Wow, that's evil, even for Windows malware authors.
There fixed it for you. Other OS'es does better with WMA files in an ASF container with an MP3 extension. The inability to launch Internet Explorer is an added bonus. Remember to not browse as root. Delete broken files, and don't share them. This noise can be filtered.
Just be careful with that microwave oven. Those magnetrons can be dangerous.
Thanks for posting the warning. My post was humor. I used to repair the ovens in the electronics shop, so I am aware, however the causal reader of Slashdot should heed the warning. They typically operate at about 4KV. If the HV doesn't get you right away, the effects from exposure to the radiation or dust from a smashed magnetron could produce lasting lingering health problems.
Satellite dishes make excellent directional 802.11 antennas. Just remove the existing LNB from the dish and replace it with a homemade antenna, like a biquad, tuned for your band-of-interest (i.e. 2.4GHz ISM for wi-fi). Make sure you get a powerful (high RX sensitivity & high TX power) wireless card with an external antenna jack
Me looking at access log and seeing wireless hack attempts... Looks at old C band dish and old microwave oven.. Hmm let's scan for the intruder and see if that laptop likes a KW of focused power in the WiFi band!
Wouldn't you mean 'how long was copyright when the code was developed'?
Good question. For the answer, it doesn't matter. Ask the same question of Walt Disney about Mickey Mouse. It's the same copyright law. I think Mickey is older than Apple Basic.
Such as? I mean, that's quite the claim, but strangely, you haven't provided links or references to back it up.
Have you not been paying attention? The dispute on the influence of the SUN and whatever is also warming Mars. Sorry, I didn't think it needed spelled out.
A scientist has disproven (in his theory) that the heating on Mars is from atmospheric dust from winds. What causes wind? How did the wind die down for the dust to settle and the ice caps form? Why isn't it the same today?
In short, it's warmer. What caused it? That's in dispute both here and on Mars.
I think that at least the basic interpreter should be taught to the new generations.
To rain on the parade, I wonder if there is a copyright violation in posting the code online un-edited. How long is copyright nowdays?
It's something we need to address in this age of IP property where the market has expired years ago but the copyright is in force for many more decades.
Ooooh, so it's a conspiracy amongst the media, scientists and governments of the world. Man, why didn't I think of that!
Check out the US Government Grant program to study Global Warming. This was paid research with millions of dollars spent for the study of Man made Global Warming. If you follow the money, it comes from funded research. The Scientests you refer to had a strong conflict of interest. The resulting conclusions were predictable and little other research was funded for other causes. I can produce grants to prove lighing matches in the gymnasium causes warming of the gym. I'm not ready to ban birthday cakes because it will overheat the gym.
"What do we know? Images of Mars suggest that between 1999 and 2005, some of the frozen carbon dioxide that covers the south polar region turned into gas (sublimated). This may be the result of the whole planet warming (see Mars images hint at recent climate swings)."
We know the fact is that Mars and the Earth has warmed over the same period. If not the Sun, I'm open for a reasonable explanation. Mars and Earth are in adjacent orbits. Maybe it's frictional heating from passing dark mater. What ever is changing Mars is probably changing Earth.
Here's what we know (for sure) about global warming: Increases in atmospheric CO2 cause warming. Man has been increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. The Earth has been warming.
Here is something else we know about global warming.
Sun cycles cause Global Warming and cooling. In past cycles, the CO2 in the atmosphere was at elevated levels. The elevated levels were due to warmer oceans releasing CO2 as they warm. (CO2 levels followed heating, not led it) Our Global Warming cycle is the same as the Global Warmming cycle on Mars. My theory is our greenhouse gasses are not responsible for the warming on Mars, but I have no way to prove it one way or another. I also believe that what ever is causing the Mars global warming is also impacting our global warming to a great degree. I believe most of our warming is from the Sun a known common source of heat for both planets.
What is not known is how much influence we really have on Global Warming. Our impact may be the same as holding a lit lighter in a room and blaming it for the recent rise in room temprature even though it is July. In January, let me know if the lit lighter overheated the room.
Personally I think walking causes air movement (called wind) and hurricanes are the result of too much wind, therefore I should stay seated and type on Slashdot lest I destroy New Orleans agan.
