When I first saw the title, I read it as "Mother of Kournikova... Too", then I wondered what she had done, and because of the "Too", I presumed it was Anna that had done something before her mother.
Sounds like CNN wants to kick Falwell's ass.. what better way to get the stupid moron in more trouble by quoting him on CNN? Some posters here said he's apologized for his comment, I bet he has, big time.
"In other news", as CNN-people would say it, CNN (among with other cable networks) has an office on the 110th floor of 1 WTC.. I wonder if they've mentioned anything about their own employeees, and if not, why not? Professional journalism?
Speaking of being professional, I hate how Bush was fucking acting when he called up Guiliani, damn man, for once you could at least stop being a politician and be human, and actually show some feeling, talk like you would talk to your friend, and be sincerely concerned. Instead he used that whole thing as a stupid show. Moron. Hillary Clinton for President in 2004!
I've often wondered what a good GUI would be. If you've ever played "Theme Hospital", you can play, and non-urgent problems show up as little icons on the bottom right corner of the screen. There were several icons: a question mark for a question (well duh), or a spinning siren if there was an emergency to be handled. It was great, it let you keep playing, attending to the information when you have the time. Of course emergencies need to be taken care of quite quickly. Then I thought, the ultimate GUI would be one that would be just like that, you can keep working, and things happening get to be shown at an area in the corner of the screen. In a simple text. I even thought of it as far as removing "Do you want to save this file?" dialog boxes to that area, and only dealing with them when you want to. Of course that would mean the OS would have to deal with the previous file, and the new file, and wait until the user says Yes or No to delete one of them.
Anyway, one interface that has come close to this is MSN Messenger's. When you have new hotmail, a small window on the corner of the screen shows up, saying you have new mail. It doesn't have any widgets, and the only thing you can do with it is click it to open hotmail.com. If you wait, it will disappear after a while. The same window can be made to show up when someone comes online. It's great, it lets you keep working, although a chat program isn't the greatest productivity tool.
The "MOTD" on the bottom of this Slashdot page says "Tape your mouth".
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I am quite sure Microsoft is more than willing to help, it's just that they may not have heard about this need for licenses. It's interesting how the Red Cross is still trying to "stay legit" (in MS's terms) even in this case of emergency. If I were working for the Red Cross, I wouldn't give a second thought about pirating the software in this case of emergency, and hell, Microsoft would now better to avoid the PR nightmare it would face if it decided to sue. "Microsoft sues disaster helpers because of measly MS-Office licenses.". Of course lawyers are measly and they may rant about legal-precedent and all that crap, and that's probably why they're asking for the license donations.
I was in Germany, it was 4 PM when this happened, I tried CNN.com, MSN.COM, MSN.DE, they were quite "slashdotted", Yahoo! only had a 2 line article about the first crash, but a picture. I had to go to an Australian server to read about it...
Actually the height property there is just "1".. more probably is the 1 pixel is used as a filler because blank don't often get rendered by browsers... to fix that, they just put in a single transparent pixel. The line you see is probably the background of the table, which is colored #6f6f6f. The great thing about that is, you can have lines of any color you want, without saving each of them as a 1x1 pixel gif.
You can nowadays use JavaScript to load an image without actually needing any HTML to display it on the screen... this is popular with images that change whenever OnMouseOver them, because it would be too slow to only load the image as the mouse is moved, it is usually pre-loaded using code like this:
<SCRIPT>
bug = new Image();
bug.src = "http://adhost.com/tracker?UID=blablabla"
</SCRIPT>
For continuous tracking, you can even write a script that calls a function to update the image every few seconds...
How is Netscape going to crush them when they're both the same product? Sure Netscape may have some AOL crap attached to it, but inside, it's still beautiful mozilla code running!
