Of course SCO is going to try its luck in Australia. If our companies are anywhere near as keen to bend over for their American counterparts as our government, SCO will make a fortune down here. After all, our Prime Minister was only too happy to say to Bush "I'll have a ridiculously restricted FTA and with a side order of DMCA please".
I'm not sure about Volvos sold in America, but in Australia they have horizontal splits in the headrests big enough to put a ponytail or backwards hat in. My 1980 Volvo (240 wagon) has them, so it's not a new feature.
If anyone comes into that shelter to take what I have I can poke.44 inch holes in him without breaking a sweat, then call someone miles away to collect the body without even raising my voice.
This, in my view, is what makes the US stand head and shoulders above the rest of the Western world. Every Western country has most of the above good points, but afaik none have this one (not sure about Canada).
In Australia for example, if you injure or hurt a burglar in any way, you can go to jail for assault and the burglar gets let off. In Perth, where I'm from, you are also not allowed passive defences against theft like bars on your windows because they might trap someone in a house in the event of a fire. In Sydney you are allowed bars on the windows.
Burglars can also fall through your skylight when you're not at home and then sue you for compensation for their injuries.
My best mate from uni is halfway through a 4 year jail sentence for assault. He hit a burglar in his house with a snooker cue and tied him up with some rope while waiting for the police to come. The police and courts saw the burglar as the victim and defended his rights so he could go out and steal some more.
How else does the Code Red author decide, "Hey! I found this buffer overflow routine in the unicode support for URLs in the IIS Indexing Server"?
The Code Red author, and others like him/her, merely take advantage of exploits that are widely known and have patches already. The Code Red vulnerability had a patch available for a year before the Code Red worm was released.
Don't waste this gift on crap. Your great aunt left it to you, not your apartment building. Buy a car, pay off some debt, invest it in a managed fund - do something useful with it rather than waste it on people who won't even say thank you.
Microsoft could still buy the entire 33%. They can afford it. This would not only get them a nice chunk of Google's profits, but would probably make them the largest shareholder and privy to a significant amount of control over Google.
My prediction: Google stock is going to skyrocket in price to ridiculous levels during the first few days of its trading, then it will settle down and become more realistic. This is because stupid people will pay too much for it in the excitement - witness the Red Hat stock price during its first few months.
For those of you who manage to buy any Google stock when it becomes available, I advise that you sell it the moment the price steadies. Most of the stock will go to institutional investors, rather than the general public, who will do just that.
There is nothing similar to your "Double Jeopardy" laws in Norway, if the prosecutor appeals (as in this case) your guilt in a single case can be tried twice.
It's the same in Australia too. You can be tried multiple times here, and I don't know if there is a time or number limit for subsequent trials. Generally people are only prosecuted twice, I've never heard of anyone going to court for a third time.
After seeing the movie Double Jeopardy (Ashley Judd is a babe!) I thought it was a really good idea to not be tried twice, and wondered why we don't have it.
The most racist place I've ever seen has been Israel. This type of thing is more common than you would believe, as it is okay to discriminate against non-Israelis.
In Australia, the US, or the UK, this sort of behaviour would get you sued to hell and back.
It means banks and other online transaction companies won't have to alter their SSL software (to support a newer version of IE) for a little while.
Keeping the latest browser specification stable, so to speak, might have been requested by a big bank or two. It would certainly make it easier to develop online transaction based software and businesses.
They still had to pay though - it was called a dowry.
The difference is this: back then the women paid the dowry. Now it is the man forking out the big bucks to get married. Money has always been a part of marriage, unfortunately.
I've had 4 infected emails in the last 10 minutes here in Sydney. The attachment is always "details.pif", but the spoofed sender is different each time.
It appears to contact our mail server directly, judging by the email headers.
We've always had the concept of being monitored. It used to be "God is always watching" - God used to be Big Brother. The threat of being caught (eventually ie. when judged after your death) for doing something bad would have deterred some people from doing it.
Nowadays much fewer people believe in God, so who is the Big Brother watching them? There isn't one, so people think they can get away with a lot more misbehaviour because hey, no one will catch us. Bringing cameras into a classroom will bring back the fear of being caught for their actions, and also provide solid proof of bad behaviour to people that weren't in the room - something a faith in God could not provide.
