(Have a look at the "Miss New York City" pageant winner lingering around the set pimping X3D's ShittyGoggles 2000. If thats the best you New York twits have to offer, you might want to continue looking around in caves for undiscovered sasquatches. That woman has about as much sex appeal as a rusty fire hydrant overgrown with weeds.)
Was watching ESPN2's coverage of the game yesterday, and they showed an outtake of Kasparov, before the match, throwing a hissy-fit over the fact that the board was oriented the wrong way. It took like 4 or 5 people to calm him down.
Besides hating Kasparov for being a pissy little bitch, and being a life-long supporter of IBM, the phrase "THE AUTOMATON CANNOT BE DEFEATED" has a certain, beautiful ring to it.:) I hope Fritz beats the living shit out of him and sends him packing.
Just how, exactly, does one become an "e-Voting expert"?
"Yes, your Honor, I have 3 years experience in the field of poking. I was a Poking major in college, and belong to a number of internationally-recognized poking, pointing and clicking consortiums. During my years at McDonalds, I logged a total of over 40 hours a week poking screens for nearly two years before leaving to pursue other career opportunities (fry clerk)."
...Your overpriced hunk of shit MP3 player might actually be the overpriced hunk of shit MP3 player people have been saying it is all along?
Sorry, guys... But thats what you get when you're a retard who gets suckered into buying things based on "prestige value". You get an overpriced hunk of shit thats no better than other items that sell for 1/4th the price. The worlds closets are filled with Izod shirts, Swatch watches, "rare" Beanie Babies, and $10K Bang & Olufsen stereo systems that sound no better than a $139 Sony boombox at Target.
Maybe, just MAYBE you'll learn your lesson someday.
(Mods: You can call this a troll if you want, but I challenge you to dispute anything said here on factual value. If it didn't have the shiny Apple logo on it, face it -- You'd dismiss it as a hunk of shit, and it's buyers as suckers too.)
I would like to take this time to subpoena General William Tecumseh Sherman, Fred "Rerun" Berry, Amelia Earheart, and The Guy Who Does The Voice For Tony The Tiger because each have more to do with this case as Stallman and Torvalds have.
I just wish there was a more adequate explanation of UPnP in the manual. Here's a copy of it, taken directly from the manual:
"UPnP is short for Universal Plug and Play which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking equipment, software, and peripherals. The DI-604 is a UPnP enabled router and will only work with other UPnP devices/softwares. If you do not want to use the UPnP functionality, it can be disabled by selecting "Disabled".
It should read:
"Leaving this stupid fucking feature on leaves you bent-over and spread-cheeked for when a piece of malicious software comes along decides block every damn port on our router. UPnP allows changes to be made without your knowledge OR consent--it allows any program to totally bypass user/admin authentication. As an added bonus, entries commited via this backdoor^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H"feature" cant' be removed without first factory-defaulting the whole goddamn router and rebooting it. Anyway, Microsoft wants us to put it here and leave it on by default. Click the box to disable it."
I think my explanation is much clearer, don't you?:)
...So what stops any other piece of code running on the host from pulling the same trick, but worse? Or for that matter, a _remote_ exploit that spoofs a local IP address, and tells requests the router to free up or block off 0-65535?
Keep in mind, when these "msmsgs" (Which I think is the spam-happy Microsoft Messaging service, not MSN Messenger) entries pop up, they occupy HUGE swathes of IP space. Literally, tens of thousands of ports.
I originally noticed this problem while playing RTCW. Periodically, I wouldn't be able to log on to any servers, because the goddamn msmsgs entries in the firewall table would encompass the port range where RTCW servers reside (port 27000-30000 or so)... Huge areas of IP space, sometimes >20000 ports wide.
Did I mention you cant delete these "msmsgs" entries?
Yup. Not only are they added to the firewall table without your permission, you cant get rid of them. The only way you can remove those entries is by restoring factory defaults and rebooting. It took me 4 or 5 repetitions of this process to figure out what the fuck was going on.
