No, that's not true. IE6 only looks for favicon.ico when a user bookmarks or creates a shortcut to a URL, or uses a bookmark/shortcut. I just tested this to be sure. As far as I know this is also the case with IE5 and IE4.
if they had a pulse detector like a million other people mentioned, there would be no reason for anyone to take anybody else's fingers. that's just silly. think a little next time! technology can solve bugs too sometimes! (that is a real big sometimes of course)
Yeah, and technology can solve problems for criminals as well. The fact that a finger has a pulse is a lame way to detect if it's alive... a battery operated pump could easily fake out a detector.
Though I always have my wallet I would love to not have to carry it. You are more likely to get mugged on the way to the store than have someone fake your fingerprint and buy things!
Of course there is always the possibility of developing technology which will overcome this, but until that happens its pretty damn secure.
Which of course is the larger point here that applies to cryptography. Everything is pretty damn secure until you forget that time passes. What we think is unbreakable now is breakable though technique X in 10 years. And if you throw my favorite technology into the mix, time travel, nothing is pretty damn secure, ever... not even today, because someone from the future could come to the present with technique X and make the cryptography incredible insecure... today.
I don't when I'm discussing things like quantum mechanics or cryptography. Especially pared with "never." Will I say that I never will use it in the future? I couldn't say that...:)
And it'll never be breakable, provided you take some sort of security measures. But if you're paranoid, you already do most of those.
You say it will *never* be breakable if you take some sort of security measures. Never's a pretty tough thing to prove. OK, which measures should you take? How do you know that 1000 years from now, someone will not have perfected time travel and invisibility... how do you know that someone is not standing over your shoulder while you are locked in a lead-lined vault deep inside Mt. Everest as you key in the pad? If you kill yourself after making the pad, how do you know the inflitrator does not have the technology to reconstruct your memories from your brain tissue? The one time pad being perfect "forever" is a bunch of crap. "For now" I can deal with, but not "forever"... which makes it just like most cryptography.
I haven't read the article yet (FWIW,) but I am pretty sure that it is impossible to replay the message, because to be able to replay it something has to "look" at it, and if it's "looked" at, you've affected it, so what you're "seeing" is not what you need to replay. It's the basic Hiesenberg principles at work. Ok, going to read the article now to see if it provides any deep insight into how *anyone* is supposed to read these.:)
Yes, we used to get a similar thing on a college/public information channel. They used Powerpoint, of all things, to display the event calandar and advertising. There was one point where the channel went for an entire week with a bluescreen... it was great.
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Is anyom^Hne getting tri^H^Hired of this crap^H^H^H^H over use of a stupid^H^H^H^H^H^H once was funny joke? Damn, give it a rest... it's not *THAT* amusing. Seems like half of the posts and repeated^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H stories these days use it.
I don't think that's much of a point, as it's not universally agreed that putting a cell phone microwave emitter to your head is a safe thing. The point I'd make is, well, McDonalds isn't killing you, is it? Bring on the microwaves!
Yeah, so uh what's so special about the moon exactly?
Yeah, strange why there is no life on the moon, isn't it? We have this cool thing (well, for a while, anyway) called an atmosphere. It kind of cuts down on the whole solar radiation thing so we don't, um, die.:)
... all the.COMs who could afford to hire programmers who sat around playing games all day at work have passed on. And you wonder why they don't make games like this anymore?
Anonymouse Cowarde has posted an article entitled "Power Switch - The Energy Saver". An article for geeks and computer owners showing how they can significantly reduce the amount of power they use by turning off your computer when you're not using it, using one of the most common buttons found on the front of most PCs. If you own a computer and don't yet have knowledge in the field of energy, you should find this very interesting indeed - Save money on electricty and please your significant other at the same time with a quieter room and lower energy bill. They also talk briefly at APM.
So... if you're going to assemble your own telescope, you grind the lenses yourself and fire the steel used to create the tubes? No... it's a matter of finding the parts and assembling them.
