It's *very* difficult to police content on a public BT site... it's similar to that of a public notice board at the library.
Yes, the "librarians" can come by a few times per day and remove anything offensive/illegal/etc.. but it simply cannot be done continuously.
Thus, a few illegal items will inevitably appear. They should simply be removed upon request (as many trackers do), but the site itself remains open to spread the stuff that's legal to spread.
It seems this site (or more accurately, their hosting provider) has simply folded under a little bit of pressure to remove a few copyrighted works.
I hope they do the smart thing.. Remove the offending content, move to a service provider with some balls, and continue operations.
That may work on one side, and maybe it is a full implementation, but H.323 opens up random ports greater than 20,000, and then communicates this over the control channel.
So what's the problem? If it opens a random port and then uses it, it must inform the other party of which port it's chosen.. since the firewall is monitoring this traffic..
A firewall would have to continually monitor control to keep opening/closing ports as needed.
Ding ding ding, we have a winner. Yes, this is actually what happens. It's not such as bad thing at all. You just check if this packet has the portion you're interested in (a message indicating the opening or closing of a port), and act on it.
FTP opens random ports too (for data transfer), and so does IRC's DCC.. it doesn't prevent either of these protocols from being easily tunnelable with a reasonably smart firewall.
Holy shit.. all this time I was going to the wrong university. I'm not getting anywhere near the level of the above two things as you'd expect from a university education. Where do I enroll in your wonderful establishment?
Many less mainstream typefaces aren't designed to be displayed that small, resulting in a font list full of useless gobbledygook.
CorelDraw gets this right. When you pull down the font list, it shows the regular combobox with the 4 MRU fonts up top, but it also pops up a panel to the right of it, which gives a preview (AaBbCc, not it's name) of the font you currently have selected, in 72 point.
Although I agree with your point that with smoothing/antialiasing it can look a little different combined with other elements of your image, it's better then having to create some text first before you can set the font.
Any ideas on that RTL bug that makes Delphi7 compiled apps sometimes crash on XP SP2 machines, and almost always on Intel Hyperthreaded machines? My users would thank you..
We are not questioning their results, our problem is with their methodology.
Their primary metric is "days since a vulnerability is disclosed to when a patch is released".
Microsoft doesn't officially disclose anything (aka "responsible disclosure") until all of their major customers have already been hit, and they have a fix ready.
Open-source software on the other hand has a tendency of being overly paranoid, and will release a security bulletin for every little thing as quickly as possible. This puts them at a natural disadvantage, using the above metric.
According to these "researchers", not letting your customers know that there's a vulnerability is preferred to letting them know as soon as possible. This sort of sounds like a good idea, until you factor in the fact that black hats will know pretty much immediately, word spreads quick.
I think one thing that would help this idea a lot would be if the CD booted into a VM. That way users would not have to do a hard restart.. just load the bootable CD into a VM and kill the VM when they're done...
I tried it. On my XP2000+ it took 15 minutes to boot, but was fairly decent at running applications (by fairly decent, I mean approxomately equal to remotely VNCing into a box on a cable modem).
That's actually an even better idea.. boot it under the VM, but don't actually launch X graphically. Just launch something I can VNC into from the host machine.. it should improve performance (as I'm thinking the slowness of VESA video emulation is one of the problems).
Let's face it, cell phones don't always have 911 access either, but NO one complains about that.
AFAIK, You can pick up any cellphone, anywhere (even with a locked keypad, and no paid-for service), and as long as it's powered and gets reception it can be used to call 911 free of charge.
Compatibility*: The Rocket DriveTM supports the following operating systems:
* Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP and NT 4.
* Red Hat Linux® 7.3
* Free BSD®
* Solaris® 8/UltraSPARC II
Under Development: MAC® OS X; HP-UX®; AIX®; MS-DOS®; and Microsoft Windows 98, Millennium Edition
And judging by some of their press releases from a few years ago, the company realizes that their potential clients for something like this run Linux and BSD servers.
Well, I'm in Hamilton near by, and go to McMaster University.
I see people with those little white headphones all the time both on the bus and on the sidewalks.. I also see lots of people with little flash-based pocket devices.
With that being said, lots of people (myself included for the time being) do still use (MP3) CD players because they're unbeatable for $/gb.
