i downloaded the moox m3 for 1.0 (MozillaFirefox_1_0_RELEASE_M3.exe), but when i go to help -> about, it still says 1.0 PR, and when i go to about:config, app.version = 0.10.1 am i noob?
Did you close out of the previous version first? Firefox is aware of other Firefox instances running; if there is another instance running, executing firefox.exe will just open a new window from the running instance, regardless of version.
Odd, I do BB rebates occasionally, and I've never seen an advertised, expired rebate being panned as legit. Their in-store price tags always say "$19.95 after rebate check" or "$19.95 after instant rebate" (which I only assume to be them cooking their books). In fact, their web site takes the opposite approach; they list prices BEFORE rebates.
There is usually only 1 mail-in rebate, but if you need to fill out multiple rebates, they list them on the price tag.
Don't get me wrong, Best Buy is nowhere close to a perfect company. I've butted heads with them on several occasions (and I'm probably in their 20% of "devil" customers), but their rebate practices aren't shady.
One safe way to use cookies in a situation like this is to use a 3-way hash token. Take 3 elements: a random string (generated by google), the user's password, and a secret key stored in the google API. Whenever you log in, google takes these 3 elements, hashes them all together, and sets a cookie containing the random string and the hash. Whenever the user re-visit gmail, google re-does the procedure using the same random string, the user's password, and the server's secret key. If the hash matches, they are allowed continued access. If not, the user has to validate their user/pass.
That way, 1) the cookie doesn't store a plain-text password of anything stupid, 2) if the user's cookie is stolen, the user can change his password and previous cookies are invalidated, 3) if gmail's private keyword is compromised, people on the outside can't craft a cookie for ANY user (also, gmail can just create a new private keyword, which will force all gmail users to re-validate their user/pass).
The stencils provided on our web site are meant to be used by the Pumpkin Carver Set ONLY. Any attempt to use these stencils with your existing Dremel equipment is considered to be a breach of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act's circumvention provisions, and will be dealt with under the fullest extent of the law.
One of the things that really irked me about SPF was that it used the TXT record of the main domain to store information. Now granted, not many people use the TXT record in DNS, but I found it very short-sighted of SPF to use the TXT record of the domain itself, rather than having a separate subdomain. For DomainKeys, this is the case. According to the spec, information is stored in TXT records in domains like so:
sanfrancisco._domainkey.example.net
In this case, "example.net" is the domain this is all about, and "sanfrancisco" is the name of they key (yep, it seems you can have multiple keys per domain).
I haven't looked too hard into DomainKeys, but it looks very promising.
If Microsoft is doing business in Nevada and attributing income to that state, then that's not really a loophole at all.
(I live in Reno, FYI.) MS actually does quite a bit of business in Nevada. In fact, Microsoft Licensing is based out of Reno and is a rather large employer (nowhere near IGT, the gaming manufacturer, but still noticable).
I was very upset when I bought a Broadcom device, thinking I was buying a Prism2 device.
See, that's your problem. "Broadcom", translated into common English, roughly means "screw the customer".
Though I have yet to find a Broadcom chipset wireless card that doesn't work under ndiswrapper. Of course there are downsides (can't use with kismet, not open source and still relying on windows drivers, etc), but at the very least it allows you to do wireless.
SCO said their code is in Linux, files motion (breaks GPL) and now it is found that SCO has been illegally distributing IBM's code without licence (as the GPL has been invalidated).
IBM is not stating that the GPL has been invalidated. (SCO is saying it's invalid, but nobody's listening.) IBM is saying that since SCO is violating the GPL, their enforcement reverts back to standard copyright law (that is to say, they, as copyright owners of portions of the kernel, can say who can distribute what).
I was sitting on the steps of the man last year (2003), with a laptop and a directional antenna pointed at our camp, which had a repeater to Oregon Country Fair (the people who do the satellite uplink). I was uploading some photos for our newspaper (which never got used in the paper, oh well), and was checking Slashdot during the wait time.
On a related note, the Reno Gazette Journal will be at Burning Man this year with a second satellite uplink. The primary purpose will be for journalists to upload stories (they got burned last year when Oregon Country went down for over a day right before the burn, and was depending on the internet connectivity, despite everybody saying "don't rely on anything for anything!"), but they may do public 802.11 as well.
Macs used to ship with all SCSI drives, but now ship with standard IDE.
