Its beyond my understanding why such nuts exist. What kind of person in what delusional fantasyland would take down networks of communication? Are they so sick that they must pick fights and get revenge by causing harm? Or is this just a proof of concept cracking game? To see how other people will react to damage? Are these the same kinds of people who swing cats by the tail?
I once had experience with cancelling internet service by closing the credit card account. Back in 1995 when local service providers were few, I made the unfortunate mistake of trying out Compuserve. Never mind they only had a 2400bps connection for my 14000 baud modem. They were also long distance. Well, cancelling from them at the time may have been complicated and required paperwork. I couldn't just call them and ask a person to cancel my $20 a month account.
Just so happened I lost my credit card that month. My credit card company gave me a new card and number free of charge. Compuserve called me daily for the next month asking for monthly payments after they found they could not charge me. They had a hard time taking no for an answer. But I was not going to pay and the card number was no longer valid. What could they do? Sue me? I would have enjoyed that opportunity to see them in court, but they finally gave up.
Does this affect my credit rating? No. Considering my credit and interest rates, I can honestly say this has not.
The way I recognize if something is Unix, is through its boot sequence. If I can see the familiar, kernel, init, Sys V, etc., then I feel right at home. Granted the GNU utilities can be added to NT, but the low level interface of NT is just plain different and looks like some green alien from outer space. Where is/dev,/etc? How do you easily change the services by writing to a text file? Can I pipe stuff around between devices and files? I just can't imagine NT as a Unix, except for a superficial shell and utilities.
I'd like to see how a parachute on a helicopter can actually work. Imagine the ultimate failure. No problem, just use the parachute. One problem. There are what is left of the rotating blades above. Never mind you were chicken to fly very high. You bail with the parachute and the helicopter chases you to the ground, yet the parachute does indeed open. Whew! Uh oh... Shwoosh, rip, tear, *thud* and its no longer the aircraft that is in pieces.
Now where is this neat video of a parachute that works with a helicopter?
They are an aggressive company that can't stand competition as if it would kill them. Coca Cola was nice enough to supply the breakroom where I work with a refrigerator, along with a big poster wire-tied to the front that stated "No competitor's products may be placed inside." (all caps removed here to prevent blindness!) In my mind, they are more arrogant than Microsoft (not by much.)
Coca Cola is the American way. Its thier way of marking property, just as a dog would do.
I haven't been applying for any patents lately, voicing sympathy for the big corporations, but I have been investing a large portion of my salary into stocks. Like many other people, I kind of expect and demand my investments yield great returns. This, I fear, is where the pressure is put on large companies who have capitol raised from investors to bludgeon the competition with patents and lawsuits any chance they get. The more I invest for my future, the more power and extra cash these large companies have to secure thier share in the marketplace. My investments are encouraging world domination and loss of freedom as companies decommoditize as they secure the marketplace.
I have been enjoying fantastic returns and can retire very comfortably; however, I'd gladly trade my spectacular returns back for my personal freedoms when I explore technological challenges. If these unfair property rights laws were done away with, sure my stocks may plunge for the moment. I'd gladly buy freedom back if its not too late.
But consider what fairness in the business world will do for productivity in the long run. It might stop all these crazy mergers that attempt to settle lawsuits. They all want to merge into One Big Company that can't sue itself. Do we all want to work for One Big Company?
Note 1: this drive despite the antishock stuff uses a glass plate so dragging it around is very unwise.
Glass is very strong. Worry about the heads smashing pits in the surface media.
I work in the manufacturing industry where we use encoders of a high density glass disk to accurately measure the speed of large DC and AC motors up to 400 vibrating and earthshaking horsepower. These encoders are directly bolted to the motor's iron frame. The encoder's metal body often suffers from physical damage from hammers and other mechanic's tools. Yet the glass disk will not shatter unless the shaft is hammered to slide through the bearings.
only those who aren't super-protective of their e-mail will get it.
Overly critical? I think not. Spammers stop at nothing, but I'm sure they love people who defend them.
"Here is the information you requested" is the subject and it links to porn banners. Should spammers have the right? Three people have been fired at my employer because of viewing porn sites.
So its ok for me to routinely portmap those who send spam to see if they have an open relay, investigate and throw out 20-50 spams a day in my personal mail box? Should a spammer have a right to DOS my mailbox by stuffing it so full of junk I don't have time to find mail that was from people who really need to reach me?
I hope he loses a fortune trying to defend himself and loses his house, car, wife, and children. We don't need morons like him urinating in our gene pool. Keep those wheels of justice turning. Good riddance!