I have a "pretty much" static IP. It's changed only two or three times over the past 4 or 5 years.
NAT allows me to not have to pay an extra $15/mo to my cable company to get 3 additional systems online, and it allows me to run servers for different things on different machines (for example, Apache and Samba run on the gentoo box, but VNC ports forward to my desktop machine and another set of ports forwards to each desktop computer for bittorrent use) while keeping one easy-to-remember hostname.
The truth is, my 4 systems don't all need their own IPs. I simply don't allow my windows machines to be exposed to wild traffic floating around on the internet.. and with a Linux firewall/NAT box, I've never gotten a worm, despite always being way behind on patching, and can do a clean XP re-install for someone without worrying about infection within those vital first few minutes.
So I'd say NAT is a pretty good solution, and unlike IPv6, it's here now.
IIRC, The default installation for Windows95 (the original Win95) wouldn't install a TCP/IP stack. You had to go to network, click Add, Protocols, Microsoft, TCP/IP.
So while _possibly_ not installed by default (I'm fairly sure that subsequent releases of Win95 fixed this problem), a third party TCP/IP stack is certainly not required.
A Sierpinski Sieve not only looks cool, but there is a very simple algorithm you can use to generate it:
- Pick 3 corner points. They need not be arranged in a perfect triangle (if they aren't, you will get a warped version of the fractal.. useful for illustration!) - Start at any point inside the shape formed by the three corner points. - Pick one of the 3 corner points at random. Your new point is half-way between your old point, and your chosen corner point. Plot a dot there. - Repeat the above step indefinitely.
This is VERY simple code, it only uses very simple graphics intructions and changes to things like colors and corner points (moving them further apart, closer together, use equilateral or isoceles triangles...) give instant gratification..
As homework for the "Advanced" (curious) students, maybe let them try to make one (or more) of the three corner points interactive and move at runtime.
Warping copyright law to cover things like this won't solve a thing. Copyright law has been broken and abused enough already!
How can anyone possibly enforce something like this? How many John or Mike Smiths are out there? How will you find out exactly which company sold you out? It's not so hard with e-mail, just use disposable addresses, but are you really going to try to do the same with your mailing address?
Ultimately if you want to make sure your personal data is not stored anywhere, you will have to lie. If you cannot lie, for whatever reason, then you must do without that thing, or find another company that will provide the same good or service while respecting your privacy.
Cartesian is taught first because it's easy to add, subtract, dot and cross vectors in rectangular. When you're first being introduced to vectors, these are the only 4 operations you're going to be performing.
It's only later when you get into complex numbers that you can define "multiplication" and "division" of vectors in the same sense as you can do with normal numbers, and these operations are much simpler in polar.
Both coordinate systems are natural, it just depends on what you want to do with them.
Not to mention that polar (or it's 3d analogues, cylindrical and spherical) coordinate systems make solving E&M problems easier, even though they make the simple div and curl formulas into ugly beasts.
Because that.sys and.inf file that came with your network card won't work most of the time.
The correct method is to run 'lspci -n', get the pciid of your wifi card and look it up in the wiki. Often it's a driver for a completely different card by a completely different manufacturer (but with the same chipset) that will work.
Converting that wiki into something machine-parseable (and keeping it updated) is not a small task.
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It's *very* difficult to police content on a public BT site... it's similar to that of a public notice board at the library.
Yes, the "librarians" can come by a few times per day and remove anything offensive/illegal/etc.. but it simply cannot be done continuously.
Thus, a few illegal items will inevitably appear. They should simply be removed upon request (as many trackers do), but the site itself remains open to spread the stuff that's legal to spread.
It seems this site (or more accurately, their hosting provider) has simply folded under a little bit of pressure to remove a few copyrighted works.
I hope they do the smart thing.. Remove the offending content, move to a service provider with some balls, and continue operations.
They should make more of the settings in about:config accessible in an easier way.
Ask.. and ye shalt receive..
That may work on one side, and maybe it is a full implementation, but H.323 opens up random ports greater than 20,000, and then communicates this over the control channel.
So what's the problem? If it opens a random port and then uses it, it must inform the other party of which port it's chosen.. since the firewall is monitoring this traffic..