Actually, the newest macs (what are they up to now? G9?) ship with Serial ATA drives. Which as we all know are just like regular IDE drives, but are more snooty, so it fits the mac user perfectly.:)
I own canblowme.com (I used to run a wildcard web site where you could type in like employer.canblowme.com and vent about your employer), and you wouldn't believe how much spam I get to you@canblowme.com, despite the address not even showing up anywhere on the web (according to Google... I guess it will when it indexes slashdot now).
It's all from disgruntled people filling out web forms, not bothing to even think whether you@canblowme.com is actually a real address.
Normally I have the view that the owner of the work has the right to say how copyrighted works are distributed. In that light, 99% of the piracy going on these days IS wrong.
That being said, in the article, Jack Valenti is bleating on about how anybody who downloads any copyrighted work is an infringer/pirate/theif. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but Moore has assigned distribution rights (ahem, COPY rights) to LGF, which should have final say as to how the work can be copied. LGF is basically saying "go at it", something which it has every right to do.
(Moore, on the other hand, does not have the right to officially say who can legally download what (since he does not hold distribution rights on his own movie, like nearly any movie/song), but thankfully his views and LGF's views are the same, so the point is moot.)
So in the broadest view, how is this even REMOTELY considered wrong?
Maybe they're quantum databases containing all possible information, and actually looking at them to copy them would collapse the possibilities into only one state.
Next you'll be telling me that Duke Nukem Forever just went into public beta...
*sigh*
3D Realms will NEVER be capable of releasing Duke Nukem Forever with technology/gameplay capable of justifying the development cycle (which began 26 years ago next week). By extension, 3D Realms will probably never release Duke Nukem Forever.
But the jokes will continue indefinitely! Therefore, 3D Realms should release a Tetris clone called Duke Nukem Forever. That way it's released, it can't be compared to today's FPSs, and that lame joke can't be used anymore.
Duke Nukem Forever as a Tetris game... that would rock.
I'd like to see when they introduce the new feature that allows me to actually make a call...
I'm not sure what you mean... My "outdated" AT&T TDMA phone is great. All of the other providers and technologies have phased out making calls, while introducing "features" such as surround sound ringtones, stamp-sized streaming pornography, camera, and The Mobile ARPAnet(TM).
Call me old fashioned, but I like the antiquated style of punching in a phone number, taking into a microphone, and listening for a response.
Hmmm... I live in Nevada and I'm wondering how this works. The article says that all states have use tax, but it is collected on the state income tax form. What does a fine upstanding citizen, in states like Nevada where there is no income tax, do to report tax on his online purchases?
I have several deaf friends who use both TTY relay services and the newer internet relay services. And because of this, admittedly I use the internet relay services occasionally. While this is technically an abuse of the system, as I myself am not deaf, it can be a real convieience. One thing to mention, if you do use these services, deaf or not, is to be POLITE. Remember, this is a throwback of the original TTY services, so there is a certain formality to the conversation. Use the proper etiquette, and be sure to thank the CA (communication assistant) at the end of the conversation. This must be an incredibly boring and tedious job, so at lease use a little manners when dealing with them.
That being said, I would recommend at least listening to the first sentence of the caller before thinking about hanging up. Just yesterday I called a local computer shop to check the price of a power supply, and the conversation was quick and polite. (I doubt nigerian scammers would want to buy a $60 power supply and ask about the store hours). Here's approximately how a conversation goes: (other end begins with a colon)
: dialing... 1... 2... answered... (male) thank you for calling computershop inc. how can i help you q ga
hello. what is your lowest price on a 500 watt power supply q ga
: let me check one moment (hold music) I have one for 59 90 ga
thank you. and what time are you open until tonight q ga
: 6 pm ga
thanks a lot ga to sk
: thank you (call ended)
: ga or sk
ca thank you sk
: sksk
A little terminology: "ga" means "go ahead", "q ga" is asking a question, "ga to sk" is signaling that you wish to end the conversation ("sk" meaning "stop keying"), "ga or sk" is essentially the CA asking "is there anything else I can do for you?", at which point I thank him/her and signal the end of the conversation. "sksk" is the final signal that the conversation is over.
You have the same digital camera I have for my "misc" camera (D-340R or similar on the desk), and you have a baytech power strip on top of the machines. I had to stand back for a moment and figure out if this was a picture that *I* took.
When I lived in San Francisco, my cellphone had 415-987-PERL. I was king of the world. Fame, money, babes... they were all mine just because of that one phone number. Life was good.
However, I had a 2-year contract on the service and moved away from the bay area about 1 year short. So I tried to sell the rest of the contract on craigslist, basically "this phone number is yours if you ride out my contract". I got many responses, but all were idiots ("wait, you never said ther was a contract!" "what part of 'you can have this phone and number if you take over the remainder of my contract' don't you understand?")