"Well, we can't force consumers to read privacy statements,
And when a CEO of a company can't be forced to know something as important as this question:
"What percentage of sites get rejected?"
by giving:
"It's not a large percentage -- I'd guess 1 to 2 percent."
He's the CEO and guesses this important fact? Does he know what the hell is going on with his product? You can't trust a company who's leaders aren't involved enough to know basic operational facts.
I agree with munged "antispam" email addresses being lame. Here's a few effective weapons against spam, especially when used in conjunction with eachother:
Create a "throwaway" account with a name familiar with each forum with the command:
adduser;passwd
and add a.forward file in that account's home directory with your permanent email address.
So, maybe in a month you will get a piece of spam. Look at the headers and see what server connected to your localhost. Add the following line in your ipchains to ban them:
ipchains -A input -p tcp -i ppp0 -s -j DENY
Put a -l at the end if you want to log future attempts.
So, if they view porn all the time, but can't get any "sensitive" political views, why not mix a porn site up "Monica" style. Imagine steamy pictures narrating the political events in office. Imagine porn being the messenger of freedom!
As a consumer, I have a problem with cd's: they are not very portable when I go jogging and my vehicles do not have cd players, but do have line input jack. I have a mp3 player which makes up for all three. If the RIAA had its way, they insist that I do something about my technology or listen to no music at all or the crappy radio stations here. I've ripped a great many for my use. So if its not allowed, why don't they come on over and sue me?
I have a friend who likes to do stuff like that. The pickle lit up like an incandescent bulb.
Don't stop with the pickle. They are cool as a dill, but might I suggest underwater lightning complete with sinister sound effects?
Get a neon tube transformer, or something with at least 4,000 volts. And one coffee cup filled less than half full of water. Stick the in the probes and watch underwater lightning. Ever heard water hum loudly in a menecing way? Note that this method is the fastest way to heat a cup of coffee.
And let's make it harder for web tracking and government sponsored invasions of privacy. Let's eliminate illegal acts of government spying and espionage by preventing them from doing it in the first place.
Stuff like Alias/Wavefront is very expensive. A EDA software company donated 4 licenses to our school... it was worth 1.2 million.
When I was in engineering school, we used Orcad to do our electronics layouts. At $4500 a copy, us students were too poor to take advantage of learning design techniques at home. It was a real shame, because with a good set of macros, I could bang out a circuit fast as I could dream about building it. Now that I'm out of school and no longer have access to the software, all those fun analog and microprocessor circuits that I designed are useless. That is one of the reasons I no longer trust proprietary software.
"As a gesture of support for the UC program, game-maker Alias/Wavefront has donated $1 million in software."
Either that's a lot of software or its very expensive. What kind of software? Are they wisely getting these students hooked and locked on their software? Its good when its free, but I hope they know the costs when there comes a time when they have to start paying for further use and productivity.
It's pretty common to find pirated videotapes in ma+pa video stores. Are you sure that you know what you are looking for?
Common? In a big city? On the sidewalks? Where do you guys live? As a music aficionado who travelse the Western states about once a month for a week or two at a time, I see lots of drugs, booze, and lots of bodies for sale on the streets, but bootleg copies conviently for sale have not presented themselves to me.
I believe you. Perhaps I was not looking in the right places. My theory was that employees who make incomes at stores who have much invested in the retail market would not be happy at bootleg vendors not playing by the same rules and promptly call for enforcement. They might be upset at someone who is selling a good collection $16 cd's for $4 and call the cops to bust them on one of many of the city's ordinances.
When was the last time you strolled the streets of any "big city" (fill in the blank) in the U.S.? Most of the music cassette and video crap sitting on the tables for sale are pirated.
Most cassettes and videos are pirated? What big city do you live in? You stated somewhere in the US, so that rules out China. I have yet to see one pirated shrink wrap cassette or video. Granted, I have seen taped music in a few homes, but in a retail store? Where do you get this information?
Working text to speech has been around for a long time!
There's a museum of science and technology in California I visited in the late 70's that demo'd four text to speech terminals. We got to type in text and surprisingly it rattled off correct english in its tinny digital voice. Each terminal had a miniture display and a full sized keyboard. I remember the electronics was well presented, but densly packed and produced lots of heat.
The museum had this giant ship propeller in front of it and may have been in Silicon Valley for all I remember.
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Its beyond my understanding why such nuts exist. What kind of person in what delusional fantasyland would take down networks of communication? Are they so sick that they must pick fights and get revenge by causing harm? Or is this just a proof of concept cracking game? To see how other people will react to damage? Are these the same kinds of people who swing cats by the tail?
