... that could get me killed if an unexpected Out of Memory Exception was raised.
You should have used a soft reference for that. JLS says that an Out of Memory Exception cannot be raised as long as soft references exist. Sure, that complicates object access, and slows things down because of all the casts out of the soft references, but wouldn't it be worth one human life?
Wang logs into his workstation after lunch, and thinks to himself, "Funny, I don't remember this icon on my desktop. I wonder what will happen if I double click on it."
He double clicks on it, and a dialog window pops up titled "haxx0r3d", with a message saying, "You have been hacked by chinese. Have a nice day."
After pondering the message, he clicks ok and thinks, "Hmm. I better do a checkdsk and report this to NISC."
Can we get the ISPs to do this too? It'd be really great if they'd just turn off a tiny manageable chunk of infected users and wait for them to call support. Support could then tell them to patch, or upgrade, or get some other type of clue. A really with-it ISP could just replace the web page the user wanted with a page that tells them to get with it.
Problem is, any plan will cost money to support. Worse, it might prompt the users to just cancel their service. I can't imagine ISPs like that idea. At least with the universities, the students have no choice, pretty much.
Remember Minority Report? Those wooden balls? We should use a system like that. A voter would enter the polling place and be handed a brown ball as a ballot. The ball would be etched with the his or her votes, then sealed and dropped into the box.
Anyone voting absentee will be given a red ball and a kit for etching and sealing the ball, as well as a mailer and call slip.
Yes it would be possible to tamper with the vote, but the number possible would be very low. Someone trying to stuff the ballot would have to obtain a large number of balls from the same stock of wood the real election officials are using. They'd also have to use the same chemicals to seal the ball, and the same type of etching equipment. They'd have to manage to get truckloads of fraudulent ballots into the official count, just to make a difference.
Silly, I know. But it's about as far off in the other direction as the electronic method as I could make it.
Apparently you know more than our the best archeologists alive today.
Mind telling us which archeologists say this? So, you're saying that archeologists agree that there has to be some unknown strata of earth that contains more than 6 billion fossils? That's news.
What's sad is that the elephant population is dropping so rapidly, the final comment about the clouds in a huge storm weighing more than all of the elephants that ever lived isn't saying much.
Unlike elephants, there are more humans alive today than the total number of humans who have ever lived. Interesting contrast. I wonder how big of a storm that would be?
Yeah, I keep forgetting to test my burned CDs in my wife's car. When I get ready to go on a trip, I find that none of my CDs work in her car. I have only myself to blame.
What's the big deal here? You can do this now by wrapping your word document in PGP. Only, this DRM is managed by a central server and supported internally by the document. Yeah, a DRM protected document couldn't be read by a machine that doesn't participate with the central server and/or can't read the new format, but that's just how it's implemented. If I emailed a PGP protected document properly signed for the person I sent it to, and they don't have PGP installed on that machine, they can't read the document, regardless of the OS. So I'd have to send them an unsigned version. The DRM end users would realize that they can't us the "Protect This Document With LAN DRM Settings" option. They'll learn quickly to avoid it if the company policy allows it.
Sorry about that nnnneedles. I clobered the source with the warning by mistake. My fault. But as many have pointed out, LiveJournal doesn't allow JavaScript. My script is all purpose, but it doesn't look like it'll work here.
I have no problem releasing the script for anyone to use. The script comments say as much. But for the average user, it's easier to just dump HTML on a page. If you know how, by all means, copy the script on your own server.
That's wrong of AOL, but if you're a LiveJournal user in a bind and really want to fix the links (but nothing else) fast, here's a JavaScript that you can load in all of your pages. You just need to load it once, and the page will work.
Unfortunately, this trick really only works with MSIE. But it's better than nothing.
Hey, when I figured out what the 85 command-line options in wget do, I went nuts with it too!
That's exactly what I'm doing. Do I care about the me^Hasses? Sort of. I care that they need iPods. I do leave the mirror up for as long as the original site is down. I take down the mirror quickly because I don't want to get in trouble with the original author...and I get to say whatever I want at that point. Win-win-win: 1) Slashdot readers get to see the article, 2) The author's happy because their original article is seen, 3) I get to show people iPod links.
I've been thanked quite a few times, and told off just as many times. Bah. Whatever. Now, if this would actually pay off, it'd really be a win-win-win. As of yet, nobody's buying iPods. So, that should make you all feel a little better.:)
Hell, it's a safe bet to say you are running Windows right now.
I'll take that bet.:)
bash-2.05a$ uname -a Darwin uniblab.local. 6.6 Darwin Kernel Version 6.6: Thu May 1 21:48:54 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.34.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc bash-2.05a$
I have to admit I have a copy of Virtual PC 6.1. But I hardly ever use it. It'd be kind of fun to get them infected, then roll back the drive. You know, for a larf.
