Since "Stevey-boy" testified that IE was too tightly tied to the OS to be removed. This was reinforced to me when my file-browser began to display the "yahoo toolbar" that my wife had installed in IE. In a defensive move I am thinking about redirecting the EI short-cut Icon to Mozilla, but I'm not sure if this is even possible. Mean while I'm glad that we had both a software firewall running on the WinXP machine, and a hardware router running Linux(tm), between us and the mean-old internet.
But I can't complain, because Windows helps put food on my table. When they finally get it right, it'll be time for a new career!
People used to say that about SCO back in the eighties, actualy they're still people saying that about SCO except the getting it right part. Lots of legacy apps out there that only run on obsolete OSes.
Canadian Customs: Where are you headed? American: New York Canadian: Anything to declair or weapons? American: Well actualy I have a cannon, powder and canonballs in plain view on the trailer that I'm pulling Canadian: Sir do you have any hand-guns? American: No Hand-guns Canadian Customs agent: Enjoy your stay in Canada
The sysadmins are not without blame nor are the netadmins, but the honest fact is people in the British Coastguard Agency took laptops home, plugged them into the internet and exposed them to hazards that they were not configured for. Then they returned to work and plugged those exposed laptops into their network carrying traffic for their critical application; and critical in this context means protecting life, limb and major property.
I'm going to make a guess here but I'd say that those people "borrowing" government laptops for personal use aren't joe or jane able-bodied-seaman types but people with brass on their shoulders, intelligent people who almost know enough and so are truely dangerous. Additionaly when the Leutenant who writes your evaluation, plugs in his laptop and the network gets swamped with worm traffic, do you blame him or say that an "internet exxposed" computer in the office helpped.
Microsoft has lower the bar so low in the quest for ease of use, that is't easy to change configurations without knoweldge of the theories behind their actions or understanding of the possible results. Sys-admins test microsoft- certified patch to make sure they don't break things while the users on the network willingly install known-spyware; it's just insanity.
Your dry skin is fairly resistive, get it wet, or get one of the copper wires poking through it a whole different matter. Your bodily fluids have enough salts disovled in them to make everything very conductive.
We were taught that 10mA can stop your heart, its a matter of the current hitting the right time durring the cardiac cycle. Persoanaly I've been hit with 208 volts and am ok, but I'll tell you 12 volts can be fatal. Most fatal electrocutions happen between 48 and 125 volts, thus your telephone jack is more likely to kill (statisticaly) you than the 230 going to your electric stove.
1. not an acid it's a base, NaOH, KOH 2. the electrolyte is absorbed into the battery cell plates and from a gel that will not normaly leak even in a collision
Seems to me they are over-estimating the danger from the 274v power cable, which also means they'll probably under-estimate the dangers posed by a 12v power cable, or an airbag as well.
Maybe I'm dense, but I don't see the benefit either, I understood that Oracle liked to be ran on a bare partition because file systems were optimised for file systems not databases( at least back in the days). So going the otherway would seem to impose similar dis-advantages.
Of course it might be easier to do something like this;
DELETE * FROM filesystem WHERE (copyright-holder = "RIAA" and format = "mp3") and day(liciense_fee_date) > day(now())+ 30;
IANAL but how does publication of any type have anything to do with patentability? If I am trying to patent an idea and you've published the same thing prior to me sure, but if I've published before the application all it does is re-inforce my date of conception claims.
And while publication in a peer reviewed journal is more prestigious, I think that publishing a PDF to a floppy and having a NY Times legal-notes publication of the md5Sum of the PDF or mailing the printed article to self in a sealed envelope with a postmark would be just as good in court.
The whole point of a patent is that you can publicly disclosed the idea, without lose legaly protection. It would seem to me that having a third party publication of your idea would be a benifit if the idea was dismissed by the USPTO only to later approve the same thing from somebody else, at least you'd have art priori protection for your own idea and a chance at having the patent transfered to you in court.
