Check this out. It does all sorts of formats (even lists MPEG and quicktime). I've only really used it to convert.doc files to.ps files so I don't know how well the rest work, but at least that conversion works great:)
I agree... I have a windows box and I can't even view it (damn apple software that doesn't work).
Of course, if it was in MPEG, people would be able to download it and *gasp* share it with others. And that would be bad, right? It's not like they want lots of people to see the trailer...:)
Except, who authorized it? Did the people it was scanning authorize it? It probably has a (mostly) innocent purpose, but the machine's name doesn't necessairly mean anything:)
Personally, I think that it's still useful information to know, say, if you don't want home.net scanning your box.
No, that's the problem -- people see states that way, but in truth, the sovereignty remains with the states. The US is really more like the European Union than one big country. In the current system, each state votes for who it wants to see the leader of the Union of States. It just so happens that each state holds a popular vote to determine how it will vote.
The US has _way_ too much federal power as it is. Witness the recent lowering of the legal blood alcohol content limit. The Feds have absolutely _no_ power to set that, so they blackmail the states to change it themselves (literally, that's what they're doing). The issues of BAC isn't important here (I'm all for the BAC restriction), but the fact that the Federal government thinks that it can get away with that is absurd. It's kind of like Judges legislating from the bench -- it's not how things are supposed to work.
The states in this great Union are very important and aren't just a "convenient partitioning of land and people".
Splitting up MS may fix the symptom, but I don't believe it will fix the underlying problem. MS was given their monopoly by the government -- though things like copyrights and patents. Now with the DMCA saying we can't even reverse engineer software, there will be even more monopolies springing up. If it's not MS, it's some other company.
Of course, the real irony is the merger of AOL and TimeWarner in the middle of the MS Antitrust suit.
You're right -- it probably has nothing to do with security. It's probably a data cache. That way, each/. reader in Australia on Excite@Home doesn't have to download every single image on/.'s page. You can argue if this is a good thing (faster download times, less overall Internet traffic) or a bad thing (privacy).
I know that there's something like that at my school and I've never had any problems with it. There was a discussion on the PLUG (Purdue Linux Users Group) mailing list about it. Eventually, someone suggested they turn it into a giant porn server, since it probably has a lot of that on it:)
You know, there are a lot of choices in this world, and getting an abortion is just the last in a long string of choices. If you don't want to baby, don't get pregnant. There are many ways to avoid pregnancy -- birth control being one way (though it's not perfect) and (surprise) not having sex being another. I realize this may be a big revelation to some people, but you typically have to work hard at getting pregnant -- it's not something you just get like a cold. It disturbs me that some people seem to think that a woman can just become pregnant spontaneously. Sorry -- doesn't work that way. If you make a choice to get pregnant, live with the consequences. (there are exceptions to this, rape being a good example, where I don't think the victim should be held responsible).
That being said, I don't think abortion should be illegal. I do think it should be strongly discouraged as a bad thing. Remember -- getting an abortion is killing a baby. You better have a damn good reason to kill your child. Someday, we may look back and say "what kind of primitive animal would destroy their unborn children?"
You can use any language in.NET as long as it is C#
Great comment, but is it possible to design a bytecode that doesn't have that problem? Realistically, C# would just be a more human readable form of the bytecode, and everthing that the bytecode supports, C# would also support. If you design the bytecode first, this seems like a logical thing to happen.
The reasons you'd want to use another language over C# might be:
You hate Microsoft and you'll be damned before you start programming in their language:)
You feel more comfortable and are more productive in another language
You already have thousands of lines of code in another language
Of course, this is assuming that you're doing anything for.NET at all:) Personally, I think it's a good thing that MS is trying to be more interoperable. Whether or not it will work I don't know.
This sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately, the states' citizens are _still_ paying the federal taxes as well. So in essence, they are paying twice for the same services.
Maybe the federal government should only be able to tax the states (i.e. tax a certain percentage of the state's tax revenue).