D-Link, if you're listening, fix your goddamn router.
No, but your D-Link 604 router is a piece of shit.. I should know, I own one too, unfortunately.
The router allows Windows XP to bypass normal user/administrator authentication on the router, and add entires to the firewall table.. Have a look at the firewall page on the router, and see if there's two entries for "msmsgs" that you didn't make. Ever wonder how those got there, especially in light of the fact your router is supposed to be password protected? Gee, thanks D-Link!
Concievably, any schmuck out there could easilly write a virus that pollutes the firewall table in the same manner. I'm surprised nobody has done so already.
"Feature"?... Dear lord. There must be some really, really fine crack going around in industry circles these days. Belkin sounds like they've taken a hit or two off the SCO crack pipe.
I wonder if they use their own products in-house. That would be a fitting punishment if it ever came down to a class-action suit.... Force Belkin to use their own products.:)
A computer is a finite-state machine. So is a toaster.
We invented both devices to serve a particular purpose, and to produce a desired result.
Your suggestion that we should "adapt to our computers", makes about as much sense as "adapting to our toasters".
It only took me until about the age of 5 to figure out that "adapting to the toaster" wasn't a good idea. The shock-sensation wasn't all that pleasant, and the resulting sparks from the butter knife caused a fire hazard....So whats taking you so long?
1) The free version of Red Hat Linux is now called "Fedora Linux", because now that the "Red Hat" brand name is valuable, they're going to exploit that.
2) Red Hat, Inc. is turning it's back on 99.9% of it's installed user base, by pricing it's future "Red Hat" offerings out of reach of normal users. Red Hat is only obligated to give you the sourcecode for RHEL. They dont have to give you pre-built binaries. Good luck compiling it.*
3) Red Hat, in one single memo, has managed to insult every developer who has ever worked on, or contributed to, making Red Hat Linux a brand name. They're taking what we helped build, and making a Cousin Oliver out of it. We put our support behind (and helped build) _Red Hat_, not "Fedora".
Thats about it.
* = How long do you think it'll take for someone to write a little program that downloads the whole bag of RHEL code, compiles it, makes RPMs out of it, and spits out a few ISOs, and undermines Red Hat's stupid ass attempt at a ca$h grab in one fell swoop?:) Calling all heroes..calling all heroes....
To my knowledge, never before has an industry been able to pressure a government to _change a unit of measurement_ to help them sell products. It's sickening.
One megabyte is, and will always be, 1048576 bytes. End of story. Anything less is equivalent to dropping your brain-trousers and letting them pork you right in the medulla.
If i'm not mistaken, a good way to harm a company is to short their stock en masse. Basically, you're betting that the company's stock price will drop, versus go up value.
10,000 pissed off penguins shorting SCOX at the same time on the same day might send an interesting message to the market.
Regardless, if I were a kernel developer, i'd be mighty pissed right now. Between lacing up my boots and thinking of the right orifice to plant them in, i'd do a little bit of thinking... You know, along the lines of, "How many more companies need to rip me off before you finally get up and do something about it? 2? 3?...20?"
For those who are still a little on-the-fence, I have just one question. If you're not going to do anything about it, can I have some of your money too?:)
I just love it when someone writes an article, and doesn't know hot to put it into words people can understand.. So they come up with this jackass "it's a million billion!" shit.
Slashdot Mirror
(Have a look at the "Miss New York City" pageant winner lingering around the set pimping X3D's ShittyGoggles 2000. If thats the best you New York twits have to offer, you might want to continue looking around in caves for undiscovered sasquatches. That woman has about as much sex appeal as a rusty fire hydrant overgrown with weeds.)
Was watching ESPN2's coverage of the game yesterday, and they showed an outtake of Kasparov, before the match, throwing a hissy-fit over the fact that the board was oriented the wrong way. It took like 4 or 5 people to calm him down.
