I use mozilla, and quite nice it is.:) BUT putting a reference for each and every adserver in 'hosts' is a pain in the arse, and causes Mozilla's own popup saying it's unable to connect to the server, which is almost as annoying! I use one of the many huge 'hosts' files out there [watch out for malicious ones] and I had to manually remove cgi.netscape.com [or something like that] to be able to download the Mozilla quicktime plugin.
I suppose I could also run a dumb webserver in the background, restricted to access from localhost, but why should I have to?
When I said backbone, I meant the national connection points, like Linx for example.
Oh and in case anyone non-techie was was wondering about the CP spam point, it's because the HTML email will use images stored on the CP [i.e. blocked] server, thus registering a connection attempt to that server.
One last thought about France, Germany and whoever else, having anti-nazi laws... In those countries, especially Germany, there is [I have heard] a sense of "national shame", for want of a better description, about the actions of the Nazis. I would have thought that this in itself would pretty much make anyone speaking out as or in support of Nazis social outcasts. A sort of social censorship, if you like. This is pretty much the case in America, where anyone who voices an opinion that goes against the general perception [read: What The News Corps And Government Say], even backed up by testimonies and evidence, such as John Pilger's documentry "Palestine Is Still The Issue", basically causes uproar among the GWB faithful plebs who believe what they see on the news. As one Canadian/.er roughly put it [I forget who, sorry] "I live near the border and get some of your TV channels. Is your TV state sponsored or something?" and that prretty much tells you what's going on. And his/her comment is hardly suprising.
As my.sig once said: "American freedom of speech: You can say what you want, just watch what you say."
Now, if the aim of this bill was REALLY to stop CP rather than full-scale user spying, then wouldn't it make more sense to block sites at the internet backbone level rather than at the ISP?
What if a user visits a dodgy site that fires off 101 popunder CP ads? Or is unfortunate enough to get his email on a CP spammer's address list?
Yup, while these pricks might not have any real influence in Canadian politics, you have to admire their balls for bringing up such a blatant "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!" style policy in an intelligent and free country such as Canada. It's more of an American Style(tm) idea.
Also, rather conveniently, it means that no ISP could possibly make a stand against this sort of BS, since they'll lose their lisence. I might to move to Canada one day, but not if it just turns in to an American Style(tm) dictatorship.
... did anyone else read "At the height of the dot-com bubble, twenty-somethings with goatees" as "At the height of the dot-com bubble, twenty-somethings with goatses"? No? OK, I need to cut out some slashdot from my diet.
Free books are a good idea, but will face the same struggle as OSS, primarily because of the monopolies already existing. MS we all know about, but how many of you good people here tonight know the extent of the Bertelsmann firm's media dominance? It's the only Big Six corp not to have a key US TV outlet, and that (AFAIK) is because the US has laws to make sure all US TV is by American corporations, and Bertelsmann is German.
To cut a long story short, the Big Corps will do anything and everything to wipe out "free books", or at the very least, prevent their gaining a significant market share. In terms of styles of books, the mass markets will be catered for, so free books will fill the unprofitable/undesirable topics that publishers will not touch. They will also be quite a few people releasing books for free as a statement, like the morons who struggle to use Linux just because its "cool", aparrently. Finally, the genuineley intelligent books whose authors really are in it for the spirit of it, the virtually unread minority, drowned under the crapflooders whose crap has no profit for the big publishing houses and no worth to the independent publishers.
In short, this could, and hopefully will, be a force for good in the literature arena. Until the lawyers move in...
Mr D draws out a fat wad from the ATM to buy a mobile. Mr D buys anonymous mobile. Mr D puts in a call to his dealer for an eighth. All in all, about 10 minutes.
Mr D is photographed by the ATM, so "they" already have a face for the name. Mr D is seen on the shop's CCTV. Mr D makes a phone call, and is recorded on the town's CCTV, which is cross-referenced with the phone signal data: Newly activated phone, in the vicinity of camera X, bla blah...