Even as Slashdot Subscriber, the site was slow/unresponsive. I'm surprised Slashdot people are that interested in Longhorn. So anyway, here's a mirror.
Multi-processor capabilities requires extremely high fault tolerances. Multi-processor memories requires "locking" at a fraction of a millisecond. These developments, among others, could not have been accomplished in a compressed time period without direct access to 25 years of UNIX development expertise and use of state-of-the-art Unix development labs.
They're saying that the jump from 2.2 to 2.6 an "Improbable Linux Development Path". For me, a non-kernel hacker, can someone explain why this particular point isn't true? Or do you have to pull from many examples in order to prove otherwise?
Well, there were only two kitchens that I remember from the other two films. The Oracle's and that lady with the carving knife who got overridden - the one Neo ran through. Yeah, that's a real spoiler.
Man, Agent Smith looks absolutely crazy in this trailer. I still think he looks better with long hair. In case the BBC site is slow, here's a mirror to the 3rd link. I'm keeping my BitTorrent window open for as long as possible. It only took me two minutes to download, but that's because I beat the rush because I'm a Slashdot Subscriber.;-) Please keep your BitTorrent windows open for as long as possible.
So that's why Microsoft allowed the leak of MSN Messenger 6.0. When I first saw it, and the fact that it was being leaked over and over very quickly, I thought it was odd. Then Microsoft released their own pre-released version. Everyone I know who uses MSN Messenger went to 6.0 like flies on... stuff flies like.
But not very many people I knew who ran the clones went over to 6.0. It's all just to convenient.
Actually, the porn vendors have to be careful to keep things well behaved. For example, if they use a real Apache directory listing, they have to stock it full of html files, which are easy to spot an ignore. But if they use a copy of an Apache directory listing and modify it so that it can do popups, there might be a way to get google to filter it. For instance, an Apache directory listing has no business having a element. I just don't know if Google will let you filter based on HTML elements.
Anyway, as you can see, it's pretty effective. Sometimes admins wise up, and all you have is the Google cache. But sometimes they don't, and you get to look. Thanks Google!
Slashdot Mirror
... that could get me killed if an unexpected Out of Memory Exception was raised.
You should have used a soft reference for that. JLS says that an Out of Memory Exception cannot be raised as long as soft references exist. Sure, that complicates object access, and slows things down because of all the casts out of the soft references, but wouldn't it be worth one human life?
Wang logs into his workstation after lunch, and thinks to himself, "Funny, I don't remember this icon on my desktop. I wonder what will happen if I double click on it."
He double clicks on it, and a dialog window pops up titled "haxx0r3d", with a message saying, "You have been hacked by chinese. Have a nice day."
After pondering the message, he clicks ok and thinks, "Hmm. I better do a checkdsk and report this to NISC."
Moral: Don't be a Wang.
Can we get the ISPs to do this too? It'd be really great if they'd just turn off a tiny manageable chunk of infected users and wait for them to call support. Support could then tell them to patch, or upgrade, or get some other type of clue. A really with-it ISP could just replace the web page the user wanted with a page that tells them to get with it.
Problem is, any plan will cost money to support. Worse, it might prompt the users to just cancel their service. I can't imagine ISPs like that idea. At least with the universities, the students have no choice, pretty much.
Remember Minority Report? Those wooden balls? We should use a system like that. A voter would enter the polling place and be handed a brown ball as a ballot. The ball would be etched with the his or her votes, then sealed and dropped into the box.
Anyone voting absentee will be given a red ball and a kit for etching and sealing the ball, as well as a mailer and call slip.
Yes it would be possible to tamper with the vote, but the number possible would be very low. Someone trying to stuff the ballot would have to obtain a large number of balls from the same stock of wood the real election officials are using. They'd also have to use the same chemicals to seal the ball, and the same type of etching equipment. They'd have to manage to get truckloads of fraudulent ballots into the official count, just to make a difference.
Silly, I know. But it's about as far off in the other direction as the electronic method as I could make it.
Apparently you know more than our the best archeologists alive today.
Mind telling us which archeologists say this? So, you're saying that archeologists agree that there has to be some unknown strata of earth that contains more than 6 billion fossils? That's news.
Oh yeah, you're a troll.
What's sad is that the elephant population is dropping so rapidly, the final comment about the clouds in a huge storm weighing more than all of the elephants that ever lived isn't saying much.
Unlike elephants, there are more humans alive today than the total number of humans who have ever lived. Interesting contrast. I wonder how big of a storm that would be?
Yeah, I keep forgetting to test my burned CDs in my wife's car. When I get ready to go on a trip, I find that none of my CDs work in her car. I have only myself to blame.
At least this lady has someone to sue.
I'd be happy with some of that space broccoli.
