A NSA security guard, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed his surprise at the number of new Ferrari seen in the NSA high-security underground parking facility.
The Biological Weapons Alliance (BWA), an association comprised of leading weapon-producing nations, has received information that your country may have illegally-duplicated proprietary weapons products installed on your bases. Specifically, your country may not have the licenses required to support all copies of Anthrax, Pneumonic Plague, and Smallpox, which are currently installed on your bases...
XML makes Perl less important
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XML and Perl
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Perl's strength is text processing was its ability to work with (read and generate) poorly structured data. XML makes it easy to create well structured data thus writing document processing code in languages like C++ is easier. People who don't know Perl, or people who learned other XML toolkits first, have less reason to learn XML with Perl.
Instead of ripping on this guy for watching too much TV, maybe you should think about what else this could be used for. I myself looked into setting up something similar for my frat. Basically we wanted a web-driven on-demand video system. The outputs would be RF modulated and spit over unused channels on the pre-existing coax cable. Basically a pirate CC TV station with 24 hour Simpsons, Futurama, and Family Guy.
Unfortunatly it turned out to be cost prohibative at the time (2 years ago) and we just fell back to a bunch of samba shares and watching TV on computer:(
A few years ago I went home to visit my parents and I happened to glance at the old chest of drawers that was in my room when I was a little kid. Somehow this awoke the sensory memory of teething on it. I could, with absolute certainly, remember exactly what the drawer handles felt like in my mouth. I have a similar sensory memory of chewing on the coffee room table.
I'm not sure what age a child stops teething at, but I'd bet these memories are pretty young.
Minor mods to SMTP needed...
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ISP Chief on Spam
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As I understand it, many spammers make their killing by sending a single email to hundreds or thousands of recipients. They just need to find a single SMTP server they can use as a relay and the bandwidth burden of redistributing all those copies falls in someone else's lap.
What about the simple solution of disallowing multiple recipients in a single SMTP message? If someone legitimately needs to send to multiple email addresses, require a seperate SMTP connection and seperate copy sent for each.
I'm confident the increased overhead from people sending legitimate email to multiple recipients will be greatly outweighed by the overall reduction in email traffic from spammers.
Those of us who run mailing lists and the like could simply configure our SMTP servers to allow multiple recipients and then our server would be required to make seperate connections for each recipient.
I saw these at a grocery store called 'Schnooks' in Kansas City over 5 years ago. LCD touch screens on every shopping cart which tracked your location. They showed little animations of where to walk to find certain items and showed you the specials for the isle you were on. Don't remember it having local news though.
If I remember correctly, there were little tracking beacons suspended from the ceiling. It was pretty cool then but it apparently never cought on. Can't imagine it will now, although I'm sure the technology is a hell of a lot cheaper.
I wonder if any of the DNA/protein search algorithms (BLAST comes to mind) could be used to compare disassemblies.
Perhaps it would be worth collecting an archive of disassembled open source programs and then using it to compare against commercial products.
We'd need a wide spectrum of open source code compiled in different versions of GCC and other compilers, then disassembled and archived in a DB. We'd also need a modified search algorithm, and from what little I know about bioinformatics, BLAST does for nucleotides what we need for opcodes.
Anybody think this is feasable? Worthwhile? Intresting enough to work on?
So let me get this straight. Making it digital makes duplicating the tape perfect, but keeping it on magnetic tape means the tape may die after many viewings. Reproducable but not rewatchable!? It's that the exact opposite of what studios should want in a new format!?
Gotta hand it to JVC for convincing them that their D-Theater isn't gonna be cracked like *every* other copy-protection standard.
You'd think with all the money they make the studios could hire someone intelligent for a change.
Because "case blah:" statements are basically labels. Sticking a label in your code does not modify the flow of the program -- A label should not generate any code. "switch" and "break" control flow. Changing the meaning of a label inside a switch block to mean "goto the end of the block unless preceeded by 'pass'" would be ludicrous.
Maybe when Nelson jots down "Beat of Martin" on an iWalk, it won't translate it to "Eat up Martha."
