$9.50 per person? That's cheap compared with Londons West End cinemas which charge twice that (£11 per person = $20), plus booking fee if you book online.
If you select 'prostitution' you can check out the best areas to go to pick up a hooker. Not that this is of any use to me as I'm a) not single and b) not in the US.
I know a journalist who did a lot of research into DeBeers and wrote a number of articles and a book about them was attacked and systematically beaten up, which necessitated a stay in hospital for several months.
Other companies doing research into artificial diamonds have claimed that they believe that their senior employees could be targets for assasination.
Think about how much the diamond industry is worth, and the lengths that some people might be prepared to go to in order to protect it.
It's hardly going to be a threat to iTunes. The DRM WMA files won't play on ipods, which have over 80% of the hard disk player market and 58% of the flash player market.
At the time that this was released, I was working on a project for streaming audio and video over fibre networks for a Imperial College in London (which is Britains top tech university). I downloaded the real player client and reverse engineered the protocol. To test it, I also downloaded a REM track off the net in.mp2 format. Yes, mp2 not mp3. This probably made me one of the first illegal music downloaders on the net. I wrote streaming software for DEC Alpha unix boxes and got thoroughly sick of hearing "Losing my religion" over and over and over again.
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Is anyone going to be stupid enough to respond to this one?
It does sound like it. You'd need a DSL or cable connection with a static IP address, or rent space on a server and use that as an email gateway (which is what I do).
That's the whole point of this system. It tries to match the IP address of the sender to their domain name. If this is successful then the mail is classed as genuine and delivered. If it can't (i.e the sender is an 0wned PC), then it sends a challenge/response email back to the senders email address (not to the zombie PC). If the sender is genuine they click a button on the challenge/response email and the original mail gets accepted.
As someone else pointed out, this could be used to DDOS someone by using a zombie net sending spam purporting to come from them. They'd then get innundated with challenge/reponse emails. Not nice.
Moderators, parent post is not insightful, it is clueless. It doesn't depend on the spammer being honest. It depends on the spammer being dishonest. For actual information about how this system works see IBMs web page about it: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/fairuce
This is a duplicate of http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/04/204 7246&tid=111&tid=185&tid=95
However, the CNN story referenced seems to be utterly clueless as to how this technology, known as FairUCE, actually works. It really is nothing like they have described it. For real information go to IBM's page: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/fairuce
This system does not try to DDOS the spammers, or anything stupid like that. It attempts to link the IP address of the sender to the senders domain name using DNS and WHOIS lookups. If that fails, it sends a challenge/response email to the sender.
Wrong. Top Gear without Jeremy Clarkson is like a sandwich without a piece of shit inside it.
Moderator hint: No this comment is not a troll, or insightful or informative. Yes it is flamebait. It may be funny depending on your view of Jeremy Clarkson (obnoxious British TV presenter).
If I were Bill Gates, I would simply pull all of my product out of Europe and laugh at them.
Yes, but you're not Bill Gates. Microsoft is interested in global domination. As I pointed out in my earlier post, the EU is BIGGER than the US. Why would Microsoft pull out of their biggest market? It would hurt them immensely and their shareholders certainly wouldn't like it.
Do you realise how much this would hurt Microsoft? Did you actually know that the EU is a bigger market than the US? There's no way that Microsoft are going to cease activities here. From the CIA world factbook:
Population: US 293,027,571 (July 2004 est), EU 456,285,839 (July 2004 est). So more people who could potentially use their software at home and work.
Internet users: US 159 million (2002), EU 206 million (2004). So there's probably more internet users in the EU, though the US figure is out of date.
GDP: US $10.99 trillion, EU $11.05 trillion (2004 est.) Not much difference there.
In the system, a rooftop collector concentrates and sends sunlight through optical fibers, tubes made of special, high-purity material that transmit light by reflecting it down their inner walls.
Today's headline: Volcano shoots steam and ash. Tomorrow's headline: Bears found defecating in woods Friday's headline: Pope discovered to be a Catholic.
Same here. I don't own a TV or watch it (except at work - I work for a major rival of the BBC), but I do use the BBC web pages, especially news.bbc.co.uk every day. By 2017 all broadcasting will be digital and the lines between PC and TV will probably have blurred much more than they are at the moment. I don't think that the licence fee in it's current form will continue past 2017, but it will be up to whoever is in government then (not now) to decide what will replace it.
I upgraded to 2.6.10 yesterday (with typically bad timing) and had no problems with the Nvidia drivers. I compiled them, rebooted and X.org appeared in all its glory. This was on a gentoo system. Have you got the latest version of the drivers from Nvidia?
My girlfriend is a H2G2 fan too, though I doubt that she's ever used Linux. I keep her well away from my gentoo box. She discovered H2G2 when looking through her dad's book collection for something interesting to read, and loved Douglas Adam's humour.
If you'd shorted their stock when it was above $20, you would have made a killing. It's flattened out now, so shorting is too risky, unless it's someone else's money.
You're right. If you read the actual text of the ruling the judge says that a partial summary judgement at this stage would be easy for SCO to appeal and that's why he's denying it. He does make it very clear that SCO HAVE NO EVIDENCE!
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$9.50 per person? That's cheap compared with Londons West End cinemas which charge twice that (£11 per person = $20), plus booking fee if you book online.
That's remarkably similar to a post made earlier today:4 6&cid=12811069
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1526
I'd consider "mad as hell" to be a balanced reaction to the issue of Windows security, or lack thereof.
