well, the company i work at uses a small web hosting co for mail/www and i swear they sell my address... i almost shat in my seat when one of my [female] coworkers walked by and i was sifting through my mail by pressing the down arrow (50:1 spam ratio) and suddenly an ENORMOUS pair of breasts fills the preview pane of outlook. bit of an awkward silence after that. needless to say, i've been a bit more vigilant about spam filtering since then:)
sigh. looking at it from a sci fi perspective you're going to be disappointed. the sci fi element is just a vehicle for the philosophical questions the movie raises (and then doesn't really answer, leaving me pretty confused at the end as to the point.)
the film was an interesting "journey", but not one with a very defined destination. i don't think it needs to get rocked as badly as it has in these slashdot reviews
perhaps as interesting as the article itself is that the site offers a referral link to 10% off dell notebooks. imagine if this could be stocked with other coupons from consumer deals sites -- you might save a couple hundred bucks if you're looking for a new laptop.
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n.b. i just clicked the link and it is indeed stackable, damn. nice
i looked at more of it after posting that (especially some of the more esoteric features like crypto and mapping network traffic to 3d coordinates/strange attractors) and before the stream of bitter replies i got and some of it is pretty cool in a fucked up way.
my *point* was more along the lines of this isn't as revolutionary as it was advertised, and it was advertised in an amusingly dense way. but, agreed, it is still pretty cool, especially since so much of it is done in user space.
and if his girlfriend is spitting out brain cells after oral sex, i think they're doing it wrong;)
admittedly, he uses some cool techniques and goes pretty low level to achieve many of these things (and the tracing, sniffing, and broadcasting techniques are probably not logged by most firewalls/routers and/or can slip detection).
and that's a pretty fast scan utility. however, esoteric tools like this exist all over the place, and though interesting, this is nothing revolutionary. well, compared to the intel pentium iii processor which lets me not just get onto the internet, but get into it.
"the protocols the internet uses today are not conducive to certain types of networking tasks. however, tcp/ip, one of the internet's framework protocols, has a bunch of obscure parameters and fields that can be exploited to do new things [this isn't a very new concept.] i wrote a network scanner, fake NAT client, packet sniffer, traceroute utility, and some odd visualization tool. i like big words."
basically he wrote some new tools that are like the tools we already have but implemented in a slightly different way, except these tools were heralded by an obtuse 500-word self-aggrandizing technobabbling post on slashdot.
-fren
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What a naive comment. You'd be amazed at the number of computers with medical, financial, academic, or other critical records on public IPs, especially since a technology like OpenSSL facilitates putting sensitive info like that online because it's "secure."
There are tons of recent examples of computers accidentally storing critical info and records out in the open, much less secured by a barrier like OpenSSL.
They're probably already there, or places even worse. And wouldn't such a filter consider pyramid schemes to be "for the common good" and take a liking to insurance spams that offer Five Year Plans?:P
i was hoping they'd release the source for the popups and that awesome tray app, the "No, Thanks" buttons, the code to make RealOne take over everything from *.mp3 to *.bat, and that sweet program that lets you download stuff just like normal, except with banner ads, and whatever code is responsible for that feeling that Satan is laughing somewhere whenever I click "run" or "accept eula" of anything made by that fucking company.
well, if you figure that there are SO MANY different kinds of things people file patents for, and the fact that an AIM bot expert who would KNOW that this patent is BS would not tend to gravitate towards working in a patent office, then clearly patents will get through just because the people approving the patent aren't that familiar with that particular industry. sure, there are clearly documented examples of prior art but unless you happened to see an AIM bot before Auguest 2000 or happened to know of the Net::AIM CPAN module, you wouldn't see too many examples of prior art.
but iChatBot, a fairly well known (well, with what seems to be many hundreds of users, and able to attract the attention of losers who keep its warning level in the 90% range 24 hours a day:)) AIM bot has been existence since at least 8/11/2000, thus being before the patent filing and proof of prior art etc.
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goddamn, would people PLEASE STOP with the STUPID ASS "IN SOVIET RUSSIA" POSTS..
it was funny the first 1309190349031 fucking times.
*sigh*. ok, carry on
well, the company i work at uses a small web hosting co for mail/www and i swear they sell my address... i almost shat in my seat when one of my [female] coworkers walked by and i was sifting through my mail by pressing the down arrow (50:1 spam ratio) and suddenly an ENORMOUS pair of breasts fills the preview pane of outlook. bit of an awkward silence after that. needless to say, i've been a bit more vigilant about spam filtering since then :)
sigh. looking at it from a sci fi perspective you're going to be disappointed. the sci fi element is just a vehicle for the philosophical questions the movie raises (and then doesn't really answer, leaving me pretty confused at the end as to the point.)
the film was an interesting "journey", but not one with a very defined destination. i don't think it needs to get rocked as badly as it has in these slashdot reviews
-fren
i think you still get the same number of virgins per square foot
take the geeks and zits and just add beer guts and facial hair.
god damn. i'd laugh, if it weren't real.
