I guess browsers probably protect against recursive frames.
Sorta, though not deliberately, they are limited to something between 4-6 levels of nesting I believe... Same with nested tables.
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Glass microspheres are fun to play with. You can order them from many places online. They sometimes act in surprising ways.
An example If you pour some on a glass of water (they float), they form a skin on top of the water.. you can then stick your finger down into the water, and withdraw it without your finger getting wet.
Avon is like Amway, you can buy pretty much anything from them. A coworker sells this stuff, she got a computer from them once. It seems a little less scammy than Amway, the focus seems to be on actually selling stuff rather than recruiting new people.
While you are correct, and sometimes the best answer is to look at the bigger picture, there is a definite pattern to Slashdot.
Whenever anything comes up, at least half the posts are why it won't work, or why it isn't a good idea. Some of the time it is valid, but a lot of the time it is stupid and baseless, especially regarding issues that most people know little about, such as highly specific scientific things.
People have called this "Slashdot Naysayer Syndrome". I think it's a problem. Know-it-all assholes with a negative attitude and no clue shouldn't get modded up so much.
It's not just Slashdot either, I see it in any field where the knowledge is specialized, but there are hobbyists or amateurs that are chewing into the field, causing the worth of the education/experience of the existing practicioners to be degraded.
Some examples are
law -the Internet has made basic legal research available to all
electricians - the DYI movement and "home stores" have chewed into their field as far as simple jobs go
programmers/computer people - to some extent... mostly older guys.. their expensive college degrees don't mean as much anymore
Ham Radio - The guys who had to learn high speed morse code really resent the late comers who didn't have to learn code as well
Basically... any time someone who had to work hard to get something perceives someone else getting the same thing with less work, they automatically try to discredit the new way, even if the new way is just as valid as the old way.
Sometimes these people have valid points... I mean you shouldn't try to defend your felony case without a lawyer, or wire up a complex 3 phase industrial circuit yourself... etc..
But a lot of the times these people are just being protectionist, elitest, assholes. This is a real problem.
throw things on the second monitor that aren't worthy of running right in front of your face all the time, (eg. winamp, trillian, task manager, etc.
This is what everyone with virtual desktops does.
one preview full-size image and one that you can zoom/pan around in and work on.
Graphics work is a definite score for two monitors, I agree. Most of the original dual monitor workstations in the 80s were CAD stuff with one monochrome and one high res, so they could see what they were working on in almost real time.
It sounds like you have never used virtual desktops. You should try it if you haven't before.
You only need one root server, there are 12 others. In fact, it safe to just wait until the next time you upgrade BIND or your operating system... running an out of date file won't hurt anything.
There was no reason to announce anything here. This is really a non-event.
Heh, If I ever had that kind of cash to donate to the FSF, I would just buy official copies of the GNU utility CDs... with full official docs for $5000
It would be fun to say you actually bought them from the FSF, and it cost them little to produce, so it's still mostly a donation. Plus they probably sell so few of those, it might be worth something in 50 years when GNU has taken over the world.
That's not really true. Almost all people would pay a reasonable price for something of value. Duplication services for bits and bytes are not value added services anymore. It's simple economics. The barrier to entry for CD and music duplication has already went to nearly zero, therefore the product value is near zero. The MPAA/RIAA want legislative barriers to entry to become stronger, since as far as free market economics go, they are obselete.
If you haven't already, read Right to Read It's by RMS, it is an almost eerie prediction that seems to be coming more and more true each day. This summarizes what most of us are seeing happen slowly.
IMO the potential for abuse of anonymous speech (e.g., false accusations) outweighs the value of anonymous speech
That's a BS assertion. I don't know if you were only making an observation of the value system that exists, or whether you were asserting it as valid, but in any case, anonymous speech that makes false accusations is not dangerous.
Any anonymous speech is automatically suspect, why should it hold any credibility on its face?
After all, if anonymous speech was given the same sway as non-anonymous speech, then everyone would know "GigsVT is a fag" and wouldn't question it. (Hi Mr Anonymous GigsVT troll!)
The end customer is more powerful than any CEO or board of directors. We are the top. If we don't spend our money on the company's good, they die. Big business doesn't hate the customer, it fears it.
