Re:Microsoft's response...
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Not to squash your witty reply or anything - but all cryptography relies on computational infeasibility. Let's say that Microsoft added a truly random 128-bit key to your email number. That would certainly raise the bar high enough, don't you think?
And yet again we see a typical straw-man argument against creationism. Athiest and agnostic scientists are not the majority, they're just the loudest. (Like you!)
I thin[k] it's also a good time for you - the reader/user to post what do you want to be changed in KDE? what do u hate about KDE? what do you like?
Twist some arms and get C++ apps to load faster. Konqueror takes 18 seconds or more, and I'm pretty sure most of it is accounted for by resolving function addresses for every object with virtual functions. It's not KDE's fault, but they may be able to either fix it or get someone else to.
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When is there going to be something that takes advantage of all that power and gives us a reason to plunk down $400-$500 of our hard-earned bucks?
That will happen when all the companies that have licensed or will license id's DOOM engine release their games. That engine currently brings the GeForce3 to its knees. *drool*
He always puts his punctuation on the outside of quotes like this: "Off with their heads"! It's not the recommended style for American English. However, British English typically uses punctuation on the outside. This is an example of where there is no hard and fast rule. It's best to go by the styles of your organization or company.
So, if you like, you can put your punctuation on the the outside of your quotes, provided you also spell like a Brit: "colour", "flavour", "tyre" - to name a few.
That sort of leaves you between a rock and a hard place, doesn't it?:)
Basically, it must have an American in it, and look very dynamically interesting.
Yep, and starting with the last one, the American athelete has to have some sort of gooey human-interest story behind him, too. Ugh. Just GIVE ME THE GAMES.
No kidding. If this keeps up, it could spell the end of innovation as we know it. Next we'll have the EU hauling time and space off to court, saying that they tried to extend their monopolies into other markets through predatory practices and hiding their API's. (They'll be saying things like, "We didn't even KNOW about relativity until the 20th century, for crying out loud! Where were those API's?")
On the other hand, with a little competition, I might finally have enough time to finish my work and space on my desk to keep all this idiotic paperwork...
If the image is a match, officers are dispatched to question the person. But in this case it wasn't the system that flagged Milliron, but simply a woman who saw his picture with a news story.
So this really isn't about a computer messing up, it's about his ex. Hello? What's up with the headline, folks?
Also, it's probably safe to say that he wouldn't have been so aggressively treated if it had been the computer who identified him, since people still trust other people more than they do machines.
"It's one of the nuances of this medium; it's changing some of the parameters that we traditionally thought were sacrosanct," I-Traffic's Quinn said. "There's now this third party between you and a customer within the browser, and that's changed the rules. There's generally no third party between you and the TV. And a lot of people want to cry unfair."
Well, DUH. If I'm surfing to a web site, I want the content on that site. That site wants me to see their content. If somebody butts into the middle, OF COURSE I will cry unfair. Then Mr. Quinn gets all amused by it: "Ha ha, isn't it amusing. But you have to put up with it because it's a New Medium!"
The unfortunate thing is that most people don't have the technical know-how to get the tech-savvy third party to butt out.
Secondly, let's be honest about "kids running things" - the adults have the government, and the military, the police, and the money.
No kidding. I'm getting more and more tired of Katz stroking the kids here. (Yes! Come to Slashdot, where every geeky kid is king!) The whole thing reeks of click-throughs and page views.
Maybe it's not page views - maybe Katz was bullied as a kid, and now wants to believe that he and people like him are powerful. It's either "Geeks rule the world!" (sorry Katz, the people that actually DO rule the world can fire your butt faster than you can sneeze) or "Kids rule the world!" (Sorry again Katz - they may have more of an equal voice now since anybody with a little cash can set up a server or get some web space, but they're really quite short of running the nation's largest routers or controlling the communcation lines.)
Or maybe both assumptions are correct and support each other.
The conclusion seems to be that anyone who's set up a modern Linux distro (Mandrake in particular) on supported hardware would find nothing too new in XP.
<sarcasm>Oh, I get it. Now they are copying us.</sarcasm>
Timothy, if you're the source of that comment (I can't tell because the site is Slashdotted) - get back in your cave.
The biggest problem I see is that any idiot can set up an IIS server.
I went to a training class once on IIS - we put in the CD, clicked "OK" a lot, and we had a web server! W00t! With an Apache installation on *nix, you have to know more. This keeps the intelligence level higher on the world's collective Apache admins. (And before you bring it up - yes, I am worried that Linux might go the same way.)
