So we don't have any words with French roots? English is more complex than you assume.
Compare this to native English, where "toilet" is one of the crudest possible ways to refer to a restroom Only in a puritanical society, in Britain a sign pointing to a "restroom" would usually read toilet. It's hardly the crudest word you could use, but then again we rarely use euphemisms like "I'm going to powder my nose." Most people, even the refined ones will admit to having bodily functions.
Just about every webmail I've seen has been on an https connection, which is lightyears more secure than pop3 and imap
Shut up and go home. Thats your connection to the interface (read that sentance slowly and try not to move your mouth) not the transport mechanism. The mail (that's the stuff you send and recieve) is transmitted using smtp. It is sent as plaintext, this is unsecure.
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have had some experience with ARCNet as well. (Hows that for you old/.'ers out there
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I use Arcnet most days actually. We still use it to connect our sonar heads to our surface control units as it doesn't seem to mind long wires.
Look for the specs of the Tritech Seaking Sonar (http://www.tritech.co.uk/) -Taken from Tritech site - All products in the SeaKing family can be run simultaneously on a single ArcNet communications link, using the same processor and display.
Nonsense. You press a key on you keyboard and logic levels are interpreted by the serial port. The bios then send this data to the OS. The OS can not bypass the BIOS. BIOS == Basic Input Output System. Go down to the bare metal and you find the BIOS. But as usual this is more effort than most people will go to.
I love the fact that Linux is diverse and has multiple distrobutions. I started with Redhat 6 (late starter) and moved to Mandrake 7. I know use Mandrake 8 beta. I know Mandrake is traditionally for newbies but I like the way they work. But I still use Debian for my web server, when a blind person asked me for help we installed SuSE because it has Braille Support out of the box. I use MuLinux for embedded floppy work and have just downloaded Midori Linux ofr embedded work. Kondara has a great emphasis on Eastern modifications and Slackware is there for the Gurus. Yes businesse might like one standard distro but they can put their ideas where the sun doesn't shine.
Well actually at the lowest level all I/O is controlled by the BIOS. Therefore this can be circmvented by bare metal programming. Also in theory it can't be circumvented but trojans that do circumvent it have been seen. Also it would be quite simple for Microsoft to have changed the secure path key while in the pre login state.
It's lazy sloppy programming that microsoft have tried to cover up. I'm not an true Linux zealot. I like some Microsoft software but I won't put up with lazy programming or sloppy lies.
Yes NTSC was an incredibly ugly hack. It left the US with a analogue standard that was poorer than the rest of the worlds (compare 525 v 625). HDTV is an advantage, copy protection will exist but at some point in the circuit the signal we have to be decrypted. At that point it can be extracted and burnt to disk.
Electronics philosophy has always been backwards compatible. Why do you think current computers suck so much. We've retained old featues from the 8008 legacy. x86 has a bad history and we're forced to live with it.
People like backwards compatible. My TV is older than I am (21 years old) and it works fine. I can't afford a new TV. I don't have digital/analogue sky/cable because they're not necessary. HDTV is a nice idea but it will be ruined by copy protection and the fact that HDTV camcorders will be expensive. Then we have the usual problems of trying to record programs. I use two VCRs plugged into the same tv, not possible with HDTV. I've got my homemade MacroVision blanker sitting on the TV, I don't use it for copying. I need it to prevent MacroVision destroying my signal. Copy protection ruins stuff. People who want to copy will always work around. To mangle your.sig
Where there's a need there's a reverse engineer.
And to prove my point here's that DeCSS code. Try arresting me in the UK $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=1 42;$ t=255;@t=map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=(
$m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])$t^ =(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16
-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271);if ((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h
=5;$_=unxb24,join"",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$ h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$
d=unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])>8^($f=$t&($d>>12^ $d>>4 ^
$d^$d/8))>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*8^$q>=8)+= $f+( ~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval
Well you'll find that mobile phones are also banned in Nuclear Plants, power stations, gas terminal and some part of oil rigs. Put your phone near your monitor and wait for it to ring. Not look at how thin the wires are on and ecg machine. How much shielding do you think those wires have? Bugger all. The signals are in the region of 75mV (last time I checked) so very little is needed to disrupt them. It's for this reason that I've modified low power radios to make them safe on site. We had to drop them from 500mW down to 50mW and have a switch to lower them to 15mW if necessary. A mobile phone can output 1w on some models although I think it is more commonly 500mW now. I can take over a frequency that another sttaion is using for a range of 50M only using 120mW on a homemade transmitter.
Mobile phones are dangerous in hospitals and sensitive area. However a jammer could not be used in those environments as a jammer has to be equivalent or higher power that the device it is jamming. So to block a standard Long Wave xmitter at the source on average you will need a 50KW jammer.