Somebody gets it. The reduction in CO2 is simply controlled by cutting off the fuel. This is done by taxing it out of sight or rationing with "Carbon Credits" Seriously, think about it. Long haul trucking.. Rationed fuel. Homeowners, rationed electricity and gas. I think somebody was looking beyond cutting CO2 emissions and looking at it's impact.
Nothing that comes from a farm, is shipped in, or is produced would be free from restrictions and cost increases. Not all IT guys are ready to plow up their yard by hand at the apartment complex and grow all their own fuel and food in their yard.
I don't think you want to remove sourceforge in it's entirety (or any other resource site that distributes files in archives)... which would be the next step if you think people are too stupid to download a single executable that contains what they were looking to download.
I prefer the option to open an archive and extract the files without running the.exe self extractor. I often opt for a.deb or.tar.gz file instead of an.exe.
One of the characteristic sights on New York City streets is big tanks of liquid nitrogen standing on the sidewalk, steaming away, with lines running from them down a manhole. Why? Because, iirc, many of the telephone company switching systems already run supercooled and when a repair needs to be done they need supplementary chilling.
Actualy many of these tanks are there to supply pressurised dry nitrogen into telephone cables to keep moisture out or dry cable that has gotten moisture in them. Plain PVC insulation on telephone wire conductors will become slightly conductive when wet creating a leakage path that is often very noisy. If you ever used a phone that tended to whistle, pop, click and have other noise on it, it is often from a wet line. The the worst case, the leakage is bad enough to produce an off hook condition preventing you from receiving calls and corroding the conductors.
The thick outer jacket on the phone wire is HDPE which is highly water resistant, but almost all plastics allow some moisture migration. Sometime installation will snag an underground cable and damage the outer jacket or rodents use it as a chew toy.
And, no, long distance transmission lines are most decidedly NOT DC in the U.S. Now,
There is an exception..
On the West Coast is one of the longest DC transmission lines. It runs from near The Dalls Oregon on the Columbia River to within about 60 Miles of Los Angeles in Southern California. It is 846 miles long
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie "A 1,362 kilometer (846 mile) overhead transmission line consisting of two uninsulated conductors 1,171 mm2 containing a steel wire core for strength."
Nobody should be allowed to just drop a legal case with no penalty after three years.
Actually, it's not in the court records, but in their bottom line, the dammage will run much longer than 3 years.
Nobody likes to sup with the devil. The dammage to their PR is huge and long lasting. In the heyday of Napster, sales were up. In the heyday of the litigation campaign, the major CD retailiers are folding. Tower Records, and many other retailers are gone. Many retailers have shifted to carying a large inventory to shifting to video games and DVD's. (MPAA is not in as much PR goo as RIAA).
I haven't bought a new retail CD in years, and that will continue until this mess is over. (online tracks same thing)
The tactile feedback is great on those. With a slow RTTY or serial setting, they would lock keys until the earlier keypress is scanned and encoded. You don't have to wait for the Cowboy Neil whoa messages on Slashdot.
These were a great improvement over the Model 28 which was 5 bit. The shift in and shift out were a pain and a missing shift for punctuation and back created a bunch of gibberish. WITH ONE OF THEM IT WAS HARD TO LOG INTO LINUX AS THERE IS NO LOWERCASE,
If you buy the $5-$10keyboards, then yes, they are problematic in that they don't last long
The problme with most membrane switches is the limited life. The rubber is not conductive. The pads on the rubber is conductive, but it is not a low resistance. With age the contact cunductive surface begins to flake, wear, etc. With a full keystroke and a light touch, the results are tactile feedback for keystrokes that did not make a solid connection. Dirt and moisture accelerate the problem.
The Model M on the other hand does not use switches. There is no contact wear, corrosion of contacts, high resistance, or conductive rubber wear.
The Model M is a capacitance switch keyboard. No electrical contact is required. When the bucking spring drops the actuator, it's presence is detected by the change in capacitance regardless of any change in "contact resistance". This lack of change in electrical properties over time is why they have such a high relibility rating. If the key clicks, it input the keystroke, unlike many membrane keyboards which requre proofreading to check for mssing leters. Contact bounce is often corrected in the keyboard encoder, so only the severest electrical failures create ddouble keyprress problems. Most problems are related to mising keystrokes. Read some of my old posts and you can tell when I posted at work, as that is the posts with IE without spellcheck and the membrane keypad that often leaves out the random keystroke.