So I reduced my service plan to the $12.95/mo plan (that includes a whole 2 minutes of airtime!), paid off the rest of the contract over the next year, and kept the phone in my desk.
What is not mentioned in the article is that this sonic cannon was sold to Nissan by Toyota, who knew that the technology is useless against the latest fleet of Goa'uld motherships.
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Did you close out of the previous version first? Firefox is aware of other Firefox instances running; if there is another instance running, executing firefox.exe will just open a new window from the running instance, regardless of version.
Odd, I do BB rebates occasionally, and I've never seen an advertised, expired rebate being panned as legit. Their in-store price tags always say "$19.95 after rebate check" or "$19.95 after instant rebate" (which I only assume to be them cooking their books). In fact, their web site takes the opposite approach; they list prices BEFORE rebates.
There is usually only 1 mail-in rebate, but if you need to fill out multiple rebates, they list them on the price tag.
Don't get me wrong, Best Buy is nowhere close to a perfect company. I've butted heads with them on several occasions (and I'm probably in their 20% of "devil" customers), but their rebate practices aren't shady.
One safe way to use cookies in a situation like this is to use a 3-way hash token. Take 3 elements: a random string (generated by google), the user's password, and a secret key stored in the google API. Whenever you log in, google takes these 3 elements, hashes them all together, and sets a cookie containing the random string and the hash. Whenever the user re-visit gmail, google re-does the procedure using the same random string, the user's password, and the server's secret key. If the hash matches, they are allowed continued access. If not, the user has to validate their user/pass.
That way, 1) the cookie doesn't store a plain-text password of anything stupid, 2) if the user's cookie is stolen, the user can change his password and previous cookies are invalidated, 3) if gmail's private keyword is compromised, people on the outside can't craft a cookie for ANY user (also, gmail can just create a new private keyword, which will force all gmail users to re-validate their user/pass).
The hockey player?
The perl guy?
The dead guy?
The author?
The VP of Iomega?
The musician?
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One of the things that really irked me about SPF was that it used the TXT record of the main domain to store information. Now granted, not many people use the TXT record in DNS, but I found it very short-sighted of SPF to use the TXT record of the domain itself, rather than having a separate subdomain. For DomainKeys, this is the case. According to the spec, information is stored in TXT records in domains like so:
sanfrancisco._domainkey.example.net
In this case, "example.net" is the domain this is all about, and "sanfrancisco" is the name of they key (yep, it seems you can have multiple keys per domain).
I haven't looked too hard into DomainKeys, but it looks very promising.
Ditto. I read the blurb and immediately though "DRMBOT!"
(I live in Reno, FYI.) MS actually does quite a bit of business in Nevada. In fact, Microsoft Licensing is based out of Reno and is a rather large employer (nowhere near IGT, the gaming manufacturer, but still noticable).
See, that's your problem. "Broadcom", translated into common English, roughly means "screw the customer".
Though I have yet to find a Broadcom chipset wireless card that doesn't work under ndiswrapper. Of course there are downsides (can't use with kismet, not open source and still relying on windows drivers, etc), but at the very least it allows you to do wireless.
IBM is not stating that the GPL has been invalidated. (SCO is saying it's invalid, but nobody's listening.) IBM is saying that since SCO is violating the GPL, their enforcement reverts back to standard copyright law (that is to say, they, as copyright owners of portions of the kernel, can say who can distribute what).
All displays within the game (computer terminals, etc) displayed static for me. Then I realized I was running at 16bpp. Going to 24bpp worked great.
BTW, I find it funny that I'm getting better performance from winex+cvs in linux than I am on the same hardware in Windows.
I was sitting on the steps of the man last year (2003), with a laptop and a directional antenna pointed at our camp, which had a repeater to Oregon Country Fair (the people who do the satellite uplink). I was uploading some photos for our newspaper (which never got used in the paper, oh well), and was checking Slashdot during the wait time.
On a related note, the Reno Gazette Journal will be at Burning Man this year with a second satellite uplink. The primary purpose will be for journalists to upload stories (they got burned last year when Oregon Country went down for over a day right before the burn, and was depending on the internet connectivity, despite everybody saying "don't rely on anything for anything!"), but they may do public 802.11 as well.
Actually, the newest macs (what are they up to now? G9?) ship with Serial ATA drives. Which as we all know are just like regular IDE drives, but are more snooty, so it fits the mac user perfectly. :)
I own canblowme.com (I used to run a wildcard web site where you could type in like employer.canblowme.com and vent about your employer), and you wouldn't believe how much spam I get to you@canblowme.com, despite the address not even showing up anywhere on the web (according to Google... I guess it will when it indexes slashdot now).
