I just scanned in a 10 dollar US bill (With Photoshop 6) and then saved it as jpeg, and then tried to open it with Photoshop CS. As far as I could tell, there was no problem opening it.
If you try to pass fake US banknotes in the US and you get busted, you'll go to jail for many years. It's far easier and safer to print a fake currency of some kind with greek-ish letters and some kind of drawing that could pass for a banknote's face, go to some small city bank and try to pass them as Euros and get them exchanged. Most of these little backward banks don't know what a Euro looks like, let alone big notes, and even if they did, they'd think it's been printed by one of the newer European countries or something. You can even use Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck on the counterfeit notes' face, so if you're busted, you can claim it was a joke.
"You silly kniggit. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries. Now go away or I shall taunt you a second tahme."
So far, I've understood most Slashdot trolls, being about gay people of different ethnies, any of the Slashdot crew supposedly doing perverted things or exercising censorship, nazis, fecal matter-related statements of various kinds, things happening to you in soviet russia, ascii drawings, leet talk and even purposedly broken english. Meaning, I understand there nothing to understand beyond the fact that it comes from teenagers, but at least I comprehend the words.
So could someone enlighten me : what the hell is that "on teh spoke" thing ?
A top tip (tm) is to embed a web bug in a job aplication e-mail. Its interseting to watch your aplication being pushed around various departments and see who actually reads it.
Yes, it's very interesting. For example, here's the log of all the machines who accessed my web bug when applied for a job at the DHS: frontdesk.dhs.gov hr.dhs.gov check.dhs.gov ch eck.ins.gov check.irs.org it.dhs.org counterter rorism.dhs.org legal.dhs.org submitsubpoena.aol. com bust.usmarshals.gov
There's also a decent breakdown of the company's balance sheet and some quotes from company officials
Here it is, for your viewing enjoyment: +56.00 1 x Uniware license w/ rebate -700.00 1 x 1 hour, law firm -1500.00 1 x law firm, misc. -89100.65 10000 x threatening letter photocopies, envelopes and stamps - 23000.00 1 x Blake stowel xmas bonus - 100000.00 1 x Darl McBride xmas bonus +699.00 1 x SCO license -450.99 1 x christmas meal for law firm's Dachsund - 5000.00 2 x conference call with law firm - 1500000.00 4 x Payol^H^H^H^H^HReturn on investment for Canopy execs +9.99 1 x mail-in rebate for postage scale
Terrorist: ok , if you dont find a way within the next minute to turn it off then we torture this 6year old girl slowly in front of you until you do find a way
Call me a heartless bastard, but I'll take the torture of one 6 year old girl over thousands of deaths and countless little girls tortured for life by the sudden violent slaughter of their parents any day. And that's not even counting the financial disaster, and the country- and world-wide consequences of a voluntary plane crash, such as the paranoia, warmonging and world-peace-threatening attitude of the government of the country that was hit.
Gee man, Beagle2 has already been scared into not uploading its Blur musical tune by the RIAA, you don't think NASA will risk antagonizing them too do you?
someone will probably have to provide the information behind these magic new URLs like UPC:3466745689.
In that case, the manufacturer would be a good bet...
Bet again.
UPCs are provided to manufacturers by the UCC (United Code Council). If you pay enough money, you can have access to their entire up-to-date database. If you don't want to pay, you can try sites like the UPC database, but they lack many entries.
The internet (IP-based, as we know it) is only a complement to other forms of coummications. Phone-style networks that are switched and provide a virtually copper wire from one person to another (or several) is there to stay, because it provides constant, low latency. Postal services are there to stay as well because they can transport physical good (that can be information too).
The only thing missing is a secure network. That's the fourth element that's really missing. If people had a secure network, they could vote and pay online. Current over-IP methods aren't good enough, and don't provide the sense of security needed. over-the-phone solutions aren't very secure either.
The closest thing to a secure network I can think of it France's government-run X25 network, that powers the national Minitel network, that is inaccessible to anybody but authorised France Telecom personel, and runs completely separate from the internet. In fact, it was there before the internet. People in France use it massively to order and pay for things online, and some exams, notably the amateur radio exam, is taken on the Minitel too. Many people predicted the death of the Minitel because it's slow (1200/75 bauds) and very expensive (0.34 EUR / minute) but it's still around and going strong because people trust it, with good reasons.