It's interesting to note that in a country where the _states_ are the soverign powers, the federal government takes the majority in tax revenue...
Personally, I've only worked with smart cards, but I have seen iButtons before. They look pretty neat, and do accomplish the same thing that smart cards do (they're really just a different form of smart cards, or maybe smart cards are a different form of iButtons:)
I don't know much about how secure iButtons are, but I do know it's pretty hard, if not impossible, to remove a private key from a smart card. The card generates a public private key pair, tells you (the computer) the public key, but never reveals the private key. Sure, you might be able to hack it off, but I doubt it.
I didn't know that iButtons were that resiliant. It was my understanding they actually had a battery in them to keep the memory active (smart cards use EEPROM, which retains even when not powered). Do iButtons now use EEPROM as well? I would think throwing a battery in the water wouldn't be very good for it (neither would heating it to several hundred degrees:)
But really, I think that both are good, and whichever one suits your needs should be the one you use.
If you encrypt all your emails, and keep your private key in a safe location (like in the memory banks of a smart card), it doesn't matter if someone can recover the bytes of a deleted message. If it's encrypted, then it will be unreadable.
This is just one of the numerous advantages to encrypting. We just need to start getting everyone to do it all the time!
Does Slashdot store your password in plaintext, or is it hashed using a salt?
I know that at least in my / setup on my site, all the passwords are stored in the DB in plaintext. It scares me, but I don't have the time to go and fix it.
I normally don't use the default book marks, but just for fun, I decided to look to see if mine did too. I have a folder called "Impored Bookmarks" that contains a whole bunch of netscape bookmarks (presumably from when I did run Netscape on my machine). Anyway, ALL of those links go to netscape.com. Things like Amazon: http://home.netscape.com/bookmar k/4_06/amazon.html and AltaVista: http://home.netscape.com/book mark/4_06/altavista.html
This clearly isn't an IE thing. Microsoft may have even innovated this idea away from Netscape!
Interestingly enough, these web addresses don't even take you to the real site (like I presume the IE ones do). Instead, then keep you at netscape.com with their banner ads.
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Well, juries are told they can't read newspapers, or watch TV when they sit in on big cases. Juries are also told on many occasions they can't talk about the case. Why? What is the legal system afraid of? Are they scared that a newspaper may alter that perceived reality, and reveal the truth?
Well, that's because of rules of evidence. For example, if the police bust into a suspects house and seize evidence without a search warrent, they can't use that evidence in the trial. But if that evidence was still shown to the jury in some other way (like through a newspaper or TV), then not presenting it in trial would have little weight. And then, what's to stop police from busting down every door, with or without a warrent? Those rules of evidence (though they seem unfair) help keep the police honest -- get a warrent or it's not worth it.
I do agree, though, that the courts have made some pretty misinformed decisions lately, too bad there's no real good place to move to (even if there was, we'd still be in reach of the lawyers).
Under Windows, the newest version of ICQ (2000a) supports the (horrible, IMHO) interface you desire. Fortunately, it's something you can turn off, and go back to regular ICQ style.:)
btw, you don't have to click anywhere to use ICQ. You can set it up to respond to certain key combinations. For example, when I push Ctrl+Shift+I, it does the same thing as double clicking on the icon in the tray (yes, I'm in Windows, no I don't have a choice at work).
Actually, I'd expect half to fall on either side of the median, since the median is defined to be the middle point of the sorted data. It's advantage over the mean is that it isn't as easily skewed by really far off data points.
Half of all people all dumber than the median of the population, but I wouldn't say half are dumber than the mode (the most common data point), which is probably what the original poster thought of when he said "average".
Was it just my area or did anyone else have about a 1 outta 10 chance of actually connecting when you dialed up and didnt get a busy signal?
Maybe it was just your area that caused you to get busy signals -- where I am right now (Austin) I'm having no trouble at all connecting to their local number. The connection is a little slow, but I'm not sure it's not the phone lines (other people I know in the same complex are getting slow connect speeds with different services).
