Well, the web page has been changed now and you can either download the text or browse it. But it's slashdotted already, probably also because of links from other news articles, I guess. I've managed to get 2% of the 397K HTML file before it stalled (http://usvms.gpo.gov/findfact.html).
Junkbuster is nice, but I still get annoying JavaScript error dialogs from sites which want to load JavaScript from some blocked URL. Netscape gets the blocked page HTML code from Junkbuster for these, and since "" is not a valid JavaScript command, it gives an error dialog. Anyone have a good solution or workaround for this (apart from disabling JavaScript)?
I thought NOOP (or NOP) was commonly included in protocols because it's sometimes useful, notably in the debugging phase. It does nothing but you (presumably) get an OK response, so you know the server is working and your commands are being received and processed.
I find it very unlikely that a protocol NOOP command actually executes the NOOP CPU instruction.
I ran into that problem myself, when I bought a new 13GB disk for my Linux server awhile ago. I solved it by changing the disk geometry settings in fdisk (under "advanced", IIRC). Apparently it's now handled using 1644/255/63 as C/H/S -- I forgot what I changed it to, but that's from the kernel boot message. Works fine.
I just live here, but all the texts I've seen have been in Finnish. Admittedly in Finnish that sometimes is almost as hard to understand as Latin, legalese being the same everywhere.:-)
I must say that, being a Finn, and having read the original article as well as the legislation proposal in Finnish, you are exactly correct in your interpretation. Seems to me like some 90% or so of the articles for this topic are written based on false assumptions or misunderstanding of what the proposed change to law is about, or actually says.
I did not read the entire proposal in Finish, but it has a quite long discussion about viruses and worms and the current state. There is also a mention that the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland and Russia have existing legislation about viruses or which can be applied to viruses used for malicious purposes.
> What if I don't want *WANT* to let the other person know my account number?
Why not? It's like saying "why would I want to give out my email address to people? I don't want them to know my address." You can do it, but it will inconvenience you. And it's not like they can do anything with the number except send money to it, AFAIK. Maybe your account is different though.
> Forget paying bills by email or any other of the crap people like you seem to be fond of, it's > stupid and you have no real control over it.
I've never paid bills by email, and I don't think there's any technique like that available for me. As for the rest, I can view my account information, current balance, and complete whatever transactions I wish. It's exactly the same things you can do otherwise too, only the "interface" is different. I don't see how I don't have real control. I actually feel I have more control over my account since I can check it much more easily than I normally could.
> I'ld rather buy a money order from the post office for the exact amount *I* want to *PAY* on > a bill rather than go through that "electronic banking" bullshit that's basically a consumer > rip-off.
Well, for me, when I pay a bill via the web form I enter the recipient (account number & name), the sum, the date and the code number (not sure how to translate that term) for the bill, if any. I have complete control over the sum and time of payment, I can choose any amount I want too.
As for rip-off, I think that banks shouldn't charge for this kind of service but they do, so that part is true. Mind you, they charge for every other kind of service so it's no more a rip-off than the other "services" they provide. It's also true that this form of customer service reduces the costs for the bank, but I don't care about that since I feel it also provides me with better and more convenient method to take care of my account and transactions.
> You can't send checks. (You can send credit card > info. But, dammit, I want a check. None of this > credit-card-direct-deposit-get-all-your-cash-from- an-ATM BS.
Why would you want to send or get checks? Speaking as someone from a society (Finland) where checks have been outdated for close to 10 years now, I think they are old technology. Bank account transactions are the way to go. I can send money to people via a nice web interface to my bank account, at any time of day or night I might want. So really, why would anyone need checks in mail? Just let the other person know your account number, and they will do the transaction, and if you have accounts in the same bank then you can see the money on your own account in minutes via the web interface.
Slashdot Mirror
Definitely not (to the first part :-).
It was Tatu Ylönen's graduation work from the Helsinki University of Technology. So all original Finnish work.
Does anyone know how to get apt-get to support proxies? I pretty much need this for web access, and I've not found any documentation on doing this.
Well, the web page has been changed now and you can either download the text or browse it. But it's slashdotted already, probably also because of links from other news articles, I guess. I've managed to get 2% of the 397K HTML file before it stalled (http://usvms.gpo.gov/findfact.html).
