I remember having Korean-clone Lego blocks back when I was a kid. They were a lot cheaper, so my parents got them for me. There were differences though, the parts are sometimes loose, and the minifigs were different (the Korean ones had knees). interesting that my brother and I separated the minifigs on the basis of this difference and had "race"-motivated wars because of it.:o (I'm Asian, so don't think I'm some sort of white supremacist)
When did the patent expire? I wouldn't be surprised if the Korean clone was illegal.
But because these zones are widely used and closely watched, we want to let the Internet community know about the changes in advance.
The last sentence sounds like they want to emphasize that they're announcing this so early so the no one panics when all of a sudden something changes, I guess it's good that they're trying to rebuild trust.
Tell me, do the ATMachines at your place spit out the money, or the card first? I'm in Germany, and I've only seen ones that spit out the card first. They also work like that in Australia, I believe. I think it's a feature: when you go to an ATM, you're expecting to get money. There you are, pressed all the right buttons and now you're waiting for money to come out: if the machine says "please remove card" (it has spit the card out halfway, but it can detect that it's still there) before giving out the money, you'll never forget the card.
Ah yes, the Airwolf, I built one too, showed it off to a friend, and then destroyed it a few days later, because it used so many of our (me and my brother's) bricks..
Those were the days, being 10, where you just spend your day watching TV and making Lego models, instead of worrying about work and money..
Was that an AT-box? Actually I remember playing with the power switch on my (then) P-100, if you;et go of it and press it again quick enough, it would stay on. In hindsight it was something dumb to do. Nowadays I've fried enough harddisks (2 from PSU fuck-up, one from hot-plugging the power connector) that I know never to mess with the electricity part ever again.
Ah, finally a political comment.:).. I don't get it, the general public wouldnt't be so interested about other planets when they don't have jobs in their own country. Won't it be suicide to say "Hey, we have no money, so I'm going to spend your money for some project which won't do you any good!". Maybe he's thinking of raising the spirits of the people Kennedy style, but damn, the asshole is no Kennedy.
I really hope it does backfire and kill his re-election chances.
So... I wonder how many e-shops lost business because of this fiasco? Indeed, why is a very important infrastructure of the net that businesses rely upon so they earn their customers trust and money, being handled by those idiots?
It's a speculation, but because of the "server-client" mode of (Windows) Explorer, could it be that even the local machine is a server, and Explorer checks its certificate as well?
With server-client I mean, we can see Windows Explorer is flexible enough to do file exploring, ftp, www and samba. It says at the bottom right of the status bar, what sort of "web content zone" we are in. ftp and www are usually "Internet Zone", but it can also be, like Samba, "Local Intranet". The local computer is "My Computer". Maybe it just does certificate checking for all of them? Although for the local computer it should just do a local check, maybe your certificate is broken, so that it connects to the net and tries to look it up there?
I have Windows 2000, and a week ago everything did slow down in a way that I've never before seen, but a reboot fixed it.
Actually, one of MS's boasting points for XP is that it's more backwards compatible, even for ancient DOS programs.. it's one of the things they added to Windows 2000 to make XP.
Actually, for some really popular films, I can find it on my dorm's gnutella net on the day it's released.. yes indeed cam-rip, not something I'd want to download. But maybe somebody who lives here is a "high-level geek" (when they say there are "mid-level geeks", I assume there are high-level and low-level geeks as well then)
One tool that does this is the ominious-sounding "Advanced Office Password Recovery", from Elcomsoft. Remember them? Yes that's the compnay who employed Dmitry Sklyarov, who got arrested under the DMCA for talking about Adobe's lame-ass encryption..:)
This doesn't always work. I think it has something to do with the fact that some program used the directory last, so Windows memorizes "this program expects to end up in this directory the next time it shows its file dialog box", and this is very persistent: even if the program is not running, or across reboots, Windows still believes the directory may not be deleted. The only way I know of getting rid of it is to boot into Linux and delete the directory there, if it's on a FAT32 partition.
Here's an idea, most of these tools do their job by attaching themselves to the IE process, something IE allows. Microsoft should make it blatantly obvious which programs have attached itself to IE, and make them easily removable.
Heh, but who is Microsoft to listen to a slashdotter. However, it's probably possible to make an extension that does the above, just like the extension that stops the "%01" URL-hiding bug.
AFAIK, IE just looks in a registry key to see which CLSIDs of programs want to attach to it, and then load these programs when an IE instance is running.
I don't get it, won't this chaos make it hard to read the spam, and therefore from the point of view of the spammer, it would be a bad idea to do, because their message won't get through? Only idiots would buy something offered by spam, and if they can't/don't want to spend time to read it, poof, 0% profitability.
