Given that the vast majority of the population knows the author by the name George Orwell rather than his given name, what possible reason is there to use his given name in this story other that to demonstrate the submitters l33t trivial pursuit skillz?
I did it with my 400+ CDs (which is nothing compared to some people) because I wanted the convenience of being able to make playlists for listening to music at home (using Netjuke) without having to contstantly get up and change CDs. The benefits make up for the few weeks of tediousness.
It came in handy again once I bought an iPod because I don't have to individually rip CDs as I decided I want to bring them with me, it's already done. Getting into the habit of ripping CDs as soon as I buy them is no problem now that the stuff I already have is done.
But the fact remains, a lot of sites will simply dump you to a "IE required" page if you come at them in something like Opera or Mozilla.
Maybe you and I are using different webs then. I use Mozilla exclusively, on OS X at home and on Linux at work, and haven't seen a "You need IE" page in I don't know how long. Well over a year, probably closer to two or more. I'll occasionally find the poorly-written JavaScript that doesn't seem to work quite right, but even those pages generally still work ok. Even my on-line banking site (Washington Mutual) works great.
Now what would be nice is a small but reasonably sized browser that does not need an install...
If I remember correctly, Firebir^H^H^Hfox, back in its Phoenix days, was exactly this. I haven't tried it with the current version but I've been assuming it's the same now. I hope so anyway, because I'm going to be picking up a USB flash drive soon and was planning on putting both Putty and Firefox on it for those times when someone else's Windows machine is the only thing available.
If so, can blocking not be considered illegal? They would be blocking an independent artist from distributing their own works and thus potentially limiting their sales.
Only in the same way that spam filtering is potentially limiting the sale of whatever snake oil is being peddled.
Private networks are under no obligation to carry any traffic they don't want.
Very few audio head units have a front jack for aux input. You can dangle an adapter cable out the back (on most models this means you can't use a CD changer), but that's butt-ugly.
It's not so bad if you set it up right, with the adaptor cable going to a 3.5mm jack mounted in the dash or center console. The jack is almost unnoticable when the iPod isn't plugged in. I just did this in my car. While it's not as nice as the set up in this story, it doesn't look too bad and works great.
I've done something similar with mine. The aux jack on the back of the stereo is run to an adaptor with a 3.5mm jack mounted in the center console, where I run a line to the headphone jack on the iPod. The line is plenty long enough for either me or a passenger to hold the iPod while selecting music.
One Received: line is inserted by every mail server a message passes through. Today, this means there are usually two: the senders outgoing server and your MX server. Smarthosts, mail forwarding, and backup mail spoolers are some of the reasons there might be more than two, but it's unusual to see more than three.
Unless your own mail server (ie, your ISP's, or whatever) has been compromised, you will always be able to see where the mail came from just prior to being delivered to you. In most cases, the Received: line inserted by that previous server will be accurate as well. The only way for a spammer to insert his own Received: headers is to add them before sending the mail out, which means the forged header will always be at the bottom (Received headers are added from the bottom up). You can usually spot inconsistencies between forged headers and the first accurate one if you look carefully. All you really need to do to find the source of an e-mail is identify the first accurate Received header.
Compromised proxy servers are another matter, as they will appear to be the origination point themselves, even though the message was sent to them by someone else. Nobody bothers forging headers any more now that trojan proxies are so easy to come by. These truly do hide the original sender, and IM2000 wouldn't solve this problem.
"Public buildings" in this context usually refers to places like the DMV, courthouses, etc. Places that you can't choose not to go to, unlike the local smoker-friendly bar or restaurant.
But if you have to go to the machine to get the message, you know the IP. And then you can know the ISP. And with that information, you can notify the ISP.
That information is already available in the Received: header of every e-mail sent. It's trivial to see where an e-mail came from before being delivered to your ISP.
Netflix has an affiliate program, so your (and probably everyone else's) spam actually likely came from some lowlife attempting to drive traffic to his affiliate redirect page. This problem seems to plague just about every legit business with an affiliate program.
Exactly the problem a friend of mine had. He wanted a web site for his tattoo studio and, against my recommendations, let the guy who designed the site register the domain. I looked at the whois info later and realized the web guy registered it to himself, and with a ton of bogus info to boot. My friend's name wasn't anywhere on it. Needless to say, the site and DNS entries for the domain eventually up and disappeared leaving my friend and his business screwed.
It sounds like it's your browser that sucks then. Using Ctrl-(+|-), my browser can scale the font size up and down regardless of how the document sets the size.