I've checked my logs and found the majority of attempts coming from sprintbbd.net. Now, it is VERY unlikely that real businesses with real, paid administrators get their connection from Sprint Broadband. (For one thing, the upload is capped at around 30k/sec.) I'll bet the majority of them are home user admin wanna-be's who run a pirated version of IIS. The chances are they don't know or don't care that they've been infected. (Or maybe they forgot that they installed a web server?)
That's frightening. That leads me to believe that this worm will never go away. As long as there are enough monkeys, it'll stick around.
Ye gods, anytime someone claims to do something "For the children", you know we're in trouble.
I work to provide for my children. I set them a good example. I make sure I do what I said I was going to do, treat them with kindness, and discipline them. I teach them to walk, talk, eat, say "please" and "thank you," dress modestly, and take care of themselves. We do without some things so my wife can stay home with them so they'll imitate her actions and not so much those of other children.
Heck, I drive the speed limit in residential zones and keep my eyes open for running kids.
It's all for the children. Aren't we in trouble now?
...you do not sacrifice freedom or liberty for children.
I do every day, and children are better for it. I'm glad there are other people that do - the ones that will not sacrifice anything for the children (not just theirs) are seriously misguided.
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Not to squash your witty reply or anything - but all cryptography relies on computational infeasibility. Let's say that Microsoft added a truly random 128-bit key to your email number. That would certainly raise the bar high enough, don't you think?
Once upon a time, way back in the Stone Age, lived two cavemen, Ugh and Glug.
Actually, the two cavemen were named "Ugh" and "Slug."
I hope this clears things up a bit for everyone.
What? This has been modded down AGAIN?? This has to be the funniest post I've seen in AGES.
And yet again we see a typical straw-man argument against creationism. Athiest and agnostic scientists are not the majority, they're just the loudest. (Like you!)
I thin[k] it's also a good time for you - the reader/user to post what do you want to be changed in KDE? what do u hate about KDE? what do you like?
Twist some arms and get C++ apps to load faster. Konqueror takes 18 seconds or more, and I'm pretty sure most of it is accounted for by resolving function addresses for every object with virtual functions. It's not KDE's fault, but they may be able to either fix it or get someone else to.
KMail simply goes from strength to strength.
Does it do IMAP this time?
When is there going to be something that takes advantage of all that power and gives us a reason to plunk down $400-$500 of our hard-earned bucks?
That will happen when all the companies that have licensed or will license id's DOOM engine release their games. That engine currently brings the GeForce3 to its knees. *drool*
http://www.webreference.com/new/grammar/2.html
:)
Quoth the web page:
He always puts his punctuation on the outside of quotes like this: "Off with their heads"! It's not the recommended style for American English. However, British English typically uses punctuation on the outside. This is an example of where there is no hard and fast rule. It's best to go by the styles of your organization or company.
So, if you like, you can put your punctuation on the the outside of your quotes, provided you also spell like a Brit: "colour", "flavour", "tyre" - to name a few.
That sort of leaves you between a rock and a hard place, doesn't it?
Basically, it must have an American in it, and look very dynamically interesting.
Yep, and starting with the last one, the American athelete has to have some sort of gooey human-interest story behind him, too. Ugh. Just GIVE ME THE GAMES.
It's just it wasn't a particularly fun game.
You state it like a fact. Not so - that's a completely subjective thing.
This time and space flaming has got to end.
No kidding. If this keeps up, it could spell the end of innovation as we know it. Next we'll have the EU hauling time and space off to court, saying that they tried to extend their monopolies into other markets through predatory practices and hiding their API's. (They'll be saying things like, "We didn't even KNOW about relativity until the 20th century, for crying out loud! Where were those API's?")
On the other hand, with a little competition, I might finally have enough time to finish my work and space on my desk to keep all this idiotic paperwork...
...I was born fairly late in life...
So you were born when you were 10 or so?
Believe it or not, some people seem to think that the new window manager twm-gl is a hoax.
I say, that sounds to me like a shameless plug.
Whatever.
From the article:
If the image is a match, officers are dispatched to question the person. But in this case it wasn't the system that flagged Milliron, but simply a woman who saw his picture with a news story.
So this really isn't about a computer messing up, it's about his ex. Hello? What's up with the headline, folks?