Re:Funny, I just happened to read Tolkien's view o
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The Hype of the Rings
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Strange, a newspaper article I read cited that Tolkien only received $15,000 for the movie rights. Now his family is pissed and getting all grumpy about the movie that's not making them rich.
Log Correlation?
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Bert Is Evil
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So now that that poster has been clearly identified as being composed of pictures off the internet, maybe webmasters who hosted those pictures should correlate their logs, thus discovering the IP address of the man who made the poster. I'm sure we'd all love to ping flood him and send him nasty emails.
Re:Odd kernel error message [slightly OT]
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Linux Kernel 2.4.10
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You may have checked your System.map, but did you make sure you ran lilo and acutally booted into the new kernel first?
Can somebody fill me in what the new md/multipath driver does? Other than blow up evil aliens and save all life, of course.
Re:I refuse to download a official kernel until ..
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Linux Kernel 2.4.10
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Having asked this question myself, it turns out that Linus is ready to merge ext3 any time right now, but in order to do so he needs to merge a bunch of other VFS changes from Alan's kernel. Since this release seems to have focused on merging a lot of Alan's other changes, perhaps Linus will get to the VFS merge in 2.4.11. That's just speculation.
I'm not saying this is going to happen, in fact, I think it's unlikly, but what did the US do after it dropped the first atomic bomb? Dropped another. Why? To show that we could do it again. Result: Japan surrendered.
I keep thinking to myself that the reason no one has stepped forward and claimed resposibility is that the attack isn't over. Once airlines are running again, I fear a second wave of terrorism.
If you think about it, the FAA would have to ground planes until they are able to establish new security procedures nation-wide. That alone would badly damage our economy. Not to mention that I'm sure none of us would feel safe at home or at work for awhile.
RTFA, "Adobe dropped its support of the case on July 23." IOW, it's now the US government that's persuing the case. Adobe's realized that the US is over-eager to apply the DCMA, and has backed off. Perhaps we should boycott the US instead?
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A NSA security guard, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed his surprise at the number of new Ferrari seen in the NSA high-security underground parking facility.
The Biological Weapons Alliance (BWA), an association comprised of leading weapon-producing nations, has received information that your country may have illegally-duplicated proprietary weapons products installed on your bases. Specifically, your country may not have the licenses required to support all copies of Anthrax, Pneumonic Plague, and Smallpox, which are currently installed on your bases...
Perl's strength is text processing was its ability to work with (read and generate) poorly structured data. XML makes it easy to create well structured data thus writing document processing code in languages like C++ is easier. People who don't know Perl, or people who learned other XML toolkits first, have less reason to learn XML with Perl.
Instead of ripping on this guy for watching too much TV, maybe you should think about what else this could be used for. I myself looked into setting up something similar for my frat. Basically we wanted a web-driven on-demand video system. The outputs would be RF modulated and spit over unused channels on the pre-existing coax cable. Basically a pirate CC TV station with 24 hour Simpsons, Futurama, and Family Guy.
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Unfortunatly it turned out to be cost prohibative at the time (2 years ago) and we just fell back to a bunch of samba shares and watching TV on computer
Sounds familiar. Maybe change "steal ideas from" to "blow up". Ring any bells?
A few years ago I went home to visit my parents and I happened to glance at the old chest of drawers that was in my room when I was a little kid. Somehow this awoke the sensory memory of teething on it. I could, with absolute certainly, remember exactly what the drawer handles felt like in my mouth. I have a similar sensory memory of chewing on the coffee room table.
I'm not sure what age a child stops teething at, but I'd bet these memories are pretty young.
As I understand it, many spammers make their killing by sending a single email to hundreds or thousands of recipients. They just need to find a single SMTP server they can use as a relay and the bandwidth burden of redistributing all those copies falls in someone else's lap.
What about the simple solution of disallowing multiple recipients in a single SMTP message? If someone legitimately needs to send to multiple email addresses, require a seperate SMTP connection and seperate copy sent for each.
I'm confident the increased overhead from people sending legitimate email to multiple recipients will be greatly outweighed by the overall reduction in email traffic from spammers.