The only way to prevent this is to educate people about mobile phones.
Disclaimer:
I don't own a mobile phone but I've taken enough apart and seen how they affect sensitve equipment.
Sorry to spoil your Illusions but most/. readers are the Digerati.
As people have said before those with the real skills will rise to the top. Even if we are hampered by others. The influx of people who believe WWF is real, people who voted for Bush and people who believe in Microsoft will hamper the internet. These people aren't interested in free speech, the DMCA or gnutella. They want hotmail, MSN Messenger and AOL/Time Warner telling them what to watch and read. The same thing happened with newspaper. In the mid >> late 1800s newspapers were only read by the educated. Now we have the National Enquirer, everything is ground down to the lowest common denominator.
What we need to do is to get rid of free tech support, break up AOL (spam, adverts and nasty software), and remove all restrictions. Mmm now that's my kind of internet.
May I start this reply with the cry of "Astroturf"
While it would be immature or plain silly to accuse you of being a microsoft plant or even a troll the thought does linger in my mind.
Most people are not happy with Microsoft products. They just don't realise there is an alternative. Many people know that Windows isn't reliable, Office is expensive and bloated and Microsoft hates poor people (why else would their software not work on slower machines).
Oracle and Sun are not in a position to destroy Microsoft. Oracle aims at one small market sector and Sun, well they're just Sun. In the Office and home market Microsoft has no real competitors. There's Apple and *nix, *BSD and BeOS. Apple appeals to the marketwhore in us, Linux appeals to the Geek in us and BeOS appeals to people who want an OS that boots in 30 seconds but doesn't do much.
So Microsoft are a monopoly that also supports organisations like the MPAA. Due to Microsofts incompetence an entire market based on it's flaws (anti virus software and people called Tim who set up DUN). We're up to Win2K and they still haven't got it up to the same standard as people enjoyed in the early 80's with Unix.
Of course I'm jealous of Microsofts wealth, but I couldn't be like them. I support free software and speech.
I mentioned this at work and someone said "Oh we've got one of them in stores somewhere". After a frantic search I found it. It's non-functional and missing the storage trollies and the power suplies bust. If anyone had any technical doucument on how to repair them... you know where to send the docs.
Are we talking about real servers (web servers etc) or servers in schools, businesses etc. I can't believe that NT is the most popular choice for NT servers. In the ISAPI section of the SDK Microsoft says that...
"Any mistakes in the ISAPI dll are likely to invalidate the entire operating system."
The other MS quote involving NT servers is:
"We recomend that NT servers are rebooted weekly to prevent memory leak issues"
Now do you really wan to use NT for yuor web server now? I think this servey is either flawed, quoted out of context or has been based sample that is too small.
My 2 cents: if this upsets you, try "civil disobedience" - post your own links to DeCSS and other "banned" stuff everywhere you can (that is, your own websites - no advocacy for crackers/defacers intended). Keep the suits and lawyers so busy, they lose sight of the bottom line and start losing $$$. Use massive, peaceful protest to help change the current system. Examples: Ghandi, MLK, and now Emmanuel Goldstein?
Hmm. This is US ruling only. So why can't we have links to the DeCSS code hosted on UK servers. I've got a UK server which unfortuantely couldn't keep up with the/. effect though. Wouldn't it be simple enough though to post the code on UK hosted UseNet servers? You yanks may have some weird laws, like us in the UK. However, there are always ways to get around them. Maybe someone could spray paint the url on walls of prominent public buildings. I am encouraging crime here, so maybe a link to this article is illegal. To make it even more illegal let's try this one. If someone kills any member of the US government I'll give them my PC. Does that mean I've just taken out a contract on the President?
I am inclined to aggree the the previous post. In my humble opinion (not very humble) the link is tenuous at the best of times. I have a friend with clicial depression and he's thick as two short planks. I am not citing this one isolated incident as scientific proof. I will not be flamed to death for a poor scientific conclusion like that. I've met many depressed people and they ranged from being pretty thick to well above average. Many were not geeks.
It's time to worry. The nameless (well relatively) faceless corporations are out to brainwash children. Hell, I live in the UK and I'm worried they'll turn me in.
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than English's two level Latin/Germanic split
So we don't have any words with French roots? English is more complex than you assume.
Compare this to native English, where "toilet" is one of the crudest possible ways to refer to a restroom
Only in a puritanical society, in Britain a sign pointing to a "restroom" would usually read toilet. It's hardly the crudest word you could use, but then again we rarely use euphemisms like "I'm going to powder my nose." Most people, even the refined ones will admit to having bodily functions.
Old European Roulette wheels used to be vulnerable to this method until the 0 and 00 were introduced.
