I know exactly what you mean. This picture was a fortunate accident - I'd even taken a wrong turning and wasn't even planning on going down the road where I saw this.
I suppose you could write a worm to archive your digital photos on unsuspecting machines around the world, but I suspect it wouldn't be very effective as soon as the AV vendors catch up with it.;-)
Very good point. I make a point of archiving my photos to my fileserver which is regularly backed up to tape, and will be put on to some CDRs (or even DVD-Rs) when I've taken enough of them.
The huge advantage over traditional film has to be that there was a significant cost overhead with traditional photography - if a photo didn't come out as intended that was money down the drain, so I very rarely dug out the camera and used it. With digital, if the image isn't as intended then nothing is lost, you can just delete it and try again. Indeed, you can just be trigger-happy and take multiple shots and just use the best of what comes out. And, once you've archived the photos, unlike a traditional film camera, you can erase the media and use it again.
I know this seems obvious, but recently I was talking to someone who actually didn't realise this advantage over traditional film (and he spent nearly GBP1000 a year on film and development, with that he could have a top-notch digital!)
Light is just electromagnetic radiation, the only difference it is at a much shorter wavelength than many other magnetic radiation sources. I dread to think what this is doing to me...
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Where are the telephone sanitizers? Or have they all been carted off elsewhere already? If so, it's only a matter of time before they're all wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from an unexpectedly dirty telephone.
No sane developer will look at that code, let alone refer to it or borrow bits. Otherwise M$ will have a good case for closing their project and suing their arses off.
More space junk. It's getting pretty crowded up there already.
Also, am I the only one who is a mite worried about their ability to aim correctly at the target, as they didn't do a particularly good job of that in Iraq with a much shorter range to worry about.
Agreed. The 6310i is a decent, sensible phone - triband, HSCSD-capable modem, and GPRS. Unfortunately it's the one with the fscked bluetooth implementation.
I keep it enabled on mine for my BT handsfree unit, but it's set hidden. It's not perfect, but should make me less likely to get hit by it.
(I was amazed when I did a scan in a cinema recently how many phones were advertising their presence.)
I still use my older Motorola L7089 and T280 - neither of which have Bluetooth. But neither of the modems in them do HSCSD, and the L7089 doesn't go GPRS (or predictive text).
If the employment contract claims ownership to everything you create... create a huge debt and use the contract that they have agreed on their side to make them solely liable:-)
I'd like to know where Mr Evans got his "facts" from.
It's widely acknowledged that the virus is a good bit of programming in its own right - this tends to imply that a Windows programmer wrote it. The MyDoom virus places backdoors on infected machines to allow hackers to misappropriate them for their own desires, and allows spammers to relay their junk without leaving any trace to the real source.
The DoS attack code aimed at Microsoft and SCO are most likely distractors (which seem to have worked extremely well) deflecting the blame to an innocent third party - namely the Linux Community.
May I suggest that Mr Evans (and other reporters wishing to cover the SCO/Linux issues) takes some time to read the articles at http://groklaw.net/ - these are very well researched and written. It's a shame the BBC couldn't do this before writing an article very likely to offend virtually every open source programmer on the planet.
I'm not a "spamnazi". Sure, I hate spam. I'm a programmer. A hacker (in the traditional sense). With a sense of humour. I see this as a technical challenge, something I enjoy doing. Which is why I wrote MailStripper. (The sense of humour? Say my product name out loud.)
If Mozart's music wasn't religious.. what are these CDs of his Mass in C Minor, Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Requiem and Ave Verum Corpus doing on my shelf?
I was led to believe this spam law also banned SMS spam to mobile phones. Guess what? I got three today. On three different handsets. The same 0871 number was advertised.
I phoned them up, only for them to tell me to call an 09 premium rate number. As soon as he said "09" I said "Forget it." Obviously a scam, I reminded him of the new law, he'd heard of it and told me he'd remove my number (note singular) from their list. Not sure how they'll manage that, as I didn't call from that line and didn't give him my number.
The spammers have shown in less than 24 hours that they couldn't give a flying fsck about the law.
To those media owners who think disabling image loading should be illegal: (1) What I do on MY computer is MY business. (2) Do you want to pay for my cellphone airtime which would increase vastly as a result of having to download all that cr@p?
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Forget the terrorist theories, someone please tell the whales to answer!
No, the government schools are called state schools.
I know exactly what you mean. This picture was a fortunate accident - I'd even taken a wrong turning and wasn't even planning on going down the road where I saw this.
CD-Rs or WORMs, if you're really paranoid
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I suppose you could write a worm to archive your digital photos on unsuspecting machines around the world, but I suspect it wouldn't be very effective as soon as the AV vendors catch up with it.
Very good point. I make a point of archiving my photos to my fileserver which is regularly backed up to tape, and will be put on to some CDRs (or even DVD-Rs) when I've taken enough of them.
