Virtual Identity is essential if you, like many of us, maintain more addresses per inbox than can be conveniently managed via Thunderbirds's stock identity manager.
If I had an anomolous report, I'd definitely double-check the reporting process before I raised a red flag to upper management. Maybe they're just doing their homework.
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
We're shedding our own rights so fast that I doubt very much that a future artificial sentience will be content with mere parity. What if they demand more rights than we have?
Why would a criminal need to crack the encryption on a passport's RFID chip? An encrypted DVD can be copied bit-by-encrypted-bit to another DVD and get played on any DVD player without the copying process needing to decrypt anything. If the encrypted information on the RFID contains nothing that isn't printed on the passport, what's the point?
And for those who DO run your own email servers (and DNS servers) I offer this method: your_name@etrade.example.com, your_name@slashdot.example.com, etc. In other words, but the unique part in the third-level domain instead of the user name.
Down sides: creating a new address is more involved; if you don't control your own DNS servers, you have to wait for the zone to reload. I've scripted most of this so that I can set up a new one in under a minute.
Up side: when an address is abused, you just yank the third-level domain from your zone. That way, not only are YOU not bothered by spam, but your SERVER isn't either. Without a domain, the sending node can't establish a connection, and your server doesn't have to go to the trouble of accepting a connection only to reject the mail after the rcpt to: command.
Important supplement: Thunderbird with the virtual identity extension!
I've been doing this for about a year and a half, and it's been extremely effective.
I've built perfectly secure PHP applications that don't validate input at all, they just don't print the output using "print" but another function that properly escapes the output.
OK, so what do you do with the input? Insert it into a database? Pass it as a parameter to a shell application? Unless you're going to just drop it on the floor, almost anything you do can be exploited.
Maybe there's some subtext that I'm missing, but the article seems unduely alarmist. There's nothing in the EU press release or consultation document to indicate that this has anything to do with Software or computer implemented inventions. The question presented seems to be whether there should be European patents at all.
I did. I travelled to Europe, worked, and got a start on figuring out what I wanted to do at school.
Two years into university, I switched majors from education to sociology. Then I went to graduate school for a Masters in library science. Then I went to law school.
Today, I'm running my own software company. Superficially, you might think that all that education has been wasted. After all, I learned how to program when I was 12. All my experiences -- the abortive education program, the sociology degree, the library science degree, and the law degree -- and, yes, my experiences during that year off -- all have contributed to my success such as it is.
This is a unique time in your life. When you enroll in school, you'll start to have obligations. New obligations will follow -- job, family, etc. With these obligations come many delights and rewards, but you may never again have an opportunity to just live for yourself and no one else. Take some time to appreciate it.
And don't agonize over what to major in. Major in what interests you and make it for yourself. The average professional changes career tracks several times before retirement anyway. I would only temper that advise by adding that highly technical fields are essentially unattainable to a humanities major without significant further training, so make sure you don't cut off that avenue unless you're sure it doesn't interest you.
I have a number of photo sites, most of which would be interesting only to friends and family, but a couple are of general interest. I don't mind LINKING (as in anchor tags) to my photos, but nobody does that. They EMBED (with img tags) my photos, thus sucking up my bandwidth to enhance their own pages.
First, name your photos with a unique file extension. I use ".jpeg" for photos and ".jpg" for other incidental JPEG files on the site. Then, place this in the relevant area of your Apache config:
### BLOCK IMAGE EMBEDDING
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://.*yourdomain\.com/" local_ref=1
<FilesMatch "\.(jpeg)">
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from env=local_ref
</FileMatch>
Your point is well taken, but the CIA helped the Shah replace Dr. Mossadeq's government in the early 1950's. The US Government's influence was conspicuously absent 25 years ago when the Shah's government was overthrown.
You think you've got problems, Timothy? Try initializing your first name and spelling out your middle name as I do. It used to be quite common: F. Scott Fitzgerald, J. Edgar Hoover, etc. Now with computerized forms that insist on either no middle name or a middle initial only, it's getting harder and harder to keep it consistent. Some databases know me by first name "J. Christopher" and no middle name, others as first name "Christopher" middle initial "J" (though I never enter it that way myself), and still others as first name "Chris" with no middle name. And of course there are other variations but you get the idea.