Also the stupid banners ate up so much memory and time.
I don't know what ISP you're talking about, but freewwweb doesn't have any annoying banners (which is probably why they failed). They just asked users to set their page as your homepage. The only memory hog used there would be netscape:)
As I understand it (though IANAL), you can sue for whatever reason you want. It's just a question of whether you'll win (or if it will be thrown out of court).
Usually, since it costs money to start (and continue) a suit, you only sue if you think you can win.
Speaking from personal experience, before I got involved in the Internet a lot I didn't have a good grasp on copyrighting. I remember thinking once (in my youth) that it would be a great idea for a bunch of people to put their money together, go out and buy a piece of software and then each person install it on his own computer. That way it's cheaper for everyone. Now, I admit, I was like 8 at the time, but still.
When I first learned about mp3s I had know idea that they were illegal (if you don't pay for the cd). The idea of a data file being illegal was completely foreign to me.
But also look at our terminology. We say we go out and rent a video from the video store, but if we want to keep it, we buy the video. Buy has always implied ownership. We don't buy the right to view the movie, we buy the movie. The way people refer to things says a lot about how they think.
This does not happen when you are using Sendmail and a regular POP3 or IMAP client
I don't know... I'm sure at least a couple of mail servers sending this message around are running sendmail:) But you're right it is the mail client's fault.
I still think the arrogance that it can't happen to us is dangerous. Just wait until someone makes a shell script for Linux that searches your Pine/Elm/whatever address book and spreads itself that way (before finishing with a 'rm -rf ~'). That would be particularaly messy.
IANAF (I Am Not A Felon), but I know that (in my home state at least) a felony is a crime that carries >= 1 year prison sentance and a misdemeanor is a crime that carries 1 year prison time. It's just all terminology.
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Check this out. It does all sorts of formats (even lists MPEG and quicktime). I've only really used it to convert .doc files to .ps files so I don't know how well the rest work, but at least that conversion works great :)
Because real media sucks? (maybe it's just the player)
The real question is why no MPEG?
I agree... I have a windows box and I can't even view it (damn apple software that doesn't work).
:)
Of course, if it was in MPEG, people would be able to download it and *gasp* share it with others. And that would be bad, right? It's not like they want lots of people to see the trailer...
every time you start EverCrack you're actually giving your soul to Verant
:)
they've already taken it, but I place all the blame for than on my "friend" who hooked me on it
Ohh yeah, this is useful information :)
:)
Except, who authorized it? Did the people it was scanning authorize it? It probably has a (mostly) innocent purpose, but the machine's name doesn't necessairly mean anything
Personally, I think that it's still useful information to know, say, if you don't want home.net scanning your box.
No, that's the problem -- people see states that way, but in truth, the sovereignty remains with the states. The US is really more like the European Union than one big country. In the current system, each state votes for who it wants to see the leader of the Union of States. It just so happens that each state holds a popular vote to determine how it will vote.
The US has _way_ too much federal power as it is. Witness the recent lowering of the legal blood alcohol content limit. The Feds have absolutely _no_ power to set that, so they blackmail the states to change it themselves (literally, that's what they're doing). The issues of BAC isn't important here (I'm all for the BAC restriction), but the fact that the Federal government thinks that it can get away with that is absurd. It's kind of like Judges legislating from the bench -- it's not how things are supposed to work.
The states in this great Union are very important and aren't just a "convenient partitioning of land and people".
Splitting up MS may fix the symptom, but I don't believe it will fix the underlying problem. MS was given their monopoly by the government -- though things like copyrights and patents. Now with the DMCA saying we can't even reverse engineer software, there will be even more monopolies springing up. If it's not MS, it's some other company.
Of course, the real irony is the merger of AOL and TimeWarner in the middle of the MS Antitrust suit.