they just don't know how to administer linux, I know this is going to sound like a flame, but I don't mean it to, but if you can graduate from a Purdue CS curiculum and honestly can't admin a Linux machine, you may have mis-invested your tuition dollars. I suspect that it is far more likely that you can admin a Linux box but feel uncomfortable about it. 80-90% of the differences are going to be user-interface stuff; your windows
function log_adview ($bannerID, $clientID) {
global $phpAds_log_adviews;
global $phpAds_tbl_banners;
global $phpAds_random_retrieve;
global $phpAds_zone_used;
// If sequential banner retrieval is used, set banner as "used"
if ($phpAds_random_retrieve > 0 && $phpAds_zone_used != true)
@db_query("UPDATE $phpAds_tbl_banners SET seq=seq-1 WHERE bannerID='$bannerID'");
if(!$phpAds_log_adviews)
return(false);
// Check if host is on list of hosts to ignore
if($host = phpads_ignore_host())
{
$res = @db_log_view($bannerID, $host);
phpAds_expire ($clientID, phpAds_Views);
} }
What your not getting is you don't have to get that complicated
1. I get $7.95/mo website and install phpads 2. I Sell you my advertising service of 100K impressions for low price, I'm selling your banner to other sites. 3. I pay people to click on the banners, I pay them 1/4 of what you pay me to have them clicked 4. profit
It's an inside scam, and they are not hurt the big-boys cause the big-boys can serve their own ads. They hurting the little mom and pop type internet sites by blowing their advetising budget on bogus clicks. The worst part about it is the mom&pops can't realy do anything to me because I delivered what I promised, people clicking their ad banners and viewing their websites!
(7) Dependencies (GTK+, etc.) OK the GIMP depends on the Gimp Tool Kit, not Much can be done there I suppose,
(1) The interface sucks. Nobody likes working with 16 different open windows (2) The interface sucks. Nobody likes menus in different windows and toolbars (5) Repeat (1) and (2) So Either help out, or fork the poject
(6) [Lack of] Speed never having used PS in it's native environment, I'm not sure how Gimp compares to it from its native environment, however I'd guess that porting Gimp to Mac, running on X11 sort of shoe-horned fit to say the least problbly isn't optimal
(4) No [good] CMYK support = will never be used in prepress[1] good point, CMYK is definately needed and as I understand a work in progress right now.
Windows Messenger Service! What in the hell was Microsoft thinking when they allowed routable IP's to connect to Windows Messenger Service by default.
Seems like every time I thought I had it turned off, some damned windows update would turn it back on. Microsoft must have been paid off by spammers worried they couldn't use Email anymore, makes more sense than they're just that stupid.
Finaly bought a linksys router (which runs on Linux) to make the messenager spam go away for good.
I had an oppertunity to drive one of our state representatives around for a weekend. And one of the things that I came to understand is how incredably difficult it is to write legislation, that does what it is supposed to, only does what it is supposed to, is applied by procesecutor's that are too zealous and too lax and is not ripped appart by judges that are too conservative, liberal or senile.
It's kinda like writing a program that has to be bug-free on release, the spec's change constantly and the whole QA department is at a seminar the last week of production.
Slow and careful can be good, it's not like there isn't good antispyware software out there for free. Personaly I use Spybot S&D it's free as in beer, no cost, exceptS donations. You can find them at www.safer-networking.org.
DC has basicaly said "Your Honor tell them to go away, never come back and have them pay us for our lawyers' fees on the way out; because they have no case, know they have no case, and are just pretending that they do."
I sense a bit of astro-turfing here, most slashdotters and especialy Linux using/.ers are strongly supportive of copyrights. Quite frankly most of us wish there were a way to compensate artists for their hard work, unfortunatly the present sitsuation with the recording and distribution companies holding both the artists, and the end customers hostage, there isn't much we realy can do about it.
All of the music on my machine was licenced by the artist as freely-distributable.
I'm not sure about the federal system but in Michigan, victims have the right to make impact statements at trials before sentencing and restitution is frequently paid from the victim's fund, and remimbersment to the fund is often a condititon of parole. Also getting civil damages is pretty trivial after a criminal conviction and AOL has a propensity to sue spammers for damages, siezing assests, then giving then away as prizes to their subscribers.
When/if they are in-processed into the prison system, they'll be evaluated, and placed in a facility when simmilar criminals, usualy based on type of crime (fraud and spamm which is non-violent) their psyc eval (probably non-violent semi-sociopathic). The repercussions of two murders trying to kill each other is a lot less than a murderer trying to kill a con artist so the system will go with keeping the sharks away from the guppies.