I suspect you're experiencing the IE bug where fonts styled with CSS to specific px or pt sizes cannot be resized. I recommend either switching to a more standards-compliant browser or sending a bug report to Microsoft.
Most browsers do not do this, and good thing too. Opera is, as far as I know, the only common browser that uses an IE user-agent string by default.
Other browsers, including Mozilla, allow you to change it, but you'd have to take extra steps to do so, it's not spoofed by default, and I doubt most people bother.
This is a good thing, btw. User-agent spoofing does more harm than good in the long run.
No, I'm pretty sure his complaint is that Slashdot is using out-of-date non-standard HTML instead of W3C standards-compliant XHTML/CSS that will display uniformly (not to mention faster) across all modern browsers and degrade gracefully in older/non-standards-compliant browsers.
This is the real way to make cross-platform web sites, not the table and font tag soup/. has now.
"gambling" destroys lives - When it's abused and that "Adult" can't control it. "adult beverages" destroy lives - When it's abused and that "Adult" can't control it.
Whose responsibility is it to keep people from abusing these things? The government's or the individual with the problem? You'd argue that alcohol should also be illegal? Do you not remember how that went the first time it was tried?
"premature ending of pregnancy" destroys a premature child's life and causes severe mental trauma on the mother (arguably destroying her life/future)- whenever it happens
Speak for yourself. What authority do you have to make this claim about every woman who has had an abortion? In what way does abortion destroy a woman's life or future? You'd argue that abortion should be illegal? What about the oft-mentioned rape cases? Do you think that being forced to have the child of a rapist would be less traumatic than abortion?
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Given that the vast majority of the population knows the author by the name George Orwell rather than his given name, what possible reason is there to use his given name in this story other that to demonstrate the submitters l33t trivial pursuit skillz?
I did it with my 400+ CDs (which is nothing compared to some people) because I wanted the convenience of being able to make playlists for listening to music at home (using Netjuke) without having to contstantly get up and change CDs. The benefits make up for the few weeks of tediousness.
It came in handy again once I bought an iPod because I don't have to individually rip CDs as I decided I want to bring them with me, it's already done. Getting into the habit of ripping CDs as soon as I buy them is no problem now that the stuff I already have is done.
You are Joe Jared of Osirusoft!
But the fact remains, a lot of sites will simply dump you to a "IE required" page if you come at them in something like Opera or Mozilla.
Maybe you and I are using different webs then. I use Mozilla exclusively, on OS X at home and on Linux at work, and haven't seen a "You need IE" page in I don't know how long. Well over a year, probably closer to two or more. I'll occasionally find the poorly-written JavaScript that doesn't seem to work quite right, but even those pages generally still work ok. Even my on-line banking site (Washington Mutual) works great.
Now what would be nice is a small but reasonably sized browser that does not need an install ...
If I remember correctly, Firebir^H^H^Hfox, back in its Phoenix days, was exactly this. I haven't tried it with the current version but I've been assuming it's the same now. I hope so anyway, because I'm going to be picking up a USB flash drive soon and was planning on putting both Putty and Firefox on it for those times when someone else's Windows machine is the only thing available.
If so, can blocking not be considered illegal? They would be blocking an independent artist from distributing their own works and thus potentially limiting their sales.
Only in the same way that spam filtering is potentially limiting the sale of whatever snake oil is being peddled.
Private networks are under no obligation to carry any traffic they don't want.
4) I H4XORed into the slashdot webserver and posted that way
If you're going to go to that much trouble, just post your own story the way someone did a couple years ago.
There are some real annoyences in getting fink to accept that you are using Apple's distribution of X.
You just have to install system-xfree86 via Fink first. You shouldn't have any problems after that.
Very few audio head units have a front jack for aux input. You can dangle an adapter cable out the back (on most models this means you can't use a CD changer), but that's butt-ugly.
It's not so bad if you set it up right, with the adaptor cable going to a 3.5mm jack mounted in the dash or center console. The jack is almost unnoticable when the iPod isn't plugged in. I just did this in my car. While it's not as nice as the set up in this story, it doesn't look too bad and works great.
I've done something similar with mine. The aux jack on the back of the stereo is run to an adaptor with a 3.5mm jack mounted in the center console, where I run a line to the headphone jack on the iPod. The line is plenty long enough for either me or a passenger to hold the iPod while selecting music.
