I had actually forgotten those - the hash functions it talks about have been needed when you change to a newer protocol version. Concatenate some strings, do a quick MD5, send the result back.
Each time a new Messenger release uses a different challenge, the new challenge text is generally quickly found; while I agree that it's a "stumbling block" that I'd forgotten about, it's no real protection method (since it's fairly discoverable with a debugger). You can also still use the "older" protocols (available since MSN6's launch in 2003), with a well-known hash text. If MSFT were trying to lock people out, they'd simply kill the older protocols faster than the community can release patches.
In the past both Yahoo and Microsoft have shown a habit of locking out third party clients, so this combination makes sense for them.
I can't speak for Yahoo, but the only time I'm aware that third-party clients were ever "locked out" of the MSN Messenger network was with the switch to Passport authentication instead of MD5. That was found and implemented in free clients well before the (known in advance) turning off of the old protocol. They may not encourage it, and they may have legal mumbo-jumbo about connecting to their service with a non-MSFT client, but (in a technical sense) there was never any lock-out.
The Internet could withstand one nuclear attack. Several well-placed nuclear attacks? That's debatable...
Depends on the definition of "several". Even if the US were obliterated, most of the rest of the world's internet would carry on - just lacking most of the popular websites;)
I'd still have IM & email to almost all of my friends.
From dumb terminal to workstation, back to dumb terminal...
It's not (exactly) like that though - the whole point of AJAX stuff is that as much as possible is done on the client. Bold? Click, all local. Change the font? Click, done locally. Save? (*crickets chirp while HTTP does it's thing*)
We're talking more of a hybrid methodology, where "most stuff" is done locally, but all the hard stuff (and storage) is remote.
One of the things that immediately convinced most scholars that Hittite was an Indo-European language was the fact that Hittite has what are called "r/n stems", words that have/r/ at the end of the stem in certain forms and/n/ in others,
Yeah, it's such a pain handling \r vs. \n when changing between platforms regularly...
Ya know that's great and all...unless you do nested subroutine calls.
Which is why the original poster used a stack. The parent to your post merely offered a simpler example.
From the OP: Every time you called GOTO, you wrote your line number into an array and then incremented a variable. When you returned, you copied that line number into a variable, wrote a return value over it, decremented the stack counter and jumped back.
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I'd like to point out that next year will not be the year for Linux on the desktop.
I have warm feelings about ext3, but only because I know that if it fscks up, ext2 tools that have been around for alot longer than either ext3 or reiserfs are available to help me.
I chose to use ext3 back when it first came out - no reformat, no "hard work" other than a recompile, and if it didn't work - switch back to ext2, the "baseline" filesystem.
Now, I feel comfortable using ext3 because I've been using it so long with no problems. One day I might use another FS, but that will require quite a bit of time on my part (to decide which FS is best, then reformat/install with that in mind).
We don't even have the legal right to tape shows off tv.
Yeah we do -
COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 111 The copyright in a television broadcast in so far as it consists of visual images is not infringed by the making of a cinematograph film of the broadcast, or a copy of such a film, for the private and domestic use of the person by whom it is made.
I had a little more difficulty a while ago... an ISP I happened to be using frequently at the time had their transparent proxy banned from posting, due to mis-usage "by the user".
Multiple emails to the displayed email address ("if this is incorrect etc. etc.") had no effect, the block vanished after about a month. Same thing happened to a friend a couple of months later.
I can understand the banning (they can't identify all proxies) but it would have been nice to have had an email back...
Is there any technical reason why any cellphone company couldn't fit a trailer with a generator, a tower, and a cellphone repeater?? Tow/fly it to a disaster area, find some stable high ground and crank up the tower. It wouldn't be very big investment (per truck or trailer), and the return would be enormous in terms of lives saved. It might even be possible to get a tax write-off.
Just cost. I'm fairly certain it wouldn't be as cheap as you think though, and you'd need quite a few for any real coverage (portable bases have much lower range than conventional ones, and they aren't great to start with).
When you learn algebra, you are told how it works, and that's it. When you are teached religion, they tell you how it works, and then they tell you that if you don't beleive in it and follow it exactly, you will go to hell, to be punished forever, when this is told to a 5 years old child, what do you think will happen?
You do realise that it's possible to teach a child about religion(s) without the fire-and-brimstone stuff, right?
Neither my wife nor I are Christian, but we'll still be taking our child(ren) to church on occasion (probably a fair number of Easters / Christmases at least) so they get to learn about other people.
If they decide to follow, sure. I'll be doing my best not to unduly push "my" beliefs, and I'll let them choose what they want to believe in.