Above double stroke and missing letters are intententional and for example of typical keyboard problems. Tactile feedback is often wrong with membrane keyboards.
The only problem I have with a model M is it doesn't correct my bad spelling and typos.
I suspect they will follow the customers and the money.
So there's actually very little of the company whose business model is compatible with open source licensing.
As they watch their pie slice shrink and then shrink rapidly as open source get a solid foothold, they will have little choice.
I prefer legal software. In comparing licenses, the one that permits legal installation on all the machines in my home vs a one license one machine restriction, a slightly differing interface becomes easy to trade to reject BSA threats.
MS will have to effectively compete, sue like crazy, or shrink.
They are attempting to compete and lock-in, but are failing while OSS expands. It's not just the Unix servers in the target zone anymore. The battle for the desktop is beginning.
It does contain news -- the news that the current melting rate of the polar ice is the highest recorded.
I'm wondering what is happening to lower latitude glaciers and snowpack. I am wondering if it is time to start looking for some disputed bible evidence, such as the search for Noah's ark. Rumor has it that it's buried in ice on Mt. Ararat.
It would be interesting if the evidence would support the biblical story as many world religions all claim the great flood and Noah and the ark.
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Wow, that's evil, even for malware authors.
Wow, that's evil, even for Windows malware authors.
There fixed it for you. Other OS'es does better with WMA files in an ASF container with an MP3 extension. The inability to launch Internet Explorer is an added bonus. Remember to not browse as root. Delete broken files, and don't share them. This noise can be filtered.
Just be careful with that microwave oven. Those magnetrons can be dangerous.
Thanks for posting the warning. My post was humor. I used to repair the ovens in the electronics shop, so I am aware, however the causal reader of Slashdot should heed the warning. They typically operate at about 4KV. If the HV doesn't get you right away, the effects from exposure to the radiation or dust from a smashed magnetron could produce lasting lingering health problems.
Hmm. Could you point this across the bulk of your city and pick up the Starbucks wifi?
Why mess with subscription WiFi when there is so much unsecured WiFi in apartment complexes and residential towers.
Most are taller than a typical Starbucks and easer to hit. Scan for SSID of Linksys or Dlink
Satellite dishes make excellent directional 802.11 antennas.
Just remove the existing LNB from the dish and replace it with a homemade antenna, like a biquad, tuned for your band-of-interest (i.e. 2.4GHz ISM for wi-fi). Make sure you get a powerful (high RX sensitivity & high TX power) wireless card with an external antenna jack
Me looking at access log and seeing wireless hack attempts... Looks at old C band dish and old microwave oven.. Hmm let's scan for the intruder and see if that laptop likes a KW of focused power in the WiFi band!
Wouldn't you mean 'how long was copyright when the code was developed'?
Good question. For the answer, it doesn't matter. Ask the same question of Walt Disney about Mickey Mouse. It's the same copyright law. I think Mickey is older than Apple Basic.
Such as? I mean, that's quite the claim, but strangely, you haven't provided links or references to back it up.
Have you not been paying attention? The dispute on the influence of the SUN and whatever is also warming Mars. Sorry, I didn't think it needed spelled out.
A scientist has disproven (in his theory) that the heating on Mars is from atmospheric dust from winds. What causes wind? How did the wind die down for the dust to settle and the ice caps form? Why isn't it the same today?
In short, it's warmer. What caused it? That's in dispute both here and on Mars.
I think that at least the basic interpreter should be taught to the new generations.
To rain on the parade, I wonder if there is a copyright violation in posting the code online un-edited. How long is copyright nowdays?
It's something we need to address in this age of IP property where the market has expired years ago but the copyright is in force for many more decades.
Ooooh, so it's a conspiracy amongst the media, scientists and governments of the world. Man, why didn't I think of that!
Check out the US Government Grant program to study Global Warming. This was paid research with millions of dollars spent for the study of Man made Global Warming. If you follow the money, it comes from funded research. The Scientests you refer to had a strong conflict of interest. The resulting conclusions were predictable and little other research was funded for other causes. I can produce grants to prove lighing matches in the gymnasium causes warming of the gym. I'm not ready to ban birthday cakes because it will overheat the gym.
