He didn't steal the numbers. He had possession of them, as did just about every decent hacker of that time period. The list of numbers was available from a number of different sources. The real criminal who got away with something here is Netcom, who had the list of credit card numbers available in unencrypted form on a computer connected to the Internet. If one of the numbers was mine I know exactly who I would be upset at: Netcom, for doing the electronic equivalent of leaving my information next to an open window. Kevin was probably one of hundreds of people who had that list of numbers, yet he seems to be the only one who did any time for it.
Guess what, troll? Membership is free. You can pay for membership too but there is a free developer program that you can join, for free, even, and download the developer CD, for free. Like without paying. Free as in beer. Free as in love. Free as a bird. Free as the word between "fart" and "fuck" in the dictionary.
MP3 and other lossy codecs fool our ears, and unlike our eyes, our ears require constant re-calibration to function properly. If we are calibrating to inaccurate/unnatural sounds, he thinks this could be a concern.
Why isn't this true for CD-quality sound, which is a distorted, some would say degraded, attempt to mimic analog sound. Or why isn't this true for recorded music generally, which generally sounds substantially different from the same thing performed live? The biggest problem I have with his thesis is the assumption that there is an "original" or "natural" sound that we should be calibrating our ears to in the first place. What is the "right" or "natural" way to really listen to "Smells Like Teen Spirit"??
I mean, it's obvious that pink must be bad for you -- just look at the grammar in the abstract. The author is obviously a severe sufferer of pinkitis, poor man.
I have used several tools like this including tidy. There's one called demoronizer, and there's one that used to be a bbedit plugin (I can't seem to find it now); these things all help but as someone else noted, Word's output of HTML is so screwy there are very few scripts that will really fix these things consistently. It's almost as if they went out of their way to confound all clean-up tools. How hard can it be to automatically output HTML that isn't a complete and utter nightmare? Isn't that one of the reasons we have standards in the first place? For some reason I keep thinking optimistically that MS will fix this in the next release of Word. It's like the OS X bug where dragging an icon to the left side of the screen and letting it go makes everything jump go to the right (which still happens in 10.2.3). It's stupid, annoying as hell, even inexcusable, and it's probably frightfully simple to fix, yet it's ignored in every update. Of course, the OS X bug is a minor annoyance compared to the absolute drain on productivity provided by the MS bug.
(And before anyone tells me "if you don't like it don't use it" -- I don't use it. I mean, Word is great for writing academic papers and all (I don't know any other office-type product that works well for people who write with a lot of footnotes, and no I don't have time to learn LaTeX, as cool as I might think that would be) but I would never think of using word to output HTML. But the problem is if you are getting documents from other people who only use Word, no matter what.
I tell you what, the killer app, at least for the average desktop user, would be a streamlined version of Word that only did what a word processor should do, and that automatically (and preferably seamlessly) sent other tasks to more well-designed applications for those purposes. I mean, I understand why relatively clueless people use Word for HTML, but why the hell do they try to use it for desktop publishing, for image manipulation, even for freakin' web browsing? The program shouldn't encourage such behavior by providing bad implementations of these tasks; instead it should send the task to a program that knows what it's doing.
The craziest thing about this is that MS is in a unique position to deliver exactly such an app -- they have Word already recognized as the absolute standard, they have their own desktop publisher, image manipulation tools, web design tools, and web browser. If they were willing to let go of the bloatware and open up and standardize their formats, this project would be a no-brainer. Since they won't do it, somebody else should. Apple is too committed to Word to do this (I don't think AppleWorks is taken seriously by anyone, though I could be wrong), so there really is the possibility projects like openoffice or koffice being able to deliver something like this.
Also this is not about their past criminal record on unrelated crimes; they were abusing their monopoly power in both the OS market and the Office market at the same time, and their monopoly in one area aided and abetted their monopoly in the other. These are separate crimes only by legal fiction.
I use CUPS too but it's not always neat; I haven't been able to fix the spilling bug that always occurs if I am using CUPS to transfer red wine or coffee while wearing white.
CUPS have always had known vulnerabilities; they need them to operate effectively. What do you expect when you have a giant hole on one end of the things? But if you plug up the hole, you can't drink out of them. Thus, CUPS will always be vulnerable.
Kruschev was a fucking atheist. He did not "shake the dust off his feet" to condemn the UN in the name of the Lord; he banged it against the podium in an intimidating propaganda gesture. This has nothing to do with anything in the Bible; none of the verses cited say anything about taking your shoes off and banging them on a table.
