Oh, that's right, you only have to design for IE now. Silly me, I forgot that alltheotherbrowsersaredead. That, or maybe, they all render DHTML exactly the same now? (HAHAHA)
(Well, maybe Lynx is dead, it's web page seems to be down...)
You misunderstood the nature of the original McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit, as did most people. See the very informative site here for details, but basically it boils (no pun intended) down to the fact that McDonalds keeps it's coffee at 185 degrees F. Standard restaurant coffee temperature is around 165 degrees, but the coffee stays fresher (hence having to be re-made less often) at 185. At 165 degrees, a spill will probably cause first degree burns, but nothing serious. At 185 degrees, it causes third degree burns in under two seconds. You know, the kind that leave you with scar tissue for the rest of your life? McDonald's probably wouldn't have been found negligent if it was just the temperature, but prior to the famous lawsuit they had settled over 700 scalding claims relating to this practice. They admitted they knew it was a hazard. And the 81 year old woman only sued them because they refused to pay the medical bill for the skin grafts and 7 days in the hospital she suffered.
There are problems in the system. Major problems. But you need to find a new example to throw around. (That, or specify which case you're referring to. Feel free to refer to this coffee case instead of the famous one that got the labels put on.:)
I hate to spoil the fun, but how the hell did a line copied and pasted from the slashdot story get modded to 5? Is it really that much effort to scroll up half a page and actually read the writeup? I mean, you don't even have to click on the link for this one... Sheesh:)
Actually (speaking with no knowledge of what I'm talking about) it seems like all you'd need would be front and back hardened rods the length of the wing that were only attached at 2 points - the [electric/mechanical] actuator inside, and a hardpoint on the twisty end...
The technology will be tested at subsonic and supersonic speeds, though not in the unpredictable range close to the speed of sound.
Now, I'm no aerospace engineer, but how exactly do you test at supersonic speeds without at least passing through the range of speeds 'close to the speed of sound'? Or, if the wing snaps in half as it passes mach 1, do they just say "Oops, that didn't count, better not tell anyone."?
Re:I dont care about my washer on the net...
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I just want some way to turn off that damn buzzer.
That's easy, you just have to 'hack' your washer.
Take the front panel off the appliance.
Find the buzzer. Attach your multimeter (You do have a multimeter, don't you?) clips to it and run the switch through the 'end of cycle' position a few times to determine what kind of voltage your dealing with. (Most likely either 120VAC, 240VAC, or 12VDC)
Get a switch (SPST is easiest) that will handle the voltage you found. I'm partial to the Radio Shack 275-011, but that's because I work at Radio Shack and like Big Red Buttons. You may want one closer to the 275-634 so you can see if it's turned on or off at a glance.
Disconnect one of the leads to the buzzer. Connect it to one side of your switch. This may require soldering or just moving over a quick disconnect spade, depending on the appliance.
Connect a wire (You do have extra wire laying around, don't you?) from the other lead of the switch to the spot where the disconnected wire was originally attached to the buzzer.
Drill a hole in the front panel. (If you're using the switches I recommended, you need a 1/2" hole for the pushbutton, or a 1/4" hole for the toggle.)
Mount the switch in the hole.
Replace cover.
I take no responsibility for you voiding your warranty; electrocuting yourself, your family members, or pets; or anything else bad that happens if you follow these instructions.
Have fun!
NOTE: This completes lesson 1 in my new series 'hack everything'. Tune in next week for how to add one-touch buttons to your microwve for your most common cooking times. Save yourself 17 seconds/year of valuable time!
You're missing the point. The restrictions you're talking about only apply when you're using someone else's GPLed code. In this case, since it's their own code, they can do it however they like, including releasing 2 versions, a non-GPLed binary version including the proprietary bits (inside the boxes) and a GPLed source of the non-proprietary bits. If they had taken someone elses GPLed code and used it, then they would have to release the whole thing or nor use that code, but since they own the code they can do with it what they like.