Shut up and go home. Thats your connection to the interface (read that sentance slowly and try not to move your mouth) not the transport mechanism. The mail (that's the stuff you send and recieve) is transmitted using smtp. It is sent as plaintext, this is unsecure.
Oh damm, now someone tells me. I'be been designing everything for 1600x1200, and 32 bit colour.
Actually I like this idea and hope it works well, forms have been bugging me for ages. Too limted.
Great. Coffee starts losing it's flavour after a while. Better to buy beans, grind it in your office and use a french press.
GOTO
haven't you heard, GOTOs are considered harmfull?
Actually I can't even see the point in buying a book for a dead and crappy language.
I'll be filing a lawsuit against the New York Times for slander,
Personally I'd start a libel action, there's a possibility you could win that.
It uses the acks as probes, (I guess they measure delays) and if 'the coast is clear', it maxes it's transmission speed
Well that's me stuffed, I tune my firewall to minimise ack delay (priority 7 using altq), goodbye well planned window size.
snip /.'ers out there
have had some experience with ARCNet as well. (Hows that for you old
snip
I use Arcnet most days actually. We still use it to connect our sonar heads to our surface control units as it doesn't seem to mind long wires.
Look for the specs of the Tritech Seaking Sonar (http://www.tritech.co.uk/)
-Taken from Tritech site -
All products in the SeaKing family can be run simultaneously on a single ArcNet communications link, using the same processor and display.
Nonsense. You press a key on you keyboard and logic levels are interpreted by the serial port. The bios then send this data to the OS. The OS can not bypass the BIOS. BIOS == Basic Input Output System. Go down to the bare metal and you find the BIOS. But as usual this is more effort than most people will go to.
I love the fact that Linux is diverse and has multiple distrobutions. I started with Redhat 6 (late starter) and moved to Mandrake 7. I know use Mandrake 8 beta. I know Mandrake is traditionally for newbies but I like the way they work.
But I still use Debian for my web server, when a blind person asked me for help we installed SuSE because it has Braille Support out of the box. I use MuLinux for embedded floppy work and have just downloaded Midori Linux ofr embedded work.
Kondara has a great emphasis on Eastern modifications and Slackware is there for the Gurus.
Yes businesse might like one standard distro but they can put their ideas where the sun doesn't shine.
Well actually at the lowest level all I/O is controlled by the BIOS. Therefore this can be circmvented by bare metal programming. Also in theory it can't be circumvented but trojans that do circumvent it have been seen. Also it would be quite simple for Microsoft to have changed the secure path key while in the pre login state.
It's lazy sloppy programming that microsoft have tried to cover up. I'm not an true Linux zealot. I like some Microsoft software but I won't put up with lazy programming or sloppy lies.
Yes NTSC was an incredibly ugly hack. It left the US with a analogue standard that was poorer than the rest of the worlds (compare 525 v 625). HDTV is an advantage, copy protection will exist but at some point in the circuit the signal we have to be decrypted. At that point it can be extracted and burnt to disk. .sig
1 42;$ t=255;@t=map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=(
$m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])$t^ =(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16
-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271);if ((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h
=5;$_=unxb24,join"",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$ h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$
d=unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])>8^($f=$t&($d>>12^ $d>>4 ^
$d^$d/8))>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*8^$q>=8)+= $f+( ~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+ /g;eval
Electronics philosophy has always been backwards compatible. Why do you think current computers suck so much. We've retained old featues from the 8008 legacy. x86 has a bad history and we're forced to live with it.
People like backwards compatible. My TV is older than I am (21 years old) and it works fine. I can't afford a new TV. I don't have digital/analogue sky/cable because they're not necessary. HDTV is a nice idea but it will be ruined by copy protection and the fact that HDTV camcorders will be expensive. Then we have the usual problems of trying to record programs. I use two VCRs plugged into the same tv, not possible with HDTV. I've got my homemade MacroVision blanker sitting on the TV, I don't use it for copying. I need it to prevent MacroVision destroying my signal. Copy protection ruins stuff. People who want to copy will always work around.
To mangle your
Where there's a need there's a reverse engineer.
And to prove my point here's that DeCSS code. Try arresting me in the UK
$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=
Well you'll find that mobile phones are also banned in Nuclear Plants, power stations, gas terminal and some part of oil rigs. Put your phone near your monitor and wait for it to ring. Not look at how thin the wires are on and ecg machine. How much shielding do you think those wires have? Bugger all. The signals are in the region of 75mV (last time I checked) so very little is needed to disrupt them. It's for this reason that I've modified low power radios to make them safe on site. We had to drop them from 500mW down to 50mW and have a switch to lower them to 15mW if necessary. A mobile phone can output 1w on some models although I think it is more commonly 500mW now. I can take over a frequency that another sttaion is using for a range of 50M only using 120mW on a homemade transmitter.