I once had experience with cancelling internet service by closing the credit card account. Back in 1995 when local service providers were few, I made the unfortunate mistake of trying out Compuserve. Never mind they only had a 2400bps connection for my 14000 baud modem. They were also long distance. Well, cancelling from them at the time may have been complicated and required paperwork. I couldn't just call them and ask a person to cancel my $20 a month account.
Just so happened I lost my credit card that month. My credit card company gave me a new card and number free of charge. Compuserve called me daily for the next month asking for monthly payments after they found they could not charge me. They had a hard time taking no for an answer. But I was not going to pay and the card number was no longer valid. What could they do? Sue me? I would have enjoyed that opportunity to see them in court, but they finally gave up.
Does this affect my credit rating? No. Considering my credit and interest rates, I can honestly say this has not.
The way I recognize if something is Unix, is through its boot sequence. If I can see the familiar, kernel, init, Sys V, etc., then I feel right at home. Granted the GNU utilities can be added to NT, but the low level interface of NT is just plain different and looks like some green alien from outer space. Where is /dev, /etc? How do you easily change the services by writing to a text file? Can I pipe stuff around between devices and files? I just can't imagine NT as a Unix, except for a superficial shell and utilities.
I'd like to see how a parachute on a helicopter can actually work. Imagine the ultimate failure. No problem, just use the parachute. One problem. There are what is left of the rotating blades above. Never mind you were chicken to fly very high. You bail with the parachute and the helicopter chases you to the ground, yet the parachute does indeed open. Whew! Uh oh... Shwoosh, rip, tear, *thud* and its no longer the aircraft that is in pieces.
Now where is this neat video of a parachute that works with a helicopter?
They are an aggressive company that can't stand competition as if it would kill them. Coca Cola was nice enough to supply the breakroom where I work with a refrigerator, along with a big poster wire-tied to the front that stated "No competitor's products may be placed inside." (all caps removed here to prevent blindness!) In my mind, they are more arrogant than Microsoft (not by much.)
Coca Cola is the American way. Its thier way of marking property, just as a dog would do.
Blame me. I am responsible.
I haven't been applying for any patents lately, voicing sympathy for the big corporations, but I have been investing a large portion of my salary into stocks. Like many other people, I kind of expect and demand my investments yield great returns. This, I fear, is where the pressure is put on large companies who have capitol raised from investors to bludgeon the competition with patents and lawsuits any chance they get. The more I invest for my future, the more power and extra cash these large companies have to secure thier share in the marketplace. My investments are encouraging world domination and loss of freedom as companies decommoditize as they secure the marketplace.
I have been enjoying fantastic returns and can retire very comfortably; however, I'd gladly trade my spectacular returns back for my personal freedoms when I explore technological challenges. If these unfair property rights laws were done away with, sure my stocks may plunge for the moment. I'd gladly buy freedom back if its not too late.
But consider what fairness in the business world will do for productivity in the long run. It might stop all these crazy mergers that attempt to settle lawsuits. They all want to merge into One Big Company that can't sue itself. Do we all want to work for One Big Company?
Maybe 3M will come out with wider rolls of tape
How about double sided, double density too.
Also, what happens when the adhesive on the tape becomes weak?
You can check the stickyness of the tape by checking if the sticky bit is set to TRUE.
Note 1: this drive despite the antishock stuff uses a glass plate so dragging it around is very unwise.
Glass is very strong. Worry about the heads smashing pits in the surface media.
I work in the manufacturing industry where we use encoders of a high density glass disk to accurately measure the speed of large DC and AC motors up to 400 vibrating and earthshaking horsepower. These encoders are directly bolted to the motor's iron frame. The encoder's metal body often suffers from physical damage from hammers and other mechanic's tools. Yet the glass disk will not shatter unless the shaft is hammered to slide through the bearings.
only those who aren't super-protective of their e-mail will get it.
Overly critical? I think not. Spammers stop at nothing, but I'm sure they love people who defend them.
"Here is the information you requested" is the subject and it links to porn banners. Should spammers have the right? Three people have been fired at my employer because of viewing porn sites.
So its ok for me to routinely portmap those who send spam to see if they have an open relay, investigate and throw out 20-50 spams a day in my personal mail box? Should a spammer have a right to DOS my mailbox by stuffing it so full of junk I don't have time to find mail that was from people who really need to reach me?
I hope he loses a fortune trying to defend himself and loses his house, car, wife, and children. We don't need morons like him urinating in our gene pool. Keep those wheels of justice turning. Good riddance!
"Well, we can't force consumers to read privacy statements,
And when a CEO of a company can't be forced to know something as important as this question:
"What percentage of sites get rejected?"
by giving:
"It's not a large percentage -- I'd guess 1 to 2 percent."