Just because the source code is open doesn't mean the signature files would be any less secure than current signature files. I don't know what methods current virus scanners use to protect signatures from easy decoding, but we all know that security through obscurity is easily broken. I'd bet a simple memory debugger and a VMWare type environment could easily snarf any signatures from current virus products.
BTW- Timothy, I wasn't trolling, I just though it was funny that your story sat here for 3 hours without a post. No hard feelings.:)
<soapbox> A Libertarian would never pass any law to stifle the Internet, and would never let the government pass protectionist laws for corporate lobbies. </soapbox>
Just a note, John Warner is facing Libertarian Jacob Hornberger in Virginia in tomorrow's elections. John Warner is going to win, no Democrat is running.
This is a good chance to show your support for Libertarians if you are a Democrat, or a Republican, but you agree with what the Libertarians are saying about a lot of things. Your vote will almost definitely not change the outcome of the election, but rather than not voting in the race, why not send the politicians a message that they need to wake up and start listening to the people, or they risk losing to Libertarians.
A 10% Libertarian vote in this election will do just that. So hey, nothing to lose, just do it!
There is a movement to have all contracts written in plain language. As far as I know there are no uniform laws requiring it yet, but do a Google on "plain language contracts". There are some laws coming up in lending and other limited fields that require all contracts to be in "plain language" or "plain english". This movement is advocated by many consumer groups, and it does seem to be catching on.
In legal terms, the contract is revokable at the option of the minor. Most contracts with minors are this way except for a few exceptions, contracts for artistic work of the minor, sports, certain contracts for health care services to the minor. Emancipated or married minors can enter binding contracts as if they were adults normally also.
The thing is, since they said "You warrant that you are 18" in the contract, a minor cannot agree to it without making a material misrepresentation, so the contract is not binding to AA either. Either side can declare the contract null and void at any time, but neither is forced to.
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I guess browsers probably protect against recursive frames.
Sorta, though not deliberately, they are limited to something between 4-6 levels of nesting I believe... Same with nested tables.
Glass microspheres are fun to play with. You can order them from many places online. They sometimes act in surprising ways.
An example If you pour some on a glass of water (they float), they form a skin on top of the water.. you can then stick your finger down into the water, and withdraw it without your finger getting wet.
There's actually a pep-pill out there named "Truckers luv it".
Avon is like Amway, you can buy pretty much anything from them. A coworker sells this stuff, she got a computer from them once. It seems a little less scammy than Amway, the focus seems to be on actually selling stuff rather than recruiting new people.
Red LEDs are the cheapest per mcd of brightness. That's it. Highly technical, I know.
You realize that these "features" are some of the major things in MS Office that MS takes flak for, right?
If we can't have sex with it, blow it up, or make loads of cash off of it, we're just not interested.
:)
Inflatable dolls you can rent to your friends must be the most popular item ever them.
While you are correct, and sometimes the best answer is to look at the bigger picture, there is a definite pattern to Slashdot.
Whenever anything comes up, at least half the posts are why it won't work, or why it isn't a good idea. Some of the time it is valid, but a lot of the time it is stupid and baseless, especially regarding issues that most people know little about, such as highly specific scientific things.
People have called this "Slashdot Naysayer Syndrome". I think it's a problem. Know-it-all assholes with a negative attitude and no clue shouldn't get modded up so much.
It's not just Slashdot either, I see it in any field where the knowledge is specialized, but there are hobbyists or amateurs that are chewing into the field, causing the worth of the education/experience of the existing practicioners to be degraded.
Some examples are
law -the Internet has made basic legal research available to all
electricians - the DYI movement and "home stores" have chewed into their field as far as simple jobs go
programmers/computer people - to some extent... mostly older guys.. their expensive college degrees don't mean as much anymore
Ham Radio - The guys who had to learn high speed morse code really resent the late comers who didn't have to learn code as well
Basically... any time someone who had to work hard to get something perceives someone else getting the same thing with less work, they automatically try to discredit the new way, even if the new way is just as valid as the old way.
Sometimes these people have valid points... I mean you shouldn't try to defend your felony case without a lawyer, or wire up a complex 3 phase industrial circuit yourself... etc..
But a lot of the times these people are just being protectionist, elitest, assholes. This is a real problem.
throw things on the second monitor that aren't worthy of running right in front of your face all the time, (eg. winamp, trillian, task manager, etc.
This is what everyone with virtual desktops does.
one preview full-size image and one that you can zoom/pan around in and work on.
