Quite how it went from 80% against war to 53% for war in a matter of days, after the parliament vote picked up a few more votes against war, and Blair and Bush effectively bypassed the UN security council to go it alone, I don't know. I do know that truth is the first casualty of war though. I still don't know a single person who supports this war.
Yes, there is an RFC (go look it up, I'm not doing it for you). Like most RFCs, it probably encourages implementations to be lenient in their interpretation, so it is no surprise that underscores seem to work for most people.
Like this one, for instance? No wait a minute, the US refuses to sign that treaty, perhaps this one? Or maybe that'll end up the same place the anti-ballistic missile treaty did about a year ago.
They're not bombing blindly, and they're not bombing infrastructure. They're bombing palaces and military, nothing else.
They may or may not be bombing infrastructure now, but they certainly were on November 26...
The city of Qurnah in the south of iraq (way down in the map, exactly where the tigris and euphrates meet) was bombarded for two days. A friend who works there says that the planes are bombing an empty area very close to the city, the windows of the hotel where he lives are broken, first no one knew why the americans would bomb an empty area. later when they went to look at the craters they found out that there were telephone lines burried in that area. the governarates of Basrah and Maysan are cut off the rest of Iraq, telephonically speaking, that is.
Because the code that was copied was released under the Apache License as part of the jakarta project. Note that he is not alledging that the JBoss team had copied anything that they did not have rights to copy, only that they had copied software written by Sun (as significant parts of some jakarta projects are).
Read the article. They are not just port scanning to find that proxies exist, they are using those proxies to fetch pages. While the project is interesting from the sociological point of view of finding out what governments are censoring, the way it is implemented is unethical and should never have been allowed by University of Toronto's ethics committee.
I never said anything was "more use of the internet" than anything else. But there is a certain subset of services that can reasonably be assumed to be public. Proxy servers are not one of them.
No, it shouldn't be left open to the public, but that does not make it right for the public to use it if it is left open. Setting up a proxy securely is not trivial, and it is entirely possible that something gets overlooked, especially when you're working in a less developed country with few peers around you to give you help.
In New Zealand it is normal for employers to supply coffee for the use of employees. So the contractors using your coffee is more like someone connecting to a webserver to view a webpage on that server.
But what if you'd made yourself some really nice sandwiches for lunch, and left them in the communal fridge until lunch time. Would you be so forgiving if you'd come in to see the contractors eating your sandwiches?
Why do anonymous cowards not see a difference between accessing webpages on a site (a normal use of the internet which does not require prior permission), and using their proxy (something you shouldn't be doing without first being explicitly invited to).
The problem is not that the internet is a high crime neighbourhood. The problem is that otherwise law abiding citizens do not consider left of bandwidth and breaking and entering into computer systems to be crimes.
In many countries bandwidth is still incredibly expensive, this is especially true in tinpot dictatorships that censor the internet. Americans in particular have come to treat bandwidth as a free resource, and do not think about the damage that some poor soul in a third world country has suffered because of a slashdot article about an interesting but badly implemented project about internet censorship.
It is not necessary to put up a "don't use my proxy" sign. When it comes to proxies, unless you are invited to use the proxy, you do not have permission.
A proxy should not be confused with a public webserver, where it is reasonable to assume that the default is to allow public access. Your analogy of the open gate applies to normal webpages on my webserver. But using my proxy without my permission is the same as driving off in my car (although when someone comes to steal my car, I deliberately leave the keys in the ignition, and have the doors lock and the car refuse to go anywhere while collecting evidence for the police).
Sort of similar to dabbrev, but only works for function and variable names, and keeps popping up menus that obscure the code you're writing instead of staying out of the way until you explicitly request it.
This is probably mostly Nimda and CodeRed worms (CodeRed has recently sprung back into life, Nimda has been steadily going for the last year or so at a rate of about one hit every 2 days in my logs).
Given the scarcity of kiddie scripts exploiting the Commodore 64, if you really want to waste some script kiddies' time you might want to go for a Windows box with IIS as your fake fingerprint.