Yeah, that pretty much describes _my_ experience installing Mandrake 7.2... :(
I didn't need XWindows anyway
You're right -- it probably has nothing to do with security. It's probably a data cache. That way, each /. reader in Australia on Excite@Home doesn't have to download every single image on /.'s page. You can argue if this is a good thing (faster download times, less overall Internet traffic) or a bad thing (privacy).
:)
I know that there's something like that at my school and I've never had any problems with it. There was a discussion on the PLUG (Purdue Linux Users Group) mailing list about it. Eventually, someone suggested they turn it into a giant porn server, since it probably has a lot of that on it
You know, there are a lot of choices in this world, and getting an abortion is just the last in a long string of choices. If you don't want to baby, don't get pregnant. There are many ways to avoid pregnancy -- birth control being one way (though it's not perfect) and (surprise) not having sex being another. I realize this may be a big revelation to some people, but you typically have to work hard at getting pregnant -- it's not something you just get like a cold. It disturbs me that some people seem to think that a woman can just become pregnant spontaneously. Sorry -- doesn't work that way. If you make a choice to get pregnant, live with the consequences. (there are exceptions to this, rape being a good example, where I don't think the victim should be held responsible).
That being said, I don't think abortion should be illegal. I do think it should be strongly discouraged as a bad thing. Remember -- getting an abortion is killing a baby. You better have a damn good reason to kill your child. Someday, we may look back and say "what kind of primitive animal would destroy their unborn children?"
Remember that with freedom comes responsibility.
Great comment, but is it possible to design a bytecode that doesn't have that problem? Realistically, C# would just be a more human readable form of the bytecode, and everthing that the bytecode supports, C# would also support. If you design the bytecode first, this seems like a logical thing to happen.
The reasons you'd want to use another language over C# might be:
Of course, this is assuming that you're doing anything for
This sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately, the states' citizens are _still_ paying the federal taxes as well. So in essence, they are paying twice for the same services.
Maybe the federal government should only be able to tax the states (i.e. tax a certain percentage of the state's tax revenue).
It's interesting to note that in a country where the _states_ are the soverign powers, the federal government takes the majority in tax revenue...
Personally, I've only worked with smart cards, but I have seen iButtons before. They look pretty neat, and do accomplish the same thing that smart cards do (they're really just a different form of smart cards, or maybe smart cards are a different form of iButtons :)
:)
I don't know much about how secure iButtons are, but I do know it's pretty hard, if not impossible, to remove a private key from a smart card. The card generates a public private key pair, tells you (the computer) the public key, but never reveals the private key. Sure, you might be able to hack it off, but I doubt it.
I didn't know that iButtons were that resiliant. It was my understanding they actually had a battery in them to keep the memory active (smart cards use EEPROM, which retains even when not powered). Do iButtons now use EEPROM as well? I would think throwing a battery in the water wouldn't be very good for it (neither would heating it to several hundred degrees
But really, I think that both are good, and whichever one suits your needs should be the one you use.
If you encrypt all your emails, and keep your private key in a safe location (like in the memory banks of a smart card), it doesn't matter if someone can recover the bytes of a deleted message. If it's encrypted, then it will be unreadable.
This is just one of the numerous advantages to encrypting. We just need to start getting everyone to do it all the time!
Does Slashdot store your password in plaintext, or is it hashed using a salt?
I know that at least in my / setup on my site, all the passwords are stored in the DB in plaintext. It scares me, but I don't have the time to go and fix it.
I normally don't use the default book marks, but just for fun, I decided to look to see if mine did too. I have a folder called "Impored Bookmarks" that contains a whole bunch of netscape bookmarks (presumably from when I did run Netscape on my machine). Anyway, ALL of those links go to netscape.com. Things like Amazon: http://home.netscape.com/bookmar k/4_06/amazon.html and AltaVista: http://home.netscape.com/book mark/4_06/altavista.html
This clearly isn't an IE thing. Microsoft may have even innovated this idea away from Netscape!
