The Pearl Harbor analogy is not about the loss of innocent lives. It's about a surprise attack. It's about the first attack on the US mainland in modern history.
One news reporter called this a wake-up call just as Pearl Harbor was a wake-up call. I disagree. The wake-up call was the WTC bombing in the 90's. We've been hitting the snooze button for years. I just can't understand why folks like Osama Bin Landen, Qadaffi, and Saddam Hussein are still in business.
You're right, Dubya's Star Wars would have been completely ineffective against this attack. Why doesn't the Pentagon have any defenses? Even the White House is/was defenseless - remember that little plane that crashed on the White House lawn a few years back? I bet that plane that crashed in Pittsburgh was on the way to the White House or the Capital, and you can bet they would not have been intercepted.
Not quite. The UTF-8 lead-in characters all have the high bit set. When scanning backwards, you back up your pointer until you find either a byte with a cleared high bit, or a byte that is a UTF-8 lead-in byte. A typical three-character Japanese name will be encoded as 9 bytes, all with the high bit set.
We have plenty of food heritage in the US for this kind of show.
Fukai: The theme ingredient tonight is American Cheese, and with 20 minutes remaining, our challenger does not appear to be doing well with this ingredient. Wait, he's pulled out his cell phone. What is he doing?
Ota: Fukui-san?
Fukai: Yes, Ota!
Ota: The challenger informs me he has called Dominos and ordered an extra large 3-Cheese deluxe pizza with a side of fried cheese sticks. While waiting for it to arrive, he's making a dipping sauce from ketchup, ranch dressing, and salt.
Fukai: But with only 20 minutes remaining, isn't he cutting it a little close?
Ota: Fukui-san, the challenger informs me that Dominos always delivers in 20 minutes or less. If not, he gets the order for free.
Fukai: What a shrewd move on the part of the challenger!
If the challenger is female, will Kirk hit on her?
I agree with what someone else said: the show is a hit in the US because of its campy Japanese nature, the bad dialogue, and the unusual ingredients.
A US version of the show will succeed only if it is purposely campy....Tonight's challenger is the night manager of the Burger King on 58th street. His interest in French cuisine led him to experiment with the salt to oil ratio of the french fries. Three grease fires in as many weeks have not dampened his spirits for this battle against Iron Chef Irish, Ronald McDonald. Now, Chairman Kirk unveils the secret ingredient: COCA-COLA!
My neighbor called last night, wanting to know if it was ok to unplug his computer while he went away on vacation. He was concerned that leaving it plugged in but powered off would still allow Juno to remotedly turn his computer on and use it for Juno's evil purposes.
Juno must be drooling over these quantum computers!
Looking at the source code, it appears that the programmer had a girlfriend or wife named Ruth. Notice the branch BZF RUTH in the middle of the listing.
Somebody has to pay to build and launch the satellite, pay for ongoing operations and maintenance, pay to get the rights to distribute the programming, pay for the R&D to make this all technically feasible. If enough people intercept the signal without paying, DTV won't make enough money to provide the service and the satellites will go dark. They have a business model that requires people to pay subscription fees.
If your neighborhood has Cable TV, the cable running to your neighbor probably runs through your yard. Does that give you the right to tap into the cable and receive free service? What about the underground phone lines - just because your neighbor's phone line runs through your yard, does that mean you can tap in and get free phone service? Same for water. Water's a renewable resource so why should you have to pay for it when it's running through a pipe right beneath your back yard?
This is all very similar to the Videocipher 2 chipping that was going on until the early 90's. VC2 was the encryption method for big dish C band. Some hackers had figured out various ways to clone subscribed units, convince then they were subscribed to all services, etc., and sold these "chipped" units to unsuspecting consumers for large fees ("free satellite TV forever for just $800"). Many of those consumers didn't realize they were buying illegal equipment, although if they had half a brain they would have realized what they were getting.
There were attempts at fighting the piracy - ECM's that disabled some of the chipped modules. Since the VC2 was not particularly secure, it was easy for the hackers to get around this, or to replace a useless chip with a new one (until it got ECM'd). Many people spent a lot of money buying these chips from the hackers, possibly more than if they had just subscribed legally since some had to buy new chips.
Eventually, VC2 was replaced by VC2+ and VCRS, which have still not been cracked as far as I know. VCRS uses some new encryption techniques, and the hardware uses tamper-resistant packaging (I think the chips are encased in epoxy so you'd have to destroy the board to remove a chip). This upgrade was expensive for the satellite industry and for consumers who had to buy new VCRS modules. I don't recall whether legitimate subscribers got free replacements or not (they probably did). I had inherited a chipped VC2 when I bought my house, so I had to buy a VCRS to continue receiving TV.