That site fails to list what is probably the second most well known use of 'pie' menus, after the Sims. Neverwinter Nights! The context menus you use to do basically everything are radial.
That brings up another good point, which is that from what I've seen none of the radial menu implementations (Moz's or his javascript ones) implement hotkeys, which for a lot of users (read: me) immensely improves speed. I didn't like NWN's radial menus at all, especially since they have a 9th zone in the middle, which is the 'close menu' or 'go back' function. That meant that you had to move the mouse a significant ways towards each icon, eliminating a lot of the speed gain. Then I found out that the keys on the Number Pad were hotkeys for each of the 8 directions (with 5 being a hotkey for the center zone, and 0 being a hotkey to popup the radial for your character.) After that I loved them. Need your familiar? 0-4-1. Need rapid shot mode? 0-3-7-3. That saved all my quickslots for spells, potions, and other life-saving bits. I played most of that game with my right hand on the mouse and my left moving between asdf and the number pad.
Of course, I have no idea whether I'll ever find a 'real' use for being able to 10-key with the wrong hand, but you never know.:)
Wow, I can't think of many ways to make it harder to get a job as a geek than to get a slashdot story posted where the majority of responses are people talking about how lazy you are and what a big ego you have. I almost feel sorry for the guy.
First, although using cross app messaging to break security is new, the technique has been around for years. I can't count the number of shareware apps that 'limit' the unregistered version by disabling some checkboxes or radio buttons, which you can re-enable with the right messages.
Second, on the finger-pointing issue, yes the specific example he used is McAffee's fault for not seperating the GUI from the service, but as he said, there are several built-in ways to get a LocalSystem window with controls on it without resorting to exploiting 3rd party apps. In other words, if MS is going to point the finger at service developers, they had better include themselves in that category.
Third, a question about how controls respond to windows messages. I've never had cause to send messages directly (except custom messages), but AFAIK it's not a case where you can send a EM_SETLIMIT message to a control and it automatically sets it's limit. The application has to receive the message, interpret it, and set the limit on the control. The problem is that no major vendor I know of, particularly not MS, write straight to the API, they use libraries for their controls. And every control library I've seen defaults to handling EM_SETLIMIT messages by setting the limit on the control. If this works the way I think it does, then by not using libraries with open defaults, or by changing those defaults, you can write an app that only handles messages it expects to receive, hence this problem doesn't happen. (IE, do you know of any app where one thread really needs to change the length limit on a control in another thread? I can't think of any off the bat...) Can anyone confirm or deny this?
Re:NOT XBA! Display accelerator for mobile devices
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The demonstration and presentation was about their new display acceleration solution for mobile devices...
The demo they showed was indeed an FPGA. It has around 20k-30k gates, and was running at around 25MHz or so. The demonstration animated filled polygons and bezier curves, with various effects such as transparency at around 30-50 fps.
While I can't fault them for writing a program that does everything you mentioned for this particular PLD, it's definitely not as impressive as they lead you to believe, and I don't see how this is 'their' silicon at all. The other card, I can't comment on, since it didn't actually do anything. (But we all know that a reputable company like Bitboys is far above faking a demo, right?)
I have it from a well-placed source in Dell that Lexmark is going to be making the printers that Dell is going to rebrand.
This doesn't surprise me in the least. Compaq's retail printer line is still entirely made by Lexmark. I assume it's just retailers selling off remaining stock, since they only offer HP printers on their website now.
If you're really curious, here are the printer equivalents I know of. The rest of the Compaq branded printers are by Lexmark, as well, I'm just not as familiar with them.
Why not have the mods create a uname/pw combination included in each relevant linked story and let the general/. population use those?
Hey, that's a great idea! Especially if you're one of the 3 people that click the link before the trolls get in and change the password on the account!
We could have a new record!
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The previous/. record holder for 'most comments', US Starts Attacking Afghanistan, garnered 225 comments in it's first 45 minutes.
