God, that would be unbelievable if it weren't so true. It seems the election has, for the most part, come down to Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dumber (just don't ask which is which).
Make their middle name the DeCSS source code. That way, it gets into the official records, plus they don't get picked on like they would be if you were to use DeCSS as their first name.
This sounds like it's written for a different market than the typical/. reader. It's probably written for an IS guy, who has mostly been dealing with Win NT's quirks, who now has to manage a few Linux boxen as well. As for the complaints of the scant X coverage, it's probably because including it would make the book closer to the thousand page flyswatter variety. Think about it, you've got to deal with motif, kde, gnome, etc, plus all the other libraries.
Although, reviewing a pre-press copy of a book does seem like an interesting idea. Put it out in the community, and find out what they think is good, bad and ugly, then publish it for the average admin. There are people who read this site who have incredible knowledge in most tech fields, and I'm sure they could give pointers on how to cover an idea.
We seriously need to email this article to the "geniuses" who run the studios in the MPAA. They don't seem to realize that they're shooting themselves in the foot here, and that many techno-freaks, including yours truly, won't even consider buying a DVD player until they grow a few brain cells. Of course, they seem to want the whole pie, even though the pie is a lot smaller than it should be if they let the people choose exactly how they want to use their stuff.
Of course, this is the US of fucking A, so being a CEO makes you automatically gifted with perfect sight.
Well, I've got one of the d*mn 16 bit displays (hey I'm colorblind, I want res more than color), and I've come to the conclusion that it's a serious bug, or at least misfeature, to have the color rendering/dithering systems be totally seperate entities for the different sections of code.
Probably not. You read the announcement on trolltech's page (sorry, too lazy to look it up), you find that there are now a few different licenses for the Qt library. There's the GPL, there's the QPL, and their traditional commercial license.
Unfortunately, it's from mid last year, and a lot has changed in both Win2k and Linux. Win2k has been shown to be relatively stable, Linux, at least with the KDE2 betas is a helluva lot easier to use, with much more application support (there's some pretty decent multimedia editing support now). I'd love to see a followup to this article, with sledgehammering of both systems, because it's gonna get fun real fast.
So, by your logic, Ping of Death, teardrop, etc attacks should be called triggered runtime error attacks as well. It's a DoS attack if it intentionally causes a disruption of normal services, regardless of if it's your mail server or your cell phone.
Unfortunately, when you're dealing with Big Media, you are at an incredible disadvantage, as they hold almost all of the cards in the deck when it comes to dissemination of information to the populace. Sure you can get the message out to a few friends, family members, etc, but not that much farther. Face it, none of us are going to be able to get onto the evening news and share our side of the story fairly; they won't let us, instead, our POV is relegated to a line or two on the daily fishwrap if we're lucky.
If you remember the news stories from the last time congress pandered to the corps and extended copyright laws another 20 years, I think you will catch my drift.
Interesting point. They're not obscene, etc, and it seems that the libel laws would apply to this. It also seems that one could sue Surfwatch, Cyber Patrol, etc, under consumer protection laws, as they're selling a product that doesn't do the thing it's intended to do, keep the whelplings from the bad stuff, and let them see the good stuff.
Unfortunately, it will only work for a little while, because the proxy makers will quickly discover a site that does such a thing (Concerned Parents, etc), and make censorware software give your site the same settings as Peacefire, ie, pegged at the highest settings for all categories. The censorware people seem to hate places like Peacefire, which tell how laughable censorware is, even worse than the "evil" pr0n and NOW.
Didn't the old RLL hard drives do hardware based compression? Because I remember that you could take an MFM drive, stick it on an RLL controller, low level it, and have about 1.5x the storage space as when it was on an MFM card.
Do a search here on/. There was an article a few months back on a guy who made a suitcase into a PC case that he could take to LAN parties and the like. You can find it at
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/29/016213.shtml
It was a joke, just thrown in there to be silly. Would I honestly expect a seti@home client to be put into a wristwatch, maybe by some mad fiend somewhere, but not by anyone expecting some serious work.
Though I agree with you about getting a real watch to show status (I have little status, I have a stainless steel analog watch), this could be useful for limited applications. Remember those little calculator/address book/watches of a few years back? This is just an extention of that. And I think that it would be very useful to have some real OS code on a watch/pda, such as an MP3 player so I can chuck my walkman, or being able to see if I got that email I was waiting for.
Plus, I think it would be cool for use with Seti@Home
That's an urban legend. The nova was sold in Hispanic countries and sold decently.
Snopes has the complete scoop on it. ULs like this shouldn't keep spreading.
They don't. It's simple to just look at the header to get the to/from info, and from my knowledge of the latest versions of sendmail, you can siphon off those messages destined to the party being monitored. Of course, they probably want to check addresses that are close, in case there are any typos, etc.
I assume that if you wanted a fast, painless, and intelligent filter, I'd assume that someone with some sendmail and perl skills could hack together a filter quickly. From what has come out about it, it simply copies the emails of a certain party or group, and then applies various filters to look for key phrases, words, etc. It honestly doesn't look like it's that complicated of a program, just a fast box that's probably been seriously hardened (heavy encryption, logging on everything, etc) and some generic filters applied to it.
'Fraid not. This seems to be reported all over the media. Though the denials I've seen regarding the postal service and email are that they won't charge for email.