At this point the spam would turn from something that's useful for at least one party (the seller/spammer) to something that's just junk floating around on the internet.
On the topic of DVD piracy... I wonder if there were any repurcussions against Xing, because they were the ones dumb enough to store the decrypting keys for the DVDs without encrypting them first. That made Jon Johannsen's job real easy, he claimed when he released decss. DVD piracy would've still been possible anyway, IMO, because there's enough DVD manufacturers, and somewhere.there would have been someone who'd leak the keys.
Or did Xing (or some engineer who worked for them) even do it on purpose?
Shouldn't they be more afraid of the MPAA Mafia? "Ban all cameras, or you'll have to pay 50% more for each film reel we sell to you.", or worse, the MPAA can just stop giving them the licence/whatever to show the films.
To comment on the article, I don't understand why idiots even bother downloading cam-rips, the quality is so shit, you're not getting the real film: the angle is wrong, the color is usually gone, the audio can be good when ripped from source when it's an inside job (ha nowadays an MPAA cop sits in the projection booth, the article claims), but if they used the camcorder mic to record it, that's not exactly CD quality is it?
The only thing it's doing is helping the FUD for those who claim "Star Wars 2 was available on the internet in digital quality 30 minutes after its grand opening.". Digital quality? F'ing idiots.
Try Gentoo, no your computer won't have to compile everything from scratch, but I find it's the best distro I've used. You can find almost everything in its Portage system, and no broken dependencies, something apt has tortured me about. "Gee, let's upgrade X." "To upgrade X you have to install glibc 2.3 and gcc 3.3"... fun, how do I know the system will still work afterwards?
Knoppix comes a close second, With X and OO.org running straight out of the box. It's Debian based, and it has less software, IMO. MPlayer isn't an official package, whereas in Gentoo, it's as easy as typing "emerge mplayer".:)
Look who didn't read the article. The author mentioned this woman and says now it has come to light that she's a former Wal-Mart employee, and has a history of "slip and fall lawsuits" and worker compensation claims.
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I remember having Korean-clone Lego blocks back when I was a kid. They were a lot cheaper, so my parents got them for me. There were differences though, the parts are sometimes loose, and the minifigs were different (the Korean ones had knees). interesting that my brother and I separated the minifigs on the basis of this difference and had "race"-motivated wars because of it. :o (I'm Asian, so don't think I'm some sort of white supremacist)
When did the patent expire? I wouldn't be surprised if the Korean clone was illegal.
One of the screenshots look like a print dialog box. I wonder what the state of that is. Or is this a moot point, when cups has it all solved?
But because these zones are widely used and closely watched, we want to let the Internet community know about the changes in advance.
The last sentence sounds like they want to emphasize that they're announcing this so early so the no one panics when all of a sudden something changes, I guess it's good that they're trying to rebuild trust.
Tell me, do the ATMachines at your place spit out the money, or the card first? I'm in Germany, and I've only seen ones that spit out the card first. They also work like that in Australia, I believe. I think it's a feature: when you go to an ATM, you're expecting to get money. There you are, pressed all the right buttons and now you're waiting for money to come out: if the machine says "please remove card" (it has spit the card out halfway, but it can detect that it's still there) before giving out the money, you'll never forget the card.
Are there machines that give out money first?
LOL, "You are now trapped. To get out, please vote your next president."
:P
And when it's a Diebold machine, you'll hear the revving of the chainsaw that will fly out of the hole in the wall if you select the wrong answer.
Or they'll just add 2 features: allow you to change your vote, and voting the wrong candidate won't open that door.
82 Million vs California's 35 Million.
What's not scalable about how they do the voting? If you have more ballots to count, you just get more people to count it.
Ah yes, the Airwolf, I built one too, showed it off to a friend, and then destroyed it a few days later, because it used so many of our (me and my brother's) bricks..
Those were the days, being 10, where you just spend your day watching TV and making Lego models, instead of worrying about work and money..
Was that an AT-box? Actually I remember playing with the power switch on my (then) P-100, if you ;et go of it and press it again quick enough, it would stay on. In hindsight it was something dumb to do. Nowadays I've fried enough harddisks (2 from PSU fuck-up, one from hot-plugging the power connector) that I know never to mess with the electricity part ever again.
Ah, finally a political comment. :) .. I don't get it, the general public wouldnt't be so interested about other planets when they don't have jobs in their own country. Won't it be suicide to say "Hey, we have no money, so I'm going to spend your money for some project which won't do you any good!". Maybe he's thinking of raising the spirits of the people Kennedy style, but damn, the asshole is no Kennedy.
I really hope it does backfire and kill his re-election chances.
So... I wonder how many e-shops lost business because of this fiasco? Indeed, why is a very important infrastructure of the net that businesses rely upon so they earn their customers trust and money, being handled by those idiots?