DTV might be in for a similar situation. If the hacker abuse continues and grows too large, DTV will either go out of business or force everyone to upgrade to new more secure hardware. If this happens, the hardware upgrades for legal subscribers will probably be "free" but future service will get more expensive to pay for the upgrades.
Stuff all your other junk mail in the business reply envelopes. There's nothing like Citibank paying to receive a dozen credit card offers from their competitors.
If you're like me, you recently installed something, and automatically clicked "ACCEPT" without reading the EULA.
Now, what if you want to go back and read the terms of the contract you've already agreed to? I just tried this with Norton Personal Firewall. I inserted the CD, expecting to click throught the setup procedure to read the EULA, then cancel setup.
Wrong-o! It detected that the software was already installed, and asked if I wanted to remove it! So the only way for me to review the contract I "signed" is to remove the software and reintall it. Is that going to mess up all the custom settings I've created? Who knows?
Actually, in this case the printed documentation contains a license. Is this the same one as the EULA I agreed to when installing? The seal on the CD says I have to accept the one in the software, but the manual says I have to accept the one printed in the manual. If they disagree, which one takes precedence, the hardcopy or softcopy?
My latest software purchase was Norton Personal Firewall. The EULA is on the CD. The CD is in a sealed envelope with the following notice:
The software on the enclosed CD-ROM is licensed to the user. Installing the software signals your unconditional agreement to the terms of the Symantec License Agreement included in the setup procedure.
Therefore I must open the sealed CD package and put the CD into a computer to read and accept the EULA. The store I purchased it from will not accept returns of non-defective opened software. Symantec has a 60-day money-back guarantee, but they only refund the purchase price, not sales tax or shipping. So if I disagree with the EULA, it cost me a few bucks in sales tax and 4-6 weeks to wait for a refund check.
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Yep, I originally signed up for my-dejanews email because of the spam filtering. It worked well.
Today I got spam from the new mail provider advertising some books, and claiming that I opted-in for these "marketing" messages. I guess everyone who was automatically transferred to the new mail service automatically "agreed" to this. I'm now opting out of using their service. This was my main "secondary" email account so it's going to be a painful move.
Deja has been falling apart for quite some time. Get your private info out of there before it gets sold to somebody like Sanford Wallace!
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The problem with the MAPS RBL is that it is not Opt-In. When I had a machine at Above.net, there was a time when I wished to communicate with someone at whowhere.com, but, unfortunatly, whowhere.com was on the MAPS RBL that particular day. Above.net was unwilling (or unable) to take my machine off of the RBL so I could communicate with my friend.
That's why god created free web-based email accounts like Hotmail, Yahoo, Excite, My-deja, Go and countless others.
When I was in exactly this situation, I merely switched to one of my web-based emails to communicate. This is much preferable than clogging my main mailbox with spam just so one out of a hundred people that send me email isn't inconvenienced. Long live RBL!!!
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The Pearl Harbor analogy is not about the loss of innocent lives. It's about a surprise attack. It's about the first attack on the US mainland in modern history.
One news reporter called this a wake-up call just as Pearl Harbor was a wake-up call. I disagree. The wake-up call was the WTC bombing in the 90's. We've been hitting the snooze button for years. I just can't understand why folks like Osama Bin Landen, Qadaffi, and Saddam Hussein are still in business.
You're right, Dubya's Star Wars would have been completely ineffective against this attack. Why doesn't the Pentagon have any defenses? Even the White House is/was defenseless - remember that little plane that crashed on the White House lawn a few years back? I bet that plane that crashed in Pittsburgh was on the way to the White House or the Capital, and you can bet they would not have been intercepted.
Not quite. The UTF-8 lead-in characters all have the high bit set. When scanning backwards, you back up your pointer until you find either a byte with a cleared high bit, or a byte that is a UTF-8 lead-in byte. A typical three-character Japanese name will be encoded as 9 bytes, all with the high bit set.
Many for-profit companies have a much better way to donate: buy their stock. You then reap the rewards of a successful company, or suffer the losses.
Fukai: The theme ingredient tonight is American Cheese, and with 20 minutes remaining, our challenger does not appear to be doing well with this ingredient. Wait, he's pulled out his cell phone. What is he doing?
Ota: Fukui-san?
Fukai: Yes, Ota!
Ota: The challenger informs me he has called Dominos and ordered an extra large 3-Cheese deluxe pizza with a side of fried cheese sticks. While waiting for it to arrive, he's making a dipping sauce from ketchup, ranch dressing, and salt.
Fukai: But with only 20 minutes remaining, isn't he cutting it a little close?