Besides hating Kasparov for being a pissy little bitch, and being a life-long supporter of IBM, the phrase "THE AUTOMATON CANNOT BE DEFEATED" has a certain, beautiful ring to it.
Cheers,
Puhlease.
Did you have a tamping iron go through your skull or something?
Ok, i'll bite..
Just how, exactly, does one become an "e-Voting expert"?
"Yes, your Honor, I have 3 years experience in the field of poking. I was a Poking major in college, and belong to a number of internationally-recognized poking, pointing and clicking consortiums. During my years at McDonalds, I logged a total of over 40 hours a week poking screens for nearly two years before leaving to pursue other career opportunities (fry clerk)."
WTF?
...Your overpriced hunk of shit MP3 player might actually be the overpriced hunk of shit MP3 player people have been saying it is all along?
Sorry, guys... But thats what you get when you're a retard who gets suckered into buying things based on "prestige value". You get an overpriced hunk of shit thats no better than other items that sell for 1/4th the price. The worlds closets are filled with Izod shirts, Swatch watches, "rare" Beanie Babies, and $10K Bang & Olufsen stereo systems that sound no better than a $139 Sony boombox at Target.
Maybe, just MAYBE you'll learn your lesson someday.
(Mods: You can call this a troll if you want, but I challenge you to dispute anything said here on factual value. If it didn't have the shiny Apple logo on it, face it -- You'd dismiss it as a hunk of shit, and it's buyers as suckers too.)
Cheers
Hmmm...
Looks like Eros has the disctinction of being the only celestial body known to man that is both shaped like, and owned by an enormous prick!
I would like to take this time to subpoena General William Tecumseh Sherman, Fred "Rerun" Berry, Amelia Earheart, and The Guy Who Does The Voice For Tony The Tiger because each have more to do with this case as Stallman and Torvalds have.
There _are_ ISO's of RHEL floating around, you know...Nobody has to settle for Fedora.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Taroon) ISO images here."
BTW, please stop sucking immediately, Red Hat. Seriously. You're starting to piss me off.
Cheers,
Muahaha.. Thank you for that. :)
Thank you.
:)
I just wish there was a more adequate explanation of UPnP in the manual. Here's a copy of it, taken directly from the manual:
"UPnP is short for Universal Plug and Play which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking equipment, software, and peripherals. The DI-604 is a UPnP enabled router and will only work with other UPnP devices/softwares. If you do not want to use the UPnP functionality, it can be disabled by selecting "Disabled".
It should read:
"Leaving this stupid fucking feature on leaves you bent-over and spread-cheeked for when a piece of malicious software comes along decides block every damn port on our router. UPnP allows changes to be made without your knowledge OR consent--it allows any program to totally bypass user/admin authentication. As an added bonus, entries commited via this backdoor^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H"feature" cant' be removed without first factory-defaulting the whole goddamn router and rebooting it. Anyway, Microsoft wants us to put it here and leave it on by default. Click the box to disable it."
I think my explanation is much clearer, don't you?
(*chuckle*)
:)
Exactly.
..Which is still an exploit.
Keep in mind, when these "msmsgs" (Which I think is the spam-happy Microsoft Messaging service, not MSN Messenger) entries pop up, they occupy HUGE swathes of IP space. Literally, tens of thousands of ports.
I originally noticed this problem while playing RTCW. Periodically, I wouldn't be able to log on to any servers, because the goddamn msmsgs entries in the firewall table would encompass the port range where RTCW servers reside (port 27000-30000 or so)... Huge areas of IP space, sometimes >20000 ports wide.
Did I mention you cant delete these "msmsgs" entries?
Yup. Not only are they added to the firewall table without your permission, you cant get rid of them. The only way you can remove those entries is by restoring factory defaults and rebooting. It took me 4 or 5 repetitions of this process to figure out what the fuck was going on.
D-Link, if you're listening, fix your goddamn router.