With this troll, CmderTaco has incited 297 posts in the same amount of time. Could we have a new record holder on our hands? Time will tell.
Just go out and buy Neverwinter Nights (in a week or two when it hits stores) and forget all about WC3. If Blizzard's tactics don't appeal to you, support the competition instead! You get a great game, and that should make it a lot easier to let go of your pain and get on with your life.
Just in case you haven't gotten tired of posts theorizing why/. isn't on the list, try this:
It's not there because the rest of the world has yet to recognize Zealotry as a science.
..a pirated version that shakes like a hyperactive child sucking on a lollipop.
That's a completely unfair characterization of hyperactivity. I think I speak for all hyperactive people everywhere, both children and adults, when I say... um... lollipop? Where??
The DUL is not a blacklist in the sense that all mail from the listed IPs is refused. The DUL is used to refuse direct mail from those IPs, but mail relayed through another server is allowed. This prevents someone on a dynamic IP from spamming by directly connecting to the SMTP server of each target address, instead of sending all the mail through an open relay. Legitimate customers simply need to use their ISP's (or a 3rd party) SMTP relay (which presumably has message speed limits on it) to send mail, and it will go through.
Yes, this prevents someone from running their own SMTP relay on a dynamic IP, but it's the only effective way of preventing such direct-to-target-server spam from going through.
I haven't seen anybody asking the first question that came up when I read all this:
Why remove those specific pages?
The answer I've come up with is simple. Removing the pages listed got rid of all the xenu.net links on the first 3 pages of google results for a search for scientology. Even if they reinstate the links, it will probably take a while for them to resume their former place in the index. This is just like the tons of domain names all run by the Scientologists, it's a ploy to make it harder to find info about them. They know they can't stop it completely, but that's OK, as long as they can make it so that the average person won't see anything bad about them without specifically looking.
You've obviously never created anything of value to others. Why should I go through the effort and spend the time to make something if all I get back out of it is the satisfaction of knowing I just wasted a couple hours/days/weeks of my life I'm not going to get back.
You've obviously never felt the satisfaction of making something of value and giving it away, and knowing that the hours/days/weeks you spent making it made many people's lives just a bit happier. If you think creating something is a waste of your life, I can't imagine what you're doing spending time posting on/.
I'd say the time you're wasting is the time during which you're not creating something. If you get paid for what you created, that's great, but if you only create to get paid, you're probably missing the point.
Kelly, in this context, is a money grubber for filing a frivolous lawsuit and refusing to settle said lawsuit in an attempt to start a company based solely on helping others file said frivolous lawsuits. Arriba isn't a money grubber because they mended their ways and haven't loaded pictures off another site in over a year. Perhaps you should head over to ditto.com and check out it's operation, you'll find that the mode of operation the judge decided on is exactly what they've already been doing.
The person who filed this suit, Leslie Kelly, has a website at http://netcopyrightlaw.com/ that has lots of information (FUD) regarding how evil (useful) search engines make millions (diddly squat) by stealing (indexing) innocent content providers' (money-grubbing bastards') images. It's an interesting (disgusting) read.
Note: Reality filter in effect, suggested changes added in parentheses.
On another note, this decision really has nothing to do with hyperlinking, only with embdding other content into a page without attributing it, i.e. either using frames or the SRC of an IMG. The only way it even vaguely relates to hyperlinks is that it's not really clear under this decision whether creating a hyperlink to an image directly instead of linking to the page that contains the image is forbidden. I don't see any language to that effect, but it could be considered unattributed display nonetheless.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, that's right, you only have to design for IE now. Silly me, I forgot that all the other browsers are dead. That, or maybe, they all render DHTML exactly the same now? (HAHAHA)
(Well, maybe Lynx is dead, it's web page seems to be down...)
Who knew reading /. could be a public service?