Ota: Fukui-san, the challenger informs me that Dominos always delivers in 20 minutes or less. If not, he gets the order for free.
Fukai: What a shrewd move on the part of the challenger!
- Iron Chef 3Com
- Iron Chef Ameritrade
- Iron Chef Blockbuster Video
and Shatner's favoriteI agree with what someone else said: the show is a hit in the US because of its campy Japanese nature, the bad dialogue, and the unusual ingredients.
A US version of the show will succeed only if it is purposely campy. ...Tonight's challenger is the night manager of the Burger King on 58th street. His interest in French cuisine led him to experiment with the salt to oil ratio of the french fries. Three grease fires in as many weeks have not dampened his spirits for this battle against Iron Chef Irish, Ronald McDonald. Now, Chairman Kirk unveils the secret ingredient: COCA-COLA!
Cool! Imagine how much faster the internet will be with dual 1.8GHz Athlons! ;-)
Juno must be drooling over these quantum computers!
Looking at the source code, it appears that the programmer had a girlfriend or wife named Ruth. Notice the branch BZF RUTH in the middle of the listing.
If your neighborhood has Cable TV, the cable running to your neighbor probably runs through your yard. Does that give you the right to tap into the cable and receive free service? What about the underground phone lines - just because your neighbor's phone line runs through your yard, does that mean you can tap in and get free phone service? Same for water. Water's a renewable resource so why should you have to pay for it when it's running through a pipe right beneath your back yard?
This is all very similar to the Videocipher 2 chipping that was going on until the early 90's. VC2 was the encryption method for big dish C band. Some hackers had figured out various ways to clone subscribed units, convince then they were subscribed to all services, etc., and sold these "chipped" units to unsuspecting consumers for large fees ("free satellite TV forever for just $800"). Many of those consumers didn't realize they were buying illegal equipment, although if they had half a brain they would have realized what they were getting.
There were attempts at fighting the piracy - ECM's that disabled some of the chipped modules. Since the VC2 was not particularly secure, it was easy for the hackers to get around this, or to replace a useless chip with a new one (until it got ECM'd). Many people spent a lot of money buying these chips from the hackers, possibly more than if they had just subscribed legally since some had to buy new chips.
Eventually, VC2 was replaced by VC2+ and VCRS, which have still not been cracked as far as I know. VCRS uses some new encryption techniques, and the hardware uses tamper-resistant packaging (I think the chips are encased in epoxy so you'd have to destroy the board to remove a chip). This upgrade was expensive for the satellite industry and for consumers who had to buy new VCRS modules. I don't recall whether legitimate subscribers got free replacements or not (they probably did). I had inherited a chipped VC2 when I bought my house, so I had to buy a VCRS to continue receiving TV.
DTV might be in for a similar situation. If the hacker abuse continues and grows too large, DTV will either go out of business or force everyone to upgrade to new more secure hardware. If this happens, the hardware upgrades for legal subscribers will probably be "free" but future service will get more expensive to pay for the upgrades.
Stuff all your other junk mail in the business reply envelopes. There's nothing like Citibank paying to receive a dozen credit card offers from their competitors.
Keep in mind that C|Net is paritally owned by Intel, and ZDNet was recently acquired by C|Net. No wonder they "suck up" to Intel.
Now, what if you want to go back and read the terms of the contract you've already agreed to? I just tried this with Norton Personal Firewall. I inserted the CD, expecting to click throught the setup procedure to read the EULA, then cancel setup.
Wrong-o! It detected that the software was already installed, and asked if I wanted to remove it! So the only way for me to review the contract I "signed" is to remove the software and reintall it. Is that going to mess up all the custom settings I've created? Who knows?
Actually, in this case the printed documentation contains a license. Is this the same one as the EULA I agreed to when installing? The seal on the CD says I have to accept the one in the software, but the manual says I have to accept the one printed in the manual. If they disagree, which one takes precedence, the hardcopy or softcopy?
Today I got spam from the new mail provider advertising some books, and claiming that I opted-in for these "marketing" messages. I guess everyone who was automatically transferred to the new mail service automatically "agreed" to this. I'm now opting out of using their service. This was my main "secondary" email account so it's going to be a painful move.
Deja has been falling apart for quite some time. Get your private info out of there before it gets sold to somebody like Sanford Wallace!
That's why god created free web-based email accounts like Hotmail, Yahoo, Excite, My-deja, Go and countless others.
When I was in exactly this situation, I merely switched to one of my web-based emails to communicate. This is much preferable than clogging my main mailbox with spam just so one out of a hundred people that send me email isn't inconvenienced. Long live RBL!!!