You can work out the rest. It won't be long before a few high profile prosecutions of society's Monsters Of The Month are put down to the essential evedence gathered by the phone tracking, and the public will just accept it. Just look how they are 0wn1ng kids nowadays, taking their privacy before they learn it's principle, value and meaning. [yes, its a toker's site but the story is about tobacco]
Things are getting out of hand! That phrase is often an exaggeration, but look around you, not anymore. If you can't do anything about something, it's out of hand.
Employers could finally get some real figures as to how the "restrooms" are used... A nice Web Based interface with, amongst other widjets, a long list of checkboxes for different activities...
Urination
Defecation
Phone call
SMS messaging
Diarrhea
Penile masturbation
Vaginal masturbation
Anal masturbation
Homosexual (male) intercourse
Homosexual (female) intercourse
Heterosexual intercourse
Any of the above three for a promotion and/or pay rise.
Sleeping
Alcohol abuse
Smoking tobacco
Smoking weed
Smoking crack cocaine
Moderating slashdot.org
Other drug abuse
Dealing drugs
Child abuse
Applying makeup
Vandalism
Advertising sexual services
Unsceduled board meeting
Reading newspaper(s)
Reading magazines(s)
Spying on other toilet users
Videotaping other toilet users
Dissing coworkers to management
Dissing management to coworkers
Checking out guys' equipment
Trying to piss but failing because the guy next to you is three times your size
Other (please specify) [_______________]
Of course, how many people wold actually admit to some of the things on that list is another matter.:)
Their network, they rule. You were responsible and took it off when asked, so you don't deserve any punishment. And if this project is part of your studies, then obviously they have to expect that if you make something that is network oriented, you're gonna use the college LAN to test it. That's what a college is there for. So as things stand, IMHO, things are all square. So I wouldn't sign the AUP thingy either.
This is a lot like the store I work at saying "Arriving for work under the influence of illegal drugs or alcohol shall constitute gross misconduct" then making me work New Year's Day.
Yeah, I'm aware that humans can easily handle erratic day/night cycles, since we are the only animals to have invented timekeeping devices, but that would have slightly weakened my original post:)
Where would you prefer to live, on Mars on on Endor
Do I get to rule and enslave the Ewoks and send them back to Earth as my merciless army of darkness?
If you want to detect magnetic fields [for whatever reason, usually to diagnose monitor image shakes/discolouration/distortion then a compass comes in handy for static fields.
Think you got a rogue AC magnetic field? Hook a microphone [or similar electromagnet type device, such as a casette tape head] up to a sensitive amp. The phono [turntable] inputs on a normal audio amp work fine, and I'd imagine a guitar amp would be just as good, if not better. Oh and make sure you use headphones, not the speakers!
I've done this a few times, to check that my systems aren't getting too much of a headache from my speakers in my tiny little room. You can see the mic in the towers pic, behind the bog roll. The speaker is at a sorta right angle to my computers, to the right of them, about 9 inches away.
Another essential [for me, when finances permit] is a pre-rolled joint. When it all goes to shit, don't lose your cool... just say "FUCK IT!!", leave it til the next morning/week/month/refuse collection day, and go chill with a beer and a blunt.
Ali
[yes I know the site is shite, it's an old one they have never got round to deleting even though I left their service, cos it's overpriced and crap]
If humans were to find an inhabitable moon there, and set up camp, things could be a whole lot more confusing than on Earth, with or without global warming. It was sunny and fairly temperate today. It's fscking October!!!
Ah, anyway, the point of my post: Being on a moon around a planet that is orbiting a double star would likely make things a lot more complicated than day-night-day-night and spring-summer-autumn-winter! Not to mention the possible extremes caused by eclipses, orbit, gravity, tides, etc.
I can't wait til MS send the rep out there to put India back on track to freedom and democracy The American Way (TM & Copyright), as opposed to suffering under the evil leftie Open Source Software regime.