Also, it's probably safe to say that he wouldn't have been so aggressively treated if it had been the computer who identified him, since people still trust other people more than they do machines.
So what you're saying is that we're getting closer to developing a main deflector dish?
Coming up right after that is the inverse tachyon pulse, I suppose...
*laughs hysterically*
Okay, I think I've been missing out on too much sleep. You may dock my final score if you wish.
This looks like a job for the Grammar Fascist.
I don't know if it works, I don't have a Win boxen to test it on...
Let's rewrite it:
I don't know if it works, I don't have a Win boxes to test it on...
That looks just fine to me.
After the Dmitry fiasco we don't even have to encode it in anything strong. One misspelling should do.
/me ducks
Does this mean that everything that CmdrTaco writes is automatically encrypted and therefore protected under the DMCA?
I got a good laugh out of that one myself:
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http://wire.ap.org/APnews/main.html?SLUG=MICROSOF
"It's one of the nuances of this medium; it's changing some of the parameters that we traditionally thought were sacrosanct," I-Traffic's Quinn said. "There's now this third party between you and a customer within the browser, and that's changed the rules. There's generally no third party between you and the TV. And a lot of people want to cry unfair."
Well, DUH. If I'm surfing to a web site, I want the content on that site. That site wants me to see their content. If somebody butts into the middle, OF COURSE I will cry unfair. Then Mr. Quinn gets all amused by it: "Ha ha, isn't it amusing. But you have to put up with it because it's a New Medium!"
The unfortunate thing is that most people don't have the technical know-how to get the tech-savvy third party to butt out.
Secondly, let's be honest about "kids running things" - the adults have the government, and the military, the police, and the money.
No kidding. I'm getting more and more tired of Katz stroking the kids here. (Yes! Come to Slashdot, where every geeky kid is king!) The whole thing reeks of click-throughs and page views.
Maybe it's not page views - maybe Katz was bullied as a kid, and now wants to believe that he and people like him are powerful. It's either "Geeks rule the world!" (sorry Katz, the people that actually DO rule the world can fire your butt faster than you can sneeze) or "Kids rule the world!" (Sorry again Katz - they may have more of an equal voice now since anybody with a little cash can set up a server or get some web space, but they're really quite short of running the nation's largest routers or controlling the communcation lines.)
Or maybe both assumptions are correct and support each other.
The conclusion seems to be that anyone who's set up a modern Linux distro (Mandrake in particular) on supported hardware would find nothing too new in XP.
<sarcasm>Oh, I get it. Now they are copying us.</sarcasm>
Timothy, if you're the source of that comment (I can't tell because the site is Slashdotted) - get back in your cave.
The biggest problem I see is that any idiot can set up an IIS server.
I went to a training class once on IIS - we put in the CD, clicked "OK" a lot, and we had a web server! W00t! With an Apache installation on *nix, you have to know more. This keeps the intelligence level higher on the world's collective Apache admins. (And before you bring it up - yes, I am worried that Linux might go the same way.)
I've checked my logs and found the majority of attempts coming from sprintbbd.net. Now, it is VERY unlikely that real businesses with real, paid administrators get their connection from Sprint Broadband. (For one thing, the upload is capped at around 30k/sec.) I'll bet the majority of them are home user admin wanna-be's who run a pirated version of IIS. The chances are they don't know or don't care that they've been infected. (Or maybe they forgot that they installed a web server?)
That's frightening. That leads me to believe that this worm will never go away. As long as there are enough monkeys, it'll stick around.
Ye gods, anytime someone claims to do something "For the children", you know we're in trouble.
...you do not sacrifice freedom or liberty for children.
I work to provide for my children. I set them a good example. I make sure I do what I said I was going to do, treat them with kindness, and discipline them. I teach them to walk, talk, eat, say "please" and "thank you," dress modestly, and take care of themselves. We do without some things so my wife can stay home with them so they'll imitate her actions and not so much those of other children.
Heck, I drive the speed limit in residential zones and keep my eyes open for running kids.
It's all for the children. Aren't we in trouble now?
I do every day, and children are better for it. I'm glad there are other people that do - the ones that will not sacrifice anything for the children (not just theirs) are seriously misguided.
You haven't got children, have you?
The tabloid press in the UK has, for the past few years...
I was under the impression that ALL of the press in the UK was tabloid. Is there a daily publication there that doesn't have an infamous "page two?"