Once we have (1) the internet for most mundane data transfers, (2) the phone services, (3) the postal services and (4) the secure network, then people's habit will really change. As long as the secure network is missing, I don't think the internet alone will change much of anything.
and let's not forget perls of the past such as "the information superhighway will revolutionize people's way of living", the "global village", the "new economy", "fridges will all be connected to the world wide web and will order food for you automatically".
Why do I always picture half-drunken bar patrons reinventing the world in front of a beer when I hear about the DHS talking about things they don't have much of a clue about?
few birds be damned -- lets look at the bigger picture
As a lovely woodpecker who's currently undergoing treatment in a small padded cage for psychological disorders following a close encounter with a huge wind turbine several years ago, I resent that remark.
SCO's staff will have to look for other jobs sooner or later, and most within the Unix/GNU/Linux community
I think it's safe to assume that (1) probably not many people at SCO have much expertise except legal, (2) SCO's former Linux experts may not want to try getting hired by IBM or SuSE, or they might become eligible for disability in very short order.
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I just scanned in a 10 dollar US bill (With Photoshop 6) and then saved it as jpeg, and then tried to open it with Photoshop CS. As far as I could tell, there was no problem opening it.
Maybe your $10 bill is a fake?
If you try to pass fake US banknotes in the US and you get busted, you'll go to jail for many years. It's far easier and safer to print a fake currency of some kind with greek-ish letters and some kind of drawing that could pass for a banknote's face, go to some small city bank and try to pass them as Euros and get them exchanged. Most of these little backward banks don't know what a Euro looks like, let alone big notes, and even if they did, they'd think it's been printed by one of the newer European countries or something. You can even use Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck on the counterfeit notes' face, so if you're busted, you can claim it was a joke.
Seems this latest version of Adobe's flagship product has the built-in ability to detect that an image is of American currency
...
In other news: counterfeiters worldwide embrasse free software, the Gimp to receive funding from certain american-italian associations
What's with the anti-french sentiments?
Know thy history:
"You silly kniggit. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries. Now go away or I shall taunt you a second tahme."
Off topic, but I just have to ask:
So far, I've understood most Slashdot trolls, being about gay people of different ethnies, any of the Slashdot crew supposedly doing perverted things or exercising censorship, nazis, fecal matter-related statements of various kinds, things happening to you in soviet russia, ascii drawings, leet talk and even purposedly broken english. Meaning, I understand there nothing to understand beyond the fact that it comes from teenagers, but at least I comprehend the words.
So could someone enlighten me : what the hell is that "on teh spoke" thing ?
the new model will differ slightly from the previous 20G one - for example, the 40G player will be 3 mm thicker and 12 grams heavier.
and have a 40G drive instead of a 20G?
A top tip (tm) is to embed a web bug in a job aplication e-mail. Its interseting to watch your aplication being pushed around various departments and see who actually reads it.
h eck.ins.govr rorism.dhs.org. com
Yes, it's very interesting. For example, here's the log of all the machines who accessed my web bug when applied for a job at the DHS:
frontdesk.dhs.gov
hr.dhs.gov
check.dhs.gov
c
check.irs.org
it.dhs.org
counterte
legal.dhs.org
submitsubpoena.aol
bust.usmarshals.gov
brb 2 secs, someone's at the door...
It contained a program that automatically sent back a response to Best Buy after the company sent a message to the e-mail address.
So I think it's safe to assume that (1) Ray Sixpack was running Windows and (2) Feds have the right to create and use email viruses legally.
Yahoo! plans to dump Google as its primary search technology.
It was convenient to be able to googlewash several search engines at the same time.
There's also a decent breakdown of the company's balance sheet and some quotes from company officials
Here it is, for your viewing enjoyment:
+56.00 1 x Uniware license w/ rebate
-700.00 1 x 1 hour, law firm
-1500.00 1 x law firm, misc.
-89100.65 10000 x threatening letter photocopies, envelopes and stamps
- 23000.00 1 x Blake stowel xmas bonus
- 100000.00 1 x Darl McBride xmas bonus
+699.00 1 x SCO license
-450.99 1 x christmas meal for law firm's Dachsund
- 5000.00 2 x conference call with law firm
- 1500000.00 4 x Payol^H^H^H^H^HReturn on investment for Canopy execs
+9.99 1 x mail-in rebate for postage scale
Company officials statement:
Are we the greatest company in the world or what?
Terrorist: ok , if you dont find a way within the next minute to turn it off then we torture this 6year old girl slowly in front of you until you do find a way
Call me a heartless bastard, but I'll take the torture of one 6 year old girl over thousands of deaths and countless little girls tortured for life by the sudden violent slaughter of their parents any day. And that's not even counting the financial disaster, and the country- and world-wide consequences of a voluntary plane crash, such as the paranoia, warmonging and world-peace-threatening attitude of the government of the country that was hit.
Grandma is not in control of her new Windows XP box
...
:-)
Hell, Windows XP isn't fully in control of the box itself
I find it amusing that you illustrate your point about security with a Windows example
So does visiting the site apparently:
This document contains no data
And could someone post a torrent file?
Gee man, Beagle2 has already been scared into not uploading its Blur musical tune by the RIAA, you don't think NASA will risk antagonizing them too do you?
A very good program to take up if you're one of the folks working with the Beagle2.
I think they should take this up instead.
Anyone can download Maestro for free from mars.telascience.org and use it to follow along with the rovers' progress during the mission.
Thanks to Slashdot, downloading Maestro also provides a vividly real simulation of the long months of space travel between Earth and Mars.
someone will probably have to provide the information behind these magic new URLs like UPC:3466745689.
In that case, the manufacturer would be a good bet...
Bet again.
UPCs are provided to manufacturers by the UCC (United Code Council). If you pay enough money, you can have access to their entire up-to-date database. If you don't want to pay, you can try sites like the UPC database, but they lack many entries.
The internet (IP-based, as we know it) is only a complement to other forms of coummications. Phone-style networks that are switched and provide a virtually copper wire from one person to another (or several) is there to stay, because it provides constant, low latency. Postal services are there to stay as well because they can transport physical good (that can be information too).
The only thing missing is a secure network. That's the fourth element that's really missing. If people had a secure network, they could vote and pay online. Current over-IP methods aren't good enough, and don't provide the sense of security needed. over-the-phone solutions aren't very secure either.
The closest thing to a secure network I can think of it France's government-run X25 network, that powers the national Minitel network, that is inaccessible to anybody but authorised France Telecom personel, and runs completely separate from the internet. In fact, it was there before the internet. People in France use it massively to order and pay for things online, and some exams, notably the amateur radio exam, is taken on the Minitel too. Many people predicted the death of the Minitel because it's slow (1200/75 bauds) and very expensive (0.34 EUR / minute) but it's still around and going strong because people trust it, with good reasons.
Once we have (1) the internet for most mundane data transfers, (2) the phone services, (3) the postal services and (4) the secure network, then people's habit will really change. As long as the secure network is missing, I don't think the internet alone will change much of anything.
What is this, the third "I, Vint Cerf, Creator of the Internet
I'll second that. What a liar!
-- Al Gore
I can't remember the last time I've had human contact that wasn't over a computer
I do it over the photocopier myself
and let's not forget perls of the past such as "the information superhighway will revolutionize people's way of living", the "global village", the "new economy", "fridges will all be connected to the world wide web and will order food for you automatically".
Visionary my foot
Would OSS have to be writen entirely by licensed developers to be considered secure?
I'm sure glad the DHS steps in and prevents all those 1ee7 uncontrolled hackers from creating evil unlicensed, software that aren't secure.
Why do I always picture half-drunken bar patrons reinventing the world in front of a beer when I hear about the DHS talking about things they don't have much of a clue about?
few birds be damned -- lets look at the bigger picture
As a lovely woodpecker who's currently undergoing treatment in a small padded cage for psychological disorders following a close encounter with a huge wind turbine several years ago, I resent that remark.
Love,
Woody.
a friend worked at anderson accounting
Looks like he fooled you too with his previous work experience. I thought he might have worked for Andersen Consulting for a moment.
SCO's staff will have to look for other jobs sooner or later, and most within the Unix/GNU/Linux community
I think it's safe to assume that (1) probably not many people at SCO have much expertise except legal, (2) SCO's former Linux experts may not want to try getting hired by IBM or SuSE, or they might become eligible for disability in very short order.