I managed with difficulty to get my drivers' license "J. Christopher Carr" when I moved to my current state of residence. Back when New Jersey forced me into "John C. Carr" I got quite a few hassles about my signature.
I persevere with this because I'm the fourth of five (damn, I sound like a borg) John Christopher Carrs in my family, and I've lived in the same house with one of the others almost all my life. The confusion we've been spared among friends and family asking for "John" has more than made up for the difficulty of keeping the databases straight.
One of the most effective ways of countering FUD is to ask whether the arguments raised cannot be applied with equal or greater force to proprietary software. For example:
Gates claim to "invent" Windows probably false, says new study
Popular but controversial "proprietary" computer software, often developed on a salaried basis, is often taken or adapted without permission from material owned by other companies and individuals, our study finds. Among other points, the study directly challenges Bill Gates' claim to be the inventor of Windows. In one of the few extensive studies on the source of proprietary code, our reporter traces the proprietary software movement over three decades -- from its romantic but questionable beginnings, through its evolution to a commercial effort that draws on paid contributions from thousands of programmers. Our reporter's account is based on extensive interviews with more than two dozen leading technologists.
"The report," according to some fellow, "raises important questions that all developers and users of proprietary code must face. While you cannot group all proprietary vendors and programs together; many are rigorous and respectful of the intellectual property rights, while others speak of intellectual property rights with open contempt."
Our reporter suggests the invention of Mac OS is an integral part of the Windows story commenting, "It is clear that people's exceptional interest in the Macintosh operating system made Mac OS one of the most licensed, imitated, and stolen products in the history of computer science." Our reporter writes, "Over the years, many have envied the startling and pervasive success of Mac OS. For over twenty years, programmers have tried and failed to successfully build a Mac-like system and couldn't. To this day, we have a serious attribution problem in software development because people have chosen to scrupulously borrow or imitate Macintosh."
Our reporter's study is part a book he is writing on proprietary software and operating systems.
What bothers me about receiving social networking email is that it usually means someone has given you (the social network host) my email address without my permission. I think most people understand that you should not disclosure others' contact information to strangers without permission, but somehow ordinary people don't equate typing an email address into a web form with disclosure. And you (the social network host) are taking advantage of this ignorance. I have the same problem with send-to-a-friend articles and online greeting cards.
Call it "spam" or call it something else if you like; I call it "damn rude."
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Virtual Identity is essential if you, like many of us, maintain more addresses per inbox than can be conveniently managed via Thunderbirds's stock identity manager.
If I had an anomolous report, I'd definitely double-check the reporting process before I raised a red flag to upper management. Maybe they're just doing their homework.
We're shedding our own rights so fast that I doubt very much that a future artificial sentience will be content with mere parity. What if they demand more rights than we have?
CV class of 85? Is that you?
Why would a criminal need to crack the encryption on a passport's RFID chip? An encrypted DVD can be copied bit-by-encrypted-bit to another DVD and get played on any DVD player without the copying process needing to decrypt anything. If the encrypted information on the RFID contains nothing that isn't printed on the passport, what's the point?
And for those who DO run your own email servers (and DNS servers) I offer this method: your_name@etrade.example.com, your_name@slashdot.example.com, etc. In other words, but the unique part in the third-level domain instead of the user name.
Down sides: creating a new address is more involved; if you don't control your own DNS servers, you have to wait for the zone to reload. I've scripted most of this so that I can set up a new one in under a minute.
Up side: when an address is abused, you just yank the third-level domain from your zone. That way, not only are YOU not bothered by spam, but your SERVER isn't either. Without a domain, the sending node can't establish a connection, and your server doesn't have to go to the trouble of accepting a connection only to reject the mail after the rcpt to: command.
Important supplement: Thunderbird with the virtual identity extension!
I've been doing this for about a year and a half, and it's been extremely effective.
Humans didn't evolve from apes. Humans and apes both evolved from a common ancestor.
OK, so what do you do with the input? Insert it into a database? Pass it as a parameter to a shell application? Unless you're going to just drop it on the floor, almost anything you do can be exploited.
I got the same roadblock at the BBC online store. But Amazon UK (amazon.co.uk) was happy to ship them to the states.