Dammit, you found my secret plan to overthrow western civilization. First, I start the GNude Programmers League (GPL for short), and eliminate the tech shirt giveaways through my sister group Ban Shirt Distributions (BSD for short). The resulting slump in the clothing industry, which is heavily subsidized by these companies and their computer shirt giveaways will cause a worldwide depression as insecure people are frightened to leave their homes without any vesturements. Within two years, we'll all be naked and happy again.
Check out Logitech's optical trackballs, they're quite accurate, and they don't get dirty. I've used one myself for about a month and a half, and it seems to be kicking the ass of my old analog trackball.
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God, that would be unbelievable if it weren't so true. It seems the election has, for the most part, come down to Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dumber (just don't ask which is which).
Make their middle name the DeCSS source code. That way, it gets into the official records, plus they don't get picked on like they would be if you were to use DeCSS as their first name.
Although, reviewing a pre-press copy of a book does seem like an interesting idea. Put it out in the community, and find out what they think is good, bad and ugly, then publish it for the average admin. There are people who read this site who have incredible knowledge in most tech fields, and I'm sure they could give pointers on how to cover an idea.
Of course, this is the US of fucking A, so being a CEO makes you automatically gifted with perfect sight.
Well, I've got one of the d*mn 16 bit displays (hey I'm colorblind, I want res more than color), and I've come to the conclusion that it's a serious bug, or at least misfeature, to have the color rendering/dithering systems be totally seperate entities for the different sections of code.
Probably not. You read the announcement on trolltech's page (sorry, too lazy to look it up), you find that there are now a few different licenses for the Qt library. There's the GPL, there's the QPL, and their traditional commercial license.
Unfortunately, it's from mid last year, and a lot has changed in both Win2k and Linux. Win2k has been shown to be relatively stable, Linux, at least with the KDE2 betas is a helluva lot easier to use, with much more application support (there's some pretty decent multimedia editing support now). I'd love to see a followup to this article, with sledgehammering of both systems, because it's gonna get fun real fast.
So, by your logic, Ping of Death, teardrop, etc attacks should be called triggered runtime error attacks as well. It's a DoS attack if it intentionally causes a disruption of normal services, regardless of if it's your mail server or your cell phone.
I always thought that the most efficient way to destroy your PC (and your sanity) began with:
- Go To Your Local Best Buy
- Purchase Windows 98
- Let the Fun Begin
This method seems to bring an unwitting system to its knees much faster than static electricity or the compressed air.If you remember the news stories from the last time congress pandered to the corps and extended copyright laws another 20 years, I think you will catch my drift.
Interesting point. They're not obscene, etc, and it seems that the libel laws would apply to this. It also seems that one could sue Surfwatch, Cyber Patrol, etc, under consumer protection laws, as they're selling a product that doesn't do the thing it's intended to do, keep the whelplings from the bad stuff, and let them see the good stuff.
Unfortunately, it will only work for a little while, because the proxy makers will quickly discover a site that does such a thing (Concerned Parents, etc), and make censorware software give your site the same settings as Peacefire, ie, pegged at the highest settings for all categories. The censorware people seem to hate places like Peacefire, which tell how laughable censorware is, even worse than the "evil" pr0n and NOW.
Didn't the old RLL hard drives do hardware based compression? Because I remember that you could take an MFM drive, stick it on an RLL controller, low level it, and have about 1.5x the storage space as when it was on an MFM card.
Do a search here on /. There was an article a few months back on a guy who made a suitcase into a PC case that he could take to LAN parties and the like. You can find it at
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/29/016213.shtml
Now, a DES cracking client...
Plus, I think it would be cool for use with Seti@Home
That's an urban legend. The nova was sold in Hispanic countries and sold decently. Snopes has the complete scoop on it. ULs like this shouldn't keep spreading.
They don't. It's simple to just look at the header to get the to/from info, and from my knowledge of the latest versions of sendmail, you can siphon off those messages destined to the party being monitored. Of course, they probably want to check addresses that are close, in case there are any typos, etc.
I assume that if you wanted a fast, painless, and intelligent filter, I'd assume that someone with some sendmail and perl skills could hack together a filter quickly. From what has come out about it, it simply copies the emails of a certain party or group, and then applies various filters to look for key phrases, words, etc. It honestly doesn't look like it's that complicated of a program, just a fast box that's probably been seriously hardened (heavy encryption, logging on everything, etc) and some generic filters applied to it.
People have discovered the Net culture. They don't like what they see. There is much bitching and moaning. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Same message shows up on my info screen. Guess they're saying that us moderating would be pointless.
'Fraid not. This seems to be reported all over the media. Though the denials I've seen regarding the postal service and email are that they won't charge for email.
Dammit, you found my secret plan to overthrow western civilization. First, I start the GNude Programmers League (GPL for short), and eliminate the tech shirt giveaways through my sister group Ban Shirt Distributions (BSD for short). The resulting slump in the clothing industry, which is heavily subsidized by these companies and their computer shirt giveaways will cause a worldwide depression as insecure people are frightened to leave their homes without any vesturements. Within two years, we'll all be naked and happy again.
Check out Logitech's optical trackballs, they're quite accurate, and they don't get dirty. I've used one myself for about a month and a half, and it seems to be kicking the ass of my old analog trackball.