This and the recent government changes in free software policy are indeed encouraging signs for Linux. I can't help but believe that it's been Microsoft making its own demise by launching the BSA-affiliated license-auditing program, and then promoting.NET and remote data storage amid cries of security issues. I myself don't know how secure.NET can be, but it is an interesting "FUD" campaign, when you believe it's insecure, that's what you'll believe. I don't believe any company would trust its data in the hands of a company that is out to make money. As a rough example, would you trust Microsoft in keeping safe a proposal to say, move to Linux? I'd be afraid Microsoft would read through such a proposal and then send you promos about Windows licensing discount or the same. Of course I'm clueless about.NET, some say it's not all about remote-storage, but if remote storage is what Microsoft has been promoting, maybe that's what has come across to the PHBs, who would then think "What, store *our* business information in a safe to which Microsoft has a special key?".
Leasing software would've been a great idea if you were the only company around making software, which obviously isn't the case, and Microsoft is betting people are going to stick with them anyway. Here is (initial) proof it might be losing the bet, and companies are believing it would be cheaper to train everyone to use StarOffice, etc. than switch to an unproven, perceived-to-be-unstable-and-unsecure system.
I saw Final Fantasy the other day, and in the beginning it had "Warner Bros. An AOL/Time Warner Company".. whoaa I somehow felt astonished.. this big giant company..:o.. it was probably more of a "seeing in real life stuff you've only seen in the internet before" wow..:)
You'd have to have pretty redundant hard-to-break TVs.. maybe the TV that solves it can display a special number that it displays for its owner to call when it has solved the problem. Of course, will the owner call?:)
I've done that once or twice, who cares. Well they used to make me work for 6 bucks an hour, so I think I deserve a pee at their cost once in a while.:)
I used to name my LEGO-minifigs, my brother and I grew up on The-A-Team, Knight Rider, and Airwolf. We once made a really huge Airwolf model, too bad it didn't last long because it took so many pieces, and we wanted to do things with those pieces other than keeping them as a big showpiece. Then we made a KITT, which was actually just a sports car, we just named it KITT, and they were a team (like the The A-Team), their boss (my character) had the name B. A. (haha), and he's really rich but some people want him for some reason I can't remember.:).. now that I think of it, I realise how the guy was the reflection of what I want to be, a rich powerful guy, and the team would go around and do.. stuff. We usually just built more things along with the story, like spaceships (well only the interior, because we focused more on the characters). Anyway, I wonder, did other people have made up stories that went with their LEGO playing?
It may have come out in 1981, I was born in 1981, I remember my old XT case, it had two 5.25" drives sitting atop one another. I had it from 1988 til 1994, remember the 80286 only came around early 1990s (I am probably mistaken), and no way a ten year old like me was going to get something as high-end as that.
I think 3 days is way smaller than what will actually happen in practice. People don't like to upgrade software. They might be able to get away with patching once a month.
If I was put into position to make sure users upgrade, I'd make the program upgrade itself automatically. Of course some people may cry foul about this, so I'd ask them first "There's an upgrade for the player. It is xx MB big. Do you want to upgrade?", but I'd probably prevent users from watching any movies before they upgrade.
Of course the geeks may hate it, but the average user won't care, they've already agreed to pay for this oh-great service, if they can download 500MB, they can download a small upgrade.
About cracked movies, maybe they can keep a watchful eye on P2P systems to see if their software have been cracked (it would have to be a 24 hour surveillance!), and when it does, stop distributing movies, heck even stop downloads in progress, display a nice warning message (and a "It's all the fault of hackers!"), and upgrade to a new encryption method. Maybe use keys that are always being updated. Of course this can lead to a DDoS attack where crackers fool the system into believing it has been cracked, and legitimate users won't be able to get access to the system.
A dynamic encryption system would be very cool, (cr/h)acking it would be cooler.:)
I remember an old hotmail hack, it used to be when you logged in you get a random string of numbers in the URL, which was probably your session ID. How do you access another person's account? Basically, the victim has to be logged in, then you need to login using the victim's username, and use anything as the password. The password error page you would get had the same session ID as the victim's! Then just change the URL from (not literally...) hotmail.com/[session-id]/error to hotmail.com/[session-id]/inbox.
Hotmail implemented cookies and IP checking after that..
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When I first saw the title, I read it as "Mother of Kournikova... Too", then I wondered what she had done, and because of the "Too", I presumed it was Anna that had done something before her mother.
Mmmm.. Anna Kournikova naked and petrified...