*sigh*
"would you like a brand new sprint pcs cellphone to go with your, uh, coaxial cable and AA batteries?"
i swear to god...
n.b. i just clicked the link and it is indeed stackable, damn. nice
-fren
this is what happens when too many lonely college students try to download "too hot for tv.mpg" at once and don't take the filename seriously.
but as far as console addons go, i don't think anything can hold a candle to my trusty Sega 32X for Genesis. man, that was sweet.
uh, or, *don't* buy the xbox, and watch them lose $350 as that xbox rots on a warehouse shelf. :P
seriously, people. they don't "lose" if you buy like two xboxes instead of one.
*sigh*
-fren
chill dude, (well, angry white guy, ha :P)
;)
i looked at more of it after posting that (especially some of the more esoteric features like crypto and mapping network traffic to 3d coordinates/strange attractors) and before the stream of bitter replies i got and some of it is pretty cool in a fucked up way.
my *point* was more along the lines of this isn't as revolutionary as it was advertised, and it was advertised in an amusingly dense way. but, agreed, it is still pretty cool, especially since so much of it is done in user space.
and if his girlfriend is spitting out brain cells after oral sex, i think they're doing it wrong
-fren
admittedly, he uses some cool techniques and goes pretty low level to achieve many of these things (and the tracing, sniffing, and broadcasting techniques are probably not logged by most firewalls/routers and/or can slip detection).
and that's a pretty fast scan utility. however, esoteric tools like this exist all over the place, and though interesting, this is nothing revolutionary. well, compared to the intel pentium iii processor which lets me not just get onto the internet, but get into it.
-fren
"the protocols the internet uses today are not conducive to certain types of networking tasks. however, tcp/ip, one of the internet's framework protocols, has a bunch of obscure parameters and fields that can be exploited to do new things [this isn't a very new concept.] i wrote a network scanner, fake NAT client, packet sniffer, traceroute utility, and some odd visualization tool. i like big words."
basically he wrote some new tools that are like the tools we already have but implemented in a slightly different way, except these tools were heralded by an obtuse 500-word self-aggrandizing technobabbling post on slashdot.
-fren
What a naive comment. You'd be amazed at the number of computers with medical, financial, academic, or other critical records on public IPs, especially since a technology like OpenSSL facilitates putting sensitive info like that online because it's "secure."
There are tons of recent examples of computers accidentally storing critical info and records out in the open, much less secured by a barrier like OpenSSL.
"Have you ever talked to a woman without needing to give you her credit card number?"
:) )
(i think this applies here
-fren
Biggest. Dork. Ever. :P
-fren
They're probably already there, or places even worse. And wouldn't such a filter consider pyramid schemes to be "for the common good" and take a liking to insurance spams that offer Five Year Plans? :P
-fren
i was hoping they'd release the source for the popups and that awesome tray app, the "No, Thanks" buttons, the code to make RealOne take over everything from *.mp3 to *.bat, and that sweet program that lets you download stuff just like normal, except with banner ads, and whatever code is responsible for that feeling that Satan is laughing somewhere whenever I click "run" or "accept eula" of anything made by that fucking company.
You are a huge nerd, assembled from parts of lesser nerds
"Which brings me to my next point. Don't smoke crack."
Inconceivable!
"Left!" "Fuck! No! Right! Right! Right!"
"You weren't planning to have kids, were you?"
well, if you figure that there are SO MANY different kinds of things people file patents for, and the fact that an AIM bot expert who would KNOW that this patent is BS would not tend to gravitate towards working in a patent office, then clearly patents will get through just because the people approving the patent aren't that familiar with that particular industry. sure, there are clearly documented examples of prior art but unless you happened to see an AIM bot before Auguest 2000 or happened to know of the Net::AIM CPAN module, you wouldn't see too many examples of prior art.
-fren
The ActiveBuddy patent was filed on 8/22/2000,
:)) AIM bot has been existence since at least 8/11/2000, thus being before the patent filing and proof of prior art etc.
but iChatBot, a fairly well known (well, with what seems to be many hundreds of users, and able to attract the attention of losers who keep its warning level in the 90% range 24 hours a day
Check it out: http://www.ichatbot.com/show.php?changelog.html
Just another example of how this patent is complete bullshit.
*sigh*.
What do you have to do to overturn a patent?
-fren
haha.
wasn't really intended as a targeted rip on ms.
in fact, as someone who has written linux kernel drivers (actually, real-time linux kernel drivers), i probably should have called it
"insmod - Oops! I Panicked Again.mp3"
"Microsoft - Windows 98 (feat Billy G) (Blue Screen Remix).mp3"