I realize it's a joke, but it seems to me that mucking with an open standard and then closing it in order to extend their monopoly might just be a reasonable cause of action. XML is not a "trade secret," and making their version incompatible with the rest of the world's in order to force the world to adopt MS products is not "innovation." Reminds me of what they did with Kerberos a couple years ago. This may or may not be worth a lawsuit, but it would certainly be anticompetitive of them.
Or anything close to "standard." The best we can hope for is code that is recognized as valid, and I wouldn't hold my breath for that either. I've seen HTML like the following come out of Word:
<B><A HREF="http://whatever.org"> Link </B></A>.
I'm not kidding, either. Seems like an easy thing to avoid in an HTML generator. Validator routinely reports hundreds of coding errors in simple short documents generated by Word. Ugh. What really sucks is when you're working on a web page for someone and cleaning out all the crap that Word generates, then at the last minute they send you the same document with some minor errors corrected.... and all the same major errors generated by Word. Fun.
I just compiled this too and got the same result. Everything else checks out OK. Perhaps this has something to do with the way OS X writes to/etc/passwd. I don't really understand the output from running chkrootkit -x passwd, but it does seem consistent with the view that it has to do with something specific OS X is doing. It might be worth emailing the fink people about putting chkrootkit into fink and writing a version that doesn't have this error. Assuming it is an error; the alternative is, both of us have been rooted!
No; illegal aliens from Canada, including "snowbirds." But believe it or not, all Canadians illegally in America are not just here to turn red on the beach and fail miserably at picking up girls in Miami.... there actually are many Canadians who come here illegally to work. They're not picking fruit though, and their skin is considered white, so they're not recognized as a migrant labor force by (US) Americans. There are also large numbers of illegal immigrants from Italy and England in the US. Again, they slip under the radar for reasons that boil down to race and class - they're white, and they aren't picking fruit.
one of their stated aims is to reconquer the SW USA
And they will. But not in the way you're talking about. Their stated aim, and the aim of many radical Mexicanos who preach "Aztlan" is to populate the land, become citizens, participate in the economic affairs of the communities they inhabit, and vote for leaders who represent the interests of those communities. Some of these people couch these goals in terms that are intentionally meant to inflame the xenophobes, but the fact is that most of these people are quite simply preaching Democracy & Capitalism 101. Some people, like our friend Ben Stein, are terrified that democratic social change means the destruction of America, but I believe that true patriots understand that it is the very definition of America. Instead of running in fear from overzealous lefty Xicanos waving Mexican flags and shouting about Aztlan, why not point out to them that the true power of this nation is the very fact that it can change to facilitate the interests of those who inhabit it?
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He didn't steal the numbers. He had possession of them, as did just about every decent hacker of that time period. The list of numbers was available from a number of different sources. The real criminal who got away with something here is Netcom, who had the list of credit card numbers available in unencrypted form on a computer connected to the Internet. If one of the numbers was mine I know exactly who I would be upset at: Netcom, for doing the electronic equivalent of leaving my information next to an open window. Kevin was probably one of hundreds of people who had that list of numbers, yet he seems to be the only one who did any time for it.
They don't want to have to change the name. Especially not to "OSX MX."
Guess what, troll? Membership is free. You can pay for membership too but there is a free developer program that you can join, for free, even, and download the developer CD, for free. Like without paying. Free as in beer. Free as in love. Free as a bird. Free as the word between "fart" and "fuck" in the dictionary.
Why isn't this true for CD-quality sound, which is a distorted, some would say degraded, attempt to mimic analog sound. Or why isn't this true for recorded music generally, which generally sounds substantially different from the same thing performed live? The biggest problem I have with his thesis is the assumption that there is an "original" or "natural" sound that we should be calibrating our ears to in the first place. What is the "right" or "natural" way to really listen to "Smells Like Teen Spirit"??
No but he suffers from pinkeye.
(And before anyone tells me "if you don't like it don't use it" -- I don't use it. I mean, Word is great for writing academic papers and all (I don't know any other office-type product that works well for people who write with a lot of footnotes, and no I don't have time to learn LaTeX, as cool as I might think that would be) but I would never think of using word to output HTML. But the problem is if you are getting documents from other people who only use Word, no matter what.
I tell you what, the killer app, at least for the average desktop user, would be a streamlined version of Word that only did what a word processor should do, and that automatically (and preferably seamlessly) sent other tasks to more well-designed applications for those purposes. I mean, I understand why relatively clueless people use Word for HTML, but why the hell do they try to use it for desktop publishing, for image manipulation, even for freakin' web browsing? The program shouldn't encourage such behavior by providing bad implementations of these tasks; instead it should send the task to a program that knows what it's doing.