Considering that, in my experience, few Americans know what a curry is, this could be highly amusing if the rep were to be treated to one of the more "warming" dishes such as a tasty Madras or Vindaloo;-)
Oh the look on his face while eating the gut-meltingly spicey dish, and having to finish it for the sake of politeness, with a smile, and converse at the same time.
Oh, and it usually burns just the same on the way out! The intestinal irritation caused in unaccustomed/non native diners can also hinder the absorbtion of adequate moisture from the meal, leading to... Ahh, you get the idea.:) You can see why Curry is the most popular dish in Britain!
Ali
P.S. I make no guarantees as to the accuracy of any of the biological info in this post, so it may be bollocks.
Depends how pretty it is, but some jewellery could be a neat idea, cos you just know theres plenty of people who will want it cos its pretty and from outer space, man.
That said, plenty of people will want it pureley because it's from outer space, no matter how CowboyNeal-ugly it looks.
Ebay it at some stupid price first though, just in case theres anyone out there with a money/sense ratio even worse than Prince Jefri of Brunei.
My ISP is so fucking poor [approx £30 million in the red, IIRC. Well, it started with a 3 and was a fucking lot!] that it needs my custom, so i can do whatever the fuck I like.
The downside of their poverty? A fucking AOL style HTTP Proxy, that aint much cop.v But I can live with it.
It's like musical Nineteen Eighty-Four. A great machine/organisation generates the music + artists, and shit that they don't want to exist does not exist. 2 + 2 = 5 and all that.
I once manually searched through the entire audiogalaxy database of Cypress Hill tracks, 3000+! Loadsa rare shit:) already got most of the CDs.
Slashdot Mirror
And a lack of transpanrency? Nonsense, one guy is so open and honest I even managed to find his price list on the net!
Ali
Just develop for WINE. If it doesn't work on Win32, it's Micro$oft's fault for not being standards compliant!
Ali
I use mozilla, and quite nice it is.
I suppose I could also run a dumb webserver in the background, restricted to access from localhost, but why should I have to?
Ali
Martin, that's exactly what I think.
When I said backbone, I meant the national connection points, like Linx for example.
Oh and in case anyone non-techie was was wondering about the CP spam point, it's because the HTML email will use images stored on the CP [i.e. blocked] server, thus registering a connection attempt to that server.
One last thought about France, Germany and whoever else, having anti-nazi laws... In those countries, especially Germany, there is [I have heard] a sense of "national shame", for want of a better description, about the actions of the Nazis. I would have thought that this in itself would pretty much make anyone speaking out as or in support of Nazis social outcasts. A sort of social censorship, if you like. This is pretty much the case in America, where anyone who voices an opinion that goes against the general perception [read: What The News Corps And Government Say], even backed up by testimonies and evidence, such as John Pilger's documentry "Palestine Is Still The Issue", basically causes uproar among the GWB faithful plebs who believe what they see on the news. As one Canadian /.er roughly put it [I forget who, sorry] "I live near the border and get some of your TV channels. Is your TV state sponsored or something?" and that prretty much tells you what's going on. And his/her comment is hardly suprising.
As my .sig once said: "American freedom of speech: You can say what you want, just watch what you say."
Ali
The First Annual Sean O'Keefe Award for Outstanding Achievement In The Field Of Excellence(tm).
You gotta admit, it would probably work...
Ali
Now, if the aim of this bill was REALLY to stop CP rather than full-scale user spying, then wouldn't it make more sense to block sites at the internet backbone level rather than at the ISP?
What if a user visits a dodgy site that fires off 101 popunder CP ads? Or is unfortunate enough to get his email on a CP spammer's address list?
Yup, while these pricks might not have any real influence in Canadian politics, you have to admire their balls for bringing up such a blatant "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!" style policy in an intelligent and free country such as Canada. It's more of an American Style(tm) idea.