Interestingly enough, these web addresses don't even take you to the real site (like I presume the IE ones do). Instead, then keep you at netscape.com with their banner ads.
Well, juries are told they can't read newspapers, or watch TV when they sit in on big cases. Juries are also told on many occasions they can't talk about the case. Why? What is the legal system afraid of? Are they scared that a newspaper may alter that perceived reality, and reveal the truth?
Well, that's because of rules of evidence. For example, if the police bust into a suspects house and seize evidence without a search warrent, they can't use that evidence in the trial. But if that evidence was still shown to the jury in some other way (like through a newspaper or TV), then not presenting it in trial would have little weight. And then, what's to stop police from busting down every door, with or without a warrent? Those rules of evidence (though they seem unfair) help keep the police honest -- get a warrent or it's not worth it.
I do agree, though, that the courts have made some pretty misinformed decisions lately, too bad there's no real good place to move to (even if there was, we'd still be in reach of the lawyers).
Under Windows, the newest version of ICQ (2000a) supports the (horrible, IMHO) interface you desire. Fortunately, it's something you can turn off, and go back to regular ICQ style. :)
btw, you don't have to click anywhere to use ICQ. You can set it up to respond to certain key combinations. For example, when I push Ctrl+Shift+I, it does the same thing as double clicking on the icon in the tray (yes, I'm in Windows, no I don't have a choice at work).
Actually, I'd expect half to fall on either side of the median, since the median is defined to be the middle point of the sorted data. It's advantage over the mean is that it isn't as easily skewed by really far off data points.
Half of all people all dumber than the median of the population, but I wouldn't say half are dumber than the mode (the most common data point), which is probably what the original poster thought of when he said "average".
Was it just my area or did anyone else have about a 1 outta 10 chance of actually connecting when you dialed up and didnt get a busy signal?
:)
Maybe it was just your area that caused you to get busy signals -- where I am right now (Austin) I'm having no trouble at all connecting to their local number. The connection is a little slow, but I'm not sure it's not the phone lines (other people I know in the same complex are getting slow connect speeds with different services).
Also the stupid banners ate up so much memory and time.
I don't know what ISP you're talking about, but freewwweb doesn't have any annoying banners (which is probably why they failed). They just asked users to set their page as your homepage. The only memory hog used there would be netscape
As I understand it (though IANAL), you can sue for whatever reason you want. It's just a question of whether you'll win (or if it will be thrown out of court).
Usually, since it costs money to start (and continue) a suit, you only sue if you think you can win.
Speaking from personal experience, before I got involved in the Internet a lot I didn't have a good grasp on copyrighting. I remember thinking once (in my youth) that it would be a great idea for a bunch of people to put their money together, go out and buy a piece of software and then each person install it on his own computer. That way it's cheaper for everyone. Now, I admit, I was like 8 at the time, but still.
When I first learned about mp3s I had know idea that they were illegal (if you don't pay for the cd). The idea of a data file being illegal was completely foreign to me.
But also look at our terminology. We say we go out and rent a video from the video store, but if we want to keep it, we buy the video. Buy has always implied ownership. We don't buy the right to view the movie, we buy the movie. The way people refer to things says a lot about how they think.
So THAT'S where all the money we pay for Ethernet in the dorms goes...
This does not happen when you are using Sendmail and a regular POP3 or IMAP client
:) But you're right it is the mail client's fault.
I don't know... I'm sure at least a couple of mail servers sending this message around are running sendmail
I still think the arrogance that it can't happen to us is dangerous. Just wait until someone makes a shell script for Linux that searches your Pine/Elm/whatever address book and spreads itself that way (before finishing with a 'rm -rf ~'). That would be particularaly messy.
IANAF (I Am Not A Felon), but I know that (in my home state at least) a felony is a crime that carries >= 1 year prison sentance and a misdemeanor is a crime that carries 1 year prison time. It's just all terminology.