The craziest thing about this is that MS is in a unique position to deliver exactly such an app -- they have Word already recognized as the absolute standard, they have their own desktop publisher, image manipulation tools, web design tools, and web browser. If they were willing to let go of the bloatware and open up and standardize their formats, this project would be a no-brainer. Since they won't do it, somebody else should. Apple is too committed to Word to do this (I don't think AppleWorks is taken seriously by anyone, though I could be wrong), so there really is the possibility projects like openoffice or koffice being able to deliver something like this.
Also this is not about their past criminal record on unrelated crimes; they were abusing their monopoly power in both the OS market and the Office market at the same time, and their monopoly in one area aided and abetted their monopoly in the other. These are separate crimes only by legal fiction.
I use CUPS too but it's not always neat; I haven't been able to fix the spilling bug that always occurs if I am using CUPS to transfer red wine or coffee while wearing white.
OK, OK, I'll stop....
CUPS have always had known vulnerabilities; they need them to operate effectively. What do you expect when you have a giant hole on one end of the things? But if you plug up the hole, you can't drink out of them. Thus, CUPS will always be vulnerable.
Yeah. It's proper adjectives we crave.
Come on. The real reason they should not be able to Photoshop pictures of fingerprints is that they should have to use the gimp instead.
Kruschev was a fucking atheist. He did not "shake the dust off his feet" to condemn the UN in the name of the Lord; he banged it against the podium in an intimidating propaganda gesture. This has nothing to do with anything in the Bible; none of the verses cited say anything about taking your shoes off and banging them on a table.
I realize it's a joke, but it seems to me that mucking with an open standard and then closing it in order to extend their monopoly might just be a reasonable cause of action. XML is not a "trade secret," and making their version incompatible with the rest of the world's in order to force the world to adopt MS products is not "innovation." Reminds me of what they did with Kerberos a couple years ago. This may or may not be worth a lawsuit, but it would certainly be anticompetitive of them.
I'm not kidding, either. Seems like an easy thing to avoid in an HTML generator. Validator routinely reports hundreds of coding errors in simple short documents generated by Word. Ugh. What really sucks is when you're working on a web page for someone and cleaning out all the crap that Word generates, then at the last minute they send you the same document with some minor errors corrected.... and all the same major errors generated by Word. Fun.
Heh, I don't think that's what the poster had in mind when he said he wanted to make Quicktime take up the full screen.
So now google's AI code is more reliable than a live editor. Remind me why I'm supposed to have faith in human intelligence again?
Gimme your watch, punk!
Dude, I am so there.
Step 5 is missing. There's no step 5. There's no Step 5!!!!
According to the trailer, the new Terminator is called the "T-X." Maybe she's running OS X?
I don't necessarily agree with the author but he's making a valid point, even if his name is stinky wizzletits.
4 simultaneously hijacked planes sounds to me like a pretty compelling reason to improvise.
I just compiled this too and got the same result. Everything else checks out OK. Perhaps this has something to do with the way OS X writes to /etc/passwd. I don't really understand the output from running chkrootkit -x passwd, but it does seem consistent with the view that it has to do with something specific OS X is doing. It might be worth emailing the fink people about putting chkrootkit into fink and writing a version that doesn't have this error. Assuming it is an error; the alternative is, both of us have been rooted!
No; illegal aliens from Canada, including "snowbirds." But believe it or not, all Canadians illegally in America are not just here to turn red on the beach and fail miserably at picking up girls in Miami.... there actually are many Canadians who come here illegally to work. They're not picking fruit though, and their skin is considered white, so they're not recognized as a migrant labor force by (US) Americans. There are also large numbers of illegal immigrants from Italy and England in the US. Again, they slip under the radar for reasons that boil down to race and class - they're white, and they aren't picking fruit.
And they will. But not in the way you're talking about. Their stated aim, and the aim of many radical Mexicanos who preach "Aztlan" is to populate the land, become citizens, participate in the economic affairs of the communities they inhabit, and vote for leaders who represent the interests of those communities. Some of these people couch these goals in terms that are intentionally meant to inflame the xenophobes, but the fact is that most of these people are quite simply preaching Democracy & Capitalism 101. Some people, like our friend Ben Stein, are terrified that democratic social change means the destruction of America, but I believe that true patriots understand that it is the very definition of America. Instead of running in fear from overzealous lefty Xicanos waving Mexican flags and shouting about Aztlan, why not point out to them that the true power of this nation is the very fact that it can change to facilitate the interests of those who inhabit it?