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(note: the position of the iPod in the picture is just to show it, it usually rests in the space next to the parking brake when I'm driving)
To charge it in the car, I still need to use the cigarette lighter adaptor, but I get around this by charging it at home overnight when it needs it.
I don't know, but I saw an adult personal ad once that started out "Want to fuck a blind girl?"
The mind boggles.
Well, you know what they say: If you can't keep it in your pants at least keep in in the family.
One Received: line is inserted by every mail server a message passes through. Today, this means there are usually two: the senders outgoing server and your MX server. Smarthosts, mail forwarding, and backup mail spoolers are some of the reasons there might be more than two, but it's unusual to see more than three.
Unless your own mail server (ie, your ISP's, or whatever) has been compromised, you will always be able to see where the mail came from just prior to being delivered to you. In most cases, the Received: line inserted by that previous server will be accurate as well. The only way for a spammer to insert his own Received: headers is to add them before sending the mail out, which means the forged header will always be at the bottom (Received headers are added from the bottom up). You can usually spot inconsistencies between forged headers and the first accurate one if you look carefully. All you really need to do to find the source of an e-mail is identify the first accurate Received header.
Compromised proxy servers are another matter, as they will appear to be the origination point themselves, even though the message was sent to them by someone else. Nobody bothers forging headers any more now that trojan proxies are so easy to come by. These truly do hide the original sender, and IM2000 wouldn't solve this problem.
"Public buildings" in this context usually refers to places like the DMV, courthouses, etc. Places that you can't choose not to go to, unlike the local smoker-friendly bar or restaurant.
But if you have to go to the machine to get the message, you know the IP. And then you can know the ISP. And with that information, you can notify the ISP.
That information is already available in the Received: header of every e-mail sent. It's trivial to see where an e-mail came from before being delivered to your ISP.
192.10.1.2? I wonder how Symbolics, Inc. feels about that, being the owners of 192.10.0.0/16 and all.
Perhaps they meant to use 192.168.1.2? Where do I file a bug report?
Netflix has an affiliate program, so your (and probably everyone else's) spam actually likely came from some lowlife attempting to drive traffic to his affiliate redirect page. This problem seems to plague just about every legit business with an affiliate program.
Exactly the problem a friend of mine had. He wanted a web site for his tattoo studio and, against my recommendations, let the guy who designed the site register the domain. I looked at the whois info later and realized the web guy registered it to himself, and with a ton of bogus info to boot. My friend's name wasn't anywhere on it. Needless to say, the site and DNS entries for the domain eventually up and disappeared leaving my friend and his business screwed.
Try it without the Slashcode-inserted space:
Story
Of course, the LA Times still requires NY Times-style registration, so you still may not be able to read it.
It sounds like it's your browser that sucks then. Using Ctrl-(+|-), my browser can scale the font size up and down regardless of how the document sets the size.
I suspect you're experiencing the IE bug where fonts styled with CSS to specific px or pt sizes cannot be resized. I recommend either switching to a more standards-compliant browser or sending a bug report to Microsoft.
most browsers masquerade as IE
Most browsers do not do this, and good thing too. Opera is, as far as I know, the only common browser that uses an IE user-agent string by default.
Other browsers, including Mozilla, allow you to change it, but you'd have to take extra steps to do so, it's not spoofed by default, and I doubt most people bother.
This is a good thing, btw. User-agent spoofing does more harm than good in the long run.
No, I'm pretty sure his complaint is that Slashdot is using out-of-date non-standard HTML instead of W3C standards-compliant XHTML/CSS that will display uniformly (not to mention faster) across all modern browsers and degrade gracefully in older/non-standards-compliant browsers.
/. has now.
This is the real way to make cross-platform web sites, not the table and font tag soup
First they came for the microbes, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a microbe...
What if the Civic has a big-ass "Powered by VTEC" sticker across the hood?
"gambling" destroys lives - When it's abused and that "Adult" can't control it.
"adult beverages" destroy lives - When it's abused and that "Adult" can't control it.
Whose responsibility is it to keep people from abusing these things? The government's or the individual with the problem? You'd argue that alcohol should also be illegal? Do you not remember how that went the first time it was tried?
"premature ending of pregnancy" destroys a premature child's life and causes severe mental trauma on the mother (arguably destroying her life/future)- whenever it happens
Speak for yourself. What authority do you have to make this claim about every woman who has had an abortion? In what way does abortion destroy a woman's life or future? You'd argue that abortion should be illegal? What about the oft-mentioned rape cases? Do you think that being forced to have the child of a rapist would be less traumatic than abortion?