I say go for it. Put a camera in the corner of every classroom and show the kids parents (or the court system) what these little shits really get up to. If I'd had cameras in my classroom at school I would have copped a lot fewer beatings "for being smart" when the teacher was out of the room, something I'm sure a lot of/. readers are familiar with.
The point is this: by not getting a rejection notice ("No such user" type message) they confirm its an actual address. On big servers like Hotmail, dictionary type spam works.
Example: The spammer sends an email to a@hotmail.com b@hotmail.com c@hotmail.com.... aa@hotmail.com ab@hotmail.com ac@hotmail.c om....
and so on.
Now, send a billion emails to all combinations of addresses, and the ones that don't get rejections are real addresses.
At one stage (a year go, not sure if its still the case), Perth (capital of Western Australia) had more wireless networks per capita than anywhere else in the world. Yes, that includes San Francisco.
Why? Because it is a spread out, very flat city with piss poor and expensive broadband internet. It's also isolated from the rest of the country, so it's quite often the last Australian city to get infrastructure. There is also an abundance of unused satellite TV antennas from a failed provider, which people let you take off their roof for free (I collected 9 in one afternoon with a mate one day). They make excellent wireless receivers if you mod them right.
I went to Uni in Perth, and in the last 12 months my mates there have put up 3 antennas - they are Comowireless on the node database. I live in Sydney now, and I don't see anywhere near as many wireless antennas here as I did when I lived in Perth.
I love to irk people with big V8s - they are silly in the age of forged engine internals, ECU control, and modern design. You haven't lived until you've seen the expression on a Z06 corvette owner's face when he gets is ass handed to him by a built and tuned 1.8L Acura Integra.
Thats all well and good, but the V8 has its advantages too, simply because of more torque. Can the Integra also tow a boat, or trailer, or caravan? How is its acceleration at freeway speeds with adults in the car and the boot full of heavy things? A V8 will handle the extra load better than a 4 cylinder engine.
Also, part of the Integra's advantage is being made of plastic and hence has lower mass than the Corvette (afaik anyway, we don't have Corvettes in Australia unless they are privately imported).
I'd prefer the Integra myself, but I can see the advantages a bigger engine offers.
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Of course SCO is going to try its luck in Australia. If our companies are anywhere near as keen to bend over for their American counterparts as our government, SCO will make a fortune down here. After all, our Prime Minister was only too happy to say to Bush "I'll have a ridiculously restricted FTA and with a side order of DMCA please".
Can you please expand your business to Australia and take over Telstra?
Bullshit. Warez is a crime IN THE US, but not in Australia.
Correct. Copyright violation is a civil offence here (AU), not a criminal offence.
I'm not sure about Volvos sold in America, but in Australia they have horizontal splits in the headrests big enough to put a ponytail or backwards hat in. My 1980 Volvo (240 wagon) has them, so it's not a new feature.
If anyone comes into that shelter to take what I have I can poke .44 inch holes in him without breaking a sweat, then call someone miles away to collect the body without even raising my voice.
This, in my view, is what makes the US stand head and shoulders above the rest of the Western world. Every Western country has most of the above good points, but afaik none have this one (not sure about Canada).
In Australia for example, if you injure or hurt a burglar in any way, you can go to jail for assault and the burglar gets let off. In Perth, where I'm from, you are also not allowed passive defences against theft like bars on your windows because they might trap someone in a house in the event of a fire. In Sydney you are allowed bars on the windows.
Burglars can also fall through your skylight when you're not at home and then sue you for compensation for their injuries.
My best mate from uni is halfway through a 4 year jail sentence for assault. He hit a burglar in his house with a snooker cue and tied him up with some rope while waiting for the police to come. The police and courts saw the burglar as the victim and defended his rights so he could go out and steal some more.
And people wonder why burglary is so common here.
Parent is correct - I'm from Perth too and 6 digits was the standard in Western Australia until a few years ago.
How else does the Code Red author decide, "Hey! I found this buffer overflow routine in the unicode support for URLs in the IIS Indexing Server"?
The Code Red author, and others like him/her, merely take advantage of exploits that are widely known and have patches already. The Code Red vulnerability had a patch available for a year before the Code Red worm was released.
Don't waste this gift on crap. Your great aunt left it to you, not your apartment building. Buy a car, pay off some debt, invest it in a managed fund - do something useful with it rather than waste it on people who won't even say thank you.
Microsoft could still buy the entire 33%. They can afford it. This would not only get them a nice chunk of Google's profits, but would probably make them the largest shareholder and privy to a significant amount of control over Google.