It's a speculation, but because of the "server-client" mode of (Windows) Explorer, could it be that even the local machine is a server, and Explorer checks its certificate as well?
With server-client I mean, we can see Windows Explorer is flexible enough to do file exploring, ftp, www and samba. It says at the bottom right of the status bar, what sort of "web content zone" we are in. ftp and www are usually "Internet Zone", but it can also be, like Samba, "Local Intranet". The local computer is "My Computer". Maybe it just does certificate checking for all of them? Although for the local computer it should just do a local check, maybe your certificate is broken, so that it connects to the net and tries to look it up there?
I have Windows 2000, and a week ago everything did slow down in a way that I've never before seen, but a reboot fixed it.
Actually, one of MS's boasting points for XP is that it's more backwards compatible, even for ancient DOS programs.. it's one of the things they added to Windows 2000 to make XP.
Oops I forgot to check "Post Anonymously" *G*
Actually, for some really popular films, I can find it on my dorm's gnutella net on the day it's released.. yes indeed cam-rip, not something I'd want to download. But maybe somebody who lives here is a "high-level geek" (when they say there are "mid-level geeks", I assume there are high-level and low-level geeks as well then)
You're just jealous he's smart and hard working enough to have made it to IBM.
One tool that does this is the ominious-sounding "Advanced Office Password Recovery", from Elcomsoft. Remember them? Yes that's the compnay who employed Dmitry Sklyarov, who got arrested under the DMCA for talking about Adobe's lame-ass encryption.. :)
I'll take your offer of donation. :)
This doesn't always work. I think it has something to do with the fact that some program used the directory last, so Windows memorizes "this program expects to end up in this directory the next time it shows its file dialog box", and this is very persistent: even if the program is not running, or across reboots, Windows still believes the directory may not be deleted. The only way I know of getting rid of it is to boot into Linux and delete the directory there, if it's on a FAT32 partition.
On the topic of staffing, of course it is cheaper, you can just pay the janitor to click Start-Shutdown-Restart a few times a day.
Here's an idea, most of these tools do their job by attaching themselves to the IE process, something IE allows. Microsoft should make it blatantly obvious which programs have attached itself to IE, and make them easily removable.
Heh, but who is Microsoft to listen to a slashdotter. However, it's probably possible to make an extension that does the above, just like the extension that stops the "%01" URL-hiding bug.
AFAIK, IE just looks in a registry key to see which CLSIDs of programs want to attach to it, and then load these programs when an IE instance is running.
I don't get it, won't this chaos make it hard to read the spam, and therefore from the point of view of the spammer, it would be a bad idea to do, because their message won't get through? Only idiots would buy something offered by spam, and if they can't/don't want to spend time to read it, poof, 0% profitability.
At this point the spam would turn from something that's useful for at least one party (the seller/spammer) to something that's just junk floating around on the internet.
On the topic of DVD piracy... I wonder if there were any repurcussions against Xing, because they were the ones dumb enough to store the decrypting keys for the DVDs without encrypting them first. That made Jon Johannsen's job real easy, he claimed when he released decss. DVD piracy would've still been possible anyway, IMO, because there's enough DVD manufacturers, and somewhere.there would have been someone who'd leak the keys.
Or did Xing (or some engineer who worked for them) even do it on purpose?
Shouldn't they be more afraid of the MPAA Mafia? "Ban all cameras, or you'll have to pay 50% more for each film reel we sell to you.", or worse, the MPAA can just stop giving them the licence/whatever to show the films.
To comment on the article, I don't understand why idiots even bother downloading cam-rips, the quality is so shit, you're not getting the real film: the angle is wrong, the color is usually gone, the audio can be good when ripped from source when it's an inside job (ha nowadays an MPAA cop sits in the projection booth, the article claims), but if they used the camcorder mic to record it, that's not exactly CD quality is it?
The only thing it's doing is helping the FUD for those who claim "Star Wars 2 was available on the internet in digital quality 30 minutes after its grand opening.". Digital quality? F'ing idiots.
Try Gentoo, no your computer won't have to compile everything from scratch, but I find it's the best distro I've used. You can find almost everything in its Portage system, and no broken dependencies, something apt has tortured me about. "Gee, let's upgrade X." "To upgrade X you have to install glibc 2.3 and gcc 3.3"... fun, how do I know the system will still work afterwards?
:)
Knoppix comes a close second, With X and OO.org running straight out of the box. It's Debian based, and it has less software, IMO. MPlayer isn't an official package, whereas in Gentoo, it's as easy as typing "emerge mplayer".
Look who didn't read the article. The author mentioned this woman and says now it has come to light that she's a former Wal-Mart employee, and has a history of "slip and fall lawsuits" and worker compensation claims.