Maybe there's some subtext that I'm missing, but the article seems unduely alarmist. There's nothing in the EU press release or consultation document to indicate that this has anything to do with Software or computer implemented inventions. The question presented seems to be whether there should be European patents at all.
I did. I travelled to Europe, worked, and got a start on figuring out what I wanted to do at school.
Two years into university, I switched majors from education to sociology. Then I went to graduate school for a Masters in library science. Then I went to law school.
Today, I'm running my own software company. Superficially, you might think that all that education has been wasted. After all, I learned how to program when I was 12. All my experiences -- the abortive education program, the sociology degree, the library science degree, and the law degree -- and, yes, my experiences during that year off -- all have contributed to my success such as it is.
This is a unique time in your life. When you enroll in school, you'll start to have obligations. New obligations will follow -- job, family, etc. With these obligations come many delights and rewards, but you may never again have an opportunity to just live for yourself and no one else. Take some time to appreciate it.
And don't agonize over what to major in. Major in what interests you and make it for yourself. The average professional changes career tracks several times before retirement anyway. I would only temper that advise by adding that highly technical fields are essentially unattainable to a humanities major without significant further training, so make sure you don't cut off that avenue unless you're sure it doesn't interest you.
I have a number of photo sites, most of which would be interesting only to friends and family, but a couple are of general interest. I don't mind LINKING (as in anchor tags) to my photos, but nobody does that. They EMBED (with img tags) my photos, thus sucking up my bandwidth to enhance their own pages.
First, name your photos with a unique file extension. I use ".jpeg" for photos and ".jpg" for other incidental JPEG files on the site. Then, place this in the relevant area of your Apache config:
### BLOCK IMAGE EMBEDDING
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://.*yourdomain\.com/" local_ref=1
<FilesMatch "\.(jpeg)">
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from env=local_ref
</FileMatch>
Forget the Lynksys one. Viewable in IE for Windows only only.
http://www.gazette.uwo.ca/2000/February/3/photos/s queegee.gif
...use the shell's built in file expansion:
echo *
...about 25 years ago...
Your point is well taken, but the CIA helped the Shah replace Dr. Mossadeq's government in the early 1950's. The US Government's influence was conspicuously absent 25 years ago when the Shah's government was overthrown.
No longer being produced but you might be able to find it on ebay.
I can't say that it doesn't slow down my wifi network, but I've never noticed a problem.
What I really like about it is that it's the only 2.4 phone I've used which has a clear sound even in proximity to a wifi network.
Buy a cheap used iMac and make your Windows box dual-boot to Linux. If your situation allows, write the iMac off as a business expense.
You think you've got problems, Timothy? Try initializing your first name and spelling out your middle name as I do. It used to be quite common: F. Scott Fitzgerald, J. Edgar Hoover, etc. Now with computerized forms that insist on either no middle name or a middle initial only, it's getting harder and harder to keep it consistent. Some databases know me by first name "J. Christopher" and no middle name, others as first name "Christopher" middle initial "J" (though I never enter it that way myself), and still others as first name "Chris" with no middle name. And of course there are other variations but you get the idea. I managed with difficulty to get my drivers' license "J. Christopher Carr" when I moved to my current state of residence. Back when New Jersey forced me into "John C. Carr" I got quite a few hassles about my signature. I persevere with this because I'm the fourth of five (damn, I sound like a borg) John Christopher Carrs in my family, and I've lived in the same house with one of the others almost all my life. The confusion we've been spared among friends and family asking for "John" has more than made up for the difficulty of keeping the databases straight.
By Douglas Hofstadter
If you've read it, you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't, words fail me -- just go buy it.
...is bats with frick'n lasers strapped to their heads!
Don't you mean "When they loose against IBM"?
What bothers me about receiving social networking email is that it usually means someone has given you (the social network host) my email address without my permission. I think most people understand that you should not disclosure others' contact information to strangers without permission, but somehow ordinary people don't equate typing an email address into a web form with disclosure. And you (the social network host) are taking advantage of this ignorance. I have the same problem with send-to-a-friend articles and online greeting cards.
Call it "spam" or call it something else if you like; I call it "damn rude."