly valid. I'm not sure if character 8217 (0x2019) is a standard Unicode character, but it IS a Unicode character, and should be supported by Unicode compliant browsers. If it fails to render in Mozilla, then that's a Mozilla problem, not a "proprietary Windows-only" thing.
To be just a bit clearer, the article (if you read it) said that one gallon of Fluorinert costs $500US. That would be about $500 in US dollars, surprisingly enough. It was in US dollars (strangely enough, 3M is a US company, and probably would accept $US more than $NZ...).
Most of my education in security came not from the college's network center, but the local LUG. I suppose that's OK though, since that means that I'd be less of a target, since I'm not telnetting to everything...
Now if only the people from the RIAA would stop looking for shared MP3s... (Ok, I'm not sure if they were ACTUALLY from the RIAA but I do know one person who had his account suspended until he unshared some MP3s - or maybe just moved them into a password-protected shared folder with a name like PAPERS. But he was a w4r3z d00d so I didn't really care...)
I know that at my school, they do offer SSH (but if you go to the CCC (College Computer Center) web area (off the main site) they suggest using telnet for everything, including changing one's password. Great. Well, I've got a new password set up now that I use only through SSH once I learned why telnet was a bad idea...
Which is all well and good, but then I get to access my e-mail using said password via either pine on an SSH terminal (safe) or... POP3. Great, I just love sending my password over the network in plain text. Now I think I understand why most of the Linux geeks on campus use their own mail servers. (We get DNS entries at my college, along with semi-static IPs - the IPs change every year. And yes, we are allowed to host webservers et al. Even better, there's no firewall. After most breaks, we get the horror stories of the few people whose boxes got cracked.)
- chiasmus_
- Chiasmus_
- CHIASMUS_
Likewise, _xeno_, _Xeno_, and _XENO_ all resolve back to me. (Well, I'd assume _Xeno_ does as the latest Mozilla nightly as a most annoying auto-complete feature, and insisted I meant _XENO_ when I tried typing the URL.) cmdrtaco and CmdrTaco are also one in the same (according to User Info land) - although neither is actually Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. (Either that, or Rob finally decided to join his own creation after some 200,000 other accounts were created, and likes to troll...)I have a fealing that the users.pl script does do case-insensitive matching by taking the lower-case. Unfortunately, since cmdrtaco seems to have taken over CmdrTaco's user page, this seems to be... in error.
So again, we're left with wondering whether or not that's really Jon Katz. Based on the rather low User ID, there's a distinct possibility, but I'm not sure how low the ID number really should be.
And Jon Katz usually DOES read comments based on his own articles - the jonkatz account mostly replied to his Open Media article with the one post to this article. The jonkatz account seems to only read Jon Katz articles. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that it was legit.
I also wouldn't be surprised to find that it's a troll. (But then again, some would argue that the two are one in the same. :))
Well, that thought's too terrible. I'd hope the universe was made better than that.
So yeah, some time has passed before the Biblical accounts of things were written down on paper and when they were just stories told around the camp fire. And just like the story of the huge fish that the guy across the fire is telling, some embellishing had to have taken place.
According to the (second) story of Creation (the first taking seven days, the second starting in the Garden of Eden), God created a tree which held the Fruit of Knowledge and condemned man from ever tasting of it. By extension, man is therefore going against the will of God by attempting to gain knowledge.
Signal is spelled with the G first - hence the SIG... The Signal 11 page you gave isn't the real Signal 11 either. As far as I can tell, it isn't even POSSIBLE to get to the real user info page. (It would be here. I think that some of the extended ASCII character bugs prevent /. from showing the proper Signal 11 user page. Not that it's much of a loss :))
Katz? Research? There's a good one. On the one article I thought Katz made a good point, he responded to my post and told be I was wrong about it. Katz's articles seem to be long winded sensationalism. He wants to stir up trouble more than actually promote any progress. Katz never seems to actually want to solve any issues, just get other people thinking about them. That's good, in a way, but the fact that the way he does that usually ends up being everyone finding out ways that he's WRONG on an issue isn't really helping.