Sounds like CNN wants to kick Falwell's ass.. what better way to get the stupid moron in more trouble by quoting him on CNN? Some posters here said he's apologized for his comment, I bet he has, big time.
"In other news", as CNN-people would say it, CNN (among with other cable networks) has an office on the 110th floor of 1 WTC.. I wonder if they've mentioned anything about their own employeees, and if not, why not? Professional journalism?
Speaking of being professional, I hate how Bush was fucking acting when he called up Guiliani, damn man, for once you could at least stop being a politician and be human, and actually show some feeling, talk like you would talk to your friend, and be sincerely concerned. Instead he used that whole thing as a stupid show. Moron. Hillary Clinton for President in 2004!
I've often wondered what a good GUI would be. If you've ever played "Theme Hospital", you can play, and non-urgent problems show up as little icons on the bottom right corner of the screen. There were several icons: a question mark for a question (well duh), or a spinning siren if there was an emergency to be handled. It was great, it let you keep playing, attending to the information when you have the time. Of course emergencies need to be taken care of quite quickly. Then I thought, the ultimate GUI would be one that would be just like that, you can keep working, and things happening get to be shown at an area in the corner of the screen. In a simple text. I even thought of it as far as removing "Do you want to save this file?" dialog boxes to that area, and only dealing with them when you want to. Of course that would mean the OS would have to deal with the previous file, and the new file, and wait until the user says Yes or No to delete one of them.
Anyway, one interface that has come close to this is MSN Messenger's. When you have new hotmail, a small window on the corner of the screen shows up, saying you have new mail. It doesn't have any widgets, and the only thing you can do with it is click it to open hotmail.com. If you wait, it will disappear after a while. The same window can be made to show up when someone comes online. It's great, it lets you keep working, although a chat program isn't the greatest productivity tool.
The "MOTD" on the bottom of this Slashdot page says "Tape your mouth".
I am quite sure Microsoft is more than willing to help, it's just that they may not have heard about this need for licenses. It's interesting how the Red Cross is still trying to "stay legit" (in MS's terms) even in this case of emergency. If I were working for the Red Cross, I wouldn't give a second thought about pirating the software in this case of emergency, and hell, Microsoft would now better to avoid the PR nightmare it would face if it decided to sue. "Microsoft sues disaster helpers because of measly MS-Office licenses.". Of course lawyers are measly and they may rant about legal-precedent and all that crap, and that's probably why they're asking for the license donations.
I was in Germany, it was 4 PM when this happened, I tried CNN.com, MSN.COM, MSN.DE, they were quite "slashdotted", Yahoo! only had a 2 line article about the first crash, but a picture. I had to go to an Australian server to read about it...
Actually the height property there is just "1".. more probably is the 1 pixel is used as a filler because blank don't often get rendered by browsers... to fix that, they just put in a single transparent pixel. The line you see is probably the background of the table, which is colored #6f6f6f. The great thing about that is, you can have lines of any color you want, without saving each of them as a 1x1 pixel gif.
You can nowadays use JavaScript to load an image without actually needing any HTML to display it on the screen... this is popular with images that change whenever OnMouseOver them, because it would be too slow to only load the image as the mouse is moved, it is usually pre-loaded using code like this:
<SCRIPT>
bug = new Image();
bug.src = "http://adhost.com/tracker?UID=blablabla"
</SCRIPT>
For continuous tracking, you can even write a script that calls a function to update the image every few seconds...
When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.
Well what if the mail-server is also closed-source, and doesn't record emails that go to the FBI in the log? :)
I bought a Rubik's Cube a few years ago and brought it with me to school. If I had a penny every time someone mentions "Just peel the stickers..."...
How is Netscape going to crush them when they're both the same product? Sure Netscape may have some AOL crap attached to it, but inside, it's still beautiful mozilla code running!
