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To me, telling it to produce maximum lift doesn't seem to be far off from saying to it that there are predators out to get it and it has to figure out a way to achieve a maximum distance between itself and the predators (or at least to put itself in a place where they can't reach him/her). I think birds in the real world learn this from its parents, whose earlier predecessors survived as the fittest because it could fly away from said predators, but having a predator robots that destroy things would be expensive.
The "cheating" bit was fascinating though.. must be intriguing to see a machine learn.
Is it so you can visit certain sites that only allow IE? That's basically it. Like I said, Opera doesn't do it 100% correctly, normally it says:
User-Agent: Opera/6.03 (Windows 2000; U) [en]
when I change it to identify itself as "MSIE", it says
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 2000) Opera 6.03 [en]
while a normal IE 6 string is
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0;)
When all a site does is a grep for "Opera", then the faked string will still pass through, because in the original IE string there's no "Opera". So when the site is built so that if (found "Opera") { bitch(); } , Opera users won't get away with this manipulation.
I know I should just send them a mail complaining their webmaster is stupid because s/he uses IE-specific technology, but I'm too lazy about it, besides these are sites from the tv networks, and bah they suck at HTML.. add to that they're German...
Well, this is advocacy (no I don't work for them), but try Opera. It's blazing fast, has tabs too, and a menu (accessible by pressing F12) from which you can select to enable/disable features like popup windows, background music, cookies, and what user agent string the browser should send to servers (this feature doesn't work correctly though, it just adds "MSIE" to the end of the string, still identifying itself as Opera). To be more aggressive on ads, try Proxomitron
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Yeah, screw Vegas! We can have our own! With hookers, and blackjack! In fact, forget the blackjack, and the Vegas!
it's funny you should mention about diamonds, I was reading slasdhot when I saw a comment with this link: Glass with Attitude, an interesting article about the truth with them, something I never realized before. Interesting read..
Yes he has posted things, you just don't see them.. if a tree falls in a forest and you were wearing earplugs and didn't hear it, doesn't mean the tree didn't fall..
Heh even Linux is copyrighted material.:) There's always a footnote that says "Linux is a copyright of Linus Torvalds" (can't remember if the penguin logo is too)..
Fight the fucking Man! Read the couple of articles before this, the ??AA has finally controlled the US Congress and Aschroft, and they're doing that with your money! Boycott their fucking products!!
Fucking stupid government..
Never thought I'd ever say "Fight the Man!" and meant it.
Have they fixed the credits page they altered to remove any mention of CDex's original developers (and therefore violating the GPL)? Oh well no one is going to answer that unless I check it myself.. well it states so on their source download page, so I guess they'd have that in their source zip..
Still, I wouldn't trust such a company, scums who are forced to be nice would turn to scum the moment no one's watching anymore.
Speaking of scum, how the fuck does MS get away with calling that scheme of theirs "opening the source", when it's locked away down in a dark basement with broken stairs and light behind the door which had a sign "beware of the Jaguar"? Or the equivalent of knowing who to sue when the source gets out, hell why the fuck would they want an email address which is traceable! Fuck, and that's just to get a bloody fucking NDA!!! Somoene post that shit here, they probably want your soul for a peek at their source code/protocol information.
Re:"No Escape from American 'culture'?"
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Talk about reruns, old TV series actually quite popular in developing countries, imagine a place that has never had TV. Why would it matter if they ran shows from back from the 50's? Hundreds of years of material to catch up with, it's The Dukes of Hazzard, Six Million Dollar Man, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Airwolf, Simpsons and Seinfeld all over again. And don't forget The Brady Bunch, Fonz and the Gang (Happy Days) Mission Impossible (old and new), etc, etc.
Thinking of those shows, TV felt much better when I was younger, I think people's bullshit tolerance decrease the older they get, at least that's happening to me.
"Who Wants to be a Millionaire" seems to be successful everywhere in the world. So far I've heard of German, French, Arabic, Australian and Indonesian versions of it (the currency there is so weak so I think they give out 100 million Rupiahs) And of course Indian. And English. Wouldn't be surprised if there's a version for each country where TV-culture dominates.
And they have no morals either. I once got an email saying I received an e-card sent from someone using this service. I went there and they claim to donate a cent to charities everytime someone sends a card through them. - should've realized it was bullshit during these dot.bust days. They asked for my name and email address to retrieve the card, so I typed them in and clicked "Get my Card", to only receive an error page in return. Only then that I realized that I just gave my information to some fucking spammers!