No, but your D-Link 604 router is a piece of shit.. I should know, I own one too, unfortunately.
The router allows Windows XP to bypass normal user/administrator authentication on the router, and add entires to the firewall table.. Have a look at the firewall page on the router, and see if there's two entries for "msmsgs" that you didn't make. Ever wonder how those got there, especially in light of the fact your router is supposed to be password protected? Gee, thanks D-Link!
Concievably, any schmuck out there could easilly write a virus that pollutes the firewall table in the same manner. I'm surprised nobody has done so already.
"Feature"?... Dear lord. There must be some really, really fine crack going around in industry circles these days. Belkin sounds like they've taken a hit or two off the SCO crack pipe.
I wonder if they use their own products in-house. That would be a fitting punishment if it ever came down to a class-action suit.... Force Belkin to use their own products.
A computer is a finite-state machine. So is a toaster.
We invented both devices to serve a particular purpose, and to produce a desired result.
Your suggestion that we should "adapt to our computers", makes about as much sense as "adapting to our toasters".
It only took me until about the age of 5 to figure out that "adapting to the toaster" wasn't a good idea. The shock-sensation wasn't all that pleasant, and the resulting sparks from the butter knife caused a fire hazard.
Well, educate us, Mr. Greenspan -- How wouldn't a massive vote of "no confidence" in SCOX's stock harm them?
Dear Intel,
...(half a page of empty space)...
pwned.
...(half a page of empty space)...
Sincerely,
the Linuxant team.
1) The free version of Red Hat Linux is now called "Fedora Linux", because now that the "Red Hat" brand name is valuable, they're going to exploit that.
2) Red Hat, Inc. is turning it's back on 99.9% of it's installed user base, by pricing it's future "Red Hat" offerings out of reach of normal users. Red Hat is only obligated to give you the sourcecode for RHEL. They dont have to give you pre-built binaries. Good luck compiling it.*
3) Red Hat, in one single memo, has managed to insult every developer who has ever worked on, or contributed to, making Red Hat Linux a brand name. They're taking what we helped build, and making a Cousin Oliver out of it. We put our support behind (and helped build) _Red Hat_, not "Fedora".
Thats about it.
* = How long do you think it'll take for someone to write a little program that downloads the whole bag of RHEL code, compiles it, makes RPMs out of it, and spits out a few ISOs, and undermines Red Hat's stupid ass attempt at a ca$h grab in one fell swoop?
Because if I wanted to watch a "homosexual comedy hour", i'd hang out at Starbucks and see it in 3D.
Depends on how angry you are.
Heh... I don't buy into the whole *iB bullshit.
To my knowledge, never before has an industry been able to pressure a government to _change a unit of measurement_ to help them sell products. It's sickening.
One megabyte is, and will always be, 1048576 bytes. End of story. Anything less is equivalent to dropping your brain-trousers and letting them pork you right in the medulla.
If i'm not mistaken, a good way to harm a company is to short their stock en masse. Basically, you're betting that the company's stock price will drop, versus go up value.
10,000 pissed off penguins shorting SCOX at the same time on the same day might send an interesting message to the market.
Regardless, if I were a kernel developer, i'd be mighty pissed right now. Between lacing up my boots and thinking of the right orifice to plant them in, i'd do a little bit of thinking... You know, along the lines of, "How many more companies need to rip me off before you finally get up and do something about it? 2? 3?
For those who are still a little on-the-fence, I have just one question. If you're not going to do anything about it, can I have some of your money too?
I just love it when someone writes an article, and doesn't know hot to put it into words people can understand.. So they come up with this jackass "it's a million billion!" shit.
16 trillion bytes of data = Approx 15 terabytes.
What the hell is so hard about saying "15TB" ?
Hmm..
Did somebody say "a compact, fast, extensible GUI with an incredibly small memory footprint?"
*grin*..
Pogo 3.0 might be what you're looking for. Doesn't depend on gtk, Qt, or anything. Just Imlib1.