Also, rather conveniently, it means that no ISP could possibly make a stand against this sort of BS, since they'll lose their lisence. I might to move to Canada one day, but not if it just turns in to an American Style(tm) dictatorship.
Ali
Great, when Taco gets a real lawyer [instead of just rolling over and taking it hard and violent from the scientologists without even trying to practice the principles his site preaches] rather than one that just tells him what fights to pick, then he can sue all the trolls and crapflooders for the $$$, thus being able to abollish subscriptions and adverts, plus we'll all have a better board to post on :)
Ali
Take a look at the world, and our countless radio-based broadcasts since the invention of tuned transmition. Would you drop in to say hi?
Didn't think so. ;)
Ali
They can give it but they can't take it! ;-)
Ali
(well, I have a little spare karma to smoke :-)
... did anyone else read "At the height of the dot-com bubble, twenty-somethings with goatees" as "At the height of the dot-com bubble, twenty-somethings with goatses"? No? OK, I need to cut out some slashdot from my diet.
Ali
Free books are a good idea, but will face the same struggle as OSS, primarily because of the monopolies already existing. MS we all know about, but how many of you good people here tonight know the extent of the Bertelsmann firm's media dominance? It's the only Big Six corp not to have a key US TV outlet, and that (AFAIK) is because the US has laws to make sure all US TV is by American corporations, and Bertelsmann is German.
To cut a long story short, the Big Corps will do anything and everything to wipe out "free books", or at the very least, prevent their gaining a significant market share. In terms of styles of books, the mass markets will be catered for, so free books will fill the unprofitable/undesirable topics that publishers will not touch. They will also be quite a few people releasing books for free as a statement, like the morons who struggle to use Linux just because its "cool", aparrently. Finally, the genuineley intelligent books whose authors really are in it for the spirit of it, the virtually unread minority, drowned under the crapflooders whose crap has no profit for the big publishing houses and no worth to the independent publishers.
In short, this could, and hopefully will, be a force for good in the literature arena. Until the lawyers move in...
Ali
The electricity generated would probably be of too high a voltage and too little current, similar to static electricity.
Well that's what I think anyway. :P
Ali
Please report to your local police station for incarceration.
Mr D draws out a fat wad from the ATM to buy a mobile. Mr D buys anonymous mobile. Mr D puts in a call to his dealer for an eighth. All in all, about 10 minutes.
Mr D is photographed by the ATM, so "they" already have a face for the name. Mr D is seen on the shop's CCTV. Mr D makes a phone call, and is recorded on the town's CCTV, which is cross-referenced with the phone signal data: Newly activated phone, in the vicinity of camera X, bla blah...
You can work out the rest. It won't be long before a few high profile prosecutions of society's Monsters Of The Month are put down to the essential evedence gathered by the phone tracking, and the public will just accept it. Just look how they are 0wn1ng kids nowadays, taking their privacy before they learn it's principle, value and meaning. [yes, its a toker's site but the story is about tobacco]
Things are getting out of hand! That phrase is often an exaggeration, but look around you, not anymore. If you can't do anything about something, it's out of hand.
Ali
Employers could finally get some real figures as to how the "restrooms" are used... A nice Web Based interface with, amongst other widjets, a long list of checkboxes for different activities...
Of course, how many people wold actually admit to some of the things on that list is another matter. :)
Ali
Their network, they rule. You were responsible and took it off when asked, so you don't deserve any punishment. And if this project is part of your studies, then obviously they have to expect that if you make something that is network oriented, you're gonna use the college LAN to test it. That's what a college is there for. So as things stand, IMHO, things are all square. So I wouldn't sign the AUP thingy either.
This is a lot like the store I work at saying "Arriving for work under the influence of illegal drugs or alcohol shall constitute gross misconduct" then making me work New Year's Day.
Ali.