Yes, I am ready to back up my claim before you dismiss me as a troll;
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Grants+for+Global+Warming+research
Do the research. Most of the studies and scientific conclusions was from grant money. Independant study most often has other conclusions.
The Mars myth was debunked a long time ago...
From your linked article;
"What do we know? Images of Mars suggest that between 1999 and 2005, some of the frozen carbon dioxide that covers the south polar region turned into gas (sublimated). This may be the result of the whole planet warming (see Mars images hint at recent climate swings)."
We know the fact is that Mars and the Earth has warmed over the same period. If not the Sun, I'm open for a reasonable explanation. Mars and Earth are in adjacent orbits. Maybe it's frictional heating from passing dark mater. What ever is changing Mars is probably changing Earth.
Aren't we at solar minimum right now?
Yes, and a cooling down has started. Didn't you notice last winter?
Next Question.
Cause and effect.
Here's what we know (for sure) about global warming:
Increases in atmospheric CO2 cause warming.
Man has been increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
The Earth has been warming.
Here is something else we know about global warming.
Sun cycles cause Global Warming and cooling.
In past cycles, the CO2 in the atmosphere was at elevated levels. The elevated levels were due to warmer oceans releasing CO2 as they warm. (CO2 levels followed heating, not led it)
Our Global Warming cycle is the same as the Global Warmming cycle on Mars.
My theory is our greenhouse gasses are not responsible for the warming on Mars, but I have no way to prove it one way or another. I also believe that what ever is causing the Mars global warming is also impacting our global warming to a great degree. I believe most of our warming is from the Sun a known common source of heat for both planets.
What is not known is how much influence we really have on Global Warming. Our impact may be the same as holding a lit lighter in a room and blaming it for the recent rise in room temprature even though it is July. In January, let me know if the lit lighter overheated the room.
Personally I think walking causes air movement (called wind) and hurricanes are the result of too much wind, therefore I should stay seated and type on Slashdot lest I destroy New Orleans agan.
That is, after all, the gravity of the situation.
Somebody gets it. The reduction in CO2 is simply controlled by cutting off the fuel. This is done by taxing it out of sight or rationing with "Carbon Credits" Seriously, think about it. Long haul trucking.. Rationed fuel. Homeowners, rationed electricity and gas. I think somebody was looking beyond cutting CO2 emissions and looking at it's impact.
Nothing that comes from a farm, is shipped in, or is produced would be free from restrictions and cost increases. Not all IT guys are ready to plow up their yard by hand at the apartment complex and grow all their own fuel and food in their yard.
I am sure that qualifies him to run antivirus. Right?
I'm not so sure. Every week he drops that radioactive bolt in the street. Won't he ever learn?
I don't think you want to remove sourceforge in it's entirety (or any other resource site that distributes files in archives)... which would be the next step if you think people are too stupid to download a single executable that contains what they were looking to download.
I prefer the option to open an archive and extract the files without running the .exe self extractor. I often opt for a .deb or .tar.gz file instead of an .exe.
I love Ubuntu. Often a photo or video online results in the what do you want to do with this .exe file? Save or Cancel.
Sometimes AV software has to try to eject malware after it ran. On Ubuntu, it doesn't run.
Any installer needing admin privilages aslo fail. I don't browse as admin.
One of the characteristic sights on New York City streets is big tanks of liquid nitrogen standing on the sidewalk, steaming away, with lines running from them down a manhole. Why? Because, iirc, many of the telephone company switching systems already run supercooled and when a repair needs to be done they need supplementary chilling.
Actualy many of these tanks are there to supply pressurised dry nitrogen into telephone cables to keep moisture out or dry cable that has gotten moisture in them. Plain PVC insulation on telephone wire conductors will become slightly conductive when wet creating a leakage path that is often very noisy. If you ever used a phone that tended to whistle, pop, click and have other noise on it, it is often from a wet line. The the worst case, the leakage is bad enough to produce an off hook condition preventing you from receiving calls and corroding the conductors.
The thick outer jacket on the phone wire is HDPE which is highly water resistant, but almost all plastics allow some moisture migration. Sometime installation will snag an underground cable and damage the outer jacket or rodents use it as a chew toy.
And, no, long distance transmission lines are most decidedly NOT DC in the U.S. Now,
There is an exception..