Pfft, who needs SSH when you have Code Red? It even goes out and does administering of other computers for you. :p
This and the recent government changes in free software policy are indeed encouraging signs for Linux. I can't help but believe that it's been Microsoft making its own demise by launching the BSA-affiliated license-auditing program, and then promoting .NET and remote data storage amid cries of security issues. I myself don't know how secure .NET can be, but it is an interesting "FUD" campaign, when you believe it's insecure, that's what you'll believe. I don't believe any company would trust its data in the hands of a company that is out to make money. As a rough example, would you trust Microsoft in keeping safe a proposal to say, move to Linux? I'd be afraid Microsoft would read through such a proposal and then send you promos about Windows licensing discount or the same. Of course I'm clueless about .NET, some say it's not all about remote-storage, but if remote storage is what Microsoft has been promoting, maybe that's what has come across to the PHBs, who would then think "What, store *our* business information in a safe to which Microsoft has a special key?".
Leasing software would've been a great idea if you were the only company around making software, which obviously isn't the case, and Microsoft is betting people are going to stick with them anyway. Here is (initial) proof it might be losing the bet, and companies are believing it would be cheaper to train everyone to use StarOffice, etc. than switch to an unproven, perceived-to-be-unstable-and-unsecure system.
I saw Final Fantasy the other day, and in the beginning it had "Warner Bros. An AOL/Time Warner Company".. whoaa I somehow felt astonished.. this big giant company.. :o .. it was probably more of a "seeing in real life stuff you've only seen in the internet before" wow.. :)
I wonder if X10.com's government sales have increased, their wireless cameras are probably pretty useful for the spying business. :)
In practice...
:)
You'd have to have pretty redundant hard-to-break TVs.. maybe the TV that solves it can display a special number that it displays for its owner to call when it has solved the problem. Of course, will the owner call?
I've done that once or twice, who cares. Well they used to make me work for 6 bucks an hour, so I think I deserve a pee at their cost once in a while. :)
I used to name my LEGO-minifigs, my brother and I grew up on The-A-Team, Knight Rider, and Airwolf. We once made a really huge Airwolf model, too bad it didn't last long because it took so many pieces, and we wanted to do things with those pieces other than keeping them as a big showpiece. Then we made a KITT, which was actually just a sports car, we just named it KITT, and they were a team (like the The A-Team), their boss (my character) had the name B. A. (haha), and he's really rich but some people want him for some reason I can't remember. :) .. now that I think of it, I realise how the guy was the reflection of what I want to be, a rich powerful guy, and the team would go around and do.. stuff. We usually just built more things along with the story, like spaceships (well only the interior, because we focused more on the characters). Anyway, I wonder, did other people have made up stories that went with their LEGO playing?
It may have come out in 1981, I was born in 1981, I remember my old XT case, it had two 5.25" drives sitting atop one another. I had it from 1988 til 1994, remember the 80286 only came around early 1990s (I am probably mistaken), and no way a ten year old like me was going to get something as high-end as that.
A search for what sort of films they have gave the answer (this is Babelfished from German):
We offer newer films of any sections. From the Blockbuster to the homeland film. Also an extensive Erotik supply is available.
(Emphasis mine).
If I was put into position to make sure users upgrade, I'd make the program upgrade itself automatically. Of course some people may cry foul about this, so I'd ask them first "There's an upgrade for the player. It is xx MB big. Do you want to upgrade?", but I'd probably prevent users from watching any movies before they upgrade.
Of course the geeks may hate it, but the average user won't care, they've already agreed to pay for this oh-great service, if they can download 500MB, they can download a small upgrade.
About cracked movies, maybe they can keep a watchful eye on P2P systems to see if their software have been cracked (it would have to be a 24 hour surveillance!), and when it does, stop distributing movies, heck even stop downloads in progress, display a nice warning message (and a "It's all the fault of hackers!"), and upgrade to a new encryption method. Maybe use keys that are always being updated. Of course this can lead to a DDoS attack where crackers fool the system into believing it has been cracked, and legitimate users won't be able to get access to the system.
A dynamic encryption system would be very cool, (cr/h)acking it would be cooler. :)
Hotmail implemented cookies and IP checking after that..
the printer is on fire!
Congratulations, you just made several thousand curious geeks open their mouth as they look up. Why aren't we supposed to do that?
I wonder why OOG didn't make an appearance.
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Damn, still too fast.
It's been 18 seconds since you hit 'reply'!