What's the big deal here? You can do this now by wrapping your word document in PGP. Only, this DRM is managed by a central server and supported internally by the document. Yeah, a DRM protected document couldn't be read by a machine that doesn't participate with the central server and/or can't read the new format, but that's just how it's implemented. If I emailed a PGP protected document properly signed for the person I sent it to, and they don't have PGP installed on that machine, they can't read the document, regardless of the OS. So I'd have to send them an unsigned version. The DRM end users would realize that they can't us the "Protect This Document With LAN DRM Settings" option. They'll learn quickly to avoid it if the company policy allows it.
Sorry about that nnnneedles. I clobered the source with the warning by mistake. My fault. But as many have pointed out, LiveJournal doesn't allow JavaScript. My script is all purpose, but it doesn't look like it'll work here.
Dear God in heaven, anyone who does this is nuts.
I have no problem releasing the script for anyone to use. The script comments say as much. But for the average user, it's easier to just dump HTML on a page. If you know how, by all means, copy the script on your own server.
Anyway, this should be interesting. Carry on.
Unfortunately, this trick really only works with MSIE. But it's better than nothing.The above should all be on one line. Check for extra white space where the line feed got placed by Slashdot's bug (thanks alot).
It should be strip_referrer.js with no space. Why does Slashdot do that??
Hey, when I figured out what the 85 command-line options in wget do, I went nuts with it too!
:)
That's exactly what I'm doing. Do I care about the me^Hasses? Sort of. I care that they need iPods. I do leave the mirror up for as long as the original site is down. I take down the mirror quickly because I don't want to get in trouble with the original author...and I get to say whatever I want at that point. Win-win-win: 1) Slashdot readers get to see the article, 2) The author's happy because their original article is seen, 3) I get to show people iPod links.
I've been thanked quite a few times, and told off just as many times. Bah. Whatever. Now, if this would actually pay off, it'd really be a win-win-win. As of yet, nobody's buying iPods. So, that should make you all feel a little better.
Hell, it's a safe bet to say you are running Windows right now.
:)
I'll take that bet.
bash-2.05a$ uname -a
Darwin uniblab.local. 6.6 Darwin Kernel Version 6.6: Thu May 1 21:48:54 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.34.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
bash-2.05a$
I have to admit I have a copy of Virtual PC 6.1. But I hardly ever use it. It'd be kind of fun to get them infected, then roll back the drive. You know, for a larf.
Even as Slashdot Subscriber, the site was slow/unresponsive. I'm surprised Slashdot people are that interested in Longhorn. So anyway, here's a mirror.
From the slides:
Multi-processor capabilities requires extremely high fault tolerances. Multi-processor memories requires "locking" at a fraction of a millisecond. These developments, among others, could not have been accomplished in a compressed time period without direct access to 25 years of UNIX development expertise and use of state-of-the-art Unix development labs.
They're saying that the jump from 2.2 to 2.6 an "Improbable Linux Development Path". For me, a non-kernel hacker, can someone explain why this particular point isn't true? Or do you have to pull from many examples in order to prove otherwise?
Maybe it's a new CG rain engine, so the pretty actors don't have to actually get wet. Maybe not.
Well, there were only two kitchens that I remember from the other two films. The Oracle's and that lady with the carving knife who got overridden - the one Neo ran through. Yeah, that's a real spoiler.
Man, Agent Smith looks absolutely crazy in this trailer. I still think he looks better with long hair. In case the BBC site is slow, here's a mirror to the 3rd link. I'm keeping my BitTorrent window open for as long as possible. It only took me two minutes to download, but that's because I beat the rush because I'm a Slashdot Subscriber. ;-) Please keep your BitTorrent windows open for as long as possible.
So that's why Microsoft allowed the leak of MSN Messenger 6.0. When I first saw it, and the fact that it was being leaked over and over very quickly, I thought it was odd. Then Microsoft released their own pre-released version. Everyone I know who uses MSN Messenger went to 6.0 like flies on ... stuff flies like.
But not very many people I knew who ran the clones went over to 6.0. It's all just to convenient.
In case the site is slow, for whatever reason, here are a couple mirrors for link 2 and link 3.
Actually, the porn vendors have to be careful to keep things well behaved. For example, if they use a real Apache directory listing, they have to stock it full of html files, which are easy to spot an ignore. But if they use a copy of an Apache directory listing and modify it so that it can do popups, there might be a way to get google to filter it. For instance, an Apache directory listing has no business having a element. I just don't know if Google will let you filter based on HTML elements.
- mpg
- mov
- mp3
- secret - doesn't have to be file extensions...
- "My Documents" - yeah, that's secure...
- etc
Anyway, as you can see, it's pretty effective. Sometimes admins wise up, and all you have is the Google cache. But sometimes they don't, and you get to look. Thanks Google!...the neighborhood of 10,000,000,000 neurons, each having up to thousands of connections. All of these are working in parallel.
I think you just described an epileptic seizure.