While you're at it, using the same technique to bait CodeRed and Slapper worms and hold them on your server for as long as possible might slow them down a bit too (if enough people were doing it). Unfortunately the Slapper variant that is still around has a 15 second timeout, but I've heard of tarpits keeping CodeRed/Nimda worms busy for up to four days.
When did they bring back R16? I thought they'd developed some sense a few years back when they got rid of it along with R13, and moved to mostly ratings that allowed parents/guardians to take control of what their kids saw (except for R18).
£30 is a bit high these days, I pay £22.50/month (incl VAT) for 512k downstream, 256k upstream ADSL, which at current exchange rates is NZ$62 (but just a few months back was more like NZ$75). The main difference with the NZ situation is that I can leach 512k 24/7 if I want to, and not pay any extra. Still, I remember the days when international bandwidth was NZ$4/Mb, so things are improving; 5Gb is quite a bit if you're not constantly downloading DIVX and MP3s.
What I really don't understand is ISPs in NZ throttling P2P. With the cost of international bandwidth, NZ is one place where its usage makes real sense for more than just porn and pirated music and movies.
'Twould be a hideous task in C, nearly as bad in C++, annoyingly hard in Java, and fairly trivial in Python. (Dunno about Perl--I hate Perl.)
I take it Python is your tool of choice then. Java is mine, and there is nothing in there that looks annoyingly hard to me. To do it in Python though, I'd need to learn Python first, which just wouldn't be worth it for such a small task.
I noticed while browsing the shelves of my local newsagent that the Feb issue of Wired had shrunk almost to the size of issue 1.1, so I guess there's hard times there as well.
If only the quality of articles and quantity of advertising would return to the same level, I might start buying it again.
The Windows GUI does particularly badly at the fuzz test, as it's message passing mechanism is inherently insecure, and most app developers do not bother to check their input before using it within the message handling loop.
This includes the Windows port of Emacs; most of the bug reports the fuzz team sent to GNU were specific to that one program, and many of the bugs uncovered are almost impossible to fix without rearchitecting Windows to prevent third party apps from sending arbritrary messages to threads.
French texts are longuer than in English. If you fail to take this into consideration, your text will spill out of the text zone. I had a Redhat installer with this problem, french labels were always incomplete the end was always chopped off
If you're having problems with French, then you're going to have absolute nightmares when you translate it to German (but then, you'd know that already being Swiss).
A long time ago, I remember reading that Microsoft develops the English, German and Japanese versions of their software first, as the German version flushes out bugs where there is not enough space on dialogs etc, and Japanese tests that there is no confusion between bytes and characters in the code. Dutch and Chinese would have done just as well, but the German market is bigger than the Dutch and at the time the Japanese market was bigger than Chinese (this may have changed, or will soon), so it made sense to get those languages to market first.
Internationalization and localization are two subtly different things. There is also multilingualization which is something else again.
For those interested enough to care, localization is where you produce multiple versions of your software for different languages. Internationalization is where the same version of software can select between different languages. Multilingualization means you can display multiple languages at the same time if you want.
Globalization is where multinational fast food chains force the same crap down the throats of the whole world.
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Quite how it went from 80% against war to 53% for war in a matter of days, after the parliament vote picked up a few more votes against war, and Blair and Bush effectively bypassed the UN security council to go it alone, I don't know. I do know that truth is the first casualty of war though. I still don't know a single person who supports this war.
Yes, there is an RFC (go look it up, I'm not doing it for you). Like most RFCs, it probably encourages implementations to be lenient in their interpretation, so it is no surprise that underscores seem to work for most people.
Like this one, for instance? No wait a minute, the US refuses to sign that treaty, perhaps this one? Or maybe that'll end up the same place the anti-ballistic missile treaty did about a year ago.
They may or may not be bombing infrastructure now, but they certainly were on November 26...
Because the code that was copied was released under the Apache License as part of the jakarta project. Note that he is not alledging that the JBoss team had copied anything that they did not have rights to copy, only that they had copied software written by Sun (as significant parts of some jakarta projects are).
Remember, we're talking the sorts of countries that think they can censor the internet here.