CDMA is an "alternate system" to GSM (which is the type of phone that you get SIM cards with).
CDMA vs. GSM is like FM vs. AM radio - different ways of broadcasting to & from the phone. It just happens that CDMA phones don't get SIM cards either - they have knowledge inside themselves of what phone they are, and when they log into the network, the network tells them everything. (Including the time, which is awesome).
The real beauty of 95/98's "allow only certain programs" thing was that there were hidden defaults that you couldn't remove!
As a practical joke by a sysadmin (I'd been on IRC and mailing lists too long in the IT labs) he locked down my user profile to have nothing in the "Start" menu, no control panel, and (just in case) no apps in the "allow" list.
He had a helluva smirk on his face when I logged in and had no apps. (he was standing nearby at the time)
When he walked back into the room five minutes later to witness me using IRC, his giant smirk turned into a giant "confused" face:)
Actually, GNOME was started in '97, and OSX's first release was 2001. Not sure about beta tests and the like, but GNOME was 1.0 in '99 (and usable much earlier).
GNOME is becoming a fair bit more OSXy in some ways, but I actually quite liked OSX (except for Mach-O linking silliness and the general lack of speed on my poor 800MHz iBook:)
Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking with CNET News.com reporters until July 2006 in response to privacy issues
Google staff won't talk to CNET reporters. ie, reporters ask for an interview, Google says "no thanks". They haven't blacklisted the IPs from the search engine.
What's wrong with that? I wouldn't want to be interviewed by a site that had such a flamebait article about me either.
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I had actually forgotten those - the hash functions it talks about have been needed when you change to a newer protocol version. Concatenate some strings, do a quick MD5, send the result back.
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They're "challenges" in the Messenger parlance:
http://hypothetic.org/docs/msn/notification/pings
Each time a new Messenger release uses a different challenge, the new challenge text is generally quickly found; while I agree that it's a "stumbling block" that I'd forgotten about, it's no real protection method (since it's fairly discoverable with a debugger). You can also still use the "older" protocols (available since MSN6's launch in 2003), with a well-known hash text. If MSFT were trying to lock people out, they'd simply kill the older protocols faster than the community can release patches.
In the past both Yahoo and Microsoft have shown a habit of locking out third party clients, so this combination makes sense for them.
I can't speak for Yahoo, but the only time I'm aware that third-party clients were ever "locked out" of the MSN Messenger network was with the switch to Passport authentication instead of MD5. That was found and implemented in free clients well before the (known in advance) turning off of the old protocol. They may not encourage it, and they may have legal mumbo-jumbo about connecting to their service with a non-MSFT client, but (in a technical sense) there was never any lock-out.
Okay ... so then the real question becomes: from where is Slashdot hosted?
;)
Hopefully somewhere that will disappear and let me get my work done if there is nuclear armageddon
The Internet could withstand one nuclear attack. Several well-placed nuclear attacks? That's debatable...
;)
Depends on the definition of "several". Even if the US were obliterated, most of the rest of the world's internet would carry on - just lacking most of the popular websites
I'd still have IM & email to almost all of my friends.
That's pretty good, really.
From dumb terminal to workstation, back to dumb terminal...
It's not (exactly) like that though - the whole point of AJAX stuff is that as much as possible is done on the client. Bold? Click, all local. Change the font? Click, done locally. Save? (*crickets chirp while HTTP does it's thing*)
We're talking more of a hybrid methodology, where "most stuff" is done locally, but all the hard stuff (and storage) is remote.
One of the things that immediately convinced most scholars that Hittite was an Indo-European language was the fact that Hittite has what are called "r/n stems", words that have /r/ at the end of the stem in certain forms and /n/ in others,
Yeah, it's such a pain handling \r vs. \n when changing between platforms regularly...
Ya know that's great and all...unless you do nested subroutine calls.
Which is why the original poster used a stack. The parent to your post merely offered a simpler example.
From the OP:
Every time you called GOTO, you wrote your line number into an array and then incremented a variable. When you returned, you copied that line number into a variable, wrote a return value over it, decremented the stack counter and jumped back.
I'd like to point out that next year will not be the year for Linux on the desktop.
:)
Well, duh! That was 2000!
Can't happen if they don't have the proper video decoding chip built into the iPod itself. Nothing firmware can do about it.
;).
Uhh.. yeah it can. PC's don't have specific hardware for decoding DiVX files, it has software. Firmware is just software (but a little less soft
iRiver's H320 is a good example of that - there is firmware that turns the iPod-clone into a video player!