The geeky nerd has 40 billion dollars in the bank. I'm betting on him.
Google has an IPO approaching. Can we say "hostile takeover"?
doesn't take fancy book-learnin' to catch on when you recieve an emailed attachment that you didn't ask for...
It doesn't take fancy book learnin' to know how to spell either.
I predict that Mozilla will have a way around these ads by the end of the week.
Funny how China goes up into space, and the US govt announces a plan to one-up their closest rival within a few weeks...
My prediction: Google stock is going to skyrocket in price to ridiculous levels during the first few days of its trading, then it will settle down and become more realistic. This is because stupid people will pay too much for it in the excitement - witness the Red Hat stock price during its first few months.
For those of you who manage to buy any Google stock when it becomes available, I advise that you sell it the moment the price steadies. Most of the stock will go to institutional investors, rather than the general public, who will do just that.
It's the same in Australia too. You can be tried multiple times here, and I don't know if there is a time or number limit for subsequent trials. Generally people are only prosecuted twice, I've never heard of anyone going to court for a third time.
After seeing the movie Double Jeopardy (Ashley Judd is a babe!) I thought it was a really good idea to not be tried twice, and wondered why we don't have it.
Disclaimer: IANAL.
The most racist place I've ever seen has been Israel. This type of thing is more common than you would believe, as it is okay to discriminate against non-Israelis.
In Australia, the US, or the UK, this sort of behaviour would get you sued to hell and back.
It means banks and other online transaction companies won't have to alter their SSL software (to support a newer version of IE) for a little while.
Keeping the latest browser specification stable, so to speak, might have been requested by a big bank or two. It would certainly make it easier to develop online transaction based software and businesses.
They still had to pay though - it was called a dowry.
The difference is this: back then the women paid the dowry. Now it is the man forking out the big bucks to get married. Money has always been a part of marriage, unfortunately.
I've had 4 infected emails in the last 10 minutes here in Sydney. The attachment is always "details.pif", but the spoofed sender is different each time.
It appears to contact our mail server directly, judging by the email headers.
We've always had the concept of being monitored. It used to be "God is always watching" - God used to be Big Brother. The threat of being caught (eventually ie. when judged after your death) for doing something bad would have deterred some people from doing it.
/. readers are familiar with.
Nowadays much fewer people believe in God, so who is the Big Brother watching them? There isn't one, so people think they can get away with a lot more misbehaviour because hey, no one will catch us. Bringing cameras into a classroom will bring back the fear of being caught for their actions, and also provide solid proof of bad behaviour to people that weren't in the room - something a faith in God could not provide.
I say go for it. Put a camera in the corner of every classroom and show the kids parents (or the court system) what these little shits really get up to. If I'd had cameras in my classroom at school I would have copped a lot fewer beatings "for being smart" when the teacher was out of the room, something I'm sure a lot of
The point is this: by not getting a rejection notice ("No such user" type message) they confirm its an actual address. On big servers like Hotmail, dictionary type spam works.
....c om ....
Example: The spammer sends an email to
a@hotmail.com
b@hotmail.com
c@hotmail.com
aa@hotmail.com
ab@hotmail.com
ac@hotmail.
and so on.
Now, send a billion emails to all combinations of addresses, and the ones that don't get rejections are real addresses.
At one stage (a year go, not sure if its still the case), Perth (capital of Western Australia) had more wireless networks per capita than anywhere else in the world. Yes, that includes San Francisco.
Why? Because it is a spread out, very flat city with piss poor and expensive broadband internet. It's also isolated from the rest of the country, so it's quite often the last Australian city to get infrastructure. There is also an abundance of unused satellite TV antennas from a failed provider, which people let you take off their roof for free (I collected 9 in one afternoon with a mate one day). They make excellent wireless receivers if you mod them right.
I went to Uni in Perth, and in the last 12 months my mates there have put up 3 antennas - they are Comowireless on the node database. I live in Sydney now, and I don't see anywhere near as many wireless antennas here as I did when I lived in Perth.
Also, part of the Integra's advantage is being made of plastic and hence has lower mass than the Corvette (afaik anyway, we don't have Corvettes in Australia unless they are privately imported).
I'd prefer the Integra myself, but I can see the advantages a bigger engine offers.
Yes, but the Debian user has to wait a year for it.