Granted, "building a computer" is easier than it was 25 years ago, but you can't build your own motherboard with 20-odd conductive layers at home either. If you want to build a computer using a simple microprocessor you still can... it just won't be quite as useful as it once was.
And I would dare say that Linux is enough of a hobbyist OS in some senses that learning all its ins and outs is just as challening and scientifically inventive as building an Altair was.
40% of the boys complained, compared to 8% of the girls
Before I believe this statistic, I'd like to know what qualifies as complaining. I would also like a study done on whether males just naturally complain about everything 40% of the time, which is likely (which brings us to Slashdot.)
I agree that the metaphors are bad, but I don't think Disney.com is intended to be strictly a children's site. ZoogDisney.com, for instance, is one of the (easy to remember) sites that is advertised daily on the channel itself, and that site appears much more focused towards children, and the shows that they are likely to be interested in.
After all, are kids going to be doing online shopping or vacation planning?
For this "general info" Disney site, does it really matter where kids go off the homepage? They're probably not going to be looking for shopping or vacations... and every other section has a plethora of games and "minesweeping" worthy content. I don't really think kids care what sections are called as long as the destination is fun.
And your typical responses (many well justified) will be:
Open a relatively complicated page in MSIE, the same page in Mozilla-win32, and the same page agin in Mozilla-linux. Go to a bunch of annoying web sites, with Mozilla's pop-up/pop-down filters enabled.
Use ssh to log in to a box halfway across the world. Demonstrate some simple system administration tasks, and the fact that anything you can do at the console you can also do remotely, via ssh.
* But I can do the same thing with Windows telnet, or better, Windows terminal services since I can actually see what I am doing. And I know DOS; BAT files are cool.
Run either Gnome or KDE. Change the themes, a couple of times, demonstrate the customizable UI. Switching between one of the mac Aqua-like themes, some star trek theme, and one of the Winxx-lookalike themes should be very effective.
* But I can get that many themes for XP, and plus I actually know how to change the backgrounds and icons in Windows myself. YOu haven't shown me how to do that yet with Linux. This frickin' sucks.
Install a distribution in server mode (no X11). Demonstrate the extreme modularization of Linux, such as you can complete get rid of all GUI support, and use only the disk/network services to turn a box into a network appliance.
* Uh, yeah, we use the Services admin panel and Add/Remove programs for that. For server only installations, we just don't hook a monitor up.
Install Windows and Linux on the same box. Boot into Linux; then mount and browse Windows partitions. Make a casual remark that Windows cannot browse Linux partitions in the same way
* But if I only want Windows on my system, why do I care? If I could access the Linux partitions it would be like having FAT32 partitions on an NT machine... pretty pointless.
When the Linux box boots up, and is busy going through the initscripts, starting all the services, explain that if one service fails to start for some reason the boot process will continue and the machine should still be mostly usable. Ask if anyone experienced a situation where a Windows driver kept croaking during the boot process, and what happened alter.
I recall an incident about three years ago when UMAX shipped a buggy driver for their scanners. The driver was faulting on machines with USB ports, and CPU speeds over 400 Mhz (something about some timing loop), forcing a complete crash during the Windows boot cycle, with the subsequent reboot falling back into safe mode.
The Linux equivalent for this would be something like SANE, which runs completely in user mode, and therefore cannot crash the entire OS.
* Yeah, when services go down in Windows, it still starts up fine and you just look in the system log. If a driver goes down, I just restart in safe mode, removed the device, and everything is fine. No big deal. Who needs a scanner on a server anyway? It looks like if I do this Linux thing I have to go through all these damned scripts to figure out what went wrong... and where's the safe mode? If I screw up the scripts, it looks like my machine is hosed.
Use samba to browse the local windows network neighborhood.
* Yeah... uh, we do that. Where's the network neighborhood icon?
If you have a fat pipe, forward X11 over ssh, and run remote X applications on the local terminal.