He's the CEO and guesses this important fact? Does he know what the hell is going on with his product? You can't trust a company who's leaders aren't involved enough to know basic operational facts.
I agree with munged "antispam" email addresses being lame. Here's a few effective weapons against spam, especially when used in conjunction with eachother:
;passwd
.forward file in that account's home directory with your permanent email address.
Create a "throwaway" account with a name familiar with each forum with the command:
adduser
and add a
So, maybe in a month you will get a piece of spam. Look at the headers and see what server connected to your localhost. Add the following line in your ipchains to ban them:
ipchains -A input -p tcp -i ppp0 -s -j DENY
Put a -l at the end if you want to log future attempts.
So, if they view porn all the time, but can't get any "sensitive" political views, why not mix a porn site up "Monica" style. Imagine steamy pictures narrating the political events in office. Imagine porn being the messenger of freedom!
So its ok for the elite to have private email, but encryption might be dangerous in the hands of law abiding citizens.
Here's something for you LinuxOne fans. I hit the floor laughing at this. I'll have it up for a few hours, so mirror early, mirror often.
As a consumer, I have a problem with cd's: they are not very portable when I go jogging and my vehicles do not have cd players, but do have line input jack. I have a mp3 player which makes up for all three. If the RIAA had its way, they insist that I do something about my technology or listen to no music at all or the crappy radio stations here. I've ripped a great many for my use. So if its not allowed, why don't they come on over and sue me?
I have a friend who likes to do stuff like that. The pickle lit up like an incandescent bulb.
Don't stop with the pickle. They are cool as a dill, but might I suggest underwater lightning complete with sinister sound effects?
Get a neon tube transformer, or something with at least 4,000 volts. And one coffee cup filled less than half full of water. Stick the in the probes and watch underwater lightning. Ever heard water hum loudly in a menecing way? Note that this method is the fastest way to heat a cup of coffee.
Let ISP customers take responsibility.
And let's make it harder for web tracking and government sponsored invasions of privacy. Let's eliminate illegal acts of government spying and espionage by preventing them from doing it in the first place.
Most people have heard of the anonymizer to promote privacy. Well, you can do the same thing yourself with junkbuster by allowing others to use your proxy and eliminate doubleclick invasions at the same time.
Stuff like Alias/Wavefront is very expensive. A EDA software company donated 4 licenses to our school... it was worth 1.2 million.
When I was in engineering school, we used Orcad to do our electronics layouts. At $4500 a copy, us students were too poor to take advantage of learning design techniques at home. It was a real shame, because with a good set of macros, I could bang out a circuit fast as I could dream about building it. Now that I'm out of school and no longer have access to the software, all those fun analog and microprocessor circuits that I designed are useless. That is one of the reasons I no longer trust proprietary software.
"As a gesture of support for the UC program, game-maker Alias/Wavefront has donated $1 million in software."
Either that's a lot of software or its very expensive. What kind of software? Are they wisely getting these students hooked and locked on their software? Its good when its free, but I hope they know the costs when there comes a time when they have to start paying for further use and productivity.
It's pretty common to find pirated videotapes in ma+pa video stores. Are you sure that you know what you are looking for?
Common? In a big city? On the sidewalks? Where do you guys live? As a music aficionado who travelse the Western states about once a month for a week or two at a time, I see lots of drugs, booze, and lots of bodies for sale on the streets, but bootleg copies conviently for sale have not presented themselves to me.
I believe you. Perhaps I was not looking in the right places. My theory was that employees who make incomes at stores who have much invested in the retail market would not be happy at bootleg vendors not playing by the same rules and promptly call for enforcement. They might be upset at someone who is selling a good collection $16 cd's for $4 and call the cops to bust them on one of many of the city's ordinances.
When was the last time you strolled the streets of any "big city" (fill in the blank) in the U.S.?
Most of the music cassette and video crap sitting on the tables for sale are pirated.
Most cassettes and videos are pirated? What big city do you live in? You stated somewhere in the US, so that rules out China. I have yet to see one pirated shrink wrap cassette or video. Granted, I have seen taped music in a few homes, but in a retail store? Where do you get this information?
You know your a hacker when...
you don't mind soldering over your lap when wearing only shorts.
Working text to speech has been around for a long time!
There's a museum of science and technology in California I visited in the late 70's that demo'd four text to speech terminals. We got to type in text and surprisingly it rattled off correct english in its tinny digital voice. Each terminal had a miniture display and a full sized keyboard. I remember the electronics was well presented, but densly packed and produced lots of heat.
The museum had this giant ship propeller in front of it and may have been in Silicon Valley for all I remember.
Some 404's are just a way to pass time. Sometimes I go from site to site looking for pages that don't exist just to see what happens.