Read the article. They are not just port scanning to find that proxies exist, they are using those proxies to fetch pages. While the project is interesting from the sociological point of view of finding out what governments are censoring, the way it is implemented is unethical and should never have been allowed by University of Toronto's ethics committee.
I never said anything was "more use of the internet" than anything else. But there is a certain subset of services that can reasonably be assumed to be public. Proxy servers are not one of them.
No, it shouldn't be left open to the public, but that does not make it right for the public to use it if it is left open. Setting up a proxy securely is not trivial, and it is entirely possible that something gets overlooked, especially when you're working in a less developed country with few peers around you to give you help.
But what if you'd made yourself some really nice sandwiches for lunch, and left them in the communal fridge until lunch time. Would you be so forgiving if you'd come in to see the contractors eating your sandwiches?
Why do anonymous cowards not see a difference between accessing webpages on a site (a normal use of the internet which does not require prior permission), and using their proxy (something you shouldn't be doing without first being explicitly invited to).
Gotta install a new spellchecker in my brain. This one can spell ok, but it keeps auto-correcting to the wrong words.
In many countries bandwidth is still incredibly expensive, this is especially true in tinpot dictatorships that censor the internet. Americans in particular have come to treat bandwidth as a free resource, and do not think about the damage that some poor soul in a third world country has suffered because of a slashdot article about an interesting but badly implemented project about internet censorship.
A proxy should not be confused with a public webserver, where it is reasonable to assume that the default is to allow public access. Your analogy of the open gate applies to normal webpages on my webserver. But using my proxy without my permission is the same as driving off in my car (although when someone comes to steal my car, I deliberately leave the keys in the ignition, and have the doors lock and the car refuse to go anywhere while collecting evidence for the police).
Sort of similar to dabbrev, but only works for function and variable names, and keeps popping up menus that obscure the code you're writing instead of staying out of the way until you explicitly request it.
This is probably mostly Nimda and CodeRed worms (CodeRed has recently sprung back into life, Nimda has been steadily going for the last year or so at a rate of about one hit every 2 days in my logs).
While you're at it, using the same technique to bait CodeRed and Slapper worms and hold them on your server for as long as possible might slow them down a bit too (if enough people were doing it). Unfortunately the Slapper variant that is still around has a 15 second timeout, but I've heard of tarpits keeping CodeRed/Nimda worms busy for up to four days.
When did they bring back R16? I thought they'd developed some sense a few years back when they got rid of it along with R13, and moved to mostly ratings that allowed parents/guardians to take control of what their kids saw (except for R18).
What I really don't understand is ISPs in NZ throttling P2P. With the cost of international bandwidth, NZ is one place where its usage makes real sense for more than just porn and pirated music and movies.
What's commonly known as vaporware then.
I take it Python is your tool of choice then. Java is mine, and there is nothing in there that looks annoyingly hard to me. To do it in Python though, I'd need to learn Python first, which just wouldn't be worth it for such a small task.
I agree on the C, C++ and Perl counts though. :-)
If only the quality of articles and quantity of advertising would return to the same level, I might start buying it again.
This includes the Windows port of Emacs; most of the bug reports the fuzz team sent to GNU were specific to that one program, and many of the bugs uncovered are almost impossible to fix without rearchitecting Windows to prevent third party apps from sending arbritrary messages to threads.
If you're having problems with French, then you're going to have absolute nightmares when you translate it to German (but then, you'd know that already being Swiss).
A long time ago, I remember reading that Microsoft develops the English, German and Japanese versions of their software first, as the German version flushes out bugs where there is not enough space on dialogs etc, and Japanese tests that there is no confusion between bytes and characters in the code. Dutch and Chinese would have done just as well, but the German market is bigger than the Dutch and at the time the Japanese market was bigger than Chinese (this may have changed, or will soon), so it made sense to get those languages to market first.
For those interested enough to care, localization is where you produce multiple versions of your software for different languages. Internationalization is where the same version of software can select between different languages. Multilingualization means you can display multiple languages at the same time if you want. Globalization is where multinational fast food chains force the same crap down the throats of the whole world.