I could go on about why I dislike Katz's style (if it could be called that), but I'd rather not. It's not really worth my time.
Besides, the current state of the human genome map doesn't make it possible to really fool around with genes. We know where there are paterns, but not what they do. It's a start towards genetic manipulation, but it doesn't actually allow any of the horrors Katz is talking about.
(Good Frankenkatz post, BTW.)
Given that they didn't bother confirming, or using encryption, or anything like that before, why would they bother being smart enough to ignore the Reply-to: header?
It's actually quite easy to do something like that under Netscape. Trust me, I had my e-mail misconfigured for a while and wasn't getting any responses...
Logged in people start at 1.
Signal 11 starts at 2.
Well, some people can use a +1 bonus to start at 2. But by posting as Anonymous Coward, he starts at 0. The Moderation Guielines should explain anything else you want to know about how Slashdot works.
Stupid Mozilla just stopped echoing my keystrokes... crap.
But the main reason would have to be the smell. I can't imagine MS dumpsters smelling better than anyone elses...
Well, it wouldn't be free then, would it? (Keep in mind that even if you include source code, it still isn't free by anyone's definition, don't try that ploy.)
I think it makes a lot of sense that free software shouldn't have warrenties but pay software should. When I'm using Linux, I have paid nothing to the people who developed the kernel, the people who developed the shell, the people of developed most of the programs! When I use Windows and the ~$200 OS crashes before the ~$500 office suite can save my work from the last three hours (which I of course should have been saving at regular intervals, as the OS/software isn't stable...), then it would be nice to have a recourse. What's the difference between that and free software? About $700.
And if she didn't have a cup holder, why not just rest it in the passenger seat? If there was someone in the passenger seat, they could have held it in their hand. It's still a dumb and frivolous lawsuit from what I've heard, but I'm not overly sure of my facts anyway.
Their press release gives some details about how they're creating displays for use (currently) on small handheld devices, but suggests that they could easily be scaled up for use in larger devices.
Whether or not this technology will be used in the future to really lower the price of laptops is to be seen in the future, but it seems like something cool.
And by Apache, and in Java... Don't forget the server end. The radio in my car can pick up many different frequencies, but unless someone is actually broadcasting on a given frequency, I'll be getting static.
Apache 2.0 including BXXP support would go a long way towards it being used, as over half the websites in the world are run on Apache. Support in the Java java.net package for BXXP URL connections would also help enabled BXXP in a wide variety of applications.
Support for new technologies client-side is nice - but unless there's also support server-side, the technology can't be used.
HDTV is taking a long time to be adopted simply because of the expense to purchase a set - at $1000 a set, it's not surprising people aren't rushing to get one. Yeah, it'll take time - but all it takes is a few sites to start using BXXP, a few services, and a few web browsers to support that, and eventually, it can come into it's own right as a internet protocol. But it may be coming sooner than you think.
If, however, I was representing something with a valid Maxwell trademark (and I can't help but think of Maxwell House Coffee, even though I can't stand the stuff), then yes, it would be first-come, first-serve.
The funny thing is that the guy who asked that posted himself with the +1 bonus...
/me clicks No Score +1 Bonus
I thought about adding something that would prevent windows from being opened when the page was being closed - so that within the "page closed" JavaScript event (forget what it's called) attempting to open more windows will always fail. Or you can set it to prompt - although I think that would get annoying after a while.
Technically, any citizen of any country on either South or North America could possibly be called an "American." So yes, "unitedstatesian" makes more sense than calling people from the US "American." So yes, you could conceivably be called a "unitedstatesian" (as could I).
Now if I'd done better in my Spanish classes I might actually remember what the Spanish word for "person from the US" is, but I don't. I think (I may be wrong though) that "unitedstatesian" is a fairly good Englishism (if you will) for it, though.
Then again, we still call the native people to both North and South America "Indians" so I suppose that "American" will probably last quite awhile....