Yeah, I'm aware that humans can easily handle erratic day/night cycles, since we are the only animals to have invented timekeeping devices, but that would have slightly weakened my original post
Do I get to rule and enslave the Ewoks and send them back to Earth as my merciless army of darkness?
Ali
If you want to detect magnetic fields [for whatever reason, usually to diagnose monitor image shakes/discolouration/distortion then a compass comes in handy for static fields.
Think you got a rogue AC magnetic field? Hook a microphone [or similar electromagnet type device, such as a casette tape head] up to a sensitive amp. The phono [turntable] inputs on a normal audio amp work fine, and I'd imagine a guitar amp would be just as good, if not better. Oh and make sure you use headphones, not the speakers!
I've done this a few times, to check that my systems aren't getting too much of a headache from my speakers in my tiny little room. You can see the mic in the towers pic, behind the bog roll. The speaker is at a sorta right angle to my computers, to the right of them, about 9 inches away.
Another essential [for me, when finances permit] is a pre-rolled joint. When it all goes to shit, don't lose your cool... just say "FUCK IT!!", leave it til the next morning/week/month/refuse collection day, and go chill with a beer and a blunt.
Ali
[yes I know the site is shite, it's an old one they have never got round to deleting even though I left their service, cos it's overpriced and crap]
If humans were to find an inhabitable moon there, and set up camp, things could be a whole lot more confusing than on Earth, with or without global warming. It was sunny and fairly temperate today. It's fscking October!!!
Ah, anyway, the point of my post: Being on a moon around a planet that is orbiting a double star would likely make things a lot more complicated than day-night-day-night and spring-summer-autumn-winter! Not to mention the possible extremes caused by eclipses, orbit, gravity, tides, etc.
Just a thought.
Ali
I can't wait til MS send the rep out there to put India back on track to freedom and democracy The American Way (TM & Copyright), as opposed to suffering under the evil leftie Open Source Software regime.
Considering that, in my experience, few Americans know what a curry is, this could be highly amusing if the rep were to be treated to one of the more "warming" dishes such as a tasty Madras or Vindaloo ;-)
Oh the look on his face while eating the gut-meltingly spicey dish, and having to finish it for the sake of politeness, with a smile, and converse at the same time.
Oh, and it usually burns just the same on the way out! The intestinal irritation caused in unaccustomed/non native diners can also hinder the absorbtion of adequate moisture from the meal, leading to... Ahh, you get the idea. :) You can see why Curry is the most popular dish in Britain!
Ali
P.S. I make no guarantees as to the accuracy of any of the biological info in this post, so it may be bollocks.
Great, now we can fuck the latest $BIG_EVIL_CORP and our partners simultaneously!
Probly the closest most geeks are gonna come to a 3some...
Ali
Depends how pretty it is, but some jewellery could be a neat idea, cos you just know theres plenty of people who will want it cos its pretty and from outer space, man.
That said, plenty of people will want it pureley because it's from outer space, no matter how CowboyNeal-ugly it looks.
Ebay it at some stupid price first though, just in case theres anyone out there with a money/sense ratio even worse than Prince Jefri of Brunei.
Ali
Some harsh Non-Disclosure Agreements must have been needed to keep that lot under wraps.
Something like "Whatever they ask, just say 'I honestly cannot remember.'"
Ali
My ISP is so fucking poor [approx £30 million in the red, IIRC. Well, it started with a 3 and was a fucking lot!] that it needs my custom, so i can do whatever the fuck I like.
The downside of their poverty? A fucking AOL style HTTP Proxy, that aint much cop.v But I can live with it.
Yeah, poor ISP's have their advantages. ;-)
Ali
It's like musical Nineteen Eighty-Four. A great machine/organisation generates the music + artists, and shit that they don't want to exist does not exist. 2 + 2 = 5 and all that.
I once manually searched through the entire audiogalaxy database of Cypress Hill tracks, 3000+! Loadsa rare shit :) already got most of the CDs.
Ali