extra 1 to 3 years tacked onto a felony conviction is nothing Oh yes it is, while you go in thinking it's nothing usualy because it's served concurrently with the primary sentence; I can guarentee that the Parole board will look at it differently. In fact if you cop a plea, you generaly have waived your right to be presumed inocent. The means you did, what you were charged with, not just what you were convicted of. Another Gotcha is these guys now have two felonies, after they do say 7 years of a 7-12 federal sentence, they get out on parole and blow a stop light, in Michigan they are now 3 time lossers and get 1-3 in a MI prison as an habitual offender. Being in prison is no joke either, think about this; you're now working for 28 cents an hour, your wife divorces your sorry ass, and child-support leaves you with $7.00 a month disposeable income. If you get sick or injured, medicade has a $3.00 co-pay that's almost half a months income, He'll only tell you "take some asprin and see me in two weeks" so there goes the rest of the months income (don't no-show either, you'll get a ticket for disobeying a direct order, that the parole board won't like). No these guys are going to become four more kiss-ass punks in a world of hurt and are probably too stupid to realise it.
I might live overseas, but if I commit a crime in North-America, then I expect the north-american police to grab me.
There is a rule of thumb that has to be applied, if the USG, United States Government, wants me more than the effort + the political fall-out from grabbing me costs them, then they are going to scarf me up. If you are very naughty, even being the president of a country might not be enough. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I'm saying that, that's the way it is. Many things are a crime to the USG no matter who you are, where you committed them, and against who.
I got news for you; sourceforge.net, Top Downloads, 1. eMule, Operating System: Windows 95/98/2000, Windows NT/2000 2. BitTorrent, Operating System: Windows, POSIX 3. DC++, Operating System: Windows 4. Azureus - BitTorrent Client, Operating System: MacOS X, Windows, POSIX 5. CDex, Operating System: Windows 6. guliverkli, Operating System: Windows 95/98/2000, Windows NT/2000 7. VirtualDub, Operating System: Windows 95/98/2000 8. eMule Plus, Operating System: Windows 95/98/2000, Windows NT/2000 9. ABC [Yet Another Bittorrent Client], Operating System: Windows NT/2000 10 VisualBoyAdvance, Operating System: BeOS, MacOS X, Windows, Linux
3/10 run on Linux, 10/10 run on windows, hell if I were Billy G, I'd not only advetise there, I'd encourage my people to work on some OSS for my operating system there.
That's why there are diferent types of ads to be bought; some are priced by impressions, so I might pay for 700K downloads of my ad image. Some are priced by click-throughs so I might pay for a 100K clicks. Some are paid by a commission on sales generated durring the visit after a click-through.
There is advantages to each as well as disadvantages no matter which side of the fence your on. Few people realy object to seeing well targeted, tastefull ads, almost everyone objects to tacky, intrusive shot-guns ads.
Last week I had a linkSys tech support guy with a indian accent tell me they don't support Linux, I said "Realy your router runs on Linux, you've got the source code posted on your website, but you don't support it, right"; then the line went dead.
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Since "Stevey-boy" testified that IE was too tightly tied to the OS to be removed. This was reinforced to me when my file-browser began to display the "yahoo toolbar" that my wife had installed in IE.
In a defensive move I am thinking about redirecting the EI short-cut Icon to Mozilla, but I'm not sure if this is even possible. Mean while I'm glad that we had both a software firewall running on the WinXP machine, and a hardware router running Linux(tm), between us and the mean-old internet.
But I can't complain, because Windows helps put food on my table. When they finally get it right, it'll be time for a new career!
People used to say that about SCO back in the eighties, actualy they're still people saying that about SCO except the getting it right part. Lots of legacy apps out there that only run on obsolete OSes.
Canadian Customs: Where are you headed?
American: New York
Canadian: Anything to declair or weapons?
American: Well actualy I have a cannon, powder and canonballs in plain view on the trailer that I'm pulling
Canadian: Sir do you have any hand-guns?
American: No Hand-guns
Canadian Customs agent: Enjoy your stay in Canada
The sysadmins are not without blame nor are the netadmins, but the honest fact is people in the British Coastguard Agency took laptops home, plugged them into the internet and exposed them to hazards that they were not configured for. Then they returned to work and plugged those exposed laptops into their network carrying traffic for their critical application; and critical in this context means protecting life, limb and major property.
I'm going to make a guess here but I'd say that those people "borrowing" government laptops for personal use aren't joe or jane able-bodied-seaman types but people with brass on their shoulders, intelligent people who almost know enough and so are truely dangerous. Additionaly when the Leutenant who writes your evaluation, plugs in his laptop and the network gets swamped with worm traffic, do you blame him or say that an "internet exxposed" computer in the office helpped.