Now I sometimes get junk from them, or from > their other alias in my hotmail account, which - interestingly - gets very little spam otherwise. Maybe because it 10+ chars long. Some of them were from legitimate companies too - some college in the UK even got duped into using their service to advertise itself.
Unfortunately it's still Windows only (although who's lying, most of slashdot visitors use IE anyway).. the Windows "emulators" can run it properly under Linux, some one else has mentioned.
You know, considering computers will be so much more influential in the future than right now, there will probably be a "February 29, 2100.", and although that means that we'd be a fraction too far off a complete circle around the sun, no one would really notice. The change in global climate would also prevent people from noticing that the start of the new seasons is off by a day or so.
It'd be interesting to see, too bad not a lot of us will be there to do so.
the annoying Clippy already moves away when the words you're typing on screen approaches him. Interestingly, as I type this in Opera (in Windows) the "I beam" disappears when I type, but reappear a while after I stop typing. MS Word has that feature too (the cursor disappears when you start typing), but it's a sort of thing I really never noticed..
I think the next variant of "MS Worm" should be designed to DoS the riaa.com.. but it's interesting how people are still able to perform DoS'es, meaning there must be a lot of computers out there which have been 0wned without their owners knowing about it - and I'm not surprised if that's the case.
I wonder what systems the attack came from, mostly Windows? If it weren't the RIAA being DoSed, I'd think we would be yapping about how Windows is insecure..:) but we know that already and in this case, someoned just turned evil against evil.
Interestingly, Germany had announced earlier this year that its Federal Government will switch to Linux (albeit mostly only for the servers). I guess even Billy Gates doesn't have enough money to bribe a 1st world country.
I second that. God, static on cellphone calls? To quote, "that's soooo last Millennium.". Of course, the argument against it are the same, the infrastructure was already built and it's too expensive to convert (heck especially during this recession), so I guess these folks are doing the only thing that can be done, try and figure out to improve the analog phones.
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Let's sue their asses because they own "riaa.org", but they sure as hell aren't a "non profit organization". :)
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I hope one day a one Rodriguez, Bender J. will evolve out of this research. :)
To me, telling it to produce maximum lift doesn't seem to be far off from saying to it that there are predators out to get it and it has to figure out a way to achieve a maximum distance between itself and the predators (or at least to put itself in a place where they can't reach him/her). I think birds in the real world learn this from its parents, whose earlier predecessors survived as the fittest because it could fly away from said predators, but having a predator robots that destroy things would be expensive.
The "cheating" bit was fascinating though.. must be intriguing to see a machine learn.
Couldn't you put the old processor back and try to save your data? Or does your 2nd paragraph describe your feeling about doing just that?
;-)'s... wonder when the media company is going to knock on^W^W bust through my door..
MP3s and DivX
01010111 01101001 01101110 01100100 01101111 01110111 01110011 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100110 01101111 01110010 01101101 01100101 01100100 00100000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01101001 01101100 0110 ...
Is it so you can visit certain sites that only allow IE?
That's basically it. Like I said, Opera doesn't do it 100% correctly, normally it says:
User-Agent: Opera/6.03 (Windows 2000; U) [en]
when I change it to identify itself as "MSIE", it says
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 2000) Opera 6.03 [en]
while a normal IE 6 string is
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0;)
When all a site does is a grep for "Opera", then the faked string will still pass through, because in the original IE string there's no "Opera". So when the site is built so that if (found "Opera") { bitch(); } , Opera users won't get away with this manipulation.
I know I should just send them a mail complaining their webmaster is stupid because s/he uses IE-specific technology, but I'm too lazy about it, besides these are sites from the tv networks, and bah they suck at HTML.. add to that they're German...
Well, this is advocacy (no I don't work for them), but try Opera. It's blazing fast, has tabs too, and a menu (accessible by pressing F12) from which you can select to enable/disable features like popup windows, background music, cookies, and what user agent string the browser should send to servers (this feature doesn't work correctly though, it just adds "MSIE" to the end of the string, still identifying itself as Opera). To be more aggressive on ads, try Proxomitron
Yeah, screw Vegas! We can have our own! With hookers, and blackjack! In fact, forget the blackjack, and the Vegas!
Aarrghh, screw it all!
When is RMS going to call them and demand they start calling that tradition, GNU/Bayanihan ? ;-)
it's funny you should mention about diamonds, I was reading slasdhot when I saw a comment with this link: Glass with Attitude, an interesting article about the truth with them, something I never realized before. Interesting read..