Graphics work is a definite score for two monitors, I agree. Most of the original dual monitor workstations in the 80s were CAD stuff with one monochrome and one high res, so they could see what they were working on in almost real time.
It sounds like you have never used virtual desktops. You should try it if you haven't before.
"Causing instability as usual"?
You only need one root server, there are 12 others. In fact, it safe to just wait until the next time you upgrade BIND or your operating system... running an out of date file won't hurt anything.
There was no reason to announce anything here. This is really a non-event.
Yeah, the last time I saw those guys, one of them threw catsup on me and then smashed a watermelon with a mallet.
Heh, If I ever had that kind of cash to donate to the FSF, I would just buy official copies of the GNU utility CDs... with full official docs for $5000
It would be fun to say you actually bought them from the FSF, and it cost them little to produce, so it's still mostly a donation. Plus they probably sell so few of those, it might be worth something in 50 years when GNU has taken over the world.
unsafe at any key length.
Nader might have to write a book about such a cipher.
That's not really true. Almost all people would pay a reasonable price for something of value. Duplication services for bits and bytes are not value added services anymore. It's simple economics. The barrier to entry for CD and music duplication has already went to nearly zero, therefore the product value is near zero. The MPAA/RIAA want legislative barriers to entry to become stronger, since as far as free market economics go, they are obselete.
If you haven't already, read Right to Read It's by RMS, it is an almost eerie prediction that seems to be coming more and more true each day. This summarizes what most of us are seeing happen slowly.
IMO the potential for abuse of anonymous speech (e.g., false accusations) outweighs the value of anonymous speech
That's a BS assertion. I don't know if you were only making an observation of the value system that exists, or whether you were asserting it as valid, but in any case, anonymous speech that makes false accusations is not dangerous.
Any anonymous speech is automatically suspect, why should it hold any credibility on its face?
After all, if anonymous speech was given the same sway as non-anonymous speech, then everyone would know "GigsVT is a fag" and wouldn't question it. (Hi Mr Anonymous GigsVT troll!)
The end customer is more powerful than any CEO or board of directors. We are the top. If we don't spend our money on the company's good, they die. Big business doesn't hate the customer, it fears it.
What are you talking about? Copyright is in the constitution, and therefore a Libretarian government would support it.
Hemos posted it.
Just because the source code is open doesn't mean the signature files would be any less secure than current signature files. I don't know what methods current virus scanners use to protect signatures from easy decoding, but we all know that security through obscurity is easily broken. I'd bet a simple memory debugger and a VMWare type environment could easily snarf any signatures from current virus products.
:)
BTW- Timothy, I wasn't trolling, I just though it was funny that your story sat here for 3 hours without a post. No hard feelings.
0-Libertarian.
Consider yourself informed.
<soapbox>
A Libertarian would never pass any law to stifle the Internet, and would never let the government pass protectionist laws for corporate lobbies.
</soapbox>
Just a note, John Warner is facing Libertarian Jacob Hornberger in Virginia in tomorrow's elections. John Warner is going to win, no Democrat is running.
This is a good chance to show your support for Libertarians if you are a Democrat, or a Republican, but you agree with what the Libertarians are saying about a lot of things. Your vote will almost definitely not change the outcome of the election, but rather than not voting in the race, why not send the politicians a message that they need to wake up and start listening to the people, or they risk losing to Libertarians.
A 10% Libertarian vote in this election will do just that. So hey, nothing to lose, just do it!
If Timothy posts a story and no one cares, does it ever get a post? :)
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There is a movement to have all contracts written in plain language. As far as I know there are no uniform laws requiring it yet, but do a Google on "plain language contracts". There are some laws coming up in lending and other limited fields that require all contracts to be in "plain language" or "plain english". This movement is advocated by many consumer groups, and it does seem to be catching on.
In legal terms, the contract is revokable at the option of the minor. Most contracts with minors are this way except for a few exceptions, contracts for artistic work of the minor, sports, certain contracts for health care services to the minor. Emancipated or married minors can enter binding contracts as if they were adults normally also.
The thing is, since they said "You warrant that you are 18" in the contract, a minor cannot agree to it without making a material misrepresentation, so the contract is not binding to AA either. Either side can declare the contract null and void at any time, but neither is forced to.
That's my understanding of it.
As always, IANAL. Not legal advice.