Microsoft has lower the bar so low in the quest for ease of use, that is't easy to change configurations without knoweldge of the theories behind their actions or understanding of the possible results. Sys-admins test microsoft- certified patch to make sure they don't break things while the users on the network willingly install known-spyware; it's just insanity.
Your dry skin is fairly resistive, get it wet, or get one of the copper wires poking through it a whole different matter. Your bodily fluids have enough salts disovled in them to make everything very conductive.
We were taught that 10mA can stop your heart, its a matter of the current hitting the right time durring the cardiac cycle. Persoanaly I've been hit with 208 volts and am ok, but I'll tell you 12 volts can be fatal. Most fatal electrocutions happen between 48 and 125 volts, thus your telephone jack is more likely to kill (statisticaly) you than the 230 going to your electric stove.
1. not an acid it's a base, NaOH, KOH
2. the electrolyte is absorbed into the battery cell plates and from a gel that will not normaly leak even in a collision
Seems to me they are over-estimating the danger from the 274v power cable, which also means they'll probably under-estimate the dangers posed by a 12v power cable, or an airbag as well.
Of course it might be easier to do something like this;
IANAL but how does publication of any type have anything to do with patentability? If I am trying to patent an idea and you've published the same thing prior to me sure, but if I've published before the application all it does is re-inforce my date of conception claims.
And while publication in a peer reviewed journal is more prestigious, I think that publishing a PDF to a floppy and having a NY Times legal-notes publication of the md5Sum of the PDF or mailing the printed article to self in a sealed envelope with a postmark would be just as good in court.
The whole point of a patent is that you can publicly disclosed the idea, without lose legaly protection. It would seem to me that having a third party publication of your idea would be a benifit if the idea was dismissed by the USPTO only to later approve the same thing from somebody else, at least you'd have art priori protection for your own idea and a chance at having the patent transfered to you in court.
I know this is going to sound like a flame, but I don't mean it to, but if you can graduate from a Purdue CS curiculum and honestly can't admin a Linux machine, you may have mis-invested your tuition dollars. I suspect that it is far more likely that you can admin a Linux box but feel uncomfortable about it. 80-90% of the differences are going to be user-interface stuff; your windows becomes type of things because the theory is the same.
1. I get $7.95/mo website and install phpads
2. I Sell you my advertising service of 100K impressions for low price, I'm selling your banner to other sites.
3. I pay people to click on the banners, I pay them 1/4 of what you pay me to have them clicked
4. profit
It's an inside scam, and they are not hurt the big-boys cause the big-boys can serve their own ads. They hurting the little mom and pop type internet sites by blowing their advetising budget on bogus clicks. The worst part about it is the mom&pops can't realy do anything to me because I delivered what I promised, people clicking their ad banners and viewing their websites!
(7) Dependencies (GTK+, etc.) OK the GIMP depends on the Gimp Tool Kit, not Much can be done there I suppose,
(1) The interface sucks. Nobody likes working with 16 different open windows
(2) The interface sucks. Nobody likes menus in different windows and toolbars
(5) Repeat (1) and (2) So Either help out, or fork the poject
(6) [Lack of] Speed never having used PS in it's native environment, I'm not sure how Gimp compares to it from its native environment, however I'd guess that porting Gimp to Mac, running on X11 sort of shoe-horned fit to say the least problbly isn't optimal
(4) No [good] CMYK support = will never be used in prepress[1] good point, CMYK is definately needed and as I understand a work in progress right now.
Richter suing SpamCop is like a rapist suing his victim for reporting him to the police
No it's more like sueing your faithful wife's Dr. for telling her she had caught VD.
Windows Messenger Service! What in the hell was Microsoft thinking when they allowed routable IP's to connect to Windows Messenger Service by default.
Seems like every time I thought I had it turned off, some damned windows update would turn it back on. Microsoft must have been paid off by spammers worried they couldn't use Email anymore, makes more sense than they're just that stupid.
Finaly bought a linksys router (which runs on Linux) to make the messenager spam go away for good.
I had an oppertunity to drive one of our state representatives around for a weekend. And one of the things that I came to understand is how incredably difficult it is to write legislation, that does what it is supposed to, only does what it is supposed to, is applied by procesecutor's that are too zealous and too lax and is not ripped appart by judges that are too conservative, liberal or senile.
It's kinda like writing a program that has to be bug-free on release, the spec's change constantly and the whole QA department is at a seminar the last week of production.
Slow and careful can be good, it's not like there isn't good antispyware software out there for free. Personaly I use Spybot S&D it's free as in beer, no cost, exceptS donations. You can find them at www.safer-networking.org.