Yes he has posted things, you just don't see them.. if a tree falls in a forest and you were wearing earplugs and didn't hear it, doesn't mean the tree didn't fall..
Heh even Linux is copyrighted material. :) There's always a footnote that says "Linux is a copyright of Linus Torvalds" (can't remember if the penguin logo is too)..
Fight the fucking Man! Read the couple of articles before this, the ??AA has finally controlled the US Congress and Aschroft, and they're doing that with your money! Boycott their fucking products!!
Fucking stupid government..
Never thought I'd ever say "Fight the Man!" and meant it.
Have they fixed the credits page they altered to remove any mention of CDex's original developers (and therefore violating the GPL)? Oh well no one is going to answer that unless I check it myself.. well it states so on their source download page, so I guess they'd have that in their source zip..
Still, I wouldn't trust such a company, scums who are forced to be nice would turn to scum the moment no one's watching anymore.
Speaking of scum, how the fuck does MS get away with calling that scheme of theirs "opening the source", when it's locked away down in a dark basement with broken stairs and light behind the door which had a sign "beware of the Jaguar"? Or the equivalent of knowing who to sue when the source gets out, hell why the fuck would they want an email address which is traceable! Fuck, and that's just to get a bloody fucking NDA!!! Somoene post that shit here, they probably want your soul for a peek at their source code/protocol information.
Talk about reruns, old TV series actually quite popular in developing countries, imagine a place that has never had TV. Why would it matter if they ran shows from back from the 50's? Hundreds of years of material to catch up with, it's The Dukes of Hazzard, Six Million Dollar Man, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Airwolf, Simpsons and Seinfeld all over again. And don't forget The Brady Bunch, Fonz and the Gang (Happy Days) Mission Impossible (old and new), etc, etc.
Thinking of those shows, TV felt much better when I was younger, I think people's bullshit tolerance decrease the older they get, at least that's happening to me.
"Who Wants to be a Millionaire" seems to be successful everywhere in the world. So far I've heard of German, French, Arabic, Australian and Indonesian versions of it (the currency there is so weak so I think they give out 100 million Rupiahs) And of course Indian. And English. Wouldn't be surprised if there's a version for each country where TV-culture dominates.
And they have no morals either. I once got an email saying I received an e-card sent from someone using this service. I went there and they claim to donate a cent to charities everytime someone sends a card through them. - should've realized it was bullshit during these dot.bust days. They asked for my name and email address to retrieve the card, so I typed them in and clicked "Get my Card", to only receive an error page in return. Only then that I realized that I just gave my information to some fucking spammers!
Now I sometimes get junk from them, or from > their other alias in my hotmail account, which - interestingly - gets very little spam otherwise. Maybe because it 10+ chars long. Some of them were from legitimate companies too - some college in the UK even got duped into using their service to advertise itself.
Unfortunately it's still Windows only (although who's lying, most of slashdot visitors use IE anyway).. the Windows "emulators" can run it properly under Linux, some one else has mentioned.
You know, considering computers will be so much more influential in the future than right now, there will probably be a "February 29, 2100.", and although that means that we'd be a fraction too far off a complete circle around the sun, no one would really notice. The change in global climate would also prevent people from noticing that the start of the new seasons is off by a day or so.
It'd be interesting to see, too bad not a lot of us will be there to do so.
the annoying Clippy already moves away when the words you're typing on screen approaches him. Interestingly, as I type this in Opera (in Windows) the "I beam" disappears when I type, but reappear a while after I stop typing. MS Word has that feature too (the cursor disappears when you start typing), but it's a sort of thing I really never noticed..
I think the next variant of "MS Worm" should be designed to DoS the riaa.com .. but it's interesting how people are still able to perform DoS'es, meaning there must be a lot of computers out there which have been 0wned without their owners knowing about it - and I'm not surprised if that's the case.
:) but we know that already and in this case, someoned just turned evil against evil.
I wonder what systems the attack came from, mostly Windows? If it weren't the RIAA being DoSed, I'd think we would be yapping about how Windows is insecure..
I think they'd ignore Tom, Dick and Harry, but would be more interested in Ahmed, Abdul and Mohammed..
Interestingly, Germany had announced earlier this year that its Federal Government will switch to Linux (albeit mostly only for the servers). I guess even Billy Gates doesn't have enough money to bribe a 1st world country.
I second that. God, static on cellphone calls? To quote, "that's soooo last Millennium.". Of course, the argument against it are the same, the infrastructure was already built and it's too expensive to convert (heck especially during this recession), so I guess these folks are doing the only thing that can be done, try and figure out to improve the analog phones.