* We do that with Windows terminal services like we said. You really should conserve some network bandwidth and just go sit down at the machine though. Wait a sec... did he say "fat pipe?" Huh huh...
Install a base distribution package right out of the box. I'll use Red Hat 7.2 as an example. Apply all the errata to bring the box up to date, except for the kernel, without rebooting. Even install a new version of glibc (the equivalent of msvcxxrt.dll) without rebooting the box. Install a new kernel on the remote machine, make sure that LILO or GRUB is all set up, then remotely reboot the box into the new kernel.
* If we want to install a new version of msvcxxrt.dll without restarting the box, I just close all the apps that are using it and then copy the new DLL into place. It's not that difficult. It breaks a bunch of stuff though, but I bet this glibc messes things up too. What are you doing monkeying with the kernel? That doesn't need updating, it's the frickin' kernel. If it's broken, we get a reinstall going while we go to lunch. Huh... fat pipes are cool.
Maybe a cross-platform(ish) MS-created API framework, particularly one that will be Windows-native? Having one "framework" on a OS does not mean that there are not room for others. What's your point?
No, not really. The only portions of.NET that MS was concerned about with the FreeBSD port was the server parts... none of the windowing classes were ported at all. From this article, it sounds like MS intends to support the OTHER half of.NET for Macs (for client applications.)
That's a good question... after I get the pleasant female voice telling me a number is out of service, there's a bit of dead air, and then Frank the telephone lineman explains to me, in as bored a voice possible, "208... 342." *Click*
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Dude, I am not sure what language you're using, but I think if horse=="alive" you're gonna core. You might want to rethink your logic.
No, that's not true. IE6 only looks for favicon.ico when a user bookmarks or creates a shortcut to a URL, or uses a bookmark/shortcut. I just tested this to be sure. As far as I know this is also the case with IE5 and IE4.
if they had a pulse detector like a million other people mentioned, there would be no reason for anyone to take anybody else's fingers. that's just silly. think a little next time! technology can solve bugs too sometimes! (that is a real big sometimes of course)
Yeah, and technology can solve problems for criminals as well. The fact that a finger has a pulse is a lame way to detect if it's alive... a battery operated pump could easily fake out a detector.
Though I always have my wallet I would love to not have to carry it. You are more likely to get mugged on the way to the store than have someone fake your fingerprint and buy things!
Unless someone mugs you and takes your fingers.
Of course there is always the possibility of developing technology which will overcome this, but until that happens its pretty damn secure.
Which of course is the larger point here that applies to cryptography. Everything is pretty damn secure until you forget that time passes. What we think is unbreakable now is breakable though technique X in 10 years. And if you throw my favorite technology into the mix, time travel, nothing is pretty damn secure, ever... not even today, because someone from the future could come to the present with technique X and make the cryptography incredible insecure... today.
How do you normally use the word "forever"?
:)
I don't when I'm discussing things like quantum mechanics or cryptography. Especially pared with "never." Will I say that I never will use it in the future? I couldn't say that...
And it'll never be breakable, provided you take some sort of security measures. But if you're paranoid, you already do most of those.
You say it will *never* be breakable if you take some sort of security measures. Never's a pretty tough thing to prove. OK, which measures should you take? How do you know that 1000 years from now, someone will not have perfected time travel and invisibility... how do you know that someone is not standing over your shoulder while you are locked in a lead-lined vault deep inside Mt. Everest as you key in the pad? If you kill yourself after making the pad, how do you know the inflitrator does not have the technology to reconstruct your memories from your brain tissue? The one time pad being perfect "forever" is a bunch of crap. "For now" I can deal with, but not "forever"... which makes it just like most cryptography.