Mobile phones are dangerous in hospitals and sensitive area. However a jammer could not be used in those environments as a jammer has to be equivalent or higher power that the device it is jamming. So to block a standard Long Wave xmitter at the source on average you will need a 50KW jammer.
The only way to prevent this is to educate people about mobile phones.
Disclaimer:
I don't own a mobile phone but I've taken enough apart and seen how they affect sensitve equipment.
Sorry to spoil your Illusions but most /. readers are the Digerati.
As people have said before those with the real skills will rise to the top. Even if we are hampered by others. The influx of people who believe WWF is real, people who voted for Bush and people who believe in Microsoft will hamper the internet. These people aren't interested in free speech, the DMCA or gnutella. They want hotmail, MSN Messenger and AOL/Time Warner telling them what to watch and read.
The same thing happened with newspaper. In the mid >> late 1800s newspapers were only read by the educated. Now we have the National Enquirer, everything is ground down to the lowest common denominator.
What we need to do is to get rid of free tech support, break up AOL (spam, adverts and nasty software), and remove all restrictions. Mmm now that's my kind of internet.
May I start this reply with the cry of "Astroturf"
While it would be immature or plain silly to accuse you of being a microsoft plant or even a troll the thought does linger in my mind.
Most people are not happy with Microsoft products. They just don't realise there is an alternative. Many people know that Windows isn't reliable, Office is expensive and bloated and Microsoft hates poor people (why else would their software not work on slower machines).
Oracle and Sun are not in a position to destroy Microsoft. Oracle aims at one small market sector and Sun, well they're just Sun. In the Office and home market Microsoft has no real competitors. There's Apple and *nix, *BSD and BeOS. Apple appeals to the marketwhore in us, Linux appeals to the Geek in us and BeOS appeals to people who want an OS that boots in 30 seconds but doesn't do much.
So Microsoft are a monopoly that also supports organisations like the MPAA. Due to Microsofts incompetence an entire market based on it's flaws (anti virus software and people called Tim who set up DUN). We're up to Win2K and they still haven't got it up to the same standard as people enjoyed in the early 80's with Unix.
Of course I'm jealous of Microsofts wealth, but I couldn't be like them. I support free software and speech.
I mentioned this at work and someone said "Oh we've got one of them in stores somewhere". After a frantic search I found it. It's non-functional and missing the storage trollies and the power suplies bust. If anyone had any technical doucument on how to repair them ... you know where to send the docs.
Are we talking about real servers (web servers etc) or servers in schools, businesses etc. I can't believe that NT is the most popular choice for NT servers. In the ISAPI section of the SDK Microsoft says that...
"Any mistakes in the ISAPI dll are likely to invalidate the entire operating system."
The other MS quote involving NT servers is:
"We recomend that NT servers are rebooted weekly to prevent memory leak issues"
Now do you really wan to use NT for yuor web server now? I think this servey is either flawed, quoted out of context or has been based sample that is too small.
My 2 cents: if this upsets you, try "civil disobedience" - post your own links to DeCSS and other "banned" stuff everywhere you can (that is, your own websites - no advocacy for crackers/defacers intended). Keep the suits and lawyers so busy, they lose sight of the bottom line and start losing $$$. Use massive, peaceful protest to help change the current system. Examples: Ghandi, MLK, and now Emmanuel Goldstein? /. effect though. Wouldn't it be simple enough though to post the code on UK hosted UseNet servers? You yanks may have some weird laws, like us in the UK. However, there are always ways to get around them. Maybe someone could spray paint the url on walls of prominent public buildings. I am encouraging crime here, so maybe a link to this article is illegal. To make it even more illegal let's try this one. If someone kills any member of the US government I'll give them my PC. Does that mean I've just taken out a contract on the President?
Hmm. This is US ruling only. So why can't we have links to the DeCSS code hosted on UK servers. I've got a UK server which unfortuantely couldn't keep up with the
One step closer to Neil Stephensons world. See you in the Black Sun. As the oriional contributor I felt that I had to reply.
I am inclined to aggree the the previous post. In my humble opinion (not very humble) the link is tenuous at the best of times. I have a friend with clicial depression and he's thick as two short planks. I am not citing this one isolated incident as scientific proof. I will not be flamed to death for a poor scientific conclusion like that. I've met many depressed people and they ranged from being pretty thick to well above average. Many were not geeks.
It's time to worry. The nameless (well relatively) faceless corporations are out to brainwash children. Hell, I live in the UK and I'm worried they'll turn me in.