A mirror certainly would be nice.
A device which plays both audio CDs and mp3 CD-ROMs was reported on Wired awhile ago.
The D'Music portable MP3/audio CD player, priced at US$299, will be available in November.
(believe it if you want)
Junkbuster is nice, but I still get annoying JavaScript error dialogs from sites which want to load JavaScript from some blocked URL. Netscape gets the blocked page HTML code from Junkbuster for these, and since "" is not a valid JavaScript command, it gives an error dialog.
Anyone have a good solution or workaround for this (apart from disabling JavaScript)?
There's 6 BoM books in my counting:
Incidentally, Girl In The Box is labeled as #5, I guess they're not counting the original Books of Magic, or "counting" it as #0.
I thought NOOP (or NOP) was commonly included in protocols because it's sometimes useful, notably in the debugging phase. It does nothing but you (presumably) get an OK response, so you know the server is working and your commands are being received and processed.
I find it very unlikely that a protocol NOOP command actually executes the NOOP CPU instruction.
I ran into that problem myself, when I bought a new 13GB disk for my Linux server awhile ago. I solved it by changing the disk geometry settings in fdisk (under "advanced", IIRC). Apparently it's now handled using 1644/255/63 as C/H/S -- I forgot what I changed it to, but that's from the kernel boot message. Works fine.
I just live here, but all the texts I've seen have been in Finnish. Admittedly in Finnish that sometimes is almost as hard to understand as Latin, legalese being the same everywhere. :-)
I must say that, being a Finn, and having read the original article as well as the legislation proposal in Finnish, you are exactly correct in your interpretation. Seems to me like some 90% or so of the articles for this topic are written based on false assumptions or misunderstanding of what the proposed change to law is about, or actually says.
I did not read the entire proposal in Finish, but it has a quite long discussion about viruses and worms and the current state. There is also a mention that the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland and Russia have existing legislation about viruses or which can be applied to viruses used for malicious purposes.
It was mentioned at the very bottom of the page (or one of the pages there, anyway). It's just an abstract measuring unit used in the mapping.
> What if I don't want *WANT* to let the other person know my account number?
Why not? It's like saying "why would I want to give out my email address to people? I don't want them to know my address." You can do it, but it will inconvenience you. And it's not like they can do anything with the number except send money to it, AFAIK. Maybe your account is different though.
> Forget paying bills by email or any other of the crap people like you seem to be fond of, it's
> stupid and you have no real control over it.
I've never paid bills by email, and I don't think there's any technique like that available for me. As for the rest, I can view my account information, current balance, and complete whatever transactions I wish. It's exactly the same things you can do otherwise too, only the "interface" is different. I don't see how I don't have real control. I actually feel I have more control over my account since I can check it much more easily than I normally could.
> I'ld rather buy a money order from the post office for the exact amount *I* want to *PAY* on
> a bill rather than go through that "electronic banking" bullshit that's basically a consumer
> rip-off.
Well, for me, when I pay a bill via the web form I enter the recipient (account number & name), the sum, the date and the code number (not sure how to translate that term) for the bill, if any. I have complete control over the sum and time of payment, I can choose any amount I want too.
As for rip-off, I think that banks shouldn't charge for this kind of service but they do, so that part is true. Mind you, they charge for every other kind of service so it's no more a rip-off than the other "services" they provide. It's also true that this form of customer service reduces the costs for the bank, but I don't care about that since I feel it also provides me with better and more convenient method to take care of my account and transactions.
> You can't send checks. (You can send credit card- an-ATM BS.
/. post.
> info. But, dammit, I want a check. None of this
> credit-card-direct-deposit-get-all-your-cash-from
Why would you want to send or get checks? Speaking as someone from a society (Finland) where checks have been outdated for close to 10 years now, I think they are old technology. Bank account transactions are the way to go. I can send money to people via a nice web interface to my bank account, at any time of day or night I might want.
So really, why would anyone need checks in mail? Just let the other person know your account number, and they will do the transaction, and if you have accounts in the same bank then you can see the money on your own account in minutes via the web interface.
Hmm, my first ever