I haven't read the article yet (FWIW,) but I am pretty sure that it is impossible to replay the message, because to be able to replay it something has to "look" at it, and if it's "looked" at, you've affected it, so what you're "seeing" is not what you need to replay. It's the basic Hiesenberg principles at work. Ok, going to read the article now to see if it provides any deep insight into how *anyone* is supposed to read these. :)
Yes, we used to get a similar thing on a college/public information channel. They used Powerpoint, of all things, to display the event calandar and advertising. There was one point where the channel went for an entire week with a bluescreen... it was great.
Is anyom^Hne getting tri^H^Hired of this crap^H^H^H^H over use of a stupid^H^H^H^H^H^H once was funny joke? Damn, give it a rest... it's not *THAT* amusing. Seems like half of the posts and repeated^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H stories these days use it.
What's the difference to an app making a RenderHTML( &window, &HTMLObject ) call whether the RenderHTML() implementation is in the OS or a DLL?
The difference is that thousands of existing applications are already calling it from its current location.
I don't think that's much of a point, as it's not universally agreed that putting a cell phone microwave emitter to your head is a safe thing. The point I'd make is, well, McDonalds isn't killing you, is it? Bring on the microwaves!
Yeah, so uh what's so special about the moon exactly?
:)
Yeah, strange why there is no life on the moon, isn't it? We have this cool thing (well, for a while, anyway) called an atmosphere. It kind of cuts down on the whole solar radiation thing so we don't, um, die.
... all the .COMs who could afford to hire programmers who sat around playing games all day at work have passed on. And you wonder why they don't make games like this anymore?
In other news:
Anonymouse Cowarde has posted an article entitled "Power Switch - The Energy Saver". An article for geeks and computer owners showing how they can significantly reduce the amount of power they use by turning off your computer when you're not using it, using one of the most common buttons found on the front of most PCs. If you own a computer and don't yet have knowledge in the field of energy, you should find this very interesting indeed - Save money on electricty and please your significant other at the same time with a quieter room and lower energy bill. They also talk briefly at APM.
So... if you're going to assemble your own telescope, you grind the lenses yourself and fire the steel used to create the tubes? No... it's a matter of finding the parts and assembling them.
Granted, "building a computer" is easier than it was 25 years ago, but you can't build your own motherboard with 20-odd conductive layers at home either. If you want to build a computer using a simple microprocessor you still can... it just won't be quite as useful as it once was.
And I would dare say that Linux is enough of a hobbyist OS in some senses that learning all its ins and outs is just as challening and scientifically inventive as building an Altair was.
Declining manufacturing costs now make it cheaper to buy a telescope, radio, or computer than to build one yourself.
:)
A telescope or a radio, perhaps, but it's still cheaper to build a computer youself, especially with free operating systems rather than $200+ ones.
should've been Apache 2.0 scalps IIS...
Yeah, it would have been worth being sued over to get in one more jab.
40% of the boys complained, compared to 8% of the girls
Before I believe this statistic, I'd like to know what qualifies as complaining. I would also like a study done on whether males just naturally complain about everything 40% of the time, which is likely (which brings us to Slashdot.)
I agree that the metaphors are bad, but I don't think Disney.com is intended to be strictly a children's site. ZoogDisney.com, for instance, is one of the (easy to remember) sites that is advertised daily on the channel itself, and that site appears much more focused towards children, and the shows that they are likely to be interested in.
After all, are kids going to be doing online shopping or vacation planning?
For this "general info" Disney site, does it really matter where kids go off the homepage? They're probably not going to be looking for shopping or vacations... and every other section has a plethora of games and "minesweeping" worthy content. I don't really think kids care what sections are called as long as the destination is fun.
I'm not an MSC anything... those were just the rantings of someone who works with a few. :)
And your typical responses (many well justified) will be:
Open a relatively complicated page in MSIE, the same page in Mozilla-win32, and the same page agin in Mozilla-linux. Go to a bunch of annoying web sites, with Mozilla's pop-up/pop-down filters enabled.
* But MSDN showed us a VB IE startup fix that does the same thing.
Use ssh to log in to a box halfway across the world. Demonstrate some simple system administration tasks, and the fact that anything you can do at the console you can also do remotely, via ssh.