A firewall would have to continually monitor control to keep opening/closing ports as needed.
Ding ding ding, we have a winner. Yes, this is actually what happens. It's not such as bad thing at all. You just check if this packet has the portion you're interested in (a message indicating the opening or closing of a port), and act on it.
FTP opens random ports too (for data transfer), and so does IRC's DCC.. it doesn't prevent either of these protocols from being easily tunnelable with a reasonably smart firewall.
.. then don't visit Slashdot today! Close your web browser. Do something else.
Which articles are fake, and which are real? Easy: they're all fake.
(With the possible exception of the 2GB Gmail thing.. not infinity+1 though)
Not very creative, are you?
Get a bunch of people together in a circle (1 in the middle) and make a big, blurry fleck of a breast.
If you can get enough people together, go for two breasts.
If you still have people left over, form a giant penis below it.
"University of Casual Sex and Booze"
Holy shit.. all this time I was going to the wrong university. I'm not getting anywhere near the level of the above two things as you'd expect from a university education. Where do I enroll in your wonderful establishment?
Many less mainstream typefaces aren't designed to be displayed that small, resulting in a font list full of useless gobbledygook.
CorelDraw gets this right. When you pull down the font list, it shows the regular combobox with the 4 MRU fonts up top, but it also pops up a panel to the right of it, which gives a preview (AaBbCc, not it's name) of the font you currently have selected, in 72 point.
Although I agree with your point that with smoothing/antialiasing it can look a little different combined with other elements of your image, it's better then having to create some text first before you can set the font.
Any ideas on that RTL bug that makes Delphi7 compiled apps sometimes crash on XP SP2 machines, and almost always on Intel Hyperthreaded machines? My users would thank you..
We are not questioning their results, our problem is with their methodology.
Their primary metric is "days since a vulnerability is disclosed to when a patch is released".
Microsoft doesn't officially disclose anything (aka "responsible disclosure") until all of their major customers have already been hit, and they have a fix ready.
Open-source software on the other hand has a tendency of being overly paranoid, and will release a security bulletin for every little thing as quickly as possible. This puts them at a natural disadvantage, using the above metric.
According to these "researchers", not letting your customers know that there's a vulnerability is preferred to letting them know as soon as possible. This sort of sounds like a good idea, until you factor in the fact that black hats will know pretty much immediately, word spreads quick.
I think one thing that would help this idea a lot would be if the CD booted into a VM. That way users would not have to do a hard restart.. just load the bootable CD into a VM and kill the VM when they're done...
You mean, like this?
I tried it. On my XP2000+ it took 15 minutes to boot, but was fairly decent at running applications (by fairly decent, I mean approxomately equal to remotely VNCing into a box on a cable modem).
That's actually an even better idea.. boot it under the VM, but don't actually launch X graphically. Just launch something I can VNC into from the host machine.. it should improve performance (as I'm thinking the slowness of VESA video emulation is one of the problems).
I claim MOSFET and JFET!
Oh, and diodes too.
Let's face it, cell phones don't always have 911 access either, but NO one complains about that.
AFAIK, You can pick up any cellphone, anywhere (even with a locked keypad, and no paid-for service), and as long as it's powered and gets reception it can be used to call 911 free of charge.
Ah, perhaps you should google around a bit first:
From this review:
Compatibility*: The Rocket DriveTM supports the following operating systems:
* Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP and NT 4.
* Red Hat Linux® 7.3
* Free BSD®
* Solaris® 8/UltraSPARC II
Under Development: MAC® OS X; HP-UX®; AIX®; MS-DOS®; and Microsoft Windows 98, Millennium Edition
And judging by some of their press releases from a few years ago, the company realizes that their potential clients for something like this run Linux and BSD servers.
I believe you seek one of these Speed is limited mostly by the PCI bus..
I've done this, and I'm still seeing popups at the rate of a few per week :(
I'm probably going to try that Flashblock thing next.
Well, I'm in Hamilton near by, and go to McMaster University.
I see people with those little white headphones all the time both on the bus and on the sidewalks.. I also see lots of people with little flash-based pocket devices.
With that being said, lots of people (myself included for the time being) do still use (MP3) CD players because they're unbeatable for $/gb.