It's all from disgruntled people filling out web forms, not bothing to even think whether you@canblowme.com is actually a real address.
Normally I have the view that the owner of the work has the right to say how copyrighted works are distributed. In that light, 99% of the piracy going on these days IS wrong.
That being said, in the article, Jack Valenti is bleating on about how anybody who downloads any copyrighted work is an infringer/pirate/theif. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but Moore has assigned distribution rights (ahem, COPY rights) to LGF, which should have final say as to how the work can be copied. LGF is basically saying "go at it", something which it has every right to do.
(Moore, on the other hand, does not have the right to officially say who can legally download what (since he does not hold distribution rights on his own movie, like nearly any movie/song), but thankfully his views and LGF's views are the same, so the point is moot.)
So in the broadest view, how is this even REMOTELY considered wrong?
Texas?
I saw a 10:30PM show friday; particularly because the 7:40PM (and all previous) shows were sold out. And you know what I noticed?
Nearly everyone in the theater was aged 18-30, from all walks of life. The exact demographic that the issues in f9/11 affected.
I was impressed.
The barcodes most popular in the world todare are actually 1D barcodes, because the information is only stord in one dimension. However, you may have seen the types of barcodes that the article is talking about.
*sigh*
3D Realms will NEVER be capable of releasing Duke Nukem Forever with technology/gameplay capable of justifying the development cycle (which began 26 years ago next week). By extension, 3D Realms will probably never release Duke Nukem Forever.
But the jokes will continue indefinitely! Therefore, 3D Realms should release a Tetris clone called Duke Nukem Forever. That way it's released, it can't be compared to today's FPSs, and that lame joke can't be used anymore.
Duke Nukem Forever as a Tetris game... that would rock.
I'm not sure what you mean... My "outdated" AT&T TDMA phone is great. All of the other providers and technologies have phased out making calls, while introducing "features" such as surround sound ringtones, stamp-sized streaming pornography, camera, and The Mobile ARPAnet(TM).
Call me old fashioned, but I like the antiquated style of punching in a phone number, taking into a microphone, and listening for a response.
Hmmm... I live in Nevada and I'm wondering how this works. The article says that all states have use tax, but it is collected on the state income tax form. What does a fine upstanding citizen, in states like Nevada where there is no income tax, do to report tax on his online purchases?
That being said, I would recommend at least listening to the first sentence of the caller before thinking about hanging up. Just yesterday I called a local computer shop to check the price of a power supply, and the conversation was quick and polite. (I doubt nigerian scammers would want to buy a $60 power supply and ask about the store hours). Here's approximately how a conversation goes: (other end begins with a colon)
: dialing... 1... 2... answered... (male) thank you for calling computershop inc. how can i help you q ga
hello. what is your lowest price on a 500 watt power supply q ga
: let me check one moment (hold music) I have one for 59 90 ga
thank you. and what time are you open until tonight q ga
: 6 pm ga
thanks a lot ga to sk
: thank you (call ended)
: ga or sk
ca thank you sk
: sksk
A little terminology: "ga" means "go ahead", "q ga" is asking a question, "ga to sk" is signaling that you wish to end the conversation ("sk" meaning "stop keying"), "ga or sk" is essentially the CA asking "is there anything else I can do for you?", at which point I thank him/her and signal the end of the conversation. "sksk" is the final signal that the conversation is over.
You have the same digital camera I have for my "misc" camera (D-340R or similar on the desk), and you have a baytech power strip on top of the machines. I had to stand back for a moment and figure out if this was a picture that *I* took.
Nevertheless, pretty cool...
When I lived in San Francisco, my cellphone had 415-987-PERL. I was king of the world. Fame, money, babes... they were all mine just because of that one phone number. Life was good.
However, I had a 2-year contract on the service and moved away from the bay area about 1 year short. So I tried to sell the rest of the contract on craigslist, basically "this phone number is yours if you ride out my contract". I got many responses, but all were idiots ("wait, you never said ther was a contract!" "what part of 'you can have this phone and number if you take over the remainder of my contract' don't you understand?")
So I reduced my service plan to the $12.95/mo plan (that includes a whole 2 minutes of airtime!), paid off the rest of the contract over the next year, and kept the phone in my desk.
What is not mentioned in the article is that this sonic cannon was sold to Nissan by Toyota, who knew that the technology is useless against the latest fleet of Goa'uld motherships.