The huge advantage over traditional film has to be that there was a significant cost overhead with traditional photography - if a photo didn't come out as intended that was money down the drain, so I very rarely dug out the camera and used it. With digital, if the image isn't as intended then nothing is lost, you can just delete it and try again. Indeed, you can just be trigger-happy and take multiple shots and just use the best of what comes out. And, once you've archived the photos, unlike a traditional film camera, you can erase the media and use it again.
I know this seems obvious, but recently I was talking to someone who actually didn't realise this advantage over traditional film (and he spent nearly GBP1000 a year on film and development, with that he could have a top-notch digital!)
Light is just electromagnetic radiation, the only difference it is at a much shorter wavelength than many other magnetic radiation sources. I dread to think what this is doing to me...
Where are the telephone sanitizers? Or have they all been carted off elsewhere already? If so, it's only a matter of time before they're all wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from an unexpectedly dirty telephone.
No sane developer will look at that code, let alone refer to it or borrow bits. Otherwise M$ will have a good case for closing their project and suing their arses off.
Wrong film. Tomorrow Never Dies was the one about the media maniac, the sunken Royal Navy ship and the stolen GPS controller.
More space junk. It's getting pretty crowded up there already.
Also, am I the only one who is a mite worried about their ability to aim correctly at the target, as they didn't do a particularly good job of that in Iraq with a much shorter range to worry about.
There's probably someone called Jenny who works for 118-118 (The Number).
.uk readers will get this one ;)
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Here in .uk, Flextel, a personal number supplier, not only permit buying and selling numbers obtained from them, they even actively encourage it.
Agreed. The 6310i is a decent, sensible phone - triband, HSCSD-capable modem, and GPRS. Unfortunately it's the one with the fscked bluetooth implementation.
I keep it enabled on mine for my BT handsfree unit, but it's set hidden. It's not perfect, but should make me less likely to get hit by it.
(I was amazed when I did a scan in a cinema recently how many phones were advertising their presence.)
I still use my older Motorola L7089 and T280 - neither of which have Bluetooth. But neither of the modems in them do HSCSD, and the L7089 doesn't go GPRS (or predictive text).
If the employment contract claims ownership to everything you create... create a huge debt and use the contract that they have agreed on their side to make them solely liable :-)
I'd like to know where Mr Evans got his "facts" from.
It's widely acknowledged that the virus is a good bit of programming in its own right - this tends to imply that a Windows programmer wrote it. The MyDoom virus places backdoors on infected machines to allow hackers to misappropriate them for their own desires, and allows spammers to relay their junk without leaving any trace to the real source.
The DoS attack code aimed at Microsoft and SCO are most likely distractors (which seem to have worked extremely well) deflecting the blame to an innocent third party - namely the Linux Community.
May I suggest that Mr Evans (and other reporters wishing to cover the SCO/Linux issues) takes some time to read the articles at http://groklaw.net/ - these are very well researched and written. It's a shame the BBC couldn't do this before writing an article very likely to offend virtually every open source programmer on the planet.
-- Soruk (rl name used to the BBC)
I'm not a "spamnazi". Sure, I hate spam. I'm a programmer. A hacker (in the traditional sense). With a sense of humour. I see this as a technical challenge, something I enjoy doing. Which is why I wrote MailStripper. (The sense of humour? Say my product name out loud.)
What I want to know is, will it let me do 'dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/disk.img' on windows (which cygwin doesn't allow)
It did last time I tried it! I believe it needs a pretty recent cygwin1.dll, though.
Operating the alien computers is easy. Reading Klingon, on the other hand...
If Mozart's music wasn't religious.. what are these CDs of his Mass in C Minor, Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Requiem and Ave Verum Corpus doing on my shelf?
I was led to believe this spam law also banned SMS spam to mobile phones. Guess what? I got three today. On three different handsets. The same 0871 number was advertised.
I phoned them up, only for them to tell me to call an 09 premium rate number. As soon as he said "09" I said "Forget it." Obviously a scam, I reminded him of the new law, he'd heard of it and told me he'd remove my number (note singular) from their list. Not sure how they'll manage that, as I didn't call from that line and didn't give him my number.
The spammers have shown in less than 24 hours that they couldn't give a flying fsck about the law.
McBride, with any luck. In Antarctica. Amongst a bunch of angry, hungry penguins.
I just added the line:
/etc/rc.d/rc.local file. That ought to do it.
route add 64.94.110.11 reject
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Well, if it did, can you imagine the havoc caused by the dog if he finds the remote control unit and starts chewing on it?!
To those media owners who think disabling image loading should be illegal:
(1) What I do on MY computer is MY business.
(2) Do you want to pay for my cellphone airtime which would increase vastly as a result of having to download all that cr@p?
I know that. I was merely raising a point on the person who I quoted....