* But I can do the same thing with Windows telnet, or better, Windows terminal services since I can actually see what I am doing. And I know DOS; BAT files are cool.
Run either Gnome or KDE. Change the themes, a couple of times, demonstrate the customizable UI. Switching between one of the mac Aqua-like themes, some star trek theme, and one of the Winxx-lookalike themes should be very effective.
* But I can get that many themes for XP, and plus I actually know how to change the backgrounds and icons in Windows myself. YOu haven't shown me how to do that yet with Linux. This frickin' sucks.
Install a distribution in server mode (no X11). Demonstrate the extreme modularization of Linux, such as you can complete get rid of all GUI support, and use only the disk/network services to turn a box into a network appliance.
* Uh, yeah, we use the Services admin panel and Add/Remove programs for that. For server only installations, we just don't hook a monitor up.
Install Windows and Linux on the same box. Boot into Linux; then mount and browse Windows partitions. Make a casual remark that Windows cannot browse Linux partitions in the same way
* But if I only want Windows on my system, why do I care? If I could access the Linux partitions it would be like having FAT32 partitions on an NT machine... pretty pointless.
When the Linux box boots up, and is busy going through the initscripts, starting all the services, explain that if one service fails to start for some reason the boot process will continue and the machine should still be mostly usable. Ask if anyone experienced a situation where a Windows driver kept croaking during the boot process, and what happened alter.
I recall an incident about three years ago when UMAX shipped a buggy driver for their scanners. The driver was faulting on machines with USB ports, and CPU speeds over 400 Mhz (something about some timing loop), forcing a complete crash during the Windows boot cycle, with the subsequent reboot falling back into safe mode.
The Linux equivalent for this would be something like SANE, which runs completely in user mode, and therefore cannot crash the entire OS.
* Yeah, when services go down in Windows, it still starts up fine and you just look in the system log. If a driver goes down, I just restart in safe mode, removed the device, and everything is fine. No big deal. Who needs a scanner on a server anyway? It looks like if I do this Linux thing I have to go through all these damned scripts to figure out what went wrong... and where's the safe mode? If I screw up the scripts, it looks like my machine is hosed.
Use samba to browse the local windows network neighborhood.
* Yeah... uh, we do that. Where's the network neighborhood icon?
If you have a fat pipe, forward X11 over ssh, and run remote X applications on the local terminal.
* We do that with Windows terminal services like we said. You really should conserve some network bandwidth and just go sit down at the machine though. Wait a sec... did he say "fat pipe?" Huh huh...
Install a base distribution package right out of the box. I'll use Red Hat 7.2 as an example. Apply all the errata to bring the box up to date, except for the kernel, without rebooting. Even install a new version of glibc (the equivalent of msvcxxrt.dll) without rebooting the box. Install a new kernel on the remote machine, make sure that LILO or GRUB is all set up, then remotely reboot the box into the new kernel.
* If we want to install a new version of msvcxxrt.dll without restarting the box, I just close all the apps that are using it and then copy the new DLL into place. It's not that difficult. It breaks a bunch of stuff though, but I bet this glibc messes things up too. What are you doing monkeying with the kernel? That doesn't need updating, it's the frickin' kernel. If it's broken, we get a reinstall going while we go to lunch. Huh... fat pipes are cool.
Maybe a cross-platform(ish) MS-created API framework, particularly one that will be Windows-native? Having one "framework" on a OS does not mean that there are not room for others. What's your point?
You might also call Java a "framework."
No, not really. The only portions of .NET that MS was concerned about with the FreeBSD port was the server parts... none of the windowing classes were ported at all. From this article, it sounds like MS intends to support the OTHER half of .NET for Macs (for client applications.)
That's a good question... after I get the pleasant female voice telling me a number is out of service, there's a bit of dead air, and then Frank the telephone lineman explains to me, in as bored a voice possible, "208... 342." *Click*