DC has basicaly said "Your Honor tell them to go away, never come back and have them pay us for our lawyers' fees on the way out; because they have no case, know they have no case, and are just pretending that they do."
I sense a bit of astro-turfing here, most slashdotters and especialy Linux using /.ers are strongly supportive of copyrights. Quite frankly most of us wish there were a way to compensate artists for their hard work, unfortunatly the present sitsuation with the recording and distribution companies holding both the artists, and the end customers hostage, there isn't much we realy can do about it.
All of the music on my machine was licenced by the artist as freely-distributable.
I'm not sure about the federal system but in Michigan, victims have the right to make impact statements at trials before sentencing and restitution is frequently paid from the victim's fund, and remimbersment to the fund is often a condititon of parole.
Also getting civil damages is pretty trivial after a criminal conviction and AOL has a propensity to sue spammers for damages, siezing assests, then giving then away as prizes to their subscribers.
When/if they are in-processed into the prison system, they'll be evaluated, and placed in a facility when simmilar criminals, usualy based on type of crime (fraud and spamm which is non-violent) their psyc eval (probably non-violent semi-sociopathic). The repercussions of two murders trying to kill each other is a lot less than a murderer trying to kill a con artist so the system will go with keeping the sharks away from the guppies.
extra 1 to 3 years tacked onto a felony conviction is nothing
Oh yes it is, while you go in thinking it's nothing usualy because it's served concurrently with the primary sentence; I can guarentee that the Parole board will look at it differently. In fact if you cop a plea, you generaly have waived your right to be presumed inocent. The means you did, what you were charged with, not just what you were convicted of. Another Gotcha is these guys now have two felonies, after they do say 7 years of a 7-12 federal sentence, they get out on parole and blow a stop light, in Michigan they are now 3 time lossers and get 1-3 in a MI prison as an habitual offender.
Being in prison is no joke either, think about this;
you're now working for 28 cents an hour, your wife divorces your sorry ass, and child-support leaves you with $7.00 a month disposeable income. If you get sick or injured, medicade has a $3.00 co-pay that's almost half a months income, He'll only tell you "take some asprin and see me in two weeks" so there goes the rest of the months income (don't no-show either, you'll get a ticket for disobeying a direct order, that the parole board won't like). No these guys are going to become four more kiss-ass punks in a world of hurt and are probably too stupid to realise it.
I might live overseas, but if I commit a crime in North-America, then I expect the north-american police to grab me.
There is a rule of thumb that has to be applied,
if the USG, United States Government, wants me more than the effort + the political fall-out from grabbing me costs them, then they are going to scarf me up. If you are very naughty, even being the president of a country might not be enough. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I'm saying that, that's the way it is. Many things are a crime to the USG no matter who you are, where you committed them, and against who.
so what you happens if you spoofed the http request to a port that's been tar-pitted on your machine?
I got news for you;
sourceforge.net, Top Downloads,
1. eMule, Operating System: Windows 95/98/2000, Windows NT/2000
2. BitTorrent, Operating System: Windows, POSIX
3. DC++, Operating System: Windows
4. Azureus - BitTorrent Client, Operating System: MacOS X, Windows, POSIX
5. CDex, Operating System: Windows
6. guliverkli, Operating System: Windows 95/98/2000, Windows NT/2000
7. VirtualDub, Operating System: Windows 95/98/2000
8. eMule Plus, Operating System: Windows 95/98/2000, Windows NT/2000
9. ABC [Yet Another Bittorrent Client], Operating System: Windows NT/2000
10 VisualBoyAdvance, Operating System: BeOS, MacOS X, Windows, Linux
3/10 run on Linux, 10/10 run on windows, hell if I were Billy G, I'd not only advetise there, I'd encourage my people to work on some OSS for my operating system there.
That's why there are diferent types of ads to be bought;
some are priced by impressions, so I might pay for 700K downloads of my ad image.
Some are priced by click-throughs so I might pay for a 100K clicks.
Some are paid by a commission on sales generated durring the visit after a click-through.
There is advantages to each as well as disadvantages no matter which side of the fence your on. Few people realy object to seeing well targeted, tastefull ads, almost everyone objects to tacky, intrusive shot-guns ads.
Last week I had a linkSys tech support guy with a indian accent tell me they don't support Linux, I said "Realy your router runs on Linux, you've got the source code posted on your website, but you don't support it, right"; then the line went dead.