If you select 'prostitution' you can check out the best areas to go to pick up a hooker. Not that this is of any use to me as I'm a) not single and b) not in the US.
It does happen.
I know a journalist who did a lot of research into DeBeers and wrote a number of articles and a book about them was attacked and systematically beaten up, which necessitated a stay in hospital for several months.
Other companies doing research into artificial diamonds have claimed that they believe that their senior employees could be targets for assasination.
Think about how much the diamond industry is worth, and the lengths that some people might be prepared to go to in order to protect it.
It's hardly going to be a threat to iTunes. The DRM WMA files won't play on ipods, which have over 80% of the hard disk player market and 58% of the flash player market.
At the time that this was released, I was working on a project for streaming audio and video over fibre networks for a Imperial College in London (which is Britains top tech university). I downloaded the real player client and reverse engineered the protocol. To test it, I also downloaded a REM track off the net in .mp2 format. Yes, mp2 not mp3. This probably made me one of the first illegal music downloaders on the net. I wrote streaming software for DEC Alpha unix boxes and got thoroughly sick of hearing "Losing my religion" over and over and over again.
Is anyone going to be stupid enough to respond to this one?
It does sound like it. You'd need a DSL or cable connection with a static IP address, or rent space on a server and use that as an email gateway (which is what I do).
That's the whole point of this system. It tries to match the IP address of the sender to their domain name. If this is successful then the mail is classed as genuine and delivered. If it can't (i.e the sender is an 0wned PC), then it sends a challenge/response email back to the senders email address (not to the zombie PC). If the sender is genuine they click a button on the challenge/response email and the original mail gets accepted.
As someone else pointed out, this could be used to DDOS someone by using a zombie net sending spam purporting to come from them. They'd then get innundated with challenge/reponse emails. Not nice.
Let's try to make the link to the original slashdot story work this time: It's here
Moderators, parent post is not insightful, it is clueless. It doesn't depend on the spammer being honest. It depends on the spammer being dishonest. For actual information about how this system works see IBMs web page about it:
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/fairuce
This is a duplicate of http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/04/204 7246&tid=111&tid=185&tid=95
However, the CNN story referenced seems to be utterly clueless as to how this technology, known as FairUCE, actually works. It really is nothing like they have described it. For real information go to IBM's page: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/fairuce
This system does not try to DDOS the spammers, or anything stupid like that. It attempts to link the IP address of the sender to the senders domain name using DNS and WHOIS lookups. If that fails, it sends a challenge/response email to the sender.
Wrong. Top Gear without Jeremy Clarkson is like a sandwich without a piece of shit inside it.
Moderator hint: No this comment is not a troll, or insightful or informative. Yes it is flamebait. It may be funny depending on your view of Jeremy Clarkson (obnoxious British TV presenter).
If I were Bill Gates, I would simply pull all of my product out of Europe and laugh at them.
Yes, but you're not Bill Gates. Microsoft is interested in global domination. As I pointed out in my earlier post, the EU is BIGGER than the US. Why would Microsoft pull out of their biggest market? It would hurt them immensely and their shareholders certainly wouldn't like it.
Do you realise how much this would hurt Microsoft? Did you actually know that the EU is a bigger market than the US? There's no way that Microsoft are going to cease activities here. From the CIA world factbook:
Population: US 293,027,571 (July 2004 est), EU 456,285,839 (July 2004 est). So more people who could potentially use their software at home and work.
Internet users: US 159 million (2002), EU 206 million (2004). So there's probably more internet users in the EU, though the US figure is out of date.
GDP: US $10.99 trillion, EU $11.05 trillion (2004 est.) Not much difference there.
The worst punishment the EU can mete out is to bar Microsoft from doing business in participating countries.
That would probably hurt them as much as the $5 million a day fine. The EU probably accounts for nearly half of Microsoft's market, if not more.
From the article:
In the system, a rooftop collector concentrates and sends sunlight through optical fibers, tubes made of special, high-purity material that transmit light by reflecting it down their inner walls.
Today's headline: Volcano shoots steam and ash.
Tomorrow's headline: Bears found defecating in woods
Friday's headline: Pope discovered to be a Catholic.
Same here. I don't own a TV or watch it (except at work - I work for a major rival of the BBC), but I do use the BBC web pages, especially news.bbc.co.uk every day. By 2017 all broadcasting will be digital and the lines between PC and TV will probably have blurred much more than they are at the moment. I don't think that the licence fee in it's current form will continue past 2017, but it will be up to whoever is in government then (not now) to decide what will replace it.
It works for me using Gentoo, but I also use the unstable nvidia drivers (because I couldn't get the "stable" ones to work months back).
I had to do the same thing with Gentoo, but the stable drivers seem to be fixed now.
I upgraded to 2.6.10 yesterday (with typically bad timing) and had no problems with the Nvidia drivers. I compiled them, rebooted and X.org appeared in all its glory. This was on a gentoo system. Have you got the latest version of the drivers from Nvidia?
My girlfriend is a H2G2 fan too, though I doubt that she's ever used Linux. I keep her well away from my gentoo box. She discovered H2G2 when looking through her dad's book collection for something interesting to read, and loved Douglas Adam's humour.
If you'd shorted their stock when it was above $20, you would have made a killing. It's flattened out now, so shorting is too risky, unless it's someone else's money.
You're right. If you read the actual text of the ruling the judge says that a partial summary judgement at this stage would be easy for SCO to appeal and that's why he's denying it. He does make it very clear that SCO HAVE NO EVIDENCE!