You misunderstood the nature of the original McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit, as did most people. See the very informative site here for details, but basically it boils (no pun intended) down to the fact that McDonalds keeps it's coffee at 185 degrees F. Standard restaurant coffee temperature is around 165 degrees, but the coffee stays fresher (hence having to be re-made less often) at 185. At 165 degrees, a spill will probably cause first degree burns, but nothing serious. At 185 degrees, it causes third degree burns in under two seconds. You know, the kind that leave you with scar tissue for the rest of your life? McDonald's probably wouldn't have been found negligent if it was just the temperature, but prior to the famous lawsuit they had settled over 700 scalding claims relating to this practice. They admitted they knew it was a hazard. And the 81 year old woman only sued them because they refused to pay the medical bill for the skin grafts and 7 days in the hospital she suffered.
There are problems in the system. Major problems. But you need to find a new example to throw around. (That, or specify which case you're referring to. Feel free to refer to this coffee case instead of the famous one that got the labels put on. :)
I hate to spoil the fun, but how the hell did a line copied and pasted from the slashdot story get modded to 5? Is it really that much effort to scroll up half a page and actually read the writeup? I mean, you don't even have to click on the link for this one... Sheesh :)
Actually (speaking with no knowledge of what I'm talking about) it seems like all you'd need would be front and back hardened rods the length of the wing that were only attached at 2 points - the [electric/mechanical] actuator inside, and a hardpoint on the twisty end...
That's easy, you just have to 'hack' your washer.
I take no responsibility for you voiding your warranty; electrocuting yourself, your family members, or pets; or anything else bad that happens if you follow these instructions.
Have fun!
NOTE: This completes lesson 1 in my new series 'hack everything'. Tune in next week for how to add one-touch buttons to your microwve for your most common cooking times. Save yourself 17 seconds/year of valuable time!
Oh, wait, I forgot. They're not profitable :)
(Yes, I love the smell of karma burning in the morning.)
You're missing the point. The restrictions you're talking about only apply when you're using someone else's GPLed code. In this case, since it's their own code, they can do it however they like, including releasing 2 versions, a non-GPLed binary version including the proprietary bits (inside the boxes) and a GPLed source of the non-proprietary bits. If they had taken someone elses GPLed code and used it, then they would have to release the whole thing or nor use that code, but since they own the code they can do with it what they like.
That brings up another good point, which is that from what I've seen none of the radial menu implementations (Moz's or his javascript ones) implement hotkeys, which for a lot of users (read: me) immensely improves speed. I didn't like NWN's radial menus at all, especially since they have a 9th zone in the middle, which is the 'close menu' or 'go back' function. That meant that you had to move the mouse a significant ways towards each icon, eliminating a lot of the speed gain. Then I found out that the keys on the Number Pad were hotkeys for each of the 8 directions (with 5 being a hotkey for the center zone, and 0 being a hotkey to popup the radial for your character.) After that I loved them. Need your familiar? 0-4-1. Need rapid shot mode? 0-3-7-3. That saved all my quickslots for spells, potions, and other life-saving bits. I played most of that game with my right hand on the mouse and my left moving between asdf and the number pad.
Of course, I have no idea whether I'll ever find a 'real' use for being able to 10-key with the wrong hand, but you never know. :)
Almost.
Second, on the finger-pointing issue, yes the specific example he used is McAffee's fault for not seperating the GUI from the service, but as he said, there are several built-in ways to get a LocalSystem window with controls on it without resorting to exploiting 3rd party apps. In other words, if MS is going to point the finger at service developers, they had better include themselves in that category.
Third, a question about how controls respond to windows messages. I've never had cause to send messages directly (except custom messages), but AFAIK it's not a case where you can send a EM_SETLIMIT message to a control and it automatically sets it's limit. The application has to receive the message, interpret it, and set the limit on the control. The problem is that no major vendor I know of, particularly not MS, write straight to the API, they use libraries for their controls. And every control library I've seen defaults to handling EM_SETLIMIT messages by setting the limit on the control. If this works the way I think it does, then by not using libraries with open defaults, or by changing those defaults, you can write an app that only handles messages it expects to receive, hence this problem doesn't happen. (IE, do you know of any app where one thread really needs to change the length limit on a control in another thread? I can't think of any off the bat...) Can anyone confirm or deny this?