I have a "pretty much" static IP. It's changed only two or three times over the past 4 or 5 years.
.. and with a Linux firewall/NAT box, I've never gotten a worm, despite always being way behind on patching, and can do a clean XP re-install for someone without worrying about infection within those vital first few minutes.
NAT allows me to not have to pay an extra $15/mo to my cable company to get 3 additional systems online, and it allows me to run servers for different things on different machines (for example, Apache and Samba run on the gentoo box, but VNC ports forward to my desktop machine and another set of ports forwards to each desktop computer for bittorrent use) while keeping one easy-to-remember hostname.
The truth is, my 4 systems don't all need their own IPs. I simply don't allow my windows machines to be exposed to wild traffic floating around on the internet
So I'd say NAT is a pretty good solution, and unlike IPv6, it's here now.
It's 2005, every modern OS with a GUI needs at least 256 MB RAM to run well.
Couldn't agree more... but you also need another 128-256 MB for running any applications, in addition to the GUI.
You are sort-of correct.
IIRC, The default installation for Windows95 (the original Win95) wouldn't install a TCP/IP stack. You had to go to network, click Add, Protocols, Microsoft, TCP/IP.
So while _possibly_ not installed by default (I'm fairly sure that subsequent releases of Win95 fixed this problem), a third party TCP/IP stack is certainly not required.
Agreed on the fractals! Fractals are cool!
A Sierpinski Sieve not only looks cool, but there is a very simple algorithm you can use to generate it:
- Pick 3 corner points. They need not be arranged in a perfect triangle (if they aren't, you will get a warped version of the fractal.. useful for illustration!)
- Start at any point inside the shape formed by the three corner points.
- Pick one of the 3 corner points at random. Your new point is half-way between your old point, and your chosen corner point. Plot a dot there.
- Repeat the above step indefinitely.
This is VERY simple code, it only uses very simple graphics intructions and changes to things like colors and corner points (moving them further apart, closer together, use equilateral or isoceles triangles...) give instant gratification..
As homework for the "Advanced" (curious) students, maybe let them try to make one (or more) of the three corner points interactive and move at runtime.
Normal User:
10-15hrs (12.5 +/- 2.5 hrs)
MMPORG User:
10-15hrs (12.5 +/- 2.5hrs ) +
20-25hrs (22.5 +/- 2.5hrs)
= 35 +/- 5h
Extreme #1 - MMORPG Max, Normal user Min: (35 - 5)/(12.5 + 2.5) = 2x
Middle - Both average: 35/12.5 ~= 2.8x
Extreme #2 - MMORPG Min, Normal user Max: (35 + 5)/(12.5 - 2.5) = 4x
Warping copyright law to cover things like this won't solve a thing. Copyright law has been broken and abused enough already!
How can anyone possibly enforce something like this? How many John or Mike Smiths are out there? How will you find out exactly which company sold you out? It's not so hard with e-mail, just use disposable addresses, but are you really going to try to do the same with your mailing address?
Ultimately if you want to make sure your personal data is not stored anywhere, you will have to lie. If you cannot lie, for whatever reason, then you must do without that thing, or find another company that will provide the same good or service while respecting your privacy.
Cartesian is taught first because it's easy to add, subtract, dot and cross vectors in rectangular. When you're first being introduced to vectors, these are the only 4 operations you're going to be performing.
It's only later when you get into complex numbers that you can define "multiplication" and "division" of vectors in the same sense as you can do with normal numbers, and these operations are much simpler in polar.
Both coordinate systems are natural, it just depends on what you want to do with them.
Not to mention that polar (or it's 3d analogues, cylindrical and spherical) coordinate systems make solving E&M problems easier, even though they make the simple div and curl formulas into ugly beasts.
Because that .sys and .inf file that came with your network card won't work most of the time.
The correct method is to run 'lspci -n', get the pciid of your wifi card and look it up in the wiki. Often it's a driver for a completely different card by a completely different manufacturer (but with the same chipset) that will work.
Converting that wiki into something machine-parseable (and keeping it updated) is not a small task.
Standard Temperature and Pressure?
273.15 K (or 0 C) and 1 atmosphere (or 101.325 Pa, or 760 mmHg)