Those of us who run mailing lists and the like could simply configure our SMTP servers to allow multiple recipients and then our server would be required to make seperate connections for each recipient.
I saw these at a grocery store called 'Schnooks' in Kansas City over 5 years ago. LCD touch screens on every shopping cart which tracked your location. They showed little animations of where to walk to find certain items and showed you the specials for the isle you were on. Don't remember it having local news though.
If I remember correctly, there were little tracking beacons suspended from the ceiling. It was pretty cool then but it apparently never cought on. Can't imagine it will now, although I'm sure the technology is a hell of a lot cheaper.
Before I plop down 500k, does anybody actually know if this sounds good? I mean, I could pay a lot less for bad music.
I wonder if any of the DNA/protein search algorithms (BLAST comes to mind) could be used to compare disassemblies.
Perhaps it would be worth collecting an archive of disassembled open source programs and then using it to compare against commercial products.
We'd need a wide spectrum of open source code compiled in different versions of GCC and other compilers, then disassembled and archived in a DB. We'd also need a modified search algorithm, and from what little I know about bioinformatics, BLAST does for nucleotides what we need for opcodes.
Anybody think this is feasable? Worthwhile? Intresting enough to work on?
-Ryan
Just when I finally broke the habit of rewinding my DVD rentals.
So let me get this straight. Making it digital makes duplicating the tape perfect, but keeping it on magnetic tape means the tape may die after many viewings. Reproducable but not rewatchable!? It's that the exact opposite of what studios should want in a new format!?
Gotta hand it to JVC for convincing them that their D-Theater isn't gonna be cracked like *every* other copy-protection standard.
You'd think with all the money they make the studios could hire someone intelligent for a change.
Because "case blah:" statements are basically labels. Sticking a label in your code does not modify the flow of the program -- A label should not generate any code. "switch" and "break" control flow. Changing the meaning of a label inside a switch block to mean "goto the end of the block unless preceeded by 'pass'" would be ludicrous.
when there's icicles hanging from your heat sink and your CPU monitor reports 1800 degrees celsius.
The program includes its date as 08/06/01, seems it took the press awhile to pick up on this crack.
Maybe when Nelson jots down "Beat of Martin" on an iWalk, it won't translate it to "Eat up Martha."
Strange, a newspaper article I read cited that Tolkien only received $15,000 for the movie rights. Now his family is pissed and getting all grumpy about the movie that's not making them rich.
So now that that poster has been clearly identified as being composed of pictures off the internet, maybe webmasters who hosted those pictures should correlate their logs, thus discovering the IP address of the man who made the poster. I'm sure we'd all love to ping flood him and send him nasty emails.
You may have checked your System.map, but did you make sure you ran lilo and acutally booted into the new kernel first?
Can somebody fill me in what the new md/multipath driver does? Other than blow up evil aliens and save all life, of course.
Having asked this question myself, it turns out that Linus is ready to merge ext3 any time right now, but in order to do so he needs to merge a bunch of other VFS changes from Alan's kernel. Since this release seems to have focused on merging a lot of Alan's other changes, perhaps Linus will get to the VFS merge in 2.4.11. That's just speculation.
because at $1400 for a glass of SpaceAle, I'm voting for "Free Beer" over "Free Speech".
I'm not saying this is going to happen, in fact, I think it's unlikly, but what did the US do after it dropped the first atomic bomb? Dropped another. Why? To show that we could do it again. Result: Japan surrendered.
I keep thinking to myself that the reason no one has stepped forward and claimed resposibility is that the attack isn't over. Once airlines are running again, I fear a second wave of terrorism.
If you think about it, the FAA would have to ground planes until they are able to establish new security procedures nation-wide. That alone would badly damage our economy. Not to mention that I'm sure none of us would feel safe at home or at work for awhile.
Just my horribly pessimistic 2 cents.
Or does the link go to an almost-blank page with only a single banner ad flashing at the top? What gives?
RTFA, "Adobe dropped its support of the case on July 23." IOW, it's now the US government that's persuing the case. Adobe's realized that the US is over-eager to apply the DCMA, and has backed off. Perhaps we should boycott the US instead?