You shouldn't believe everything you're told. The chip was very clearly marked, it's an Altera APEX EP20K400C PLD. The memory chips on the back are Altera EPC SRAM 'configuration devices'. That means it's got between ~400,000 and 1,051,648 gates, not 20-30k.
While I can't fault them for writing a program that does everything you mentioned for this particular PLD, it's definitely not as impressive as they lead you to believe, and I don't see how this is 'their' silicon at all. The other card, I can't comment on, since it didn't actually do anything. (But we all know that a reputable company like Bitboys is far above faking a demo, right?)
This doesn't surprise me in the least. Compaq's retail printer line is still entirely made by Lexmark. I assume it's just retailers selling off remaining stock, since they only offer HP printers on their website now.
If you're really curious, here are the printer equivalents I know of. The rest of the Compaq branded printers are by Lexmark, as well, I'm just not as familiar with them.
Compaq - Lexmark
IJ600 - Z22
IJ650 - Z33
IJ700 - 5700
1400P - Z52
A3000 - Z52 (+ fax/scanner hardware)
A4000 - Z52 (+ fax/scanner hardware)
I'm willing to bet that Dell is going to fill the gap in Lexmark's business that Compaq left.
HTH. HAND.
Hey, that's a great idea! Especially if you're one of the 3 people that click the link before the trolls get in and change the password on the account!
With this troll, CmderTaco has incited 297 posts in the same amount of time. Could we have a new record holder on our hands? Time will tell.
Just in case you haven't gotten tired of posts theorizing why /. isn't on the list, try this:
It's not there because the rest of the world has yet to recognize Zealotry as a science.
That's a completely unfair characterization of hyperactivity. I think I speak for all hyperactive people everywhere, both children and adults, when I say... um... lollipop? Where??
Yes, this prevents someone from running their own SMTP relay on a dynamic IP, but it's the only effective way of preventing such direct-to-target-server spam from going through.
Why remove those specific pages?
The answer I've come up with is simple. Removing the pages listed got rid of all the xenu.net links on the first 3 pages of google results for a search for scientology. Even if they reinstate the links, it will probably take a while for them to resume their former place in the index. This is just like the tons of domain names all run by the Scientologists, it's a ploy to make it harder to find info about them. They know they can't stop it completely, but that's OK, as long as they can make it so that the average person won't see anything bad about them without specifically looking.
You've obviously never felt the satisfaction of making something of value and giving it away, and knowing that the hours/days/weeks you spent making it made many people's lives just a bit happier. If you think creating something is a waste of your life, I can't imagine what you're doing spending time posting on /.
I'd say the time you're wasting is the time during which you're not creating something. If you get paid for what you created, that's great, but if you only create to get paid, you're probably missing the point.
Kelly, in this context, is a money grubber for filing a frivolous lawsuit and refusing to settle said lawsuit in an attempt to start a company based solely on helping others file said frivolous lawsuits. Arriba isn't a money grubber because they mended their ways and haven't loaded pictures off another site in over a year. Perhaps you should head over to ditto.com and check out it's operation, you'll find that the mode of operation the judge decided on is exactly what they've already been doing.
Note: Reality filter in effect, suggested changes added in parentheses.
On another note, this decision really has nothing to do with hyperlinking, only with embdding other content into a page without attributing it, i.e. either using frames or the SRC of an IMG. The only way it even vaguely relates to hyperlinks is that it's not really clear under this decision whether creating a hyperlink to an image directly instead of linking to the page that contains the image is forbidden. I don't see any language to that effect, but it could be considered unattributed display nonetheless.