I have warm feelings about ext3, but only because I know that if it fscks up, ext2 tools that have been around for alot longer than either ext3 or reiserfs are available to help me.
I chose to use ext3 back when it first came out - no reformat, no "hard work" other than a recompile, and if it didn't work - switch back to ext2, the "baseline" filesystem.
Now, I feel comfortable using ext3 because I've been using it so long with no problems. One day I might use another FS, but that will require quite a bit of time on my part (to decide which FS is best, then reformat/install with that in mind).
IMHO It's about ease and comfort.
@msn.com?
:)
Worse yet, he probably uses MSN Messenger...
We don't even have the legal right to tape shows off tv.
/ ca1968133/s111.html
Yeah we do -
COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 111
The copyright in a television broadcast in so far as it consists of visual images is not infringed by the making of a cinematograph film of the broadcast, or a copy of such a film, for the private and domestic use of the person by whom it is made.
Same goes for the audio component.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act
I certainly wouldn't trust an Auto Mechanic with 2 weeks of training to fix my brakes.
;)
I wouldn't trust anyone that took two weeks to learn how to change brakes, either...
I had a little more difficulty a while ago... an ISP I happened to be using frequently at the time had their transparent proxy banned from posting, due to mis-usage "by the user".
Multiple emails to the displayed email address ("if this is incorrect etc. etc.") had no effect, the block vanished after about a month. Same thing happened to a friend a couple of months later.
I can understand the banning (they can't identify all proxies) but it would have been nice to have had an email back...
Is there any technical reason why any cellphone company couldn't fit a trailer with a generator, a tower, and a cellphone repeater?? Tow/fly it to a disaster area, find some stable high ground and crank up the tower. It wouldn't be very big investment (per truck or trailer), and the return would be enormous in terms of lives saved. It might even be possible to get a tax write-off.
Just cost. I'm fairly certain it wouldn't be as cheap as you think though, and you'd need quite a few for any real coverage (portable bases have much lower range than conventional ones, and they aren't great to start with).
When you learn algebra, you are told how it works, and that's it. When you are teached religion, they tell you how it works, and then they tell you that if you don't beleive in it and follow it exactly, you will go to hell, to be punished forever, when this is told to a 5 years old child, what do you think will happen?
You do realise that it's possible to teach a child about religion(s) without the fire-and-brimstone stuff, right?
Neither my wife nor I are Christian, but we'll still be taking our child(ren) to church on occasion (probably a fair number of Easters / Christmases at least) so they get to learn about other people.
If they decide to follow, sure. I'll be doing my best not to unduly push "my" beliefs, and I'll let them choose what they want to believe in.
After a conversation like that, you probably didn't want the job? :)
No, that's something else again.
CDMA is an "alternate system" to GSM (which is the type of phone that you get SIM cards with).
CDMA vs. GSM is like FM vs. AM radio - different ways of broadcasting to & from the phone. It just happens that CDMA phones don't get SIM cards either - they have knowledge inside themselves of what phone they are, and when they log into the network, the network tells them everything. (Including the time, which is awesome).
The real beauty of 95/98's "allow only certain programs" thing was that there were hidden defaults that you couldn't remove!
:)
As a practical joke by a sysadmin (I'd been on IRC and mailing lists too long in the IT labs) he locked down my user profile to have nothing in the "Start" menu, no control panel, and (just in case) no apps in the "allow" list.
He had a helluva smirk on his face when I logged in and had no apps. (he was standing nearby at the time)
When he walked back into the room five minutes later to witness me using IRC, his giant smirk turned into a giant "confused" face
Actually, GNOME was started in '97, and OSX's first release was 2001. Not sure about beta tests and the like, but GNOME was 1.0 in '99 (and usable much earlier).
:)
GNOME is becoming a fair bit more OSXy in some ways, but I actually quite liked OSX (except for Mach-O linking silliness and the general lack of speed on my poor 800MHz iBook
Read the article summary again:
Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking with CNET News.com reporters until July 2006 in response to privacy issues
Google staff won't talk to CNET reporters. ie, reporters ask for an interview, Google says "no thanks". They haven't blacklisted the IPs from the search engine.
What's wrong with that? I wouldn't want to be interviewed by a site that had such a flamebait article about me either.
Copying it is one thing - getting people to use the new server is another matter altogether.
I got better...
Libraries generally "censor" only insofar as they choose what they buy.
The internet is next-to-useless if you need the librarians to "opt-in" to every page you want to use.
She's obviously a witch.
Indeed - she turned me into a newt!