On the West Coast is one of the longest DC transmission lines. It runs from near The Dalls Oregon on the Columbia River to within about 60 Miles of Los Angeles in Southern California. It is 846 miles long
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie
"A 1,362 kilometer (846 mile) overhead transmission line consisting of two uninsulated conductors 1,171 mm2 containing a steel wire core for strength."
China has the US beat with over 7KM of DC lines.
Nobody should be allowed to just drop a legal case with no penalty after three years.
Actually, it's not in the court records, but in their bottom line, the dammage will run much longer than 3 years.
Nobody likes to sup with the devil. The dammage to their PR is huge and long lasting. In the heyday of Napster, sales were up. In the heyday of the litigation campaign, the major CD retailiers are folding. Tower Records, and many other retailers are gone. Many retailers have shifted to carying a large inventory to shifting to video games and DVD's. (MPAA is not in as much PR goo as RIAA).
I haven't bought a new retail CD in years, and that will continue until this mess is over. (online tracks same thing)
Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband"
Most common reason common to both... Users of both types don't want high prices.
Giving a real, existing address to the scum of the earth can't be good for your health. Why didn't they set her up a PO Box or something?
With rising fuel oil costs, this may be the answer. Free fuel delivered to your door for your fireplace.
I wonder how long it will take spammers to catch on. It could be nice while it lasts.
The tactile feedback is great on those. With a slow RTTY or serial setting, they would lock keys until the earlier keypress is scanned and encoded. You don't have to wait for the Cowboy Neil whoa messages on Slashdot.
These were a great improvement over the Model 28 which was 5 bit. The shift in and shift out were a pain and a missing shift for punctuation and back created a bunch of gibberish. WITH ONE OF THEM IT WAS HARD TO LOG INTO LINUX AS THERE IS NO LOWERCASE,
If you buy the $5-$10keyboards, then yes, they are problematic in that they don't last long
The problme with most membrane switches is the limited life. The rubber is not conductive. The pads on the rubber is conductive, but it is not a low resistance. With age the contact cunductive surface begins to flake, wear, etc. With a full keystroke and a light touch, the results are tactile feedback for keystrokes that did not make a solid connection. Dirt and moisture accelerate the problem.
The Model M on the other hand does not use switches. There is no contact wear, corrosion of contacts, high resistance, or conductive rubber wear.
The Model M is a capacitance switch keyboard. No electrical contact is required. When the bucking spring drops the actuator, it's presence is detected by the change in capacitance regardless of any change in "contact resistance". This lack of change in electrical properties over time is why they have such a high relibility rating. If the key clicks, it input the keystroke, unlike many membrane keyboards which requre proofreading to check for mssing leters. Contact bounce is often corrected in the keyboard encoder, so only the severest electrical failures create ddouble keyprress problems. Most problems are related to mising keystrokes. Read some of my old posts and you can tell when I posted at work, as that is the posts with IE without spellcheck and the membrane keypad that often leaves out the random keystroke.
Above double stroke and missing letters are intententional and for example of typical keyboard problems. Tactile feedback is often wrong with membrane keyboards.
The only problem I have with a model M is it doesn't correct my bad spelling and typos.
Is that a metric elephant or imperial?
Neither, African or Asian. Learn your units of measure!
I suspect they will follow the customers and the money.
So there's actually very little of the company whose business model is compatible with open source licensing.
As they watch their pie slice shrink and then shrink rapidly as open source get a solid foothold, they will have little choice.
I prefer legal software. In comparing licenses, the one that permits legal installation on all the machines in my home vs a one license one machine restriction, a slightly differing interface becomes easy to trade to reject BSA threats.
MS will have to effectively compete, sue like crazy, or shrink.
They are attempting to compete and lock-in, but are failing while OSS expands. It's not just the Unix servers in the target zone anymore. The battle for the desktop is beginning.
It does contain news -- the news that the current melting rate of the polar ice is the highest recorded.
I'm wondering what is happening to lower latitude glaciers and snowpack. I am wondering if it is time to start looking for some disputed bible evidence, such as the search for Noah's ark. Rumor has it that it's buried in ice on Mt. Ararat.
It would be interesting if the evidence would support the biblical story as many world religions all claim the great flood and Noah and the ark.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076182/
http